Tag: IOS

There's really no reason why college basketball fans should miss any of this year's NCAA basketball tournament, which kicks off on March 15th. Aside from watching live games on TV or streaming for free on the Web, live tournament games will be available for free on the iPad and iPhone for the first time. In the past, you needed a paid app to stream live games on the iPhone. CBS, which is now ...

It may not be top-secret or espionage-worthy, but the information we keep on laptops and smartphones is still something we all would like protected. Saved passwords, addresses, bank balances, friends' contact info -- all sorts of information could have potentially devastating effects in the hands of a crook. Large companies have long had the technology to remotely lock-down and wipe mobile ...

Apple's not just showing off new hardware today in San Francisco. iOS 4.3, the long-awaited update to Apple's mobile OS, will officially land on March 11th, and it brings iTunes home sharing, improved Mobile Safari performance and software control over the iPad's hardware lock (meaning you can set it to mute or lock the orientation). Previously only available on Verizon, the 'Personal Hotspot' ...

If you have an iPhone and $20 to burn, you can now do your best impression of a weatherman, or Michael Jordan in 'Space Jam' -- thanks to the new 'Kromath 3' chroma-keyer app. Simply snap a photo of yourself in front of a solid-colored wall, and you'll have as many bizarre-o self-portraits as you could ever want. ...

Researchers at Harvard University and MIT have developed a handheld scanner that can detect potential cancer cells and diagnose them with an iPhone app -- all in about an hour. According to Physorg, the scanner uses antibodies and magnetic particles to identify suspicious lumps. But rather than biopsy the entire mass, the scanner, which costs just $200 to create, extracts cells from all over ...

Symptom: You reach into your pocket or bag, and, well, it's empty! Diagnosis: Beyond the understandable distress of losing a pricey smartphone, laptop or tablet PC, the real trauma is the sudden and unfettered access afforded to the slippery-fingered jerk who took it. The cost of a new laptop is meager compared to the personal and even financial havoc that a motivated thief can wreak ...

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled its new App Store subscription plan, and immediately caught flak from journalists, developers, and even some consumers. The policy requires that companies offering subscriptions through the app store offer the same service, at the same price they do elsewhere -- but Apple skims 30-percent off the top for itself. Of course, this could force some developers to ...

The go-to app for iPhone-obsessed glamour shooters, Hipstamatic knows its audience well enough to launch the new 'Chunky' lens at New York Fashion Week. Developed by fashion photog Chiun-Kai Shih, the lens will be available until February 18th for free, and then as part of the illustriously named SOHO pack, which has a stark noir offering and a lens inspired by "mysteriously aged darkness found ...

Devout Catholics and Apple devotees can now conduct their sacraments on the go, thanks to a new iPhone app designed to make confessions a little more convenient. 'Confession: A Roman Catholic App' markets itself as "the perfect aid for every penitent." The app provides a step-by-step guide to the confession process, and offers a so-called "personalized examination of conscience for each user," ...

Giant paper playbooks may soon be a thing of the past in the NFL. Many teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, are considering jumping on the tablet bandwagon and leaving the piles of dead trees behind. Switching to a tablet like the iPad will certainly please the environmentally inclined, as a team can easily go through 5,000 pages of playbooks and review sheets per game. It could ultimately save ...

The Super Bowl, as you might have heard, is Sunday. The NFL playoffs have nearly run their course, the league's pretenders have gradually fallen by the wayside, and, this Sunday, all of America will watch in heightened (and inebriated) anticipation as the Green Bay Packers take on the Pittsburgh Steelers for the right to wear special baseball caps and participate in a parade at Disney World. ...

The long wait for the iPhone on Verizon's network is almost over, as consumers will finally be able to get their greedy mitts on the CDMA-enabled iPhone 4 on February 10th. But reviewers have already put the phone through its paces -- and they're saying just what you'd expect: that It's the same exact device as the iPhone 4 on AT&T, but on a much better network. Reviewer after reviewer found ...

Earlier today, the world finally got its first peak at 'The Daily,' the news publication created explicitly for the iPad by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's brainchild is designed to leverage the multimedia capabilities of the tablet in order to create an interactive and immersive digital magazine for getting your daily dose of information. Important daily news, sports, celebrity gossip and even app ...

Pandora may be great at unearthing songs you never knew existed, but its social and bookmarking features are still stuck in the early Aughts. You could just jot down that great Charles Bradley track that's playing right now, but Pandora does, in fact, offer an easy, if somewhat hidden, way to save songs or artists. In the Pandora Web interface, just click 'Menu' under the album artwork, ...

A number of Foursquare-esque, TV-centric social networks have sprung up recently, asking you to "check-in" while watching your favorite programs. But while services like Philo simply clog up your Twitter feed with messages like "Bobby is watching '30 Rock'," 'IntoNow' offers a unique gimmick that has it pulling ahead of the pack. The new iOS app integrates 'Shazam'-like functionality that can ...