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MakeGo turns your iPhone into a vehicle toy

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2012)

MakeGo is quite an idea. It's an iPhone app, available for $1.99 right now, that turns the touchscreen of an iPhone (or iPod touch) into a vehicle-style toy, where you can play around and generate sounds for toys like a racecar, ice cream truck, or ...

Daily iPad App: Ziggurat adds new controls to the shooter tradition

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Ziggurat is a fascinating little iPhone game. It's technically a shooter, but the controls are unlike any shooter I've ever seen. The idea is that the human race is almost over, and one lone figher stands atop a pyramid, under attack from robots on ...

DIY iPhone boombox built with a ShopBot

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2012)

The ShopBot is a sort of an electronic saw, a special setup designed to do some computer-aided cutting and carving work on big planks of board. It's quite useful for woodworking or making things like skateboards or surfboards. Odds are that you ...

Twitter app, Cut the Rope, SpellTower, SpellCraft School of Magic all updated

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2012)

We don't usually cover every single update that arrives on the App Store, simply because there are so many apps out there and so many developers working hard all the time. But a number of very popular apps have updated recently, so here's a few big ...

'Everything is a Remix' examines software patents

by Chris Rawson (Feb 21st, 2012)

In case you haven't seen it yet, the fourth episode of Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" series went live in mid-February on Ferguson's site. As in the previous three episodes in the series, Ferguson examines modern attitudes toward ...

Daily iPhone App: App Deals helps you score an app while it's on sale

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 21st, 2012)

I'm always looking for apps that are on sale, but there are too many apps and too many sales for one person to reasonably browse without any help. While searching for a way to track sales, I found App Deals, an app that showcases daily deals on ...

iPhone stops a bullet, saves the life of a Rotterdam contractor

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 21st, 2012)

Image: Shutterstock According to De Telegraaf, a 49 year-old Rotterdam contractor was shot at and an iPhone in his pocket may have helped stop the bullet from hitting his heart. According to my limited Dutch language skills and Google's ...

Apple patents new method for water detection

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2012)

Apple has submitted a patent that describes a better method of detecting water in an electronic device. In other words, Apple has devised a way to know if your iPhone has been in a pool (for example) before you try to return it to an Apple Store as ...

iPhone 4S arrives for China Telecom on March 9th

by Steven Sande (Feb 21st, 2012)

After months of ads enticing China Telecom subscribers with views of the iPhone 4S, the huge Chinese wireless carrier has announced that it will begin sales of the newest iPhone on March 9, 2012. The company will begin taking reservations for the ...

Dragon Go! for iPhone gets smarter by adding more services

by Mel Martin (Feb 21st, 2012)

Dragon Go! fron Nuance was already a great way to find information by voice on the iPhone. It's free, and I often used it as a demo to show what the iPhone could do. Then, along came Siri and it got the Lion's share of attention from users and the ...

Free apps on President's Day: Judge Dredd, MadPad HD, lots more

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2012)

Most of the President's Day App Sales we posted last week are still going on today, so if you didn't grab one of those games or apps yet, you might want to think about doing so while the holiday weekend is still on. But there are also a number of ...

Use Messages to send files from Mac to iPhone

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2012)

Now that the Messages app is available a beta for OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion, there's a way that you can quickly send files from any Mac to an iPhone. Lifehacker tested the capability, and sure enough it works splendidly for zapping files to ...