Filed under: App Store Joystiq , our sister site and favorite stop for gaming news, is celebrating the release of their long-awaited app for the iPhone and iPod touch this weekend. The new app gives you quick and easy access to catch up on the latest news while on the go, and the category view gives you the ability to focus on reviews, interviews, contests, or updates for your favorite gaming platform. In addition to reading the site, you can…  Read More →

We’ve been assuming that the next iPod touch will get in on Apple’s FaceTime video-calling action, but the open question has been how calls will actually be initiated without phone numbers, and BGR’s saying it has the scoop: it’s going to be based on email addresses. Registering an email address with the touch and FaceTime will let people videocall you using that address, but apparently calling an iPhone user will still... 

Filed under: App Store Several iPhone and iPad users have noticed charges totaling several hundred dollars on their iTunes accounts. At first, the issue looked to be part of the App Store’s recent woes , but it appears to be linked to an app called Fishies from PlayMesh — best known for its iFarm app. Fishies allows you to create a virtual fish tank. You can raise fish, become friends with other users and make purchases for your... 

Filed under: App Review Do you want to tie a specialized knot? There’s an app for that! Animated Knots isn’t particularly polished or overdesigned. Instead, it presents a list of knots that are arranged in categories, such as boating, fishing, and scouting. You tap on a knot, and you see the knot tie itself on screen using stop motion photography. I must admit, it’s kind of cool. Not only do you see each stage of the knot formation,... 

Filed under: App Store Whether you’re just hanging around your back yard, going to the beach, or waiting to set off a huge cache of fireworks, there are always a lot of fun things to do over the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. Here are some apps that can help you enjoy the fun during the holiday. Grilling: Weber’s On the Grill (US$4.99 – …  Read More →

There’s a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Animated GIFs are a source of endless hilarity around the office, but we usually disagree on the pronunciation of the animation-friendly image format. The GIF Pronunciation Page makes a strong case for “jiff,”... 

Three years ago, a certain obiwan22222 wowed us when he played Wii on his PSP (with a little help from Sony’s LocationFree technology). For his next trick, our man has done the same thing on an iPod touch. But wait, you ask — is there a LocationFree client for iPhone / iPod touch? We don’t think so, so we’ve pinged him for an explanation. He’s being extremely tight-lipped about it all, saying only that 1) …  Read More →

Filed under: iPad If you read Erica Sadun’s post yesterday about Iugo Mobile Entertainment’s new games for the iPad platform or watched the video, you know that the development firm has been changing the paradigm of mobile gaming by creating games that can be played by two people at once on the iPad . Cliffed XL (US$1.99) is a 2D scrolling racer, the free Escape – Norm’s World XL is a hard-to-master puzzle game, Implode!... 

Filed under: iPad Lecere Corporation will begin testing their iPad-based, Fully-Integrated Restaurant Management Software in a “major restaurant chain” this week. The iPad FIRMS POS system, which can also be used with the iPod touch, offers a 90% savings on traditional POS systems and can be optimized to fit restaurants of any level — form the individual restaurant to multinational chain restaurants, to hotels. “Using those... 

Filed under: Odds and ends About six months ago, we wrote about two free Starbucks apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. myStarbucks got you to the nearest caffeinated outlet and let you build your coffee, and The Starbucks Card Mobile app replaced your physical card, allowing you to have a bar code scanned and pay for your purchases. When the card ran dry, it could be refilled with caffeine-free money. The Starbucks Card Mobile app was tested... 

Got a first-gen iPhone with nothing to do and nothing to hope for ? Don’t throw it out just yet, you might be able to recycle it as an extremely fancy readout display for the Redrock Micro “focus control system.” The microRemote is, fundamentally, a focus ring detached from the DSLR it controls. It can operate all by its lonesome, but the big attraction here is adding an iPhone or iPod touch to provide visual clues to the aspiring... 

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review The tile game Kachina came to the iPhone/iPod touch platform in waves. First, the app appeared as a single-player puzzle game using the Kachina rules. Then, an upgrade with in-app purchase allowed you to spend US$2.99 to get multiplayer functionality. Now, the Kachina app [$2.99] that you can find in the App Store is the full-featured version that includes both the puzzle and multiplayer modes. The... 

Filed under: iPod touch Are you a developer trying to install 4.0 firmware on your 3rd gen iPod touch? You may run into install problems based on device eligibility. That means that Xcode or iTunes will complain that it cannot install the beta firmware onto your device and may tell you that you are attempting an ineligible install. Whether using Xcode or iTunes, your iPod will be left in recovery mode — and you might think you’ll... 

Filed under: App Review I’m a real chili-head. You know, one of those people who chomps on Habanero peppers and buys hot sauce by the case. So I was very interested in trying out the Scoville app (US $1.99) for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (which displays it in iPhone size or doubled mode). Wilbur Scoville devised a test…  Read More →

We’re pretty sure this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, and we’re pretty sure that it could be. Essentially an iPhone dock that sits on your face like a pair of glasses, “Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic Device with Display” details a headset that contains a stereo display and either a camera or a window for your phone’s camera. Also included in the patent application is...