Archive for the ‘iPod Touch’ Category
Putting Your iPod Touch / iPhone on Kitchen Duty
If, like me, you spend a lot of time in the kitchen, you might want to bring along your iPod Touch or iPhone. No more hauling around heavy cookbooks or having to find the space for a tv with a huge footprint- from recipes in text documents to videos of Julia Child, you’ve got it [...]
iPods and the Car
Way back in November, I did a post about iPods and Your Car, where I discussed some of the options out there for iPod integration into your car or truck. At that point, I figured I had seen the end of iPod integration into the vehicle. Then today, I saw something on TV which made [...]
iPhone OS Updates to 3.1.3
Time to dock the iPhones and iPod Touches people, because there’s an update ready to go. According to Apple, here are the fixes:
This update for iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS
Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances
Fixes [...]
Doing Good Things – Pamlico County Primary School Students Get iPod Touch
Ah, technology. We all love it, but fact is, most public schools are running Windows 95 on a Compaq with a 56k modem, making our kids suffer with inferior equipment. Turns out that not every school district is thinking this way, as the Pamlico County Primary School in Bayboro, North Carolina, will be getting a [...]
Time Out New York – City Guide App is an A+
Deciding on what to do in a place as busy as the city of New York can be tough, because there is just so much going on. Welcome the ultimate city planner: the “Time Out New York” application! Let your iPhone tell you up to date events, prices, reviews and maps to [...]
Battle Bears – Get into iPhone’s Bear Wars Game
Stranded behind enemy lines the player must hold off the swarming attacks of the Huggable Bears’ battalions! The cute pink devils look to hug Oliver, the player/Teddy Bear, to death.
The “Battle Bears” game is on sale for 99 cents, for the holidays, and a free version is also available to start repelling the menacing [...]
IMPULSIVE Review of Awful “Bouncedown” App
The #1 Top Downloaded Free application in the Apple Store is “Bouncedown,” and I wish that this fact had not inspired me to acquire the horrid game for this piece.
There could be prejudice here, as the player testing the “Bouncedown” App is absolutely awful at the simple, but clunky game for the iPhone’s touch screen. [...]
“WHAC-A-MOLE: Whacky Xmas” App Review
As the snow drifts reach five feet standing, the carolers remain horribly out of tune and the line at the post office wraps around the building as if it were a bright green gift box, there are still things about the holiday season meant to cheer people up: “WHAC-A-MOLE!”
In the St. Nick of time, [...]
Find Anything with “bing” the App? An IMPULSIVE Review
Just say, “New York City,” and a “Google Maps” look-a-like map with directions will show up on the iPhone screen. The “bing” App is a free organized information provider, from Microsoft, with a fun voice feature.
For the Long Island bagel connoisseurs out there simply say, “bagels.” All of the local bagel shops, that [...]
Adult swim presents the “Amateur Surgeon Christmas Edition” App
A mid-air collision results in a reindeer being sucked into Dr. Alan Probe’s private jet’s engine, causing a bloody mess at the North Pole! The surgeon’s services are needed to scalpel his way to Santa, or else there will be no Christmas!
The ingenious makers at the adult swim games division have come up with [...]
