Filed under: iLife , Software , Software Update If you're running iLife '09, fire up Software Update, because Apple has a bug fix update out for you. iPhoto 8.1.1 "addresses issues affecting face recognition performance and accuracy. It also fixes minor issues in the areas of book ordering, and iPod touch support." There's an extra step for getting Faces recognition working properly if you...
Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review To celebrate Thanksgiving, Agile Web Solutions is giving thanks to its customers this week in the form of a free iPhone app. Previously $7.99, 1Password Pro touch [ iTunes link ] is completely free until December 1st. Whether or not you use the excellent Mac edition of this app, which was recently updated to version 3.0 , 1Password touch is...
Filed under: Software , Cool tools As part of my trade, I work a lot with colors . ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory. It had its shortcomings, though, and some other tools had surpassed it, both on the desktop and on the iPhone . However, I got a sneak peek at the up-and-coming version 2.0 of ColorSchemer Studio,...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends The New York Observer is reporting that Time, Inc. executive VP John Squires has been making the rounds of other major publishing houses lately with one thing in mind: creating an iTunes-like magazine store for digital distribution of their titles. At this time, it appears that Time, Inc., Condé Nast, and Hearst are all planning on joining the...
Filed under: Developer , Found Footage , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Have you ever wanted to send a loved one a rose, but knew that you wouldn't be able to deliver it yourself? Or maybe you wanted to cheer up a friend in the hospital, but you were on another continent? If the Liverpudlians at Little World Gifts have their way, you'll soon be exchanging virtual gifts with your friends. The six-person...
Filed under: Audio , Hardware , Bluetooth , iPhone , iPod touch , Music Canadian company Cignias has announced an interesting product in the home audio/iPhone category. It's called the MusicNAO and it allows you to wirelessly control a docked iPod with an iPhone or iPod touch. It also lets you play music wirelessly to the dock from an iPhone or iPod touch. The music streams using the stereo Bluetooth...
Filed under: Found Footage , App Review For just US$1.99, you could do a lot worse than picking up Skyworks's new Boardwalk Games [ iTunes link ]. Offering three carnival-style attractions, Boardwalk Games takes you into the midway with good gameplay, quality graphics, and audible sound. To be honest, those audible sounds kind of drove me a little nuts and I couldn't find a settings screen to could...
Filed under: Gaming , Odds and ends , Freeware , iPhone , SDK Chillingo recently announced that it would be launching Crystal SDK , a service joining the increasingly crowded social network market for iPhone games. Xbox Live on the Xbox is an official social network, but the iPhone has no such official service. A crowd of contenders, from the popular OpenFeint service to ngmoco's Plus+ network , are...
Filed under: Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK Well here we go. Up until now, we've heard a lot from developers about how much of a mess the App Store's approval process is, from people who've been rejected outright to people who've been forced to resubmit to people who've just given up completely . But we haven't heard much from Apple, and now Phil Schiller has spoken with Business...
Filed under: Developer , Found Footage , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Have you ever wanted to send a loved one a rose, but knew that you wouldn't be able to deliver it yourself? Or maybe you wanted to cheer up a friend in the hospital, but you were on another continent? If the Liverpudlians at Little World Gifts have their way, you'll soon be exchanging virtual gifts with your friends. The six-person...
Filed under: Enterprise , iPhone Support continues to grow for the iPhone in the enterprise. TBI Research ( subscription required ) says Apple's answer to telephony is gaining ground in business, thanks largely to employees and execs grabbing an iPhone for personal use and deciding they just have to have it for work as well. TBI sees the iPhone having trouble in two of the biggest industries in the...
Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review To celebrate Thanksgiving, Agile Web Solutions is giving thanks to its customers this week in the form of a free iPhone app. Previously $7.99, 1Password Pro touch [ iTunes link ] is completely free until December 1st. Whether or not you use the excellent Mac edition of this app, which was recently updated to version 3.0 , 1Password touch is...
Filed under: Gaming , Odds and ends , Freeware , iPhone , SDK Chillingo recently announced that it would be launching Crystal SDK , a service joining the increasingly crowded social network market for iPhone games. Xbox Live on the Xbox is an official social network, but the iPhone has no such official service. A crowd of contenders, from the popular OpenFeint service to ngmoco's Plus+ network , are...
Filed under: Found Footage , iPhone , First Look , App Review Remember Zen Bound ? It's a gorgeous and fun-to-play little puzzle game. So when I heard that SecretExit, the makers of Zen Bound, were about to release a new app, I was excited to get a sneak preview. Stair Dismount is a very different game to Zen Bound. Although, as you can see in the above video, the audio and graphics quality are consistently...
Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Do you use eBay regularly for shopping for goodies? If you do, and if you're an iPhone or iPod touch owner, you probably ought to turn on your device right now and download the new eBay Deals app [Free, iTunes Link ]. In eBay parlance, a deal can be one of two things: An eBay Daily Deal, which is a limited quantity item from a...