Game bundles are fairly commonplace these days, but most of them focus on PC and/or Mac titles. Here’s something a little different. Indie Gala Mobile lets you set your own price for four Android games, with the proceeds going to your choice of destinations, including two worthwhile charities. Available through Friday, June 22, the bundle …

Much as I like the idea behind Apple’s Smart Cover for iPad, I never much cared for the execution. That’s because it’s no good at holding the iPad in portrait orientation for reading books and magazines, and it offers only two positions for landscape viewing — one that’s too high, and one that’s too low for anything but typing. The …

The App Store is home to lots of weather apps, most of which are good at forecasting the upcoming days and even hours. But few excel at telling you what the clouds might bring in the next hour. That’s where Dark Sky comes in. This new app, the product of a successful Kickstarter campaign, predicts the weather for your exact …

What do you expect from your iPad case? Simple protection? Maybe a built-in stand for hands-free reading and movie watching? Pong Research has you covered, and then some. The company’s New iPad Case not only protects and props up your tablet, but also increases 3G and Wi-Fi signal strength and reduces radiation exposure. If that sounds familiar, you might be …

Five o’clock. Quitting time. I’m stressed after a long day of writing. I want to unwind to some mellow tunes, maybe a little acoustic guitar. Six a.m. Time to hit the treadmill. I need a playlist that’ll get my blood pumping and my feet moving. Maybe some progressive house music courtesy of dance community Beatport. Sunday afternoon by the pool. …

Android phones and iPhones pack pretty powerful processors — powerful enough, in fact, to deliver laptop-level performance, if only they had big screens and keyboards for your viewing and working pleasure. Enter the ClamCase ClamBook, a kind of laptop extension for Android and iPhone. It works like this: Your smartphone sits in a wired dock and drives the ClamBook’s screen …

At the E3 Expo yesterday, accessory maker PowerA announced a new line of officially licensed Star Wars iPhone cases. Now, depending on your age, your overall level of geekiness, and the chronology of your initial exposure to “Star Wars,” this will probably prompt one of the following reactions: 1. “Ohmigod-ohmigod-ohmigod!” 2. “Cool! On second thought, which ‘Star Wars’ are we …

Psst! Don’t look now, but the mega-popular AirMusic app — which streams your iDevice’s music library to other devices — is free for today. It regularly sells for $2.99. Update: My apologies! AirMusic was free yesterday (Sunday), which is when I wrote this post. Unfortunately, it didn’t go live until today, and the app is now back up to $2.99. …

Last month, CNET reported that Apple was granted a patent for a steering-wheel remote, a clever-sounding gizmo that would allow drivers to control audio playback without having to look at or interact with their iPhones. Of course, who knows if or when this product will see the light of day. Fortunately, there’s another one that already has: the Satechi BT …

Technology advances so rapidly these days, it’s easy to become jaded, to take for granted the minor miracles we can now accomplish using our phones. For example, yesterday I met my wife for lunch in an unfamiliar area of town. We were both in the mood for Thai, so I pulled out my iPhone, fired up a certain app, and …