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What’s Your Favorite App That No One Knows About

The best, most awesome apps for phones or tablets usually get found out and blow up into a flurry of success with hundreds of thousands or millions of downloads. But not every good app is so lucky thought. So what is your must-have totally-awesome app of choice (iOS, Android, whatever!) that no one seems to…

Turn Your Old iPhone into a Wireless Music System

Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don’t have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other reason to keep it, you should probably sell it. Thanks in part…

Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app. iOS Earbits This free-to-use and…

The iPhone’s First Demo Was Buggy as Hell

Saturday is the second anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death, and a lot of remembrances are making their way around the web. One of the most revealing comes from the New York Times Magazine who just published a sprawling report on the original iPhone. Long story short, that thing was a mess. If you go back…

Best Buy’s Selling the iPhone 5C for $50 This Weekend (Update: Others)

The iPhone 5C will be on sale at Best Buy all weekend for $50 off. Holy smokes that’s a good deal, and just two weeks after the iPhone 5C hit stores. According the ABC News, Best Buy will be giving customers a $50 gift card with the iPhone 5C until Monday October 7th, and you…

“I’m the Actor Who Provided the Voice for Siri”

Siri has provided iPhone users around the planet with everything from weather forecasts to restaurant reviews, whilst fending off dumb-ass questions along the way. But if you ever wondered who whispered all those sweet nothings, here’s your answer. This woman claims to have voiced the original version of Siri, which appeared on the iPhone 4S…

Apple OS X Mavericks Gold Master Is Out

The Gold Master version of OS X Mavericks is now available for developers. That means that OS X Mavericks has reached the final build and is ready to go to customers. What we see in this build will be exactly what everyone sees when they upgrade to Mavericks. We’ll try and see what’s new and…

Apple Just Bought (Another) Personal Assistant Maker

Looks like Siri might be getting an upgrade after Apple bought Cue, an app that makes personalized agendas based on scanning emails. TechCrunch’s sources say that the purchase price was somewhere between $40 and $60 million, and that Apple plans to keep the company running. In other words, watch out Google Now. [TechCrunch] Photo by…

The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up

Since the iPhone 5S landed in the hands of new owners a few weeks ago, there have been reports that on-board sensors like the gyroscope, compass, and accelerometer haven’t been working properly on some devices. We’ve confirmed the new iPhone’s failings on our own. It’s not just off. It’s embarrassing. We tested two iPhone 5S…

Netflix had updated its iOS 7 app, providing it with HD streaming and AirPlay functionality.

Jimmy Kimmel Found the Perfect Cure for iOS 7 Motion Sickness

iOS 7 is allegedly making some people sick to the point of puking. But Jimmy Kimmel has come to the rescue with the perfect cure: stop looking at your phone all the damn time. But seriously, maybe it’s a good idea to put your iPhone down and stop and smell the roses every once in…

Apple has taken on a new Engineering Director: Jean-Francois Mulé, from CableLabs, who’s an expert in IP voice and video, and TV apps. He claims to be “part of something big” at Apple. Make of that what you will!

Reuters: A Retina iPad Mini Would Face Severe Stock Shortages

Rumors have been swirling which suggest that Apple is readying a new iPad mini with Retina display. Now, though, Reuters reports that supplies will be severely limited when the new tablet goes on sale. Citing a number of supply chain sources, Reuters claims that Apple will be “unable to widely roll out” the Retina display…

Has iMessage Been More Screwed Up Than Usual for You?

iMessage has been screwing up. Which, well, isn’t news to people who have been burned by iMessage before. But! It’s been screwing up more than usual. Enough that Apple has finally admitted that a “fraction of a percent” of iMessage users are having issues with the blue text bubble messaging service. Are you included in…

Here’s How to Check If the Apple Store Has an iPhone 5S in Stock

As it seems to go every year, iPhone inventory is depleted from the Apple Store. You have to sift through wooden shelves for a single speck of a goldpagne iPhone 5S, pray to the angels for a white 5S and… well, you can actually get a ‘space gray’ iPhone anywhere you want. If you want…

This Lightning Dock Lets You Dial in a Perfect Fit For iPads in Cases

Dropping an iPad onto a dock is not only an easy way to keep its battery charged, it also props it up so it’s not laying sprawled across your desk wasting valuable real estate. And where as most docks can only accommodate an iPad going au naturel, Belkin’s new Express Dock features a dial ’round…

This Could Be the First Official iPhone Gaming Controller

This image posted by perpetual juicy rumor machine @evleaks shows what could be a forthcoming iPhone gaming controller from Logitech. Given Apple’s reference designs for such a controller released at WWDC this year, the supposed leak looks pretty legit. https://gizmodo.com/the-surest-sign-yet-that-apple-tv-will-be-a-gaming-cons-513191654 Indeed, the purportedly forthcoming controller looks pretty much identical to one of the two designs…

Easily Turn Your iPhone 5 Into GTA V’s iFruit

Grand Theft Auto has long been known for parodying everything from vehicles, to advertising, to pop culture, to even the technology that dominates the time. So it’s not surprising to see one of the characters in the recently released GTA V using an iPhone parody called the iFruit. And now you can actually get your…

iPad 5 to Mimic the Mini’s Looks, Suggests Latest Parts Leak

The iPad 5 looks as though it’ll be taking its design cues from the little tablet that could, the iPad Mini, if the latest supply chain leak is to be believed. SW-Box has gotten its hands on what it claims is the latest Apple tablet shell, and it’s looking decidedly Mini-like. Snuggling up next to…

Apple Is Now a More Valuable Brand Than Coca-Cola

In what could be seen as a defining moment for tech, Apple has surpassed Coca-Cola to become the most valuable brand on the planet. An annual report published by Interbrand has listed the biggest global brands each year, since 2000. Coca-Cola has consistently taken the top spot since the survey’s inception—but this year sees Cook…