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Daily iPhone App: Artkive helps you save your child's artwork for posterity

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

I first learned about Artkive last week at an event here in LA, put on by Technori and designed to show off some of the best startup ideas in the City of Angels. The company has been around for quite a while, and has picked up a whole lot of buzz from mom bloggers and the parenting industry ...

The Alien Hive team shares tips and concepts from the game's development

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

Alien Hive arrived on the App Store a little while ago, and I wrote it up as a Daily App a little bit after that. Since then, however, it's stuck in my brain, and I find myself coming back to it again and again. The developer is based overseas and named Appxplore -- they're also the team behind ...

Phoster for iOS creates posters and invitations

by Mel Martin (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Phoster is a free universal iOS app that is really one of the most useful and clever photography-related apps I have seen in a long time. The app creates posters and invitations that look like they were professionally designed, yet the base elements are provided by the user. There are 197 ...

Tengami is a beautiful journey through heavenly paper

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2013)

Jennifer Schneidereit is one of three developers who worked with legendary game developers Rare on Kinect Sports. That same group of three later created their own company, Nyamyam games. They started work on their first title, Tengami, about two years ago. Since then, it has been honored with ...

Daily iPhone App: French Girls is a strange idea that seems about to take off

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2013)

Sometimes apps are expertly designed, very complicated machines, full of complex elements designed to take on tough tasks -- and sometimes they're just plain hilarious. French Girls is the second of these. It was developed in just 39 hours by a team of devs working on an app jam, and while ...

Awesome Steve Jobs portrait made by injecting bubble wrap with paint

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 20th, 2013)

An artist by the name of Bradley Hart has created an amazing Steve Jobs portrait by injecting paint into individual nodules of bubble wrap. As Benjamin Starr at VisualNews describes: Hart's newest works -- mostly portraits -- are exceptional in the way they use each bubble in the wrap as ...

AVP Evolution hosting a contest to put fan art in the game

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2013)

Fox recently released an official Aliens vs. Predator action game on the App Store called AVP Evolution, which you can pick up if interested right now for US$4.99. Unfortunately, we weren't that impressed with the game here at TUAW -- it's a pretty boring action game with some solid graphics ...

Daily iPhone App: DailyArt serves up a new masterpiece each day

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 22nd, 2013)

Kick off your day with a new work of art from DailyArt. The iPhone app serves up a new masterpiece every day and includes paintings and photographs from a wide range of artists like the classic impressionist Monet and pioneer photographer Henry Fox Talbot. DailyArt Pro uses push notifications ...

Macintosh pen holder holds your writing utensil in a classic way

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2013)

Sure, at over US$53 it's a little pricey, but I am completely charmed by this pen holder shaped like an old Macintosh. Maybe it's that Susan Kare face, or the floppy drive slot, or just the reassuring, all-in-one, boxy shape, but there's something about this little 3D-printed desktop decoration ...

Macworld offers a haunting look at abandoned Apple computers

by Randy Nelson (Feb 19th, 2013)

The popularity of urban exploration has skyrocketed in recent years, with would-be adventurers sneaking into abandoned buildings such as schools and factories for thrills and the opportunity to fill online photo galleries with snapshots of some truly amazing -- often creepy -- finds. One ...

Touchscreen gestures turned into physical interactions

by Steven Sande (Jan 16th, 2013)

Let's say the year is 2023, and we're now interfacing with our iPhones in a totally new way. How would you explain to a young person of the future how we interacted with our iPhones back in the touchscreen days? Gabriele Meldaikyte, a student at the Royal College of Art in London, has the ...

Cygnett's ICON case contains the story behind the artists and art

by Mike Schramm (Jan 14th, 2013)

Perusing the many, many iPhone cases on display at CES is always a daunting proposition: Not only does every case manufacturer appear at the show with hundreds if not thousands of cases to show off, but even when all of the cases on display are finally out on store shelves, customers tend to ...

Best of Manet is a creative iOS tribute to the master

by Mel Martin (Jan 13th, 2013)

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the great 19th century painters. (He's not to be confused with impressionist Claude Monet.) Manet was controversial, and stood at the crossroads of the transition from realism to impressionism. Happily, there's a just-released collection of the best of Manet ...

Walls360 offers Susan Kare icons for your walls

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 11th, 2013)

Walls360 is a cool startup in Las Vegas that makes high-quality (but affordable) wall art. They've got the license to some great properties, like Star Trek, Plants vs. Zombies and a host of children's books, and now they are offering nearly all of the icon artwork produced by famed designer ...

Exposing Kevin Russ, 'the iPhone's Ansel Adams'

by Randy Nelson (Jan 9th, 2013)

The Atlantic has an article up about Kevin Russ, a prolific and popular nature photographer who has amassed a significant following with his haunting photos of the American West. While the content of Russ's still-life snaps has garnered much attention, so has his camera of choice: the iPhone. ...