Santa was good to the Whipps family this year. Although I didn’t get everything I wanted, the biggie was right there under the tree: A shiny, PS3 slim. I’m a bit of a console nut, and so is my wife. We have every Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony console ever built, and even a Sega Genesis […]
Archives for 2009
RipIt – DVDs on your Mac
I’ve been working on setting up a Mac media system in my house, and no matter what I do, I just can’t make it work the way I want. The AppleTV is great, but I first have to rip things via Handbrake – which takes as long as the movie takes – and then I […]
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 find everything that […]
Audio HiJack Pro – Record Anything
Last week I talked about Pulsar, a program that lets you listen to satellite radio via your desktop, without having to log into a clunky web interface. Turns out that Rogue Amoeba makes a lot of products, including Audio Hijack Pro, so I sent off an e-mail, and they sent me a free license so […]
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 […]
Face Fighter: Ultimate Holiday Family Fun
So you’ve gathered everyone for the holidays and it’s more than likely going to last till the start of the new year. Here’s an app I play with my cousins during such reunions: Face Fighter. Sure it’s relatively more expensive for a paid game at USD $1.99 but no iPhone game has ever made me […]
Cinch – Aero Snap on the Mac
My father is a Microsoft certified software dude, so he’s had Windows 7 for the past few months, and has installed it on a few machines to test it out. I was at my parent’s house a month or so back and had to use my mom’s Dell, and I found this cluttered screen with […]
AudioBook Review: Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
Summary: A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone’s consciousness is catapulted more than 20 years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge. Author: […]
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 […]
Pulsar – Satellite Radio on Your Desktop
Let’s get this out of the way right now: I’m a Howard Stern fan. Like him or hate him, the guy changed radio as we know it, and for that, I thank him. Bababooey to all of you. Because of that – and the commercial-free radio offerings – I signed up for Sirius Satellite Radio […]
Dropzone – A Transporter for Your Mac
I used to watch Star Trek when I was a kid, and one of my favorite things was seeing people transport from one place to another, all with the click of a button. I never figured I’d be able to teleport, but now, it seems like I’ll be able to do just that. Well, maybe […]
TuneUp compensates for what iTunes severely lacks
UPDATE: TuneUp is offering a 15% discount for AppleGazette readers on their software by simply adding the “GAZETTE” promo code in checkout. This is not a sponsored post. This is my iTunes library with TuneUp installed. In retrospect, it’s something Apple should have taken into account if iTunes were re-invented today. I’ve always held the […]
“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 are […]
Airlock – Security Via Bluetooth
If you’ve got a laptop – or just a nosy roommate who always wants on your computer – you’re always dealing with security issues. Leaving your computer alone for just a few minutes means that you’re risking having someone else hop on for one reason or another. This was a constant issue at my old […]
