Apple makes computers, tablets, phones, portable media players, TV set-top-boxes, displays and a dozen other things, but to date, it hasn’t made a wristwatch. Oh, wait, actually, it has! It’s called “the new iPod nano.”Sure, battery life will be a problem when you leave that screen on the whole time, but you could just act like it’s an LED watch and it’s nig […]
Facebook connect for Ping made a very brief appearance during Steve Jobs’ iTunes 10 demo and some early users were able to catch (and use) it to find friends on Apple’s new social music network. However, a short time later the Facebook integration was missing. What happened? As it turns out, Apple was indeed having talks with Facebook to integrate the servic […]
A fairly undocumented feature in the new iPod touch is the ability for the device to vibrate like the iPhone does. It seems this vibrate function was designed with the deaf in mind, as its primary use is vibrating when an FaceTime call is being received. Apple markets FaceTime as the perfect way to have a phone call using sign language, and vibrate helps har […]
For much of the world, the beginning of fall means that warm, comfortable hiking weather is coming to an end. In other words, it’s time to start saving up fresh air for a winter of avoiding the outdoors.There are people who consider their outdoor excursions a refreshing escape from technology. And then there are iPhone users, who consider the outdoors yet an […]
As you may have heard, Apple had some sort of event on Wednesday. In amongst the Big News like iPods and iOSs and iTunes and iTVs Apple TVs, Steve Jobs briefly mentioned AirPlay, a replacement for the AirTunes music streaming system used in the Airport Express multi-purpose device. I've built my home audio solutions around AirTunes, so this was, for me, […]
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According to new research from Pew Internet, 82% of American adults own a cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone or other similar devices. And 65% of adults who own them say they have slept with their cell phones on or right next to their beds.Yet consumers don’t know what these devices are made of exactly, and what their environmental and health impact may be. Phon […]
We're suckers for wireless speakers, but they have to work. We're not the least bit interested in streaming technologies that stutter from interference or compress the audio to preserve bandwidth. That's why Libratone caught our attention here in Berlin with its new Libratone Beat -- the "world's first high-end active speaker with wi […]
10 things Apple can do to rescue its experiment in social networkingPhoto: Michael CopelandApple (AAPL) announced Friday that less than 48 hours after its launch more than 1 million people had signed up for Ping, its new social network for music.That's not necessarily a good thing, given how many of those people are complaining -- loudly and with pretty […]
When looking at the video above, it seems that the iPod touch 4th generation screen doesn’t have the same wide angle (15 seconds in) viewing as the iPhone 4 next to it. This could just be our eyes playing tricks on us but Apple isn’t clear in the iPod touch literature that the screen is indeed IPS.Here’s a still:In Apple’s all-consuming quest to become just […]
Back in late June/early July, I reviewed an app called Wi-Fi Sync for jailbroken iPhones. You can find my revised version of the review here. Originally this seemed like a pretty neat app. It’s a bit pricey for what it does, but it did it well. Now I’ve been having several issues with iTunes over the past 2 months. I couldn’t restore or upgrade firmware (it […]
Here's a tip about something that had me confused for a while, I hate to admit. After setting up Ping in iTunes 10 and getting my profile just so, I naturally wanted to tell the eager masses where to find me. After all, many of the folks I follow on Twitter were sharing URLs to their accounts. But where did it come from?The answer is quite simple. Log i […]