Archive | May 19th, 2009
“Get into a car crash? There’s an app for that” Nationwide Insurance comes out with iPhone app
“Have you just gotten into a major car accident, and need to jot down a variety of important information? Well, there’s an app for that” This is actually pretty clever. Nationwide Insurance has an iPhone app that takes care of all those pesky, yet important, details that are necessary to keep track of if you […]
Continue reading...Have quirky fun with your photos with new iPhone app “Face Fun”
19. May 2009
Apple isn’t the only company having fun with face detection. An Italian software company called Ab2Labs has come up with a pretty fun and funky iPhone app called “Face Fun” that can detect a person’s face from a given photo, and then places it in an out of context scenario such as being on the […]
Continue reading...Palm Pre rebate flying under the radar, and why the Pre won’t sell out
19. May 2009
Isn’t it funny how people craft all sorts of fancy graphs depicting the supposed real cost of the iPhone over the lifespan of a 2 year contract, but the fact that you’ll have to shell out $300 bucks to get the Palm Pre has flown under the radar? Sure, there’s a $100 mail-in rebate, but […]
Continue reading...Apple poised to sell Macs at Walmart?
19. May 2009
Barron’s reports: Apple could eventually sell some Macs in Wal-Mart stores, “which could significantly increase distribution and unit shipments,” Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzesasserted in a research note this morning. “While we don’t expect an immediate impact this year and believe Apple would need to reposition its line-up first, we believe that closer ties to […]
Continue reading...Japanese University to measure student attendance via GPS enabled iPhones?
19. May 2009
A Japanese University in Tokyo is taking an interesting, if not downright Big-Brother, approach to monitoring student attendance. All students at Aoyama Gakuin University will receive a free GPS enabled iPhone, which will allow school administrators to see which students are in school and which are not. The faculty began providing Apple iPhone 3Gs to […]
Continue reading...Rumor: Full specs and release date of Apple’s next iPhone revealed
19. May 2009
With Apple’s WWDC about 3 weeks away, the rumor mill is in full effect. According to AppleiPhoneApps, they were approached by someone with connections to Apple’s hardware development team who divulged that the next iPhone model will be released on July 17, 2009. This supposed source also dished out the specs of the next iPhone model. Some […]
Continue reading...Videos depicting Snow Leopard in action removed from YouTube
19. May 2009
Videos of Snow Leopard in action made the rounds on the web quite a bit yesterday, and not surprisingly, the aforementioned videos have subsequently been taken down. Our guess is that Apple caught wind of the videos, which were available at www.youtube.com/leopardoctober, and sent them a pleasant legal warning/demand to immediately take the videos down. The videos, however, […]
Continue reading...Palm Pre to drop on June 6 for $200 after $100 rebate
19. May 2009
Sprint announcedtoday that the Palm Pre will hit store shelves on June 6 for $199, after a $100 rebate. So consumers will really have to shell out $299, and then wait faithfully for their $100 rebate to come in the mail. Rebates suck, but apparently Palm really had to do whatever it could to make the […]
Continue reading...Getting around Apple’s app store policies with easter eggs
19. May 2009
There was a time, back when boys were boys, that the Mac OS was littered with fun and quirky easter eggs, which are essentially little messages or images from developers that can only be seen if a user knows how to access them, usually via a sequence of keystrokes or desktop actions. The ubiquity of […]
Continue reading...iPod designer Jonathan Ive ranked #1 creative person in Business
19. May 2009
Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design, was listed as the most creative person in Business in an un-scientific listing put together by Fast Company. Ive, of course, has a number of iconic Apple designs to his credit, including the original iPod, the Bondi Blue iMac, and the iPhone. [..] no one is in […]
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19. May 2009
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