Browse tag: iphone

Browse tag: iphone

Smartphone: From threat to asset
Rather than worrying about bottling up mobile experiences, the real question for IT departments is how to embrace this phenomenon and make smartphones like the iPhone part of a company's mobility strategy.
Touch DJ brings full-featured DJ skills to iPhone
Amidio has released Touch DJ, a DJ app, which offers realtime independent manipulation of two MP3 files.
Holiday Gear Guide: Great gifts under $150
Part two of Macworld's 2009 Holiday Gear Guide looks at gifts between $50 and $150.
Review: Pzizz Relax for iPhone
This impressively relaxing sleep aid provides plenty of variety in a small package.
Excerpt: Understand the iPhone backup
During a sync, iTunes not only syncs managed information and media, but also creates or updates an iPhone backup. The main function of the backup is to permit you to restore personal data and settings to your iPhone during a Restore. In this excerpt from Take Control of iPhone OS 3, Ted Landau takes a closer look at the process of backing up and restoring your iPhone's data.
Review: Silent Swords for iPhone
This 2-D stealth platform game may not have advanced features or sophisticated graphics. But it offers a truly challenging set of missions.
Review: NetNewsWire Premium for iPhone
With version 2 of both the free and premium version of its newsreading app, NewsGator Technologies has introduced solid improvements (though some flaws remain). Still, this version of NetNewsWire feels more at home on the iPhone than its predecessor did.
Review: Mindjet for iPhone
Mindjet has managed to squeeze the power, ease, and versatility of its desktop mindmapping application into an iPhone app. It's an effective tool, though it comes with some limitations.
Holiday Gear Guide: Great Gear Under $50
Part one of Macworld's 2009 Holiday Gear Guide looks at affordable gifts under $50.
Review: NBA Live for iPhone
You might think it would be tough to slim down all the gameplay elements of a feature-rich console title like NBA Live to work on the iPhone. And you'd be right -- NBA Live is a bit of a hodgepodge, mixing elements of awesomeness with assorted weaknesses that detract from the rest of the game. Even with its glitches, though, the game is great fun to play.
Apple launching ads targeting Verizon's network
Apple plans to air two ads tonight that show off the iPhone's ability to simultaneously use data and voice services on AT&T's network, a feature absent from Verizon's network.
iPhone Hints: Give thanks for the iPhone's physical controls
This week's edition of iPhone hints takes a look at the many uses of the iPhone's physical buttons.
Review: Perfectly Clear for iPhone
This image-correction app is best for photos that you want to look as clean and clear as possible. In most cases, a quick run through Perfectly Clear should leave you pleased with the result.
Apple's Schiller talks App Store, approval process
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller discusses the App Store, its controversy-laden approval process, and what it's doing to improve matters.
Third iPhone worm targets jailbroken iPhones in Europe, Australia
Another iPhone worm is targeting jailbroken iPhones throughout Europe and elsewhere. Like its predecessors, it takes advantage of default passwords.
Bookmark for iPhone
Notwithstanding some annoying limitations and quirks, audiobibliophiles will find much to love about Bookmark, an iPhone and iPod touch app that gives you greater control over audiobooks on your mobile device.
Review: iPhone ringtone roundup
John Brandon checks out four iPhone ringtone makers and reports on the good, the bad, and the noisy.
Review: iPhone Thanksgiving apps
Stressed about Turkey Day? The App Store has many offerings that aim to help you plan and prepare a meal. We'll help you find the worthwhile apps while staying away from the real turkeys.
The Macalope Weekly: Stupidium is an infinite resource
The Macalope does a do-see-do with his opposite number, sets fire to a a Droid strawman, and issues a quarantine for those afflicted by the ever dangerous tablet fever.
Gameloft to cut back on Android development
Mobile games developer Gameloft has announced it's cutting back on development for the Android, citing a lack of revenue.
Review: Geared for iPhone
In spite of some flaws -- it can be hard to position pieces and the game is a little picky about when you're allowed to move things -- Geared is a perfectly fine puzzler that satisfies after its too-easy early stages.
iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code.
Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
Review: Snapture for iPhone
As a one-stop solution for the shortcomings of the iPhone's built-in camera, Snapture does an admirable job. It should be one of the first apps you turn to for improving your phone's camera.
Cloud Engines updates Pogoplug media sharing device
On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard Web browser.
First Look: Super Monkey Ball 2
Super Monkey Ball 2 not only intends to improve upon the original, but to live up to the considerable potential of the popular monkey-rolling franchise. I sat down with Sega’s associate creative director Ethan Einhorn to discuss this new game for the iPhone. Slated for a Holiday 2009 launch date, the price for this game still has not been revealed.
Review: Mini Golf Wacky Worlds for iPhone
This fun miniature golf game lives up to its wacky moniker. More important, with five courses and three modes of play to chose from, there's plenty of replay value to be found.
iPhone to drive mobile game adoption
Apple will drive the game market with the iPhone, according to a survey of 8,000 gamers in North America, Europe and Australia.
Review: Photo geotagging apps for iPhone
Geotagging -- adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken -- brings a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Several apps let you start tagging your photos with GPS data. We'll help you find the one that's right for your needs.
Incase debuts new chargers for iPod and iPhone
Incase has debuted two new chargers for iPods and iPhones: one for the car, and one that works both in the car and with standard wall outlets.