You can have your iPhone, iPod, or iPad in any color you want–as long as it’s black. Or white. So what happens if you want to dress up your device, to give it a dash of style? Or even just a dash of color? There are plenty of jazzy-looking cases, of course, and if you …

I love to fly–as long as I don’t have to leave the ground to do it. That means my fun time of choice is either a flight simulator or a radio-controlled airplane. RC Plane 2 gives me both. It’s a flight simulator for iOS, one that focuses squarely on radio-controlled aircraft. In place of complex controls, you’ve got virtual thumbsticks …

Nothing says “independence” and “I love America” quite like deep discounts on iOS games. Well, OK, maybe fireworks and pausing to reflect on what makes this country–for all its troubles and conflicts–so flippin’ awesome. But getting back to that other thing. In honor of the the Fourth of July weekend, EA Mobile has launched a huge sale on iPhone and …

If you haven’t updated your apps lately, there’s a nice surprise awaiting you in the App Store: Angry Birds Seasons 1.5.1. (Note: That link is for iTunes. Android users can find the game in Android Market.) Instead of a holiday-themed update, this one actually involves a season: Rovio has added 30 new levels (twice as many as in most previous …

Are you coaching a soccer team? Hosting a party? Managing a mobile sales fleet? Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have a way to quickly and automatically contact everyone involved, without having to make the same phone call over and over? That’s the idea behind Mr. PhoneTree, a new iPhone app that can call, e-mail, and/or text-message as many people as …

What’s the only thing better than iPhone games? Free iPhone games, of course! I’ve rounded up five titles that’ll give you hours, days, maybe even weeks of portable fun, and they’re all absolutely free. But not for long. Some of these games are part of short-term promotional giveaways, and I don’t know when those promotions will end. My advice: grab …

From the first moments of its animated opening, which includes an execution, an implied rape, and a graphically slit throat, it’s clear that Gameloft’s BackStab deserves a stronger rating than “12+.” Since when is it OK to expose 12-year-olds to “Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence”? I guess that’s the world we live in. I know parents who let their 8-year-olds watch violent, …

The laws of nature indicate that if there’s no Internet connection, you can’t watch streaming videos. Roadshow for iPad defies that law, downloading videos to your tablet for offline viewing. This is exactly as awesome as it sounds–though let’s get the bad news out of the way right now: Roadshow doesn’t support YouTube (owing to Apple’s App Store restrictions). So …

Want to watch movies and TV shows on your Android phone or tablet? For the moment your choices are a bit limited. There’s Netflix, which works with only a handful of phones (unless you’re game for a little hacking) and requires a monthly subscription. Same goes for HBO Go. Enter Crackle, a new app that lets you watch dozens of …

Last Friday, CNET’s Matt Elliott showed you how to set a stronger iPhone passcode. Today, over at Lifehacker, there’s a report suggesting that repeating one number in your four-digit PIN makes for better protection than a PIN consisting of unique numbers. My question for you: do you use password protection at all? I don’t. Because I work from home and …