Text’n Drive iPhone App Keeps You From Rear-Ending Another Driver [IPhone Apps]
While its name suggests that it helps you send SMS while driving, the Text’n Drive iPhone app actually reads your email out loud and allows you to send out voice messages without touching your iPhone v…
iMovie iPhone App Now Available [IPhone Apps]
Hello! The long-awaited iMovie iPhone app has popped into the iTunes store. It’ll set you back five bucks and can be downloaded right now. But remember that the app’s designed for the iPhone 4 only. …
You Can Listen To NPR Music On Your iPhone Now [IPhone Apps]
NPR Music usually offers a great selection of stations to listen to and you can now access them through an iPhone app. The NPR Music app is free, available now, and even supports iOS 4 multitasking. …
Check Tomorrow’s iPhone 4 Lines With the Line Snob App [Apps]
Honestly, there’s not much you can do to fight the lines tomorrow at Apple and AT&T stores. But at least you can use the Line Snob app to get a sense of how long a wait you’re in for. More &raq…
FarmVille iPhone App Now Available [IPhone Apps]
God help us all. It looks like the FarmVille iPhone app is starting to show up on iTunes. We’re not seeing it in the US-based App Store yet, but international users are already playing the game. [MacSt…
Caption contest: iPhone as a CPR device
Alright, we’ll leave all the zingers for you and our mercurial staff to deliver, and just use this space to dish some info on the hardware. Ivor Kovic, an emergency physician from Croatia, has recently demoed a new iPhone cradle that turns the already multifunctional handset into a CPR assistance device. By using an app titled Pocket CPR and the built-in accelerometer, he can get audio and visual feedback to tell him if he’s doing it correctly, while his basic (but awesome) cradle allows for longer CPR sessions if necessary. Check out the video after the break, then hit the comments with your finest witticisms.
Paul: “Come on Luke Wilson’s Career, stay with me now, you’re not going to die on me!”
Darren: “Man, I could really get a better look at what’s going on if this thing had a 9.7-inch IPS panel…”
Chris: “Everyone is either dying or staying alive these days, and we began to ask ourselves: is there room for something in the middle?”
Nilay: “He then died.”
Vlad: “Our other cradle also measures rhythm and depth, though its purpose isn’t entirely medicinal.”
Andy: “A rare case where a lack of multitasking is actually helpful to the task on hand.”
Thomas: “Can you stop dying for a second, I have to take this call.”
Joe: “This actually adds an intriguing level of complexity to Super Monkey Ball 2.”
Richard Lai: “Come on… COME ON!! Wait a tick… AT&T? No wonder it isn’t working. Dammit.”
Tim: “Looks like this guy’s heart (puts on sunglasses)… has dropped its last call.” Yeeeaaaaaahhhh…
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TheXchange: Will This Porn iPhone App Survive the Apple Banhammer? [IPhone]
Here you have another proof that demonstrates why Apple’s iTunes App store approval process is screwed: theXchange, a new iPhone application to put people in contact to have sex, photos included. As you can imagine, the content gets extremely strong.
Hottest Girls was the first one to appear, disappearing within hours of its launch. Then BeautyMeter, which was pulled shortly after introduced
Why is Apple approving these apps in the first place, knowing they are going to pull them down later?
And since these applications get their content via the internet, should Apple take Safari or Mail out of the iPhone too? Or Beehive, which can be used to send pictures on the fly to other users? And Facebook too? My camera?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. This is stupid and has to stop. Either you apply the same filter to everything, or you open the application market for real. Just make sure things work, and are not illegal on its own, not because of the potential content they may fetch from the internet. [Krapps]
iDisk iPhone App Lightning Review: Halfway There [IPhone Apps]
Apple’s free iDisk app has potential to make that $60 a year for MobileMe even more worthwhile, but for now it’s little more than a fancy file viewer with mediocre management capabilities.
With the iDisk app, you can view supported files like documents, PDFs, even stream music and movies (provided they’re in the right formats, natch) and remotely delete stuff from your iDisk. An annoying quirk, though, is that you have to dive into every folder individually to get it to refresh and show any new files. Document and PDF viewing work perfectly. With music and movies, the better the connection, the better the streaming experience, though don’t expect to stream your whole iTunes library over it—it’s a one song at a time kind of deal. And the movie file support is finicky, to say the least. But when it works, it’s pretty nice.
The strong point of the iPhone app as a manager is that it makes it incredibly easy to share files—go to the file you want to share, click the little wireless icon, and you can email a link to it with an expiration date you set. It also has a bookmark list of your friends’ public folders, you can quickly get back to them.
Bottom line, Air Sharing has nothing to worry about. Besides requiring a MobileMe account, you can’t upload files to your iDisk from the iPhone, or store any of them locally, which is what really gimps the app. I’d hope that Apple would expand its capabilities, but my suspicion is that they don’t actually want you to store files on your iPhone or browse through them like you would on a regular computer—it’s a conceptual line they don’t want to cross, so we’ve got a viewer with great interface here, nothing more.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit App Is as Close As You’ll Get to an Official iPhone Porn App [Boobs]
Who likes ladies in tiny bathing suits? Many dudes do, that’s who. And now they can get them on their iPhone via the official Sports Illustrated Swimsuit app.
Sure, you have access to millions of pictures of scantily clad ladies via Safari, not to mention unclad ladies, but this is an app. An app, people! For $3 you get photos of 20 models and some bodypainting videos. I’m going to go ahead and guess that a Google search will bring up most of this content for free.
Here’s the sad part: this is going to sell like hotcakes. [App Store Link via TechCrunch]
David Bowie Space Oddity iPhone App Lets You Remix the Thin White Duke Anywhere [David Bowie]
Since it’s been 40 years (!!) since Bowie’s classic Space Oddity was released, there’s a fancy new anniversary EP coming out. And with it is an iPhone App that features the original multi-track stems of the song and remix capabilities.
The app, by iKlax, lets you make your own Bowie mix right on your phone. You might have better luck doing a real remix on your computer by just downloading the files on their own, which you can do, but hey, remixing Bowie on your iPhone! You can’t say that isn’t pretty neat. It’ll set you back $2.
DAVID BOWIE AND VIRGIN/EMI CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF “SPACE ODDITY” WITH COMMEMORATIVE DIGITAL EP & APP WITH REMIX FEATURES
“Space Oddity” Digital EP and iPhone/iPod touch App Available Now for Download Purchase; Both Offer Unique Opportunity For Fans To Create Their Own Mixes of Song
Hollywood, California – July 21, 2009 – David Bowie and Virgin/EMI are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bowie’s “Space Oddity” with the release of a commemorative digital EP and a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The digital EP, available now for download purchase from all major digital service providers, features four versions of “Space Oddity” plus its original eight multi-track stems, enabling fans to remix the song as they please using their own software or with iKlax software. iKlax’s “Remix David Bowie – Space Oddity” app, available now on the iTunes App Store, also allows fans to become ‘Ground Control’ to remix the track their way.
Originally released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landings, “Space Oddity” was featured by the BBC in its television coverage of the lunar event, and the song later won an Ivor Novello award. The song’s enigmatic protagonist, Major Tom, has become a recurrent theme throughout Bowie’s work and career, and was revisited in the song “Ashes To Ashes.”
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DAVID BOWIE: “Space Oddity (40th Anniversary EP)” (digital)
1. Space Oddity (original U.K. mono single edit)
2. Space Oddity (U.S. mono single edit)
3. Space Oddity (U.S. stereo single edit)
4. Space Oddity (1979 re-record)
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