Tag archive: iPod Touch

With over 500,000 apps now available for download in the iTunes app store, the gaming options are nearly limitless. In the sea of games for the iPhone, some are worth your 99 cents (or download time) and others are not. We’ve taken on the burden of sorting through the endless games to bring you what we think are the best iphone games for everyone from the intense console gamer to the casual word puzzle enthusiast. Have a suggestion? Let us know… Read More

Originally discovered by The Guardian earlier today, Apple's App Store was flooded with copycat gaming applications that mimicked the design style and names of popular iPhone and iPad games like Plant vs. Zombies and Tiny Wings. Created by a developer called Anton Sinelnikov, these applications trick iOS users into wasting money on software that doesn't even work. Sinelnikov is responsible for publishing apps such as Plants vs.… Read More

There are tons and tons of games for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Some are better than others and some you have to pay for. We're not looking at the expensive choices here. Instead, we've picked out some apps that are completely free (and aren't Angry Birds, though Angry Birds is free now as well). We've picked a range of games, from the simple to the complex, online and off. We're sure that you'll find… Read More

According to new information from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, tablet ownership has jumped from about 1 out of every 10 Americans to approximately 19 percent. The previous study was conducted around the middle of December, thus the massive increase in tablet ownership can likely be attributed to the holiday shopping season. While Apple's iPad definitely helped boost that percentage, less expensive tablets… Read More

David Forbes, an electrical engineer from Tucson, Arizona, has found a way to mix fashion with one of America's favorite pastimes. The engineer has created a vest packed with LEDs that turns him into a walking TV. Forbes' TV vest began as a coat in 2009, which he populated with some surplus LED displays. He says the 50 pound all-red screen was “the world worst television.” Later he upgraded to a lighter version using an old overcoat… Read More

Mentioned in an official blog post on the company site, Skype is setting up free Wi-Fi access many sections of New York City to celebrate the new year. Skype is partnering with Towerstream to accomplish this feat and will provide free Wi-Fi service to anyone in “Times Square, West Village, East Village, South Village, Greenwich Village, NoHo, SoHo, Lowe East Side, Clinton, Chelsea, Union Square, Midtown, Midtown South, Murray Hill,… Read More

Perhaps an upcoming feature on the next version of the iPhone or iPad, Apple filed a patent over a year ago with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that outlines a method of face recognition for taking an iOS device out of sleep mode. Likely built into a future version of iOS, an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad would recognize that a user is in the vicinity after the user picks up the device and utilize the camera to scan the user's… Read More

Apple is reportedly in negotiations to buy Israel-based flash storage maker Anobit for between $400 million and $500 million, according to Hebrew-language financial daily Calcalist. Neither Apple nor Anobit have yet agreed to comment on the matter. Anobit makes an advanced chip that increases the performance of flash drives. Apple already uses the Anobit chips in a number of its devices, including the MacBook Air, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch… Read More

The iPhone and iPad lends themselves perfectly to use as cool universal remote controls, but thanks to their lack of infrared sensors, it was never going to be a standard feature. However, a legion of aftermarket manufacturers have come up with ingenious ways of getting around this problem; the latest of which is the VooMote Zapper. Unlike the recently announced Logitech Harmony Link, the VooMote Zapper goes down the tried and tested route of… Read More

There a tons of apps for the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch. Some of them let you purchase additional content — generally these are games like Angry Birds. The content can be more levels, character designs in games, added functionality, or expansions. Most apps with additional content for purchase let you buy from inside the app. Unfortunately, some of apps aren't as up front about or make it really easy to accidentally purchase… Read More

The iTunes App Store can be quite daunting when you don't know what you're looking to add to your iPod Touch. Currently, there are over 500,000 apps. They span range from the niche apps like calculating your blood alcohol content after a night of drinking to full on games. For every request there are dozens of apps that offer similar features. Which ones belong on your Touch? We've scoured the App Store and picked out a… Read More

With a publisher in place to launch the subscription model, Apple is offering publishers of multiple iOS games the ability to charge a monthly subscription fee to access a specific amount of games. Seattle-based Big Fish Games is the first company to sign up for the service according to a Bloomberg article. The company is developing an iPad application that will eventually charge subscribers $6.99 a month to access dozens of games formatted for… Read More

As some of the fastest-growing portable gaming platforms today, it’s no wonder that over a quarter of the 500,000 apps (applications) available to Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners are digital diversions. In fact, given these devices’ user-friendly, motion-sensing interfaces; sharp 3D graphics; selection of titles for all ages and interests at a variety of comfortable prices; and ability to retrieve content on-demand virtually anytime,… Read More

After a very public screw-up, Google has re-released the Gmail app for iOS devices into Apple's App Store. The app is currently available for download. (Though, for some reason, it's not showing up in the iOS App Store app, as of 3:30pm ET.) Users who managed to snag the earlier version of the app, which contained a number of bugs that rendered it inoperable, will have to either log out, or completely uninstall the app, before… Read More

The rumored native Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is real, but anyone who hasn't already downloaded the app will have to wait just a little bit longer to get it. Google released the long-awaited Gmail app into the iTunes App Store (iTunes link) today, only to have to take it down after a bug was discovered that the left users faced with error messages. “Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS,” writes… Read More