Waze’s newest update lets you control the app, a little, with a wave and a word.
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The great, free car navigation app Waze (see Rafe Recommends) is getting an update today that gives it a limited hands-free, voice-controlled interface.
Waze is now perhaps the only app to use the phone’s promixity sensor to turn on the input interface, since Google removed that feature from its (more…)
The Ion Audio iCade Mobile will retail for $79.99 when it comes out in May (click to enlarge).
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LAS VEGAS–Tired of playing games with virtual buttons on your iPhone ? Well, a few companies, including Ion Audio, are making Bluetooth game controllers that work with the iPhone and Android smartphones.
We got a chance to play around with the Ion iCade Mobile ($79.99) and found that (more…)
Facebook has released a new version of their iPhone app.
Facebook 3.5 brings some new features such as the ability to tag friends and places in photos and finally the ability to add privacy controls on posts. Facebook has fixed a number of annoying bugs and claims that it has also improved the overall performance and stability of the iPhone app.
Here’s what’s new in Facebook app v3.5:
Unfortunately, the wait for Facebook’s iPad app (or Universal (more…)
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But there is one useful feature that Apple did not mention at the special event.
AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile) is the protocol standard that allows a Bluetooth accessory to control media playback via buttons on the accessory itself.
) allowed us to listen to high quality audio over Bluetooth and also gave us the ability to play and pause the music via the Bluetooth accessory, without support for AVRCP Bluetooth controls one had to (more…)
also includes quick access to iPod controls, as well as an option for locking the screen orientation in either portrait or landscape mode.
These options show up when you swipe to the left on the multitasking “dock” manager similar to the way you access Spotlight feature from the home screen.
This is fantastic news, as many users have been requesting for the screen orientation lock for quite sometime as the accelerometer feature can get quite annoying (more…)
The Bing app now makes it easy for users to bookmark any page from the app including maps, business listings, search results, directions and weather reports. These bookmarks may be directly accessed from the Bing homepage.
The new Bing app makes it extremely easy to search for results based on your current location. Users may also choose to search around specific locations using the location settings on the application.
The new Bing app introduces (more…)
If you listen to music on your iPhone or iPod Touch while you’re driving, you probably don’t exercise much control over your playlist–skipping and pausing songs without looking down at the screen is almost impossible. Fortunately, there are apps for that.
One of many background and font choices that come with SongVoo.
SongVoo, which released version 1.1 last week, is my latest discovery in this realm. (more…)
JayBird's Tiger Eyes are one of the better-looking choices.
Now that Apple is thoroughly touting the headphone remote capability of its various iPods, third-party headphone manufacturers are scrambling to provide products with integrated playback controls. One solution we’ve seen is the in-line remote cable attachment that can connect to any set of headphones, thereby letting you simply update your favorite pair. (more…)
