iPhone and iPad
Best iPhone Apps for Students
This week, most high school and college students are enjoying a much-deserved break before the next semester (or quarter) begins. If you have a new iPhone this year, you may not realize the plethora of apps that can actually help you study better — and maybe even help your GPA, too. We’ve tried and tested [...]
Did You Get an iPhone for Christmas? Here Are 23 Must-have Apps
Were you one of the thousands of people who received an iPhone for Christmas — or bought one the day after with a gift card? If you have a new iPhone, there are over 500,000 apps in the iTunes App Store to choose from, which can help you plan your day, be more productive, waste [...]
What’s the Best IM Client for the iPhone?
It’s a rare occurrence that my iPhone is less than three or four feet from my hand, so when I left my phone entirely at home the other day, I felt a severe case of separation anxiety. Not only could I not check my email while eating lunch or read blogs while waiting for the [...]
Kiip Integrates Ad-based Rewards to Make In-game Advertising More Appealing
When playing a free game on an iPhone or iPad downloaded from the iTunes App Store, no one wants to see uninteresting and obtrusive ads while they’re playing. Luckily for us, a new startup called Kiip hopes to change the way free applications make revenue by using ad-based rewards to pay the bills and make [...]
New App Brass Monkey Turns Your Phone into a Cloud-based Game Controller
Your smart phone is great for gaming, but have you ever looked at it and realized that it could be better if you had an external screen to view the game, with the phone only being the controller? A new startup called Brass Monkey thought just that, and it has made it happen with a creative [...]
Free Decide.com App Helps You Know when to Buy Electronics
When I’m shopping for consumer electronics, I usually have one of two motivations. I’m either looking for the best solution to an immediate problem or I’ve done some careful research to determine my next long term purchase. In the first case, I’m typically in a hurry and just need good information about the gadget I’m [...]
Five Practical Uses for an iPod touch
The iPod touch has been proclaimed one of the most successful portable media and gaming devices on the market, and for good reason. Powered by iOS, the iPod touch has virtually all the features of an iPhone in a relatively inexpensive and equally pocketable form. What confuses me, after having owned two of them, is [...]
How To Enable iOS 5′s Hidden Autocorrect Keyboard
At some point we’ve all complained about iOS autocorrect. There’s even a website — damnyouautocorrect.com — dedicated to laughing at the worst autocorrect fails. However, it looks like Apple is planning on doing something about it in future iOS releases, and the beginning of that has been uncovered as a hidden feature in iOS 5. If [...]
Is Siri a Serious Enhancement to the iPhone 4S?
Seeking superior Siri sensation? Sincerely serious Siri specialists scrutinize services so sweating squares see sense! Apple’s current television advertising campaign shows us smiling, tech-savvy people going about their daily iPhone 4S-enriched lives made easier by utilizing the new voice-interactive Siri virtual assistant. Is Siri all it’s cracked up to be, an utter failure, or somewhere [...]
Fileboard Helps iPad Users Find All Their Files in One Place
The iPad has exploded in popularity over the past year as many professionals have adopted the tablet as a primary means of doing business. Not only is it exceptionally portable, making it easy to read and respond to important emails and other documents while commuting, but it’s less obtrusive in places like meetings in the [...]
