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2Do Might Be The Best Task Manager Ever [Review]
It’s taken me 20 years to finally find a task manager I’m happy with. No variation in any PDA I’ve used has passed muster: either they’ve lacked features, or suffered from confusing interfaces, or both — and I’d inevitably end up abandoning them for a simpler system. Then I started playing around with 2Do from [...]
This Week’s Must-Have iOS Games: Spider-Man, Mirror’s Edge, Epic Citadel & More
This week’s must-have iOS games include the graphically stunning Epic Citadel that was recently introduced at Apple’s music event, adrenaline-fuelled sprinting across rooftops in Mirror’s Edge for iPhone, using your powers as Spider-Man to save the city of New York, and a whole lot more to keep you entertained this weekend. Check out a few [...]
5 Fun Games: Getting Drawn, Solving the Crop Circles Mystery, Slinging Your Gun and More
Happy Friday! Here’s this week’s selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include a highly anticipated adventure game sequel, cards mixed with guns, mysterious crop circles and more. Drawn – Dark Flight – Iris is back from Drawn The Painted Tower, which means she [...]
Steve Jobs Defends iTunes 10 Icon After Getting Critisizing Email
Following Wednesday’s release of iTunes 10, many users have mixed views and opinions on a lot of the changes that have come with it, particularly to its appearance. One notable change was the update of the application’s icon; after many years, the familiar music note over a CD has been updated to the simplistic, blue [...]
Daily Deals: 3.06GHz i3 iMac, Pizza Shop Mania, New 8GB iPod nano
We close out the week with a bit for everyone. The deal highlights include a 22-inch Core i3 iMac running at 3.06GHz for $1,397. The Expercom bundle also includes 8GB of memory and three-years of AppleCare. There is also Pizza Shop Mania, a puzzle game from the iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod [...]
iPhone 4 User Claims Proximity Sensor Fix May Not Work
On Tuesday this week an Apple spokesperson made claims that the upcoming release of iOS 4.1 will not fix the proximity sensor problems that are being blamed on software bugs, relocation of the proximity sensor due to the addition of the front facing camera, or greasy ear canals. This problem has been widely reported and there [...]
How to Succeed Like Apple
Why does Apple dominate all aspects of the digital music market — hardware, software and content deals? For example, more than two-thirds of every media player sold in the world is an Apple product. That’s amazing when you consider the company’s reputation as one that doesn’t listen to customers. Come to think of it, Google [...]
No Nudity in Apple Apps? Try Apple II Strip Poker Game
Steve Jobs’ quest for porn-free Apple devices led to a ban of strip poker games for the iPhone. However, one retro-minded gamer found that those lacy underthings come off pretty easily in the Apple II Strip Poker game, it looks like the one Roger Harnish made featuring Melissa and Suzi (both girls are one and [...]
Report: iOS ‘Totally Dominates the Web’ and Android
Apple’s mobile platform, iOS, is the third most-popular on the Internet, behind only Windows and Mac OS, one Internet usage research firm announced. The news is just the latest indication of the growing trend toward mobile computing. While Windows had 91.3 percent of Internet usage, with Mac OS claiming five percent, iOS – which includes [...]
Kill for an iPod? Here’s What the Judge May Give You
In the latest in a long string of murders over iPods, a 16-year-old in Salt Lake City is now being charged as an adult after the alleged stabbing of a classmate over an Apple device. Jonatan Bustos is in jail charged with criminal homicide-murder after a tussle with classmate 15-year-old Taylor Pankow over a stolen [...]
Apple To Suppliers: Give Us 3M iPads Per Month
Talk of iPad shortages may be history if reports of Apple’s new marching orders for suppliers are true. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, after doubling iPads built to 2 million, recently ordered 3 million iPads for the fourth quarter of 2010, according to one analyst. The figure puts Apple on track to ship 36 million iPads [...]
Report: Google to Launch iTunes Rival for Christmas
First Google launched a rival smart phone, now the Mountain View, Calif. Internet giant reportedly plans to assault Apple’s other revenue pillar – iTunes. The Google Vice President behind Android plans to launch an online music service by Christmas, a vision being warmly received by music executives, according to Reuters. Music executives, while “grateful” to [...]
LaCie MosKeyTo Flash Drive Is Barely Bigger Than Your Mac’s USB Port
LaCie’s latest, the MosKeyTo thumb drive — get it? Har. — is a product that manages to pull off the nearly miraculous: it’s not only just 20mm long, or about the same size as the nanoreceiver of some wireless mice, but it’s actually garnered our interest enough to break our oath and yet again hit [...]
Copy Any DVD To Your Mac [How To]
With the announcement of Apple TV it’s never been more apparent that physical format is dying and your collection of DVDs is becoming more obsolete by the day. However, that doesn’t mean you have to purchase all your favorite movies again just so you can enjoy streaming them to your iOS devices. Here we’re going to show you how [...]
Valve Software’s Portal Re-Imagined As Classic Apple Text Adventure [Video]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bBv1WkMUFs Valve Software’s transcendent physics and teleportation puzzler Portal already runs sublimely through Steam for Mac… as long as you have a modern MacBook Pro or iMac. But what if Portal wasn’t a modern game, but a classic Macintosh text adventure? This brilliant mock ad re-imagines Portal as a lost game rediscovered through a lost [...]