Archive for November 18th, 2009

Magellan car kit detailed at FCC filing

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch That was fast. We just learned Magellan was going to offer a car kit for the iPhone and it has already hit the FCC.

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First Reality TV Show To Drop The TV In Favor Of An iPhone

They’re calling it the first “iPhone reality show,” and it was likely inevitable; with TV saturated by the likes of The Apprentice and Biggest Loser, the genre of reality show had to find a new home somewhere.

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Benchmarked: Quad Core i7 iMac is Wicked Fast

Gizmodo’s Brian Lam tested the new 27-inch Quad-Core i7  iMac and found it’s a beast. Geekbench benchmarks showed a 2x to 3x improvement over the Core 2 Duo model, but most impressive was a real world DVD ripping test, using Handbrake: On the Core i7 iMac, it took 43 minutes to rip a DVD, Storm Riders,

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Palm Releases WebOS 1.3.1 – No iTunes Syncing Hack This Time

It was only a few months back that Palm Pre used to be counted as a potential iPhone killer. A lot of things have changed since then. However, one thing that has kept Palm in the news has been its cat and mouse game with Apple in letting Pre users…

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iPhone cleared for sale in South Korea

Filed under: Apple Corporate , iPhone Earlier this week, South Korean officials gave Apple the go-ahead to sell the iPhone in South Korea. At this point, the ball is in Apple’s court; the iPhone can launch at any time. It was way back in December of 2008 that The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) dropped requirements that handsets use the locally-built WIPI mobile platform, and April of 2009 before those changes went into effect

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Review: Print Magic for iPhone

This app, which aims to let you print from your iPhone to a printer on your network, has a lot of promise. Unfortunately, the current version commits too many unpredictable errors to be worth your download.

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CatPaint iPhone app adds cats to any photo

CatPaint lets you add cats to your photos. For some reason.

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Join Me Even If You Are So Far Away

When you are waiting for someone, it is not necessary anymore to wonder how far that person is. No more intrusive calls and boring text message like – “Almost there!”. JoinMe is an attention-grabbing iPhone app developed by mobya, it can be used to locate your contacts who have an iPhone too.

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Casio Unveils Waterproof, Shockproof EX-G1 Digital Camera

Does your digital camera take extreme photographs? Ever wish you had a camera that could take more punishment than falling off a coffee table

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AT&T Lawsuit: Verizon Response Calls It A Case Of Sour Grapes

After AT&T filed a lawsuit against Verizon’s ad campaigns, the latter has finally responded. And very much like the ads in question, the court filing is nothing short of scathing attacks on Ma Bell

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Griffin Launches Two New Threadless Cases for iPhone

Griffin Technology and community-based online apparel store Threadless has announced a partnership to produce two limited edition two iPhone cases, selling together with the t-shirts of the same design. The two iPhone cases were designed by Joe Van Etering – ‘Clouds withing thunder’ iPhone case and Ross Zietz who designed the ‘Birds of a feather’ iPhone case

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Daily Deals: $769 mini, $110 8GB nano and $199 iPod touch

We’ve reached mid-week and the Mac deals are arriving fast and furious. Today we have bargains for anyone looking for hardware. The Mac mini with Intel’s Core 2 Duo running at 2.53 GHz is selling for $769

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Cycript: Blending Objective-C and JavaScript

Filed under: Developer , SDK Cycrypt is a new project that blends Objective-C and JavaScript to make it easier to implement aspects of both together. It’s going to be great for using elements that JavaScript offers when programming with Objective-C.

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