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Rumor: Rovio's new game is Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2012)

148Apps has done a little bit of digging, and has possibly discovered what Angry Birds creators Rovio are up to next. Rovio recently released a thank you/teaser video for a full billion Angry Birds downloads, and in the very end of that video, a character appears: It's a younger kid, with some ...

Admiring the beauty of an iPhone 'Aged to Perfection'

by Mike Schramm (May 5th, 2011)

I like this a lot -- a blogger over at the design mind blog is admiring the look of gadgets, like the iPhone, that have been "Aged to Perfection." In other words, gadgets that are well-used and that carry the mark of being carried around. Maybe it's just because I'm an iPhone user that frets ...

iPads don't make you attractive to the opposite sex

by David Quilty (Feb 11th, 2011)

Sorry to burst your bubble, iPad owners, but owning and using an iPad doesn't exactly make the opposite sex swoon, at least according to Retrevo 's Gadgetology Report. The report asked consumers if they notice other people's gadgets and, if so, how they react to them, and it turns out that seeing ...

These are a few of Woz's favorite things

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 6th, 2010)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak enchanted members of a press tour late last week with the nine gadgets that proved most influential on his development as a computer guru. His picks range from an IBM programmable punch-card machine to the Honeywell Kitchen Computer (above) to an original version ...

iPad adds Screen Rotation lock. Recumbent users scream "Finally!"

by Erica Sadun (Mar 12th, 2010)

Apple has finally added a screen rotation lock to one of its iPhone OS computing products. The button, which appears on the side of the new iPad will lock the device into its current orientation, preventing the unit from responding to re-orientation events. For everyone who has ever tried to play a ...

Time names Apple MacBook, iPod touch among best travel gadgets

by Dave Caolo (Nov 9th, 2009)

Time Magazine has published their list of 2009's best travel gadgets, and the iPod touch and MacBook have made the cut. Time notes the MacBook's size and high green ratings as well as the iPod touch's speed, Wi-Fi compatibility and library of games worked in their favor. I do my share of ...

Rumors: iPod, cameras expecting offspring

by Mike Schramm (May 26th, 2009)

If the rumors are to be believed, then cameras and the iPod are getting it on lately, because in about nine months (or whatever the gestation period is for gadgets -- you're welcome for that mental image) we'll be seeing lots of iPods with lenses in them. First up is the fine folks at iLounge, who ...

Google Gadgets in your OS X Dashboard

by Dave Caolo (Nov 28th, 2007)

Google has announced that the next version of Google Desktop (we've written about Google Desktop before) will allow users to run Google Gadgets alongside Mac OS X Widgets in the Dashboard. This new functionality should be available tomorrow. I don't use Google Desktop or Gadgets, and rarely use ...

Widget Watch: Google Gadget Widget

by David Chartier (Feb 26th, 2007)

We've previously seen products from Mesa Dynamics that can turn Google gadgets into Mac OS X Dashboard widgets. The Google Gadget Widget is another such utility that runs inside the Dashboard itself. All you need to do is simply copy any universal Google gadget's code from the Google Homepage into ...

Opinion: SideShow - Even Microsoft has a Good Idea Occasionally

by Mat Lu (Jan 31st, 2007)

You can file this one under the "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" if you like, but I will now commit the grievous sin of suggesting that there is an interesting feature in Vista that I'd actually like to see Apple implement in some form. It is called SideShow, and it allows computer makers ...

Widget Watch: ThinkFree/Office doc viewer (Dashboard, Yahoo! and Google)

by David Chartier (Dec 1st, 2006)

If, for one reason or another, you don't have or don't want Microsoft Office installed, but you still need to view a doc, spreadsheet or presentation, the ThinkFree Online office crew have created a couple widgets (and even a Google module) to help ease your pain. I haven't been following ...

Turn Google gadgets into widgets, widgets into apps

by David Chartier (Oct 6th, 2006)

Google, like seemingly almost every other web services company on the planet these days, offers a personalized Google homepage that allows you to customize the page with more or less the internet version of widgets. Google calls them gadgets, and you can drag and drop them to create just the page ...

Scobleizer wasn't wrong about products at WWDC; this just wasn't the right time

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2006)

Some are upset at The Scobleizer, as his predictions of a 'dizzying' amount of post-WWDC Apple products and wish for an Apple Store sleepover didn't exactly come true. Scoble even went so far as to apologize on his blog Tuesday, offering a theory as to why our credit cards aren't getting maxed on a ...

That unique "new Mac" smell

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (May 26th, 2006)

You all know what I'm talking about: the moment you tear open your new Mac and are greeted by that complex combination of a "little bit of plastic bag with a hint of lindenberry followed by a rush of Styrofoam." We all love it. Just like every other Apple product I've purchased new, my MacBook ...

Washington Post on Apple and product placement

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2006)

The Washington Post has an interesting article about all the 'free' product placement Apple has apparently received in TV shows and movies in recent years. The article states that Apple doesn't pay for all that publicity, but the company won't discuss how their products end up helping CSIs track ...