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Martian watch lets you control your iPhone with voice commands and Siri

By chrissyboy6969, Saturday, Aug 18, 2012 a 8:41 am

Since the phenomenal success of the Pebble smart watch on Kickstarter, a few other designers have seen the huge interest it generated and decided to start looking at their own ideas for a smart watch. One of those ideas has now appeared on Kickstarter and instead of a smart watch that is all about the display, this one is all about voice control from your wrist.

Weekly Photo Contest: Shadows!

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 a 10:34 am

It's time to announce this week's photo contest -- Shadows! For many photos, shadows are a curse and photographers do everything in their power to avoid harsh shadows. But for other photos, it's the shadows that really make the photographs and add drama and mood to the pictures. This is what we want to see this week -- get creative with shadows!

Digg for iPhone lightens up on Facebook requirements

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 a 1:24 am

A couple weeks ago, Digg v1 hit the web and the App Store and one of the immediate complaints was that in order to user any of Digg's special features, like bookmarking articles, saving to your favorite read-later service, or digging an article, you had to be logged into Facebook. The good news is that the folks at Digg were listening and have removed that restriction for bookmarking articles to Digg's Reading List, Pocket, and Instapaper.

Weekly Photo Contest: Back to School

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012 a 10:34 pm

It's time to announce this week's photo contest -- Back to School! Summer vacation is coming to close (and already has for some students), which means it's time to get back in the classroom and hit the books. For this week's contest, we want you to take a photo that's somehow related to school whether it be a picture of your locker, a creative arrangement of all your supplies, a picture of your kid all dressed up for school, or a beautiful landscape of your campus -- we want to see it!

Bladepad iPhone gamepad seeks Kickstarter funding, looks to change your iPhone gaming experience

By chrissyboy6969, Sunday, Aug 5, 2012 a 3:32 am

The Bladepad is an iPhone case / Gamepad combo that is currently seeking funding from Kickstarter. It consists of an easily removable iPhone case complete with a clip on gamepad that includes two joysticks, a D-Pad and many buttons to enhance your iPhone gaming experience.

"Project Purple" and the pre-history of the iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 a 5:38 pm

The single most fascinating aspect of the ongoing Apple vs. Samsung trials continues to be the wealth of historical information they're unearthing about the design and development of the iPhone and iPad. Yesterday, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Phil Schiller, and senior vice president of iOS, Scott Forstall, both took the stand and shared an unprecedented look into the events and timelines surrounding the creation of Apple's iPhone and iPad.

Real Racing 3 set to bring console like visuals to your iPhone and iPad

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Aug 3, 2012 a 8:28 am

Firemonkey has revealed some screenshots and a teaser video from its upcoming third episode of the ever popular Real Racing series of games for the iPhone and iPad and it looks amazing. The new game, if the screenshots and video are anything to go by, looks like the best version to date and the graphics look simply stunning.

TomTom launches new iPhone hands-free car kit with improved audio quality

By chrissyboy6969, Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012 a 8:02 am

TomTom has just announced the new TomTom Hands Free Car Kit for the iPhone, which claims to offer the highest audio quality ever for loud and clear hands-free calls. The new car kit comes in two flavors, one specifically for the iPhone and another for phones with a micro USB connection.

Apple makes twice the profit margins on U.S. iPhone sales as it does iPad

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Jul 27, 2012 a 7:34 am

It appears that Apple is making huge profit margins on United States iPhone sales according to figures revealed in a court filing yesterday. Apple never reveals its profit margins on any of its products individually, for obvious reasons, so this revelation spotted by Reuters makes interesting reading.

Apple Inc earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent on its U.S. iPhone sales between April 2010 and the end of March 2012.

Apple's Podcasts for iPhone and iPad gets updated

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 a 12:01 am

Apple has updated Podcasts for iPhone and iPad with significant improvements to performance and stability. Additionally, Podcasts in your library will show the number of unplayed episodes, Top Stations will show the podcast title if artwork is missing, and when playing the next episode, playback speed is remembered.