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Daily iPhone App: Boomtime Baseball reaches for baseball's golden age

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2012)

Honestly, baseball is probably the last thing I want to think about right now, given that my Cubs just finished the season with 101 excruciating losses. But if you still enjoy the crack of the bat against the ball, Boomtime Baseball (free) might work for you. While it has some issues, it will ...

iPhone 5th anniversary flashback: Welcome to 2006 and the height of Apple Phone predictions

by Erica Sadun (Jun 29th, 2012)

Happy 5th birthday, iPhone. Looking back, 2006 was an awesome time to be rolling in predictions. The drumroll for the iPhone was steady, furious, and demanding. As the tempo grew as Macworld 2007 grew near, everyone was hoping for something amazing, and Apple delivered. Five years after the ...

RoboTouch brings NES controller to iPad

by Dana Franklin (Mar 16th, 2011)

Mix a handful of micro servos, an old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller, a pinch of open-source Arduino magic, an iPad running Reckless Racing, a few pounds of ingenuity and elbow grease, and what do you get? Most of us would probably end up with an iPad and a small yard sale. But ...

Bon Jovi says Steve Jobs killed music business

by Dana Franklin (Mar 15th, 2011)

Is Steve Jobs music's savior, or is he the angel of death? Jon Bon Jovi cast his vote in The Sunday Times Magazine; the American rock musician thinks Jobs is "killing" the music industry with iTunes. The massive success of iTunes, says Bon Jovi, has caused the "magical" experience of buying ...

5 apps for nostalgia

by Dave Caolo (Sep 21st, 2010)

Here's another entry in our "Five Apps For" series, which identifies five iPhone/iPod touch apps that fill a specific niche, appeal to a particular crowd, or cover an area of interest. Enjoy! As an aging child of the 70's and 80's (I'll be 40 in January), I'm feeling nostalgic for the past while ...

iRetrofone goes steampunk

by Mike Schramm (Jul 9th, 2010)

We've posted about the great iRetrofone handset base for the iPhone before -- it's really just a block of resin, but having an actual handset hooked up to your iPhone around the house makes for some pretty nostalgic phone calls. The iRetrophone's creator Scott Freeland said he would be hard at work ...

Beautiful retro handset base for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2010)

It's the weekend, which seems like the perfect time for a groovy retro item like this one. The iRetrofone is a handset base for the iPhone that brings an old-school aesthetic to your new-school touchscreen cell phone. We've seen cool handsets before, but this one goes all the way. Any iPhone can ...

Commodore 64 1.2 released in the App Store with three new free games

by Mike Schramm (Dec 24th, 2009)

The creators of Commodore 64, that emulator app that eventually gained Apple's blessing, emailed to say that they have released a brand new version [iTunes link] with some brand new (old) C64 games to revisit. The gist of this one is that you can buy C64 ROMs to play through in-app purchases, but ...

Simpsons Arcade (sort of) released on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 21st, 2009)

If you happened to be wandering around a St. Louis, Missouri arcade in the early nineties, you'd probably find a young me, playing the Simpsons Arcade game (either that or the Avengers game, I loved that one too). It was great: beat-em-up action, The Simpsons, and impressive animations and graphics ...

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition out on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 23rd, 2009)

That was fast -- LucasArts has released the Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition out to the iPhone, and it's available on the App Store right now for the low price of $7.99. I say low because even though that's higher than many games for the platform, this one is not only one of the best-loved ...

Goodbye, FireWire 400

by Mike Schramm (Mar 4th, 2009)

As Macworld notes, this is it for the ol' Firewire 400. With the introduction of the new Mac mini the other day and the refresh of the Mac Pro and iMac lines, the old version of Firewire is left only on the white MacBook. It's evolution at its finest, and our good friend Nilay Patel over at ...

Slotz Racer now in the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2009)

Freeverse Games has released their latest iPhone title, Slotz Racer, and it looks like a good one (I've been having a good time lately with their bowling game as well). Despite the name, it's not another tilt-to-turn racer -- this one has you playing slot cars instead of real cars, those little ...

30 years of Apple in three minutes

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2008)

Megan's great roundup of Apple history from the other day wasn't enough nostalgia for you? It should have been -- wow there was a lot of old Apple stuff in there. But just in case your itch for the days of Apple yore isn't yet scratched, here's a great little video compilation of every Apple ...

Adventure released for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2008)

Part of me just wants to post this screenshot, link this app, and say "go get it," but I have a feeling that my blogging overlords here would think I was just being lazy -- they might not understand that this is a screenshot from Adventure, which is available for free on the iPhone. Anyone who ...

Viva System 7

by Damien Barrett (Mar 16th, 2006)

The first Mac I bought (though I'd been using them since the LC days) was a PowerMac 7100/66 in 1994, and it was my dream. I even paid extra for the GeoPort modem (remember those gnarly beasties). It shipped with a special version of System 7 (v7.1.2) that was optimized for the new PPC chips to ...