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It’s probably just coincidence, but the fact that Apple’s posted two new positions on its job board for high-level security personnel just as details emerge of an (un)reportedly lost iPhone 5 seems pretty convenient. Almost too convenient. More at 9to5Mac and iPodnn. https://gizmodo.com/apple-investigators-reportedly-impersonated-sf-police-i-5836990
In this week’s app roundup: iPhone video cameras, professionalized; Instagram, mapped on the iPad; launchers, re-imagined; warriors, eternal; PDFs, created; NFL Mobile, free; weather, beautiful-ed; browsers, dolphined; and much, much more. If you want to jump to see the best apps of the week in a specific platform, click here: • The Week’s Best iPhone…
In this week’s best Android app roundup, you have a new launcher from Samsung, a sweet fantasy RPG-ish game in Eternity Warriors, a drop dead gorgeous weather app and more. Check out the apps by clicking here. Apps will be listed in the side bar. Not in this post
A way to create PDFs and peep Instagram are the iPad apps of the Week. Click here to check out the full list. The apps will be listed in the side bar.
In this week’s best iPhone apps roundup, we feature Filmic Pro, a great video recorder, Dolphin Browser, a great web browser, Cloo, a great (?) bathroom strategy and more. Check out the apps by clicking here. Apps will be listed in the side bar. Not in this post
Behold the new Amazon Kindle! A full color 7-inch tablet that is basically a front to all their books, music, movies and products, just like we imagined. TechCrunch has a nice description, so we made a nice mock-up. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099 This is what it will have, according to TechCrunch: Hardware • Full color 7-inch touchscreen. •…
Google makes dozens of products we use everyday—they’ve killed plenty of disappointments, too. Now Google’s getting trigger-happy on some of its babies. Here’s a list of what they’re knocking off to make way for the bigger and better. Aardvak Google bought the social question and answer service Aardvark in 2010. Don’t be surprised if they…
Smokin’ hot driver aside—you ain’t got the scratch for a plane, or even your own ride, so you’re still stuck in this festering aluminum shoe box known as a Greyhound bus for the next 16 God-forsaken hours. And if the stench doesn’t get to you, the other passengers just might. So before you get cornered…
Did you know you could buy watermelons shaped like pyramids in Japan? Or that cats can communicate with “cat words”? Or that your brain sends messages to nerves at 200 miles per hour? Those are the fun facts that National Geographic’s Weird But True app tells you. $2 [iTunes]
In a bizarre reversal of earlier statements, the SFPD has informed the SFWeekly that officers did accompany Apple’s security team to Sergio Calderon’s house. https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-police-now-admit-participating-in-search-5837072 According to Officer Dangerfield, “three or four” plainclothes officers did in fact take part. But, the officers did not enter Calderon’s home with the Apple security team. First reported by…
In the early 1990s, Android head honcho Andy Rubin worked as a low-level Apple engineer. And that, according Apple’s latest ITC filing, is grounds enough for them to potentially block Android in the US. It sounds far-fetched; the bulk of Android’s foundational work was completed in the mid-to-late 90s, when Rubin was at General Magic…
Launchers for Android are pretty wonderful, as they can transform your phone into something totally different. There’s already awesome launchers like Launcher Pro and ADWLauncher but Samsung wants to throw their hat in the game too. I know what you’re thinking. Samsung? With their freaking TouchWiz UI? Luckily, we dodged a bullet there and it’s…
Vonage Extensions is a great little app for Vonage users: It gives you unlimited international calling from your Android phone (if your Vonage plan has unlimited calling, that is). So anywhere you go, you get the same deal as you get for Vonage at home. [Android Market via Phandroid]
I’ve never been one for buying consoles painted with a single game, but this year’s Call of Duty Xbox is relatively understated. Pardon the copy-and-paste press release, but really, what else is there to say? Prepare for Domination with the Xbox 360® Limited Edition Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3® Console, Wireless Headset with Bluetooth…
Long been a favorite on BlackBerry, BeWeather is a drop dead gorgeous weather app for Android. It gets its data from Weather Underground and wraps it in a nice package with a ton of options. There’s detailed forecasts, 11 different widgets in 6 different sizes, temperature notification in the status bar, radar and satellite maps…
Made by the people behind Gun Bros, you play as a warrior armed with swords to chop up the bad guys. It’s sorta action RPG-ish, loads of fun and you can play with friends too. [Android Market via Androinica]
Sweetening up the deal for their 4G customers, Verizon will let LTE users have free access to NFL Mobile, the app that lets you stream every Monday Night, Sunday Night, Thursday Night games and let you watch the Redzone channel. That’s usually 10 bucks a month. [Verizon via Android Community]
I’m not saying you should risk life, limb, and professional pride doing idiotic things like riding a skateboard being pulled a dirt bike while being chased down the New Jersey Turnpike by a team of East German bikers, but every time someone does do something preposterous and stupid and wonderful like that without thinking to…
G-Male, the perfect Google male. It’s just like everything with Google—it helps make your life easier, it seems awesome and right when you can’t imagine living your life without it, it starts getting creeeeepy. [Comediva via Laughing Squid]
According to The SF Weekly, Apple investigators looking into the missing iPhone 5 may have been impersonating San Francisco police officers. That’s a crime. The SF Weekly reached Sergio Calderón, who believes he was the person referred to as a suspect in a CNET story claiming that an iPhone 5 was lost in a bar.…
