Free Apps of the Day #51
It’s a positively HUGE day for free apps, with almost 30 — count ’em — high quality freebies up for grabs, more than half of which are games. Better hurry and grab ’em while they’re still free!
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“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,…
Buying Wal-Mart DRM-Free MP3s on your Mac – A Review
So, today Wal-Mart announced a couple of shockers. 1) They are selling MP3s – completely DRM-Free – from both EMI and Universal Music. 2) They’re encoded at 256Kbps. 3) They’re only $0.94 cents a song, or $9.22 an album. So, these higher quality, cheaper songs, will play on any player, including your iPod – so…
SanDisk reveals iPod Nano rival ‘Fuze’
SanDisk put a stop to the rumors that it was going to release a product to compete directly with the 3rd generation iPod Nano today, by revealing the Sansa Fuze. The Fuze is visibly almost a direct copy of the iPod nano, featuring an almost identical design. The Fuze, like all SanDisk digital audio players,…
iOS 4.3 Coming Mid December With Newscorp’s iPad “Newspaper?”
Rumors are stirring that Apple is already developing iOS 4.3 for a mid-December launch and will include an iPad exclusive “newspaper.” While Apple just released iOS 4.2 for the iPad, it’s already working on version 4.3 which will include an iPad exclusive newspaper which will be formatted for a tablet reading environment and will be…
How to Install iOS 8 When Your Device is Low on Storage
When Apple released iOS 5 back in 2011 it added the incredibly useful ability of OTA (over the air) updates. That meant that you no longer needed to connect your device to a computer to install the latest software upgrades, as they could be downloaded and installed directly on the device itself. For many of…
After Paris, Reexamining Apple’s Privacy Policy
Perhaps it is a gut-level, knee-jerk reaction to the recent ISIS attacks on Paris, France, but authorities are already pointing their fingers at technology companies who encrypt users’ data and encrypted messaging apps that are specifically designed to keep users’ information secure from prying eyes, even if those prying eyes are authorities (and, in Snowden’s…
Moo an IMPULSIVE REVIEW of “Cows in Space†App
“In a failed galactic operation, the cows of earth have ended up floating around in space!†The “Cows in Space†App is free for a limited time! Somehow the U.S. government has accidentally fired and lost all of the earth’s cows; the source of tasty burgers and filet mignon steaks are all encapsulated in oxygen…
Prudential Vs. Kevin Rose – who is right about the iPhone?
Ya know, sometimes I think the guys at Prudential are worse than us bloggers about speculating on Apple products. Apple Insider has a report from Prudential analyst JesseTortora: From the article: “Apple has mentioned several times that music experience is its top priority and that it would not do anything to comprise that,” the analyst…
Dilbert and the iPhone
You know sometimes (like on a really slow news day) it’s nice to kick back and laugh at ourselves as we are lovingly mocked in comic strips. Today’s Dilbert strip is both frighteningly true, and also pretty darn funny. Before the internet became my job, the internet often kept me from my job…and sometimes it…
NBA Player Thinks iPhone 6 Plus Might Have Caused Tennis Elbow
And here I was thinking I’ve heard everything about iPhones causing all sorts of injuries! NBA player Matt Bonner was interviewed by the Concord Monitor, where he talked about the past season and his future in the league. The San Antonio power forward and center has put in more than his fair share of performance…
iPad vs iPod vs iPhone
Here’s an infographic (custom-made for Apple Gazette) taking a look at the performance of our three favorite handhelds (click to see larger size): *Edit: Updated the year of iPod date from 2004 to 2001, and added the S to 3G. Thanks for the heads up, Alexis and Jack Straw!