Some people like chocolate, some like vanilla. Some go for Glenn Beck, some for Jon Stewart. And some dig vampires, while others love their zombies.
Me, I’m just waiting for the day I can buy a chocolate zombie Stewart. Until then, I will sit here eating Trader Joe’s Swiss 72 percent Dark Chocolate (world’s best), listening to The Daily Show in the background and whompin’ the (more…)
Gmail’s Google Maps link to CBSi's address on the iPhone via Smart Links’s translation. Instead of the lengthy URL, you now have the actual address with the link embedded to it.
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Chances are you have experienced extremely long links when you receive an e-mail that contains a Google Maps address or driving instructions. This gets annoying, especially on mobile devices, as the (more…)
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I went to Portland, Oregon, to visit my parents last week and had a great time spending time with my family and checking out the local breakfast spots. I even found new places to explore (thanks to my trusty iPhone ). One thing I knew going up there is that my father and his girlfriend had already bought two iPhone 3GS phones and I would not be hearing the end of how much better theirs were than my year-old iPhone (more…)
Remember MeetWays, that tool we covered that would let you find the exact mid-point between you and someone else? There’s now a competing service that does the same thing on your iPhone .
MeetMe, from Basara ($1.99 App store link) lets you plot a trip from point A to point B, and find places that are precisely (or pretty close to) the middle. MeetMe’s big twist, however, is that you can slide it toward one of the (more…)
The attack was demonstrated on the iPhone of Cnet’s Elinor Mills. This is what she had to say of how this attack works in practice:
The only thing you can do to stop the attack is to turn off your iPhone quickly.
According to the report, the researches informed Apple about the
security flaw over a month ago but Apple is yet to release a patch to
address the bug.
Miller had also discovered a vulnerability in the original iPhone soon after (more…)
Sold 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter and has reported that the response to the
has been so overwhelming that they are unable to make iPhone 3GS to meet demand. Apple is working to address the issue.
Significant acceleration in sales thanks to the price reduction on the 8GB iPhone 3G model.
iPhone produced $1.689 billion in revenue which is sequentially up 37 percent in units and 11 percent in revenue, but in
year-over-year results (more…)
The mystery surrounding Apple ‘s approval process on the App Store is legendary. What gets approved or rejected on any given day can be a source of bewilderment for developers and consumers alike. But the company still surprised everyone when it rejected Google’s Voice app for the iPhone on Tuesday.
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The story doesn’t end there. Apple then proceeded to remove third-party apps from the App Store (more…)
We are all insecure.
Our noses are too big, too small, too pointy from the side.
Our hair is too thin, if it exists at all.
And as for our ability to please a member of our target gender in the bedroom, well, admit it, we are all a bit freaked.
So a highly caring and simultaneously enterprising man called Chris Alvares has released an iPhone app that scores us objectively as we strive for sexual Kilimanjaro.
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We recently encountered a new problem syncing with iTunes after updating an iPhone to OS 3.0. After updating, the iPhone began to sync properly, then stalled, ending in “error 13019.”
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We researched the issue and found an Apple support document with details about error 13019 and two possible solutions. The document explains that the problem is usually caused (more…)
Yahoo’s new iPhone -optimized Web site.
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Yahoo has been busy. Last week, it announced a new customizable home page you can personalize by adding favorite Yahoo services and social-networking modules. On Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled a new iPhone -optimized design for the iPhone ‘s Safari browser that invites you to sync the modules between the PC and your iPhone .
Here’s (more…)
