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Daily iPhone App: MyTunes Pro makes your music sound better

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2012)

MyTunes has been on the App Store for a little while. It's developed by SRS that uses that company's patented sound enhancement algorithms to make music sound "better." It's not completely clear what the algorithm does (as SRS wants to keep it secret), but basically, the tech boosts and lowers ...

Gmail Priority Inbox now available on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 7th, 2011)

The official Gmail blog has announced that the Priority Inbox feature, which uses an algorithm to mark what it thinks are important emails in your inbox, is now available on the web version of Gmail for the iPhone. If you've set up the service to work on your usual browser, it'll now also work on ...

App Store algorithms down and back up, probably tweaked

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

Regular users may not have noticed this, but I'm sure developers have -- the App Store's charts have been in a freeze for the past few days, leaving apps in exactly the same positions as they were last Thursday. That might not seem like too big a deal, but for many developers, the App Store charts ...

CubeCheater solves that Rubik's Cube for you

by Mike Schramm (Jan 29th, 2009)

As we know from the iPhone television commercials, if there's something you need to do, there's an app for that. And so apparently, if the thing you want to do is solve a Rubik's Cube, then yes, there is an app for that. CubeCheater will help you quickly solve a Rubik's Cube -- all you do is punch ...