Tag: IPHONE APPS

It's heartening to see the success of Public Radio Player 2.0, the official public radio iPhone app; it's reached nearly two million downloads. Produced in conjunction with the country's various public radio networks, the app offers up hundreds of stations and podcasts, and lets users search the massive collection for live and on-demand streams. There is, however, one major hurdle: Apple's total ...

When then 17-year old Michael van Poppel somehow got his hands on an Osama bin Laden videotape two years ago and sold it to Reuters before anyone else had even heard of it, the landscape of media changed, so claims ReadWriteWeb. Van Poppel owns the Netherlands-based news aggregator, Breaking News Online, which operates under a simple, anti-large scale news source premise: smaller, people-run ...

Sorry, iPhone users, but the 'King of All Media' won't be available on Sirius XM's new iPhone app, released last week. You'll have to get your fill of fart jokes and conversations with naked women somewhere else (may we suggest the Playboy channel for the latter). According to Daily Finance, the absence of Howard Stern's show is due to, in his words, a "contract rights issue." Monday, fans ...

God bless Dunkin' Donuts. Just when we thought the classic combination of coffee and donuts couldn't get more appealing, the beloved chain introduces a slick, interactive way to keep up with group orders. Say goodbye to pencil and paper, folks. According to Mashable, 'Dunkin' Run' (which launched yesterday, here) works as a Web or mobile application that gathers and organizes large orders, ...

Are you a clean-freak, on-the-move, not-entirely-struggling artist? If so, 'Brushes,' a new art application for the iPhone, could be for you. Eliminating the need for cumbersome (and messy) brushes, paint tubes, pencils, sketchbooks, and other supplies, the app allows aspiring iArtists to create miniature oeuvres with the tips of their fingers. According to The Daily Mail, many digital artists ...

Citizen scientists are nothing new. In fact, they've been helping the Audubon Society to catalog birds since 1900, and have even been enlisted by NASA to study stardust collected in probes. But new technology like 3G data networks and advanced cell phone operating systems like the iPhone's OS X have scientists scrambling to put powerful, connected, mobile tools in the palms of amateur ...

It's no secret that the iPhone App Store's approval process is ambiguous at best and fundamentally flawed at worst. From the iFarts of the world to questionable baby-shaking apps, no one really knows why an app gets accepted or rejected from the store. But, in the case of the once-rejected Peekababe, developer Alan Bigio suspects that slapping an adolescent-friendly, '12+' rating on the app may ...

You know the deal -- there's an app for everything. Literally. And now there is an app for tracking the over-hyped medical threat that the press has dubbed Swine Flu. Sure, Swine Flu has been less deadly than Bird Flu (which wasn't particularly deadly to begin with), and less fun to say than Monkey Pox, but that hasn't stopped the media from turning it into a story you can't avoid. So, while you ...

If you're looking to buy a house -- it's a buyer's market! -- there is a new iPhone app that may appeal to you. As we learned from Textually, the Zillow iPhone app lets on-the-go users view on-the-go real estate information; users can drive through a neighborhood and view, among other things, home values, homes for sale, and what has recently sold in the area. The application uses GPS to ...

In the ever-expanding iPhone app store, there are some helpful, fun and downright awesome sources of information and entertainment. That said, every so often an app shows up that makes us wonder what the hell the people at Apple were thinking (if they were, in fact, thinking when they approved it). We are speaking, of course, about the now infamous 'Baby Shaker' app that went on sale Monday, ...

Since the early days of advertising, companies have been marketing massage devices to women under the intention of curing or relieving 'feminine illness.' Like a modernized throwback to those bygone advertisements, a new Apple app seeks to cure the female tremors by turning your iPhone/iPod Touch into a "vibrating personal massager," giving you four levels of buzzing bliss for only a dollar. ...

Do you find the iPhone's stock widget a bit anemic on features? Tired of shuffling through multiple apps for finance news, stock reports, and keeping track of personal portfolios? Then we highly suggest you download the just released DailyFinance (iTunes link) app. This one-stop application culls the best features of various finance apps, and presents them in an exceptionally handsome interface ...

'Tap Tap Revenge,' an iPhone and iPod Touch game with a similar style of play to 'Dance Dance Revolution' and 'Guitar Hero,' has become the most installed app on the two Apple devices, attracting millions of downloads, according to comScore. This week, Tapulous, the makers of the commute-killing masterpiece, released its latest 'Tap Tap' iPhone app - 'Tap Tap Revenge Coldplay.' For this ...

Most of us reacted with a mixture of relief and awe when we first heard about Captain Chesley Sullenberger III's deft landing of the bird-stricken US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. If you've ever wondered how you'd have fared in the pilot's seat that day, then check out the most recent iPhone/iPod touch app from Laminar Research, which, believe it or not, is the ...

A Nielsen report last month determined that, of all television and video mediums, mobile viewing witnessed the largest increase in users, experiencing a 9-percent jump in growth from the previous quarter. This week, comScore Inc., an Internet marketing research firm that studies Internet use and trends, released findings that demonstrate mobile Internet use, as a whole, is exploding in ...