Turning my iPad into a second monitor was one of the first things I did with it. Luckily there are a number of apps of varying quality on the App Store that allow you to do so. I actually wrote my own in the end, because they weren’t quite up … Read the Full Story →
Apple today released software updates for iPhone and iPad. iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display. iOS 3.2.1 for iPad addresses WiFi issues, adds Bing search engine to Safari and fixes bugs to improve overall performance. If you have … Read the Full Story →
World of Sand Rating: Not all apps in the app store have to be about killing, racing or winning, in fact there are many that are just about the experience and that’s what World of Sand attempts to do. World of Sand provides a sandbox in both the literal and actual … Read the Full Story →
Deer Hunter 3D for iPad Rating: One of the best hunting games on the iPhone/iPod touch has now ported its way over to the iPad in the form of Deer Hunter 3D for the iPad and it works even better on the iPad than on it’s smaller predecessor. The first thing … Read the Full Story →
Swipe Soccer HD Rating: Swipe Soccer HD brings a whole new approach to soccer games on the iPad. Gone are the high quality 3D graphics, gone are the d-pad controls and actions buttons, instead Swipe Soccer HD combines the line drawing techniques made famous by Flight Control, Harbour Master and Fare … Read the Full Story →
Great Tank War Rating: Great Tank War for iPhone is an arcade dual-stick shooter based in World War II where you take control of a variety of tanks and blast your way through level after level of level of battles. The dual-stick controls work very well and are nice and responsive … Read the Full Story →
I was at one of our local Malls here in Thailand today. Checking the price of Apple gear in stores here is always a good barometer of global supply chains. A 16GB iPhone 4 was marked up at 60,000 Baht, which is over $2000. Whereas a 3G iPad was on … Read the Full Story →
AppStore HQ, and Distimo have some interesting analysis on the sate of the Apple and Android App Stores. The amount of developers for Android is growing steadily, and currently stands at just over 10,000 in number. But the Android Marketplace is still top heavy with free apps, and devs. don’t … Read the Full Story →
Slingshot Safari HD Rating: Slingshot Safari HD is the first of Digital Prunes, Inc. range of slingshot titles to be converted for the iPad. As the title suggests the aim of the game is to use your trusty slingshot to hit a variety of animals while on safari, although not the … Read the Full Story →
Digitimes is using display panel shipping volumes to extrapolate how many iPads Apple is currently shipping. Samsung should be able to ship between 300,000 and 500,000 panels in July. LG on the other hand shipped close to 1 Million iPad panels in May, up from 700,000 in April. Using these … Read the Full Story →
The Goatse Security group made a name for itself this week with the iPad 3G user hack. By detecting a pattern and applying some apparently basic computer programming principles, members of the group were able to obtain the e-mail addresses and ICC IDs of approximately 114,000 iPad 3G users. Painting … Read the Full Story →
Comex, the same hacker who created the Sprint untethered jailbreak for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has managed to run Flash apps natively on an iPhone. Don’t expect this anytime soon on iPhones that are not jailbroken. But if you are one of those people who is happy to … Read the Full Story →
Since the war between Apple and Google really started to heat up when Apple rejected the Google Voice iPhone app, the threat of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or Department of Justice investigations has loomed over Cupertino. There has been a lot of talk in industry circles in the last year … Read the Full Story →
AT&T has finally reached out to their iPad 3G customers affected by the security breach discovered on June 7th. After days of silence formulating a response (and probably being brow beaten by Steve Jobs), the American telecom giant sent an email to explain their side of the story. In a … Read the Full Story →
The FBI has launched an investigation into the AT&T security breach first reported in Valleywag earlier this week. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has begun to look into the circumstances surrounding the breach that left hundreds of … Read the Full Story →
