Find My Friends app hits the App Store early
We are all eagerly waiting for iOS 5 to drop publicly today. Before that happens though, Apple needs to clear out the cache of apps built for...
New Airport utility released for iOS 5
The surge of iOS 5-ready software is most certainly upon us, as evidenced by the arrival of Airport Utility for iPhones, iPads and iPod touches....
Facebook 4.0 for iOS drops with iPad support, unicorns still questionable
Facebook has, at long last, updated their iOS app, and guess what, it finally supports the iPad. Congratulations iPad owners, your patience has paid off....
Siri provides 1 day return on investment as Apple nets $200 million day 1 of 4S launch
When Siri was acquired by Apple last year, it wasn’t hard to figure out what was going to happen. With the release of the iPhone 4S, people...
GeekBenchers are already benchmarking the iPhone 4S, and it impresses
With the iPhone 4S already being delivered to some customers in Germany, it was probably only a matter of time until someone took the device...
Grey iPad markets still a problem for Apple in China
If you ever see someone at an Apple store purchasing six iPads and six iPhones, chances are they plan on selling them overseas in “grey”...
A5 Apple TV 3 possibly in the works, references found in iOS 5
Being an extreme fan of the Apple TV since its first debut, I find this rumor to be incredibly satisfying. References to a new device...
Top Macgasmic posts of the week: October 3rd Edition
What can you say about the week of October 3rd? We started out pumped for Apple’s event. Some were disappointed with the 4S, others were...
Macgasm weekly rewind: October 3rd Edition
The Macgasm weekly rewind focuses on our original content and reviews that you may have missed the week starting October 3rd. This was an odd...
Happy Thanksgiving
If you live in Canada like me and Joshua, Thanksgiving arrives for you this weekend and many of you will have a chance to mark...
Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: “I’m glad he’s gone”
Well-known free-software activist Richard M. Stallman had chilly words to share about the passing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Calling him “the pioneer of the...
Cards app appears on Apple website, will require iPhone 3GS or better
If you’re curious about what Apple has in store for you with the Cards application that they announced during their keynote earlier this week, you...
Ihnatko makes all kinds of sense on smartphone screen size
Andy Ihnatko, the well-known Mac journalist and writer whose name I’ve been misspelling for nearly a decade, had some interesting and very intelligent things to...
Samsung, Google cancel event “out of respect for Steve Jobs”
Samsung and Google have decided to postpone an event at which they were expected to announce a jointly-produced phone product, stating “We believe this is...
The web remembers Steve Jobs
If you’re looking for some worthwhile insights and thoughts on the web about Steve Jobs, you’ll be glad to know there’s a lot of really...
I owe Steve Jobs
I owe my career to Steve Jobs. Him and his exciting non-beige computers. His bubble backed iMacs in semi-translucent Bondi Blue. His OS 8.5 operating...
I couldn’t hope to sum up a legend with a few words…
Steve Jobs isn’t someone you can sum up with words. As a writer, I would never be arrogant enough to even attempt it. What I...
iPhone 4S available for preorder now!
Things didn’t jump off right at midnight as planned, but by 12:45 PST the iPhone 4S was launched. While it wasn’t the smoothest of situations,...