With the CultofMac so chock full of bike geeks, it’s no wonder we pretty excited to see the arrival a few months back of one of the first gadgets that fall into the app-enhanced category — a gadget/app mashup that manufacturer New Potato Tech cleverly...New Potato’s LiveRider Bike Computer Makes Us Cranky [Review]
With the CultofMac so chock full of bike geeks, it’s no wonder we pretty excited to see the arrival a few months back of one of the first gadgets that fall into the app-enhanced category — a gadget/app mashup that manufacturer New Potato Tech cleverly...Ambitious New Bing App Update Adds Even More Features
We’re pretty up on the iPhone’s Bing app; its ability to combine the useful functions of several different stand-alone apps earned it a spot on our 23 Essential Apps list for the iPhone earlier this year. But Microsoft is apparently even more ambitious: they’ve just...See eBay Listings in The Area With Junaio’s New Augmented Reality Channel
Bargain-hunting just got more interesting — Metaio has added yet another augmented-reality channel to their AR iPhone app, Junaio. This time they’ve partnered with eBay and created a channel that lets users scan their surroundings for deals in eBay Classifieds, itself a newish, local version...Angry Birds Top Free, Paid iPhone Apps for 2010
Angry Birds Lite is the top downloaded free game on iTunes in 2010. The pigs-vs-infuriated-fowls diversion beat out Tap Tap Revenge 3, PacMan Lite and Rockband in iTunes Rewind, which highlights the most popular games, music, apps and TV programs in the iTunes Store for...OBiON is a Seamless Bridge for Mobile, Social, Landline & VoIP Communications [Review]
OBiON, a free mobile communications app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch now available for download from the iTunes App store, is an exciting — if still evolving — tool that offers more power and flexibility than any similar app available today. The app is the...Save Yourself the Unwanted Bill and Disable In-App Purchases [How To]
In-App Purchases are no joke. With the Freemium model becoming a mainstay for many popular apps, iOS users may get confused and can easily rack up a $100 tab in minutes. To prevent this from happening to you we’re going to show you...Twitter-Based Event Sharing App Changes Name, Adds Big Features And Is Now Free
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-c_EQbN7E Evolution is a wonderful thing (relax, creationists — we’re only talking the electronic kind here), and iPhone app Twitcal‘s transformation today into SnapCal brings big changes along with the name switch — not the least of which is that the cool little app is...Flexy, Powerful Cloud Service Challenges Dropbox
We’re pretty big on Dropbox here at the Cult, and it’s handiness as a transfer/storage utility for Macs and iDevices alike hasn’t really been challenged. That is, till now. Spot Documents works with the same basic idea: Its free OS X or iOS apps can...iPhone App Helps Revive Basketball Player
A high school basketball coach used an iPhone app called PhoneAid to perform CPR on a 17-year-old who collapsed on the court. Eric Cooper Sr. downloaded the $1.99 app just the night before, as kind of a refresher course. When Xavier Jones keeled over in...SpeedClock Promises To Turn Your iPhone Into A Radar Gun [New App]
This one’s got us raising an eyebrow: an app that figures out not only the distance to an object, but its speed — for a buck. From the app’s press release: Employing the device’s three-axis gyro and basic trigonometry establishes distance. Speed and laps are...What Steve Jobs Doesn’t Get: Google Closes an Eye, Android Adult App Market Booms
Steve Jobs publicly vowed to make the iTunes app market porn free, telling customers if they want smut they should get an Android. Whether you want sexy stuff on your smartphone or not, there’s undeniably an appetite for adult material. That’s why developers keep submitting...MiKandi: Adult Apps You Won’t See on Your iPhone
To prove seeing is believing, we downloaded MiKandi, the adult app market for Android about to celebrate a year in business, and took a little tour of the apps offered there. Mikandi (pronounced “my candy”) was a quick download on the Nexus One phone we...
