OutOfTheBit, once again in collaboration with percussionist Leo Di Angilla, has released a new iPhone app called iPandeiro, featuring…a pandeiro. A Brazilian hand drum that resembles a tambourine,…

If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at playing conga drums, now’s your chance. OutOfTheBit, in conjunction with percussionist Leo Di Angilla, has come out with an iPhone app to do..

Apple announced the iPod on October 23rd, 2001. On this, its eight birthday, we take a look back at the way iPods were.

Filed under: Gaming , App Store StoneLoops! of Jurassica is one of those iPhone gems that everyone needed to try. It was a beautiful port of an existing desktop game and one of the cases where the iPhone version blew its desktop sibling out of the water regarding graphics and playability.

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Gaming , iPhone , iPod touch In a bold report released this week, DFC Intelligence states that if current sales and development trends continue, the iPhone and iPod could surpass both Sony and Nintendo in the fast-growing handheld gaming market in as little as five years. Now, DFC isn’t describing the number of units sold.

Filed under: Humor , Cult of Mac , Odds and ends Talk about embarrassing. Steve Ballmer guest hosted on NBC’s Today Show yesterday to talk about the Windows 7 launch

Filed under: Apple Corporate Last week I was in Boston and drove past the ad pictured at right, as I have done many times. Even though it first went up in 2007, I still think, “Man, that is a big ad.” Boston’s Outdoor Advertising Board agrees.

Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Review We did a fairly extensive rundown of eBooks for the iPhone/iPod touch in August; you can take a look back if you’re new to the eBook universe for Apple’s mobile devices. BookReader [ iTunes Link ] , a US$4.99 app for devices running OS 2.21 or higher, has just joined the crowded eBook market — but it brings little to the table to recommend itself.

Even though I own both Adobe’s Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture, I use Lightroom because of the advanced development module, the ability to paint on different exposures, and non-destructive editing. I had very high hopes for Lightroom 3, which Adobe just released in beta, and am pleased to say that with one pretty significant exception, I’m

This week’s selection from Mac Games and More include Halloween inspired games that will take you into the weekend.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware Two weekends ago, Diet Coke was accidentally spilled onto my MacBook Pro Keyboard. The machine, a Core Duo 15″ that was among the first of the Intel Macs rolled out, suddenly didn’t work the way it used to.

Filed under: Cool tools , Friday Favorite “Where did all my disk space all go?” When I was in college, each student was allotted 4 megabytes (‘mega’ is not a typo) of disk space for both email and files. Granted, this was back in the early ’90s, before anyone had heard of “www.” or had even thought of “.mp3″ or “.mp4″. In 1995 I acquired a 1GB hard drive and felt like king of the known world

With challenging levels and spacey visuals, this tower-building puzzle game is a fine addition to the iPhone. The ability to create your own levels and play levels created by other users, though, pushes Moonlights toward greatness.