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AirFloat removed from the App Store

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 25th, 2012)

Airfoil Speakers Touch is not the only audio app to be removed from the App Store. Apple also removed AirFloat, the developer said on his blog. Like Airfoil Speakers Touch, AirFloat allowed people to send audio to the iPhone from a desktop machine. Cult of Mac said on Thursday that this might ...

Daily iPad App: League of Evil 2 proves platformers and touchscreens can play nice

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2012)

There are a lot of awesome games on sale in the Because We May event going on this weekend, but of the titles I've picked up so far, League of Evil 2 is probably my favorite. It's a platformer title, in the vein of Super Meat Boy, in that it's basically a quick and simple romp through a series ...

Apple looking to hire engineers at Israel R&D facility

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2012)

We've heard that Apple intends to step up hiring at a new research center in Israel, and here is more evidence of that effort. Two new job listings have appeared on Apple's site for physical design engineers in Haifa, Israel, showing that Apple is getting serious about building out its new ...

US TSA eyeing Macs, iOS devices to assist mission

by Steven Sande (May 25th, 2012)

America's favorite frisking and body scanning team -- the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) -- is about to go Apple. NextGov is reporting that the TSA has put out a request to possibly purchase any number of Apple products to "support specific areas of TSA's Risk Based ...

Apple adds free App of the Week to iTunes, Editor's Choice to Mac and iOS App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 25th, 2012)

As noticed by The Verge, Apple has started to promote apps in the iOS and Mac App Store using an "Editors' Choice" branding. The first apps to receive this distinction are Deus X Human Revolution and Cobook in the Mac App Store as well as Facebook Camera and Extreme Skater in the iOS App ...

Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch now available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th, 2012)

This is super good news for the jailbreak crowd. GreenPois0n Absinthe 2.0 is out for iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreaking enjoyment. Absinthe is an easy solution for jailbreaking, and going untethered is pretty awesome. Excellent work by Chronic Dev Team and pod2g. Absinthe works on A4-powered ...

Daily iPhone App: Burnout Crash smashes with style

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2012)

I don't really care who you are or what kind of games you like. You should go to the App Store and buy Burnout Crash for 99 cents because it's on sale right now. Done? Great. Now I'll tell you what the game's about. Criterion Games typically makes console games, most notably the Burnout ...

Tons of apps on sale to kick off Memorial Day weekend

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2012)

It seems like it's been a while since we had a big holiday weekend full of app sales, but the wait is over: Memorial Day is coming up in just a few days, and app developers are bringing down prices all over the store to celebrate! EA's got most of its games on sale for just 99 cents, ...

Boost case for iPhone keeps the battery going

by Mel Martin (May 24th, 2012)

I love my iPhone 4S, but I am one of many who doesn't get great battery life from the phone. Apple has done some firmware updates that 'addressed' the problem, but I think battery life on my phone is still sub-par. I've looked at a few battery cases, but many were pretty clunky and didn't seem ...

Jetpack Joyride goes to the dogs

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2012)

Man, Halfbrick's just not giving up on Jetpack Joyride. We just recently had a huge gadgets update for the game that added all sorts of tweaks to the jetpack action, and now here's another big update, out today, that gives Barry Steakfries a canine pal to run around with. Flash the Dog is ...

Introducing a better mobile web experience for TUAW

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th, 2012)

Remember when the iPhone debuted and tuaw.com crashed mobile Safari? Good times. We quickly rolled out i.tuaw.com as an interim solution, but it was very stripped down and not ideal. We eventually added the ability to visit the full site, and the full site no longer crashes Safari (and looks ...

Star Walk and Solar Walk apps now track the Space X Dragon

by Mel Martin (May 24th, 2012)

The two bestselling astronomy apps, Star Walk and Solar Walk for iOS, can now find and track the Space X Dragon, the first commercial vehicle to visit the International Space Station. The Dragon was launched Tuesday. When you search for the spacecraft, you'll see it's current position. As I ...

Apple pulls Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 24th, 2012)

Update: CoM says a tipster tells them this is because Airfoil Speakers Touch may be duplicating functionality we're going to see in iOS 6. That was our guess as well. Apple has pulled Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store. The app, which made it possible to stream from a ...

GameFly wants to get into iOS publishing, create an Android App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2012)

Game rental service GameFly has decided to go all-in on mobile publishing for some reason. The service, which rents out console games in the Netflix style, and runs the Shacknews gaming news outlet, has had a pretty popular GameCenter app out on the App Store for a while now. But now it's ...

Stolen iPhone photos unwittingly posted by Disney cruise ship employee

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2012)

"This is Nelson," says iPhone owner Katy McCaffrey of the picture above, posted on her Facebook. "Nelson has my stolen iPhone." McCaffrey took her iPhone on a Disney Cruise back in April, where the phone was either misplaced or stolen. But it's been found, now. Photo Stream was still running, ...