Seesmic for iPhone Launched

Seesmic for iPhone is a new Twitter, Facebook and all-round social networking client app.  It includes support for Twitter, Facebook, and Ping.fm – so you can update a slew of social network sites within just the one app. Here’s a little more detail straight from Seesmic’s Intro email for the app: Seesmic for iPhone brings [...]

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Bizarro iPhone Apps: Ice Cream Weather

Score one for cheeky app ideas. Ice Cream Weather reports the temperature in your area (US-only — which sucks,since the app is also available in Canada) and displays a handy “melt meter” to indicate how quickly ice cream will melt, given the local temperature. You can customize the main screen to also display a scoop [...]

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Converse turns your iPhone into a double-sided translation tool

Converse looks like a cute little utility, although I have doubts about its practical implications. I consider the iPhone to be a very personal device, and I don’t hand half of it off to just anyone I meet at a bar.

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SimplyTweet for iPhone Price Reduced – Now $2.99

SimplyTweet – one of the most popular Twitter apps for the iPhone – has had a price reduction; from $4.99 to 2.99. SimplyTweet is easily one of the most full-featured and frequently updated iPhone Twitter apps.  It was already considered very good value at $4.99; so at $2.99 it is a heck of a bargain. [...]

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Lexic for iPhone updated: changed name to Abca?!

The Kieffer Bros have released a statement about Lexic’s recent change in name: About a year after we launched our word game, we discovered that someone had been using the name Lexic for his Android-based word game just one month before us. Although we had registered the trademark, we decided to respect his first use [...]

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iPhone 4.0 preview

I hope you enjoyed the media rush that was this past weekend, because we’re going to do it all over again starting Thursday, with the preview of iPhone OS 4.0. There aren’t any other details aside from the date and time (10 AM PST), but I’m hoping that Apple has some significant changes in store [...]

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Another change hits the Gmail for iPhone web app

I loaded up the new Mailroom app update and noticed a major change in the way the address bar was displayed. Initially, I had thought this to be a change native to the app, but it’s apparently a change to Gmail itself (tested in Safari).

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Mumble Jumble for the iPhone

Over the past few days, I’ve had the pleasure of playing around with a word-search game called Mumble Jumble.  It features three different game modes that can each be played alone or with a friend. The thing that immediately stands out about the game is how well-designed it is.  The interface and visuals are very [...]

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Woz Has a Fix for Multitasking Battery Life on the iPhone

Many of you may have already seen this quote, but it made me laugh recently. In Newsweek’s feature article on the iPad (in the April 5,2010 print issue) there’s a short interview with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.  Here’s the part that caught my eye and made me chuckle: … By the way, I solved [...]

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Super Turbo Action Pig Contest – Winners

Alright, would the following five people please come to the podium to retrieve your Super Turbo Action Pig promo codes (courtesy of developer Joystick Generals): Woodster Pn2bade Keith Tomlin DoubleAron Walkwy

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