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iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

So, we were a little premature when we declared Twitterific the best iPhone Twitter app-Twinkle, the hugely popular Twitter app with location goodness for Installer.app, just came to the App store. Its killer location features are totally intact: Tweets are lojacked with your current location (Twitterific just updates your profile’s current location), and you can…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone Apps We Like: Pandora

Pandora for the iPhone is as easy to use as the website. Just type an artist you want to hear, it will build a radio station of similar songs and broadcast them in FMish-quality. The picks are usually accurate, but the science behind picking them is hilarious: The app explained that I have a soft…

Tech News Benny Goldman

iPhone Apps We Like: Aurora Feint The Beginning

Aurora Feint is the first strategy/RPG game that I’ve played on any system for more than five minutes, and I’m addicted. The main focus is a Bejeweled-like game of matching tiles, and you earn points and power to increase your abilities. You rotate the phone to get all the tiles to line up, which makes…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself

It’s essentially just a marketing tool for the Dark Knight movie, but hot damn if we don’t like this. Just run the app, take a picture of yourself, then add Joker elements to your face. Works on iPhone (use the camera) or iPod touch (use a saved picture). The only downside is that there’s no…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPhone Apps We Like: BeatMaker Sequencer and Sampler is Timbaland’s Favorite App Too

Click to viewIt may come as a surprise, but none of us here at Giz moonlight as hip-hop producers. Thankfully Henny from thabizness.com does, and he put the iPhone sequencer and sampler app BeatMaker through its paces. You can load in your own samples, sequence them up with applied effects and EQ and then export…

Tech News John Mahoney

iPhone Apps We Like: Mocha VNC Lite

Mocha is a VNC client that supports full QWERTY and Safari-like zooming as well as landscape mode. Double click works, but right click doesn’t, but there is no official App store equivalent so this is your desktop remote client of choice. [iPhone App Marathon via LH] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Tech News Brian Lam

Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast

Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega-the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform-is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPhone Apps We Like: Twitteriffic is Best Twitter App

Over at the still-going Apps review marathon, we’ve touched on three Twitter apps that bring the service to iPhone 2.0, with varying degrees of success. Twitterific’s version for the iPhone is as good as their OS X desktop client with a beautiful interface, and it’s free if you don’t mind the ads ($10 to make…

Tech News John Mahoney

The iPhone is More Powerful Than the DS, But Sucks As a Controller

You know that the iPhone is powerful enough to render 3D games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as well as various other ones we covered in the marathon review session, but just how powerful is it? How does it compare to actual gaming handhelds like the Nintendo DS and PSP? An EA developer put…

Tech News Jason Chen

Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App

The App: Tetris with excellent touch implementation. In a matter of seconds anyone will be comfortably rotating, placing and flicking blocks around the screen, and the block placement preview is a welcome addition. The Price: $9.99 The Verdict: Tetris isn’t exactly the most ambitious project for a company like EA Games. That’s probably why the…

Tech News John Herrman

DataCase App Brings File Browser & Wireless Data Transfer to iPhone & iPod touch

Being able to use the iPhone or iPod touch for basic data storage and file browsing has been a missing feature for over a year now. But an app called DataCase, available July 28, claims it will finally turn the iPhone or iPod touch into a “handheld wireless drive.” DataCase uses Bonjour in the same…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games

The three games we already saw on the iPhone from EA are Scrabble, Tetris and Sudoku. Scrabble is getting Wi-Fi upgrade for multiplayer plus accelerometer action that shakes up the words on your tray. Tetris is getting a feature where you can actually draw the upcoming piece right on your screen. Upcoming games are Need…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Few Stupid iPhone Apps

Benny tested out a few of the obvious timewasters in the iPhone App Store, including iMilk, Crazy Mouth, and iPint. They range from fun (the $1 Crazy Eye) to the dumbest app ever (the $1 CowToss), but a mixed bag is expected when so many apps come out at once. Normally, Benny does know how…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Apple App Store Developers Furious Over Crafty “Line Jumping” Application Names

A few Apple App Store developers have apparently taken a page from the line cutting Steve Wozniak today, and are using a loophole in the service’s naming conventions to shoot their apps to the top of the list. The story goes that certain developers are cutting to the head of the class with sneakily inserted…

Tech News Jack Loftus

How to Upgrade Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware

Macrumors has a useful post on how you can upgrade (downgrade, technically) from the leaked “iPhone1,2” firmware to the official “iPhone1,1” firmware issued early this morning. The leaked firmware was intended to only for use with iPhone 3G before it got out to the masses. In short, you need to download the correct firmware, and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Apps We Like: NetSketch Collaborative Drawing Shares Your Chicken Scratch Over WiFi

NetSketch is an $8 drawing app with Bonjour-like sharing abilities—if you’re on the same WiFi network, it will automatically detect drawings and let you jump in to collaborate PictoChat style. Coming to classrooms and lecture halls this fall. [NetSketch]

Tech News John Mahoney

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

We’re still reviewing iPhone apps in our review marathon liveblog, so pop over and see what we’ve added. Also, give us your requests if you’re dying to know about a particular app. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Reviews Jason Chen

iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It’s Code That Counts

Click to viewThe iPhone 3G may be here, but what we’re really excited about is the iPhone 2.0 software update. Only some people really need faster browsing and slightly better location services, but everyone can use the new features in the OS. Now that we’ve gotten chance to go through all that updated functionality-as well…

Reviews Jason Chen

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

Our marathon review of iPhone apps is still going on, and we’ve added tens of reviews since this morning. Head on over to drop a request on what apps you want reviewed. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Tech News Jason Chen

Apps We Like: Box Office is the Best iPhone Movie Theatre App

This is why people get excited about iPhone apps. With Box Office, if you want to see a movie and don’t know what’s playing, you just open it up. It’ll detect where you are, find theatres around you, and list movies playing by their RottenTomatoes score. Want to get tickets? Click on the time you…

Tech News Adam Frucci

iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

iPhone Apps We Like: Pandora

iPhone Apps We Like: Aurora Feint The Beginning

Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself

iPhone Apps We Like: BeatMaker Sequencer and Sampler is Timbaland’s Favorite App Too

iPhone Apps We Like: Mocha VNC Lite

Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast

iPhone Apps We Like: Twitteriffic is Best Twitter App

The iPhone is More Powerful Than the DS, But Sucks As a Controller

Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App

DataCase App Brings File Browser & Wireless Data Transfer to iPhone & iPod touch

EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games

A Few Stupid iPhone Apps

Apple App Store Developers Furious Over Crafty “Line Jumping” Application Names

How to Upgrade Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware

Apps We Like: NetSketch Collaborative Drawing Shares Your Chicken Scratch Over WiFi

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It’s Code That Counts

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

Apps We Like: Box Office is the Best iPhone Movie Theatre App

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