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Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Kids are so mollycoddled these days, what with apps detecting monsters in wardrobes instead of just living through the fear like we did, so I’m not surprised the developer included a positive-reading option for this $1 app. [iTunes via AppsPlayground]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple to Sell iLife ’11 Apps Individually For $15 Each?

Plenty of people won’t be bothered by GarageBand or iMovie, and will want just iPhoto—and they’ll want to download it, too. If Apple does charge just $15 per iLife ’11 app as this photo suggests, that’s amazing news. When you zoom into an image on Apple’s website showing the Mac App Store on a MacBook…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

No Cranking (or Hearing Aids) Necessary with This iPhone Gramophone Amplifier

One of my favorite unpowered amplifiers is Griffin’s AirCurve, and at $5 more this $25 gramophone horn looks worth it. It’ll add 12db of sound to the speaker, and even acts as a stand too. [CyberGuys via BookOfJoe via Wired] https://gizmodo.com/griffin-aircurve-dock-amplifies-your-iphone-speakers-wi-5053109

Tech News Kat Hannaford

AT&T Sold a Record 5.2 Million iPhones This Summer

It’s maybe not that big a surprise, given the huge number of iPhones Apple moved this past quarter, but it’s still a big number: AT&T activated 5.2 million iPhones this summer. That’s nearly 70% of their entire integrated device activations. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sells-14-1-million-iphones-and-more-ipads-than-ma-5667042 About 24% of those customers were new to AT&T, meaning about 1.3 million people…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Live Out Those Weird Conducting Fantasies With Mozart on the TikTakt iPhone App

Classical music may isn’t to everyone’s taste, but who hasn’t waved their hands about like a conductor before? iPhone app TikTakt lets you do that, but by shaking the iPod to control music from the likes of Mozart and Beethoven. The conductor looks like a Mii, but behind him there’s a “small orchestra that performs…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What It’s Like Using FaceTime For Mac

FaceTime for Mac, which you can download right now, works pretty flawlessly so long as you have entries in your Address Book. Here’s how it looks doing Mac to Mac and Mac to iPhone. There’s even an iChat comparison. https://gizmodo.com/facetime-for-mac-is-here-and-you-can-try-it-today-5668870 Overall, it’s good. Apple kept the aspect ratio vertical by default when you’re doing Mac…

Tech News Jason Chen

The $2 iPhone App That Lets You Read Twitter Like You’re Playing a Mario Game

It may not have as much functionality as Tweetie, but does your Twitter app let you jump through a tweet timeline like you’re playing a Mario platformer? For $2, you’re getting a Twitter client and Game Center-enabled game. Running in a similar landscape format as Plurk and iStreamer, the tweets glide by horizontally in the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

App Turns Everyone Into Justin Biebers

Justin Bieber feels that he is the Kurt Cobain of his generation. Little he knew that Steve Jobs feels like the Justin Bieber of his generation. The good news: Now you can feel like him too, with the BieberHair application. I know Jobs will find it disgusting that it’s available for iPhone and Android, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Michael Jackson, Twitter, and Some iPads Walk Into a Parody Video…

iPads versus iPhones. Twitter fights. The King of Pop. Hipsters. Suits. And an impressively faithful recreation of one of the most indelible music videos of all time. Now that’s bad. But, like, good bad. However sad it is that our generation’s knife fight is an iOS face-off, Tweet It really is fun. In the interest…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple Sells 14.1 Million iPhones and More iPads Than Macs

That didn’t take long. This past summer, Apple sold more iPads than Macs for the first time, and more iPhones—way more—than iPods. And they made more than $20 billion doing it. Updating live with Steve Jobs’ comments: The 4.19 million iPads Apple sold in the third quarter is a huge number, surpassing record Mac sales…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The iGlo Wi-Fi Controllable LED Strip Makes Any Room a Hundred Times More Fun

Say goodbye to the boring strings of holiday lights you decorated with in the days of yore. The iGlo LED set, which can be fully controlled with an iPhone or iPod in real time, transforms any room into an instant party. The 5 meter strip has 120 lights that can be programmed into elaborate sequences…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Don’t Misplace Your iPhone or Your Wife Will Get Knocked Up

CNN is running a series on smartphones, and the profound effects they’ve had on ordinary Americans. Such as Arkansas resident Doug Wilson, who uses his iPhone 4 for everything. Including, indirectly, getting someone pregnant. I need this app. Now. You see, in addition to snapping pics of crazy hairstyles around town and using the phone’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Rumor: New Verizon iPhone In Final Test Stage Before Retail Release

According to a Boy Genius Report’s “solid source”, there’s a new Apple iPhone in the last stage before retail release, which consist on an “AP” field test with final hardware and almost-final software. They claim it’s model 3,2, which most people think is the Verizon iPhone, but it has a SIM card slot. BGR believes…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Experts Worry Toddlers Are Becoming iPhone Addicts

For some toddlers today the venerable “toys of choice” are not dolls or blocks, but iPhones. Experts worry their development is hampered by this “screen time.” I’m inclined to argue every generation has its vices and parents need to parent. Touchscreens and ultra-portable communication devices are the inevitable future, you see, and as long as…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Make iPhone Texting Suck Less With the biteSMS Jailbreak App

The Messages app on the iPhone is alright if you’re using it like a one-window chat system, but once you start doing other things on your phone, constant popups you can’t do anything with are a source of extreme frustration. BiteSMS is a good way to solve this problem (if you’ve jailbroken your iPhone). There’s…

Tech News Jason Chen

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s super duper app round up: trains, made exciting; excellent New York pizza, catalogued; basketball, played in space; the New York Times, expanded on the iPad; Sonic the Hedgehog, spin dashing all over your iPhone, and more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-10-15-5665223 iPad To view these on one…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Use Geotagged Photos As Waypoints For iPhone Navigation

The feature to use GPS coordinates inside geotagged photos as a waypoint to navigate to is an obvious one, but actually a pretty clever use if you think about it. Good job, TomTom. Instead of writing down addresses when you visit somewhere new, just snap a photo of something at that location and you’ll be…

Tech News Jason Chen

Real Weather Girls App Brings Weather For Lonely Creepsters

Weather HD is Weather, but with pretty visualizations of in movie form. But what if you’re a guy that wants to creepily follow pretty girls around instead of looking at clouds? Today is your lucky day. https://gizmodo.com/weather-hd-jumps-from-ipad-to-iphone-with-visualization-5652339 This Real Weather Girls app is a mix of those Japanese girlfriend simulators, channels for oversharing on YouTube,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Band Rocks Out on iPhones After Their Instruments Are Stolen

New York band Atomic Tom’s instruments were stolen by some bastard(s). But rather than cry and break up, they brandished iPhones and executed an awesome, impromptu Subway performance. Neat! Or maybe just a viral video attempt. Sigh. Authentic or not, the dudes sound great with a very minimal setup, and their fellow passengers seem entertained…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Shades of a Master Plan: Why Apple Won’t Get Beaten Again

The iPhone is coming to Verizon, soon. That’s the blinking-neon-light message tucked inside the iPad’s arrival on Verizon. Apple is in this to win it. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-coming-to-verizon-stores-on-october-28th-5663702 It’s always been politics, not chipsets, that have kept the iPhone off of Verizon. Steve Jobs famously offered the iPhone to Verizon before AT&T—then Cingular—and Verizon turned down Apple’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Apple to Sell iLife ’11 Apps Individually For $15 Each?

No Cranking (or Hearing Aids) Necessary with This iPhone Gramophone Amplifier

AT&T Sold a Record 5.2 Million iPhones This Summer