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This iPhone App Will Result In At Least One Accidental Shooting

The RNSK “Bang! Bang!” iPhone app recreates the sound of several firearms using authentic Hollywood special effects, and will probably get you shot up for real. You even hold it like a real gun. OK, strike that. This app will get you shot for real. Kai Cherry, of RnSK Softronics, told Tomorrowland that each gun…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 1

Fantastic iPhone Photography Has Forced Me to Apologize to My iPhone

After viewing Jesus’s Bruce Springsteen iPhone photos again this morning, I was all prepared to continue staring spitefully at my own iPhone camera. But then I found these amazing iPhone photos. World: Upside down. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-hate-the-iphone-camera-and-loved-the-best-rock-c-5028534 But before we get to the goods, credit where credit is due. These 100 really, really cool images were sought…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 1

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs

Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first. And that is this: Ripping Blu-ray discs sucks. Hard. It takes forever, eats up a ton of hard drive space, and…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 28

The Week in iPhone Apps: It Poops

This week we’ve cast the net out a bit further to catch some gems from this month that may have escaped our attention, including a repackaged, excrement-producing pop-culture classic. And it’s no fart app. Tamagotchi: ‘Round the World: But unfortunately, it’s just as inane. Gone is the dot-matrix Tamagotchi you may remember from 1996, and…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 27

Apple Purging App Store Of Every Last Emoticon Enabler

Developers who’ve either made a dedicated emoji-enabler or included the functionality as a feature in their apps have received notification that they need to stop with this Japanese smiley stuff, like, now. https://gizmodo.com/simple-hack-enables-roughly-one-gazillion-japanese-emot-5097380 Here it is, summarized by one of the guys who makes TypingGenius: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-text-with-adorable-japanese-emoji-on-your-iphone-5146201 As of today, Apple has informed us that they…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 27

World’s Stupidest, Most Expensive iPhone Mod Yet Costs 2.5 Million Dollars

$2.5 million. Two. Point. Five. Million. Dollars. That’s what some idiot is going to pay for what could be the most expensive iPhone mod ever, the iPhone 3G “Kings Button”. Why oh why people would like to pay for this horror, this pinnacle of bad taste deep fried in 18-carat yellow gold and 160 diamonds,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 26

iMafia for iPhone Circumvents the App Store, Sells Other Apps In-Game…and Apple Willingly Approves

The iMafia game for iPhone is not only the first app with an approved, in-game microtransaction system, but that system also doubles as a platform to promote and purchase other iPhone apps. The system, developed by PlayMesh, basically allows you to buy additional premium content for the MMO-esque game, where you point and click your…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 26

Your iPhone Is now a Kitchen Thanks to Cooking Mama

You might not have time for breakfast before getting on the 8:15 train to work, but you can regain part of the experience by making virtual bacon and coffee en route to the office. Cooking Mama on the iPhone looks graphically similar to the Nintendo DS iterations, except that you only have one screen, and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 26

‘That’s What She Said’ iPhone App Is the Opposite of Comedy

You’re an unfunny person if you say “That’s what she said!” all the time. You’re an aggressively, offensively unfunny person if you pull out your iPhone and push a button to say it. Yes, say hello to the “That’s What She Said” iPhone app. It’s pretty straightforward: it’s a big red button that says TWSS.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 26

Dashboard Widgets For Jailbroken iPhones: Hot or Not?

This work-in-progress Dashboard implementation (seen here running through the SDK) looks like it’s coming along nicely; I just can’t decide if it’s something I’d want. What do you guys think? It’s done by the same guy who brought Leopard’s “stacks” feature to your bottom row of icons. It looks like it’s running smoothly with a…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 26

iPhone AIM App Gets Background Notifications, Free SMS Messages and… Ads

The AIM iPhone app has never been great, but it just got some pretty solid features—it pings when you have new IMs, even after you quit the app, and lets you send free SMS messages. No, it doesn’t use Apple’s long lost push notifications. Instead, it uses SMS notifications, for up to 24 hours after…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 25

5-Row QWERTY Jailbreak App Fixes One of the iPhone Keyboard’s Most Annoying Flaws

Sometimes it’s the little things. This simple jailbreak app adds a fifth row to the iPhone’s soft keyboard, giving access to numbers without the sub-menu. And symbols are easier to type too. Hitting shift will change the new fifth row of numbers to their symbol equivalent, giving you quicker access to the exclamation marks your…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 25

Major Label Bands Decide App Store Is Cool, Want to Take Over Your iPhone

Ars rounds up iPhone apps released by a bunch of crappy bands so I don’t have to—they’re tacky trail mixes of promo clips with links to buy stuff, but point to a scary trend. The apps released by five Universal artists—All-American Rejects, SouljaBoyTellem, Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga and Keri Hilson—are all of this shallow breed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 24

Metal Gear Solid Touch For iPhone Trailer Has Me Worried

Metal Gear is one of my favorite game franchises of all time, and it’s arguably the biggest making its way to the iPhone. I’m excited, but I don’t know about this trailer. From the smidgin’ of gameplay footage we see there at the end, it kind of just looks like Time Crisis with Solid Snake—I…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 24

iPhoto May Use Future iPhone GPS Functionality To Geotag With Any Camera

None of this is available now, but a resource screen found in iPhoto ’09 shows some interesting possible-future technology that may let you geotag your photos even if the camera didn’t have a GPS module. The trick, if we’re interpreting Tidbits‘s findings correctly, is that the iPhone may (in the future) have a location application…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23

Danglet Wrist Strap For iPhone Is a Horrible Idea

If you’ve ever wanted to hang your iPhone from your wrist or neck then you, Sir or Madam, have not thought things through. Neither have the people who created the Danglet. The $15 Danglet attaches to your iPod or iPhone’s dock connector and lets you hold it like a wrist strap. Which is fine if…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23

iPhone 3G $50 and $100 Off for Best Buy Reward Zone Members

If you’ve sold your soul to Best Buy‘s Reward Zone program, you can knock $50 or even $100 off an iPhone 3G this week. Unfortunately, Best Buy isn’t using the promotion to grab new members—you need to have been a Reward Zone member since at least Feb. 21. But if you’re a regular (free) Reward…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 23

iPod Touch and iPod Nano Get a Mini Microphone

Not that the iPhone really needs it, but it and the iTouch/iPod Nano are getting an external mini microphone that plugs directly into the headphone jack. And it’s only $15. The accessory is also compatible with the 120GB iPod classic (claims its product page), and should be a decent way to conduct interviews or surreptitiously…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23

Proposal iPhone App Lets Someone Propose To Your Future Wife For You

We’re always excited for unique proposal stories with gadgets involved, but this Proposal iPhone app is back-ass-wards. https://gizmodo.com/man-proposes-to-girlfriend-using-zune-glenn-medeiros-331149 Here’s the deal. People who do tech proposals are cool because they either program, hack or otherwise customize their proposal FOR the person they’re proposing to. They’re not cool just because it involves an iPhone. In this…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23

iPhone Skateboard Deck Cancels Out Any Coolness You’ve Aquired Being a Skateboarder

No matter how many perfect Ollies or Fakie Frontside Flips you execute with this iPhone board, I wish you good luck with the ladies. You will need it. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 23

This iPhone App Will Result In At Least One Accidental Shooting

Fantastic iPhone Photography Has Forced Me to Apologize to My iPhone

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs

The Week in iPhone Apps: It Poops

Apple Purging App Store Of Every Last Emoticon Enabler

World’s Stupidest, Most Expensive iPhone Mod Yet Costs 2.5 Million Dollars

iMafia for iPhone Circumvents the App Store, Sells Other Apps In-Game…and Apple Willingly Approves

Your iPhone Is now a Kitchen Thanks to Cooking Mama

‘That’s What She Said’ iPhone App Is the Opposite of Comedy

Dashboard Widgets For Jailbroken iPhones: Hot or Not?

iPhone AIM App Gets Background Notifications, Free SMS Messages and… Ads

5-Row QWERTY Jailbreak App Fixes One of the iPhone Keyboard’s Most Annoying Flaws

Major Label Bands Decide App Store Is Cool, Want to Take Over Your iPhone

Metal Gear Solid Touch For iPhone Trailer Has Me Worried

iPhoto May Use Future iPhone GPS Functionality To Geotag With Any Camera

Danglet Wrist Strap For iPhone Is a Horrible Idea

iPhone 3G $50 and $100 Off for Best Buy Reward Zone Members

iPod Touch and iPod Nano Get a Mini Microphone

Proposal iPhone App Lets Someone Propose To Your Future Wife For You

iPhone Skateboard Deck Cancels Out Any Coolness You’ve Aquired Being a Skateboarder

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