Transfer Cash By Bumping iPhones

For months we’ve been reading stories of upcoming technology designed to turn your iPhone into a device to collect money – through credit card swipe readers, mostly. Today, PayPal’s jumped in on the action by releasing a new iPhone application that allows the transfer of money from one person to another via the bumping together [...more]

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Mar 17 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

What The Hell Is “Chomp?”

Well, Chomp, you got my attention. I just read a headline marked, “Chomp surpasses 300,000 users,” which makes sense as the service is named Chomp, and Chomp is a cool name for something. But what the hell is Chomp? Well, Chomp is an iPhone app that allows you to review other iPhone apps. Recursiveness aside, there’s [...more]

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Mar 14 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

New App Measures iPhone Radiation

Israeli startup Tawkon (get it? “talk on?”) has developed an iPhone app that claims to monitor the radiation emitted by your iPhone at any given point in time. The app, which is not a hilarious “joke app” designed to scare you about cancer, was apparently in development for 18 months, uses complex algorithms, and has [...more]

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Mar 08 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Wi-Fi Stumblers Vanish From App Store

Apple’s really gotta knock this off. Once again, we all wake up to a story of Apple arbitrarily removing apps from their iTunes App Store – some which have been sold for years – for vauge and arbitrary reasons. Today’s victims? Wi-Fi stumbling programs like WiFiFoFum, WiFi-Where and yFy Network Finder, which are all designed to [...more]

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Mar 05 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Final Fantasy: Now on the iPhone

And a great horde of moogles and chocobos rejoiced, as their franchise, straight and true, landed on that most chosen of platforms! Final Fantasy – specifically, Final Fantasy’s I and II – have arrived for the iPhone, greedily sucking apart whatever was left of your free time. The twin franchise leaders – the second of which [...more]

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Mar 03 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Hulu Coming To iPad

The good news: Hulu’s coming to the iPad, giving people one more reason to buy one of the damn things. Access to every single episode of Lost on a beautiful screen while waiting at the airport? That’s a good thing. The bad news: they may charge money for the app, which as we all know, is [...more]

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Feb 25 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Google Shopper Allows For Mobile Comparison Shopping

Another useful, mind bending app from Google Labs? Yeah, it’s expected at this point, but still very cool – a few days ago, Google introduced “Google Shopper,” a program that turns your Android handset into a mobile price scanner. You simply point your phone at the box art or barcode of something you’d like to [...more]

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Feb 24 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

2 iPhone Apps To Help Battle Climate Change Deniers

FastCompany, a website I fall in love with more and more each day, has created a list of two iPhone apps to help you spread the news that the planet is dying. Fun! Their first recommendation is SkepticalScience, an app that provides you with common climate change denier talking points, and then givesĀ  you the appropriate [...more]

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Feb 22 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

PMSBuddy Tracks Girlfriend’s Periods, You Jerk

TechCrunch just turned me on to an iPhone app that’s as unnecessary as it is hilarious. It’s called PMSBuddy, and is designed to tell you, a frightened male who’s uncomfortable with how the female body works, when he should hide in his room playing Fallout 3. As someone who’s actually dated girls, let me tell you [...more]

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Feb 22 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

The App Store: Now With 100% Less Fun!

Many of you have likely been hearing about the iPhone App Store’s crackdown on suggestive or titillating apps. The common thread in all the stories has been a deliberate vagueness on Apple’s part – they know if they define the content they don’t want as a list of rules then developers are just going to [...more]

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Feb 21 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos