Tag: IPHONE APP

A word of advice: If you're submitting a comic adaptation of a classic literary work to the iPad App Store, you'd better prepare for a struggle with Apple's puritan overlords. Not long after the company censored "obscene" images from a comic based on James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Apple reportedly gave the thumbs down to, arguably, the wittiest writer to ever live. According to Slate, the company ...

George A. Romero is known best for his classic zombie flicks 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dawn of the Dead,' but has been on a steady march towards complete self-parody since 'Day of the Dead.' Now, the horror director has decided to take his name brand to the iPhone with 'App of the Dead.' The $1.99 tool lets you take and edit photographs to zombify your subject. There are some impressive ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Some creative young things out there may be wondering if they could ever use $600 of breathtakingly advanced technology to build simple robots that shuffle back and ...

While the Pope inches the Catholic Church toward the digital age with the patience of Job, another church to the north continues to spread its technological wings far and wide, touching the blogosphere, the pearly gates of Twitter, and, most recently, the realm of smartphone apps. According to the BBC, the Methodist Church in England has just launched its very own app for the iPhone and iPod ...

The electro-punks among you will fondly recall Atari Teenage Riot and their hyper-distorted blend of political techno noise. The recently regrouped band has developed an iPhone app (sellouts!) to promote their reunion single "Reactivate," but the app is causing as much ruckus as the German punks did back in the '90s. ATR devotees will also recall a May Day protest at the Berlin Wall back in ...

Somewhere between Mars Blackmon and the Lebrons, Nike became much more than just a shoe company. Now, the Oregon-based empire has decided to throw its hat in the coaching ring with a new, interactive online program called Nike Football+ (read: Nike Soccer+). In what seems to be an extension of its Nike+ system for runners, Nike Football+ allows diehard soccer fans (read: non-Americans) to watch ...

If the thought of going to the doctor makes you numb with anxiety, or if you just don't want to shell out the dough to hear you have a cold, a new iPhone app may be the DIY diagnostic solution you've been awaiting. The app, designed by Star Analytical Services, analyzes the sound of a user's cough and then compares it to a database of other coughs to determine which particular virus or bacteria ...

In February, PopCap Games introduced a version of its popular castle defense game, 'Plants vs. Zombies,' to the iPhone. The lure of pea pods battling the undead proved impossible for people to resist, and, within nine days, the game had set a sales record on the device -- selling over 300,000 copies and pulling in over $1 million. PopCap is a game maker with its fingers in several pies -- ...

Yahoo!'s recently launched Sketch-a-Search is one of the most interesting apps we've seen in a while for the iPhone. The app lets you search for local restaurants by drawing a circle (or triangle, square or trapezoid) with your finger around the area in which you're trying to find a place to eat. The app gathers your GPS coordinates on launch, and then you tap the "sketch" button in the middle ...

Meebo has been a favorite amongst cloud computing purists for some time. It's a Web-based, multi-protocol instant messaging client that works across more networks than one person could possibly remember. Mobile IM addicts have been eagerly anticipating the service's official iPhone app, which will finally offer an alternative to high-priced options from Beejive and IM+ ($6.99 and $4.99, ...

Share For every iPhone app that actually serves a worthwhile purpose (even if that purpose is only to amuse the user), there are hundreds of useless offerings that are only meant to dupe unwitting shoppers. Technology has also given rise to an influx of "snakeoil" gadgets that weasel money out of gullible consumers with false promises. Dr. Greg Pearson has devised an iPhone app that, upon ...

Siri is a new voice search and "virtual assistant" application for the iPhone that takes "natural language" requests and turns them into actionable results. For example, ask Siri "where can I get the best sushi," and it will, using the iPhone's GPS, search Yelp to find recommended sushi restaurants near you. Using Nuance, the same speech-to-text engine that powers popular tools like Jott and ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. In anticipation of its 'digital_nation' broadcast (airing tonight at 9 p.m.), PBS released an interview with Starship captain Sir Patrick Stewart about his digital ...

The iPhone suffers no dearth of gimmicky photo apps. There are apps that make your photos look vintage, and ones that can turn your face into a Lego sculpture. There's even one that uses mathematical equations to determine how attractive you are by analyzing the spacing of your facial features. 'HourFace' is another such iPhone toy. It takes photos of people and creates animated, pseudo-3-D ...

We told you about one guy who figured out how to make a killing by developing a dirty iPhone application. When you think about it, it's sort of logical that his app sold well. (Scantily clad 3-D girls always equal tons of downloads.) But sometimes, there's just no explaining why an app rises to the top of the download charts. For example, consider the recent success of the new 'iMussolini' ...