How to go music hunting for Shazam and Pandora
The New York Times has an interesting writeup of a growing new trade built around services commonly used as smartphone apps: Music-tracking, or music-identifying services. You've probably played with Pandora or Shazam on your iPhone already, and the a...
Instagram photo sharing service reaches two million users
Picture-sharing service Instagram (driven only by the popularity of its free iOS app) has hit a whopping two million users already. As TechCrunch notes, the service hit its first million users in just three months, and six weeks after that, has double...
Report: Zynga worth $7-9 billion
The Wall Street Journal says that with its $250 million in new funding, social gaming company Zynga could be worth as much as $7 to 9 billion -- that's "billion" with a B. An astounding number for the company behind the extraordinarily popular Faceboo...
TUAW’s Daily App: UNO
Everybody knows UNO, the classic card game where you have to match cards going around a table and try to clear out your hand before someone else clears out theirs. Gameloft produced the iPhone version, and it's a respectable recreation of the card gam...
Win a copy of Hungry Shark 3 for iPhone
The guys at Future Games of London have just released Hungry Shark 3 for iPhone. The Hungry Shark series is one of my favorite games for iOS (you can read my review of Hungry Shark Trilogy for iPad here). Hungry Shark 3 pits Hungry Shark against shar...
iPhone passcode bypassed by security researchers
A group of German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology report that they've cracked the iPhone's keychain system, allowing access to the passwords saved on any phone in just six minutes.
By jailbreaking the target ph...
TUAW’s Daily App: Devil May Cry 4 refrain
This is part of Capcom's holiday sale for Valentine's Day (which is probably also intended to target some new Verizon customers), but Devil May Cry 4 refrain is a pretty good port of the console action game anyway. It features a character named Nero f...
Capcom and Sega join Valentine’s Day sales on the App Store
Two more big companies have joined the flurry of sales popping up around Valentine's Day next week. Sega has jumped in with prices dropped on plenty of its titles, from US$2.99 down to 99 cents. Capcom has also joined the holiday celebration, bringing...
Learn to draw with an iPad
Learn to Draw Digital Sketchbook is an pretty interesting app that teaches you how to draw in step-by-step lessons. You select from the provided drawing tools, follow the spoken and text instructions and you're on your way.
You can also dive into the a...
TUAW’s Daily App: Captain Puzzle
Captain Puzzle is a colorful puzzle game in the vein of Bust a Move (which itself is on the App Store, by the way) and Snood (ditto). As Captain Puzzle, you throw little colored balls at similarly colored villains; when you are able to get three of th...
TUAW’s Daily App: Super Soviet Missile Mastar
Hail, comrades of Unofficial Weblog of Apple! Our kind and generous comrades at gaming developer The Behemoth (crafters of the great Castle Crashers entertainment for Xbox Live) have blessed the people of Mother Russia with a free iOS arcading game, a...
Louis Vuitton launches iPhone app
We've posted about Louis Vuitton's iPhone and iPad cases before -- they're the ones that are needlessly expensive, and often overly gaudy. But the luxury accessory company has a new initiative around Apple products: it's launching an iPhone app for t...
