The iPhone Viewfinder can extend to accommodate different eyesight needs. Photojojo The good: Your iPhone has a pretty decent camera. Better than decent, in fact, if it’s an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5. The bad: Not everybody likes using the iPhone’s screen to frame their shots, especially outdoors, where the ambient light can wash out …
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Back in August, I wrote about cloud-storage service MediaFire, which was offering a whopping 50GB of free space, no strings attached. Well, there were strings in the form of certain limitations (see below), but it wasn’t like you had to provide a credit-card number or start paying for the space after, say, six months. Yesterday, the company unveiled MediaFire for …
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Want a smartphone on the cheap? Usually that means going the subsidized route, signing up for a two-year contract that’ll cost you a small fortune by the time you’re done. The Kogan Agora is an unlocked Android 4.0 smartphone priced at $149 (plus shipping). Due to arrive in the U.S. next month, it’ll support no-contract, pay-as-you-go plans from AT&T and …
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For the last couple months, rumors have been flying that Acer and/or Google would introduce a $99 tablet. Will it happen? That remains to be seen. In the meantime, Archos just fired the first shot in the tablet pricing wars: the Archos 70 Titanium. It goes on sale in February for $119. Although Archos has yet to post a product …
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Are you the proud owner of a new iPhone 5? Or perhaps a slightly used iPhone 4? Heck, maybe you scored an unlocked 3GS on eBay. Whatever the case, you need apps. Ah, but which ones? Apple’s App Store is home to some 80 gazillion, I believe, and if you’re new to the iOS universe, you may have some trouble …
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Podcasts are all kinds of awesome. A Prairie Home Companion, This American Life, Wiretap, The Truth — there’s a virtually endless supply of great listening to be had free of charge. Apple’s Podcasts app, on the other hand, is all kinds of suck. It’s so abysmal that I’m breaking my if-you-can’t-say-anything-nice rule to vent my hatred of it. Ever since …
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I usually hang up my running shoes for the winter, but the arrival of RunKeeper 3.0 for iOS makes me want to brave the cold, ice, and snow (of which there’s ample supply here in Michigan). Let me pause here to note that although the App Store is home to many great run-management apps, I’ve been a RunKeeper fan — …
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Too many great iPhone games suffer from digit interruptus: onscreen controls force your thumbs or fingers to block too much of the action. Plus, there’s no tactile feedback. meaning you don’t get the button-mashing goodness associated with the best console and arcade games. Developers have proposed a variety of solutions to this problem. For example, ThinkGeek’s iCade 8-Bitty gives you …
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At the risk of dating myself (again), I have extremely fond memories of playing the classic action game Karateka on my — wait for it — Apple IIe. That was 28 years ago, heaven help me. The game’s creator, Jordan Mechner, went on to develop the better-known Prince of Persia, but I remember being totally entranced by Karateka’s then-amazing graphics …
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It’s rare that The Onion manages to scoop other news outlets, especially when it comes to tech, but it happened today: Apple will soon unveil the iPhone 5C, a new model with a special feature designed especially for college girls. And forget grainy leaked snapshots; The Onion has actual video of the 5C, as shown in the below exclusive news …
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