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Apple May Have Quietly Approved The Official Google Voice iPhone App Already?

We’ve seen several third-party Google Voice iPhone apps make their way into the App Store, but we’ll be seeing Google’s official version soon too according to a report by TechCrunch. Apparently Apple may have even approved the app already: https://lifehacker.com/apple-finally-approved-a-native-google-voice-iphone-app-5641271 [TechCrunch has] gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Why I Love An Imperfect $70 Wooden iPhone Case

With free iPhone cases abounding, an iffy economy, and a new truck project that’s capable of taking every last dollar I can throw at it, why did I buy a $70 iPhone case? Because it’s the one I’ve always wanted. Wood is the best material. It’s second only to leather for how nice it feels…

Tech News Joel Johnson

The GV Mobile+ iPhone App Is Free For The Next Few Hours

GV Mobile+, one of the third-party Google Voice apps available for the iPhone, is free right now. This deal will only last until about 1:00am EST according to the app’s developer, so hurry up and save yourself three bucks. [iTunes] Update 1: Seems that the deal’s over, folks. Apparently the developer’s intent was for only…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s totally tasty round up: Gourmet, back and more beautiful than ever on the iPad; Mario Batali, in your pocket; vegetables, endeared to your children; New York’s best coffee, charted; reminders, set; international texting, made free; and more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-sept-24-5647461 Android To view these on…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade

It’s amazing to see how things change in a little more than a decade. Back then, Steve Jobs preached the new iMac as the center of your digital life, the internet machine. Now, the internet machine fits in your pocket. But with sixteen times the memory, eight times the storage, and more than double its…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Some Excellent Capcom iOS Games Are Just .99 This Weekend

Mega Man II. Resident Evil 4. 1942. All those Capcom iOS games, along with a handful of others, are on sale this weekend for a buck. Guess I know how I’m spending the next couple of days. Eight titles total are on sale, with a good range of games and discounts: • Resident Evil 4…

Tech News Brian Barrett

When Good Apps Go Bad

In just a few short years we’ve almost forgotten the concept of “saving” a document. Close an app? It’s just there. Until it isn’t. I just got back from a manic 48-hour mental assault to pick up the used Land Cruiser I’ll be driving up and down the hemisphere next summer. (More on that later!)…

Tech News Joel Johnson

Apple Reduces Audio Jack Size Without Changing the Standard Stereo Plug

Apple may shave a few millimeters from future iPods and iPhones by using a new patent for a new audio jack. The device uses Pogo pins as conductive contacts. Current iPods use a standard cantilever design. A cantilever is a metallic beam that is folded inside the case, providing a contact with the metal stereo…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Check Out the Upcoming Lord of the Rings Tower Defense iPhone Game

What’d I learn from my hands-on with Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth Defense, the forthcoming LOTR tower defense game? That Aragorn’s just as much of a badass when he’s small enough to fit it the palm of your hand. Glu Games, the developers behind the game, are shooting for a December launch. Lord of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This iPhone Case Packs a QWERTYriffic Flip-Out Keyboard

If you’re clinging to your BlackBerry because of physical keyboard, you just lost your last excuse: this TK-421 iPhone 4 case includes a physical keyboard that flips out whenever you need some thumb-tapping typing action. The keyboard case from ThinkGeek—also available for iPhone 3GS—connects to your phone via Bluetooth and is compatible with its email,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPhone App Filters in Important Outside Noise When Listening to Music

How often have you listened to music in the office, and not realized someone’s shouting at you? Or unknowingly missed an announcement on the train that the course was changing? “Awareness! The Headphone App!” could be a $5 life-saver. Available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, it utilizes the inbuilt microphone and feeds in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Springpad Scrapbook-For-Everything App Gets Even More Memory-Proof

Springpad, an app that lets you collect and organize all those bits and scraps of information that bombard you daily, just got handier in your phone and on your browser. Well, for some, for now. The major new feature here is that Springpad’s Alerts feature is being rolled out across all of its mobile apps.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ruler 2: As Good as an iPhone Ruler Can Get

For a device with a 3″ screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: Phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger, too. Ruler 2, an overhauled version of an apparently less-good Ruler 1, offers a simple, functional…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The iPhone of Night Clubs

The most cleverest geek nightclub sign you’ll ever see, compliments of San Francisco’s Red Devil Lounge. Also: flashing is strictly prohibited. [SFist via Geekosystem]

Tech News Brian Barrett

How the iPhone Helped a Blind Person See Color

“I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to the blind for at least the last ten years.” That’s what Austin Seraphin wrote last June, describing the experience of using his new iPhone and its VoiceOver feature to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Napster’s iPhone App Breaks Cover Despite Their Licensing Fees Concerns

Only a year ago we heard that Napster wasn’t keen on launching phones apps, simply because the licensing fees were too expensive. They seemingly got over that small issue, as you can now download their “free” iPhone App. https://gizmodo.com/why-we-cant-have-a-napster-iphone-app-or-android-app-5350383 I say free, but while it’s free to download from the App Store, you must be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Jailbroken iPhones Can Surf Privately With Free Cydia App “Covert”

Porn-browsers with jailbroken iPhones who wish to keep their internet habits a secret (yes, it’s a niche market, true), have been handed the free “Covert” tool on the Cydia app store, for use with the Mobile Safari browser. Redmond Pie tried it out, describing that it works right in the Safari browser, with the “private…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Point an iPhone at the Sky, See Augmented Reality Info as Planes Fly By

Plane Finder AR adds a layer of augmented reality to its previous (and free) Plane Finder app, now charging $3 for the privilege of seeing the flight number, speed, destination and other such details of overhead planes. The same developer is making a name for itself in transportation apps, with its Airline Finder acting as…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

I’ve Lost Count Of The Excuses Apple Can Use To Reject This App

I’ve only skimmed Apple’s App Review Guidelines, but I’m pretty sure that Moral Decay isn’t exactly designed in accordance to them. But who knows, maybe Apple will approve an iPhone game that involves Jesus Chris T. gunning down sumo wrestlers, aliens, and other bad guys. https://gizmodo.com/censorship-stays-as-iphone-app-development-rules-relax-5633721 After all, it’s perfectly possible that Apple will overlook…

Tech News Rosa Golijan