Siri now sports better Yelp integration
With the release of iOS 5.1, Apple has taken the opportunity to tweak Siri’s Yelp integration. Here’s what Mike Ghaffary, Director of Business Development at...
Poor iPhone battery life? Ad-supported apps may be to blame.
Hunted down every tip and trick to conserve battery life, but still unhappy? Your ad-supported applications might be to blame. A NewScientist report states that...
Sparrow for iPhone gets Push support with jailbreak tweak
If you want Push notifications for your email, but you’re using Sparrow on your iPhone, you’ve been out of luck up until this point. The...
Mount your iPhone to a tripod with Piquant
iPhones are now pretty great point-and-shoot cameras that have the ability to capture 1080p video. The built-in image stabilization is pretty impressive, but perfectly smooth...
It’s how you use it
One of the questions that I’m constantly asked by people regarding my Apple products is “how do you use it?” For years, this was an...
No need for a cable when your iPhone’s case is the charger
When you’re doing a lot of traveling, bringing your charger with you everywhere can be a hassle. Sometimes you’ll forget to bring it, or worse,...
This American Life Retracts Foxconn Episode
In January, This American Life posted a radio episode called “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”. In it, Mike Daisey took listeners on a trip...
Check out this experimental gesture based calculator for the iPhone
Listen, I know what you’re thinking. You’re saying to yourself, “how can a calculator app be sexy.” Here’s the thing: the Rechner Calculator from the...
Good artists copy, giant asshole corporations steal: Thoughts on the PayPal Here
You run a small business, so operating a full Point of Sale system seems excessive. But you need to take credit cards. You’ve got an...
4G smartphone customers unhappy with poor battery life
Add another point to Apple’s “This Is Why We Do Things Our Way” board. J.D. Power & Associates reports that owners of first-gen 4G smartphones...
Attach your iPhone to a nerf gun and make a real-world FPS game with AppTag
If you love first-person shooters, you’ll want to hear about this. Silicon Spark, an Australian app development and electronic accessory company, is making an awesome...
Apple subpoenaed about Google Mobile
Bloomberg has reported that Apple was subpoenaed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in regards to the building of a possible antitrust case against Google....
Desk phone, iPhone music dock, and speaker phone, the AudiOffice has it all
I’m not sure if any of you remember the Saturday morning cartoon C.O.P.S., but during some of the episodes there’s a moment when one of...
This alarm clock dock is worthy of your iPhone
Millions of iPhone users have replaced their alarm clocks with the trusty iOS device, but like most of them, I too just plug my phone...
Unleash the power of the gecko on your iPhone with the Grippy Pad
If you’re tired of fussy gizmos that are supposed to mount your iPhone and other gadgets on your dashboard, but just don’t seem to work...
This iPhone notebook saves you a case and lets you tweet during class
There’s something intriguing and almost poetic about juxtiposing the communication tools of today with the communication tool of the past. Jin-Woog Koo has created the...
Mass Effect Datapad hits the App Store
Bioware has been extremely good to iOS users this past week. Accompanying the launch of Mass Effect 3 on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC,...
Shoot 360 degree video directly from your iPhone with this snazzy lens
Shooting video on your phone is obviously something we do a lot of around here at Macgasm, but one thing we’ve never done is try...