Hulu Narrowly Beats Boxee in Reader Poll

Another Mashable Faceoff in our series wraps this week, and it was an appropriate one given the prevalence of online TV solutions on hand here this week at CES. We pitted two online video favorites against each other in a head-to-head battle, and have the results below.

It was a close… read more

Apple seizes 16 domain names from squatter

<pe dropped the hammer on a domain squatter the other day, reclaiming sixteen different domain names in one fell swoop. The company filed a complaint a while back against a guy named Daniel Bijan, who didn't bother to fight his case at all (not that he has one), and the… read more

CES Watch: More tales from the iLounge

Today at CES 2010, another round of new iPhone, iPod, and Mac-related accessories. We're putting them all together in one post — it's like you're on the show floor, without the terrible AT&T reception.

iLive is introducing a whole slew of new speakers and micro speaker… read more

Burglars going after LA Apple Store customers

<ptter be careful next time I walk out of my Apple Store here in Santa Monica — apparently burglars are targeting Apple Store customers here in the Los Angeles area. Over 100 customers have apparently been targeted after leaving the store and keeping a computer or other purchase in their… read more

New Apple touch display patent

<pntly Apple has the news that Apple has filed for another touchscreen display patent, but here's the catch: this one's probably not for a tablet! Or at least, not for the tablet we're expecting. The patent, which covers the idea of a thinner and brighter touchscreen display by combining the… read more

CES Watch: Apple accessories from the show floor

<p2010 is in full swing in Las Vegas, and while we aren't there, we have been able to scour the webs and bring you the latest, the greatest, and the weirdest new Apple-related peripherals and accessories from the show floor.

Griffin has announced a few new devices,… read more

35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons

Apple products are well known for their simple and elegant design, and they are favored by many designers.

Their products are often seen in web design, particularly on portfolio websites, and these products are also popular subjects for icon design.

In this post we feature more than 35 sets of high-quality icons… read more

Millions of app store downloads everywhere

<p year was a big one for mobile downloads, according to a number of sources. A Quantcast mobile trends report says that mobile web activity grew 110% in the US throughout 2009, and of course Apple was responsible for most of that, with a 65% market share, 41% from the… read more

CES Watch: More clocks and docks

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As expected, there are a number of iPhone and iPod-related accessories coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Here's a couple we've seen already:

iHome’s got both audio systems and alarm clocks on display — the clocks… read more

Pioneer to Bring Pandora to Your Car Radio … For $1,200

Pandora and Pioneer — manufacturer of car audio systems — are partnering to bring Internet radio to your car.

The joint announcement — which was made today at CES — means that come March, you can purchase Pioneer-powered devices to stream Pandora radio while driving.

That’s the good news. The bad news… read more

Parrot AR.Drone in the Air at CES [VIDEO]

We snagged some live footage of the AR.Drone in action and had a chance to chat with Parrot about this sweet little iPhone-powered drone. The remote-controlled helicopter represents the company’s first foray into video gaming, as Parrot previously focused on producing wireless products including hands-free car kits, speakers, digital photo… read more

Tablet speculation: How could a tablet connect to the world?

<pled under: Portables, Odds and ends

Do you know what word Dave Caolo is hearing in his sleep? Tablet. What phrase is trending mightily on Google Search? Tablet. What is every Apple fanboy and fangirl dreaming of for…um…some new gift-giving holiday in the March/April timeframe? Tablet. It’s what… read more

Rumor: Beta version of iPhone SDK with tablet simulator to be unveiled on 1/27

What I find interesting about this tidbit is the timing: most of the rumors we have heard concerning which operating system the tablet might run have generally pointed towards a newer build of the iPhone OS. So, if the tablet will be running a new build of the iPhone OS,… read more

Control a Helicopter With Your iPhone [VIDEO]

French company Parrot is debuting something unbelievably cool at CES 2010: a quadricopter that can be controlled by an iPhone or iPod touch! Called the AR.Drone, the copter boasts not only Wi-Fi (that’s how your iPhone can control it) but two cameras, so you can actually monitor the view from… read more

DTV, flying robots and car control: more iPhone goodies from CES

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OnStar and Chevy show off Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone control apps for Volt

Chevy and OnStar officially launched their suite of mobile applications for the Volt, set to be available for BlackBerry, Android, and the iPhone and set to deploy… read more

Abduzeedo iPhone App Sneak Peek – Beta Testers Wanted

As I have mentioned a few times we are working on an iPhone app for Abduzeedo. We had some small issues that delayed the release but now we are on the right track for the launch. First, however, we want to test it more and with more people.

The first version… read more

Second-generation Blue Microphones Mikey announced, uses free app

While the new Mikey hasn’t yet achieved iPhone certification, it promises to be a powerful professional recording solution for iPhone owners when it arrives in the spring. Mikey still features two Blue mic capsules for pro-quality stereo recording, but now has improved acoustic circuitry for better recordings of loud events… read more

CES goes down to the docks

<p CES time yet again, and that means that everybody and their business partners will be showing off iPhone and iPod touch accessories that do all sorts of crazy things, from the useful to the useless. Here's two interesting docks that Engadget has already seen at the big electronics show…. read more

Qualcomm Bringing Live TV to the iPhone

Qualcomm’s FLO TV will unveil a Mophie plastic-case that brings live TV programming to the iPhone at CES. The new case will include a FLO TV antenna to work in conjunction with a FLO TV iPhone app to stream live content from broadcast and cable networks like ABC, CBS, NBC,… read more

Has Skype skipped? It’s missing from the app store

The app is also missing from international versions of the app store. There is still a link to the app on the Skype web page, but the link fails with a warning that Skype is not available. An iTunes app store search also fails to turn it up.

People… read more

App Store tops 3 billion downloads

In a press release issued today, Steve Jobs said, “…this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
<br… read more

Three Billion Apps Downloaded From Apple’s App Store

There’s no question about it any longer: The Apple App Store is a big market. It’s not as big as, say, the soft drinks market, but it’s big enough to be taken very seriously.

Developers have created 100,000 iPhone applications — some of them are raking in seven figures per… read more

RipIt: Simple DVD Ripping for Mac

DVDs can be a nuisance to carry around. They also scratch, break, or go missing over time. RipIt, from The Little App Factory lets you rip your DVDs to your Mac so that you can watch them at anytime without the DVD inserted in your drive.

RipIt is an application so… read more

Nokia Wants a Ban on Apple Imports of iPhone, iPod, and MacBooks

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any uglier between Nokia and Apple, it does. Now the Finnish cell phone giant has filed a second complaint in federal court, alleging that Apple infringes several “implementation patents” in multiple devices from cameras to touchscreens.

This is on top of the original lawsuit… read more

Apple’s top technical feats of the decade

<pe well into 2010 (OK, 4 days), but there's still a few more lists and "top tens" of the last decade to clean up. One of the more interesting Apple-related wrapups is this list by Fraser Spiers, showing off Apple's best technical feats of the past decade. There's certainly tons… read more

Turn Your iPhone into a TV Remote

When Apple filed a patent for tech that would let you control your home computer with your iPhone or iPod touch, that was neat and all, but the functionality already existed in third-party apps. Now a product from a company called L5 will help iPhones seize control of the home… read more

Mac 101: Purchase a file in iTunes for someone else

Let’s start with music. First, find the album or song you’d like to send. If you’re sending a song, you’ll see a drop-down arrow next to the track’s “Buy” button. Click it to reveal the menu at right, then select “Gift this song.”

You’re brought to a new… read more

REVEALED: The 100 Most Social Brands of 2009

Virtue’s Social Media Index (SMI) assigns brands and products a score based on overall buzz from status updates, videos, photos and blog posts. The company has tallied its results for 2009 and released its top 100 social brands based on index scoring, with last year’s winner — the iPhone — reigning… read more

iPhone devsugar: Working with tablet resolutions

<prs are hitting the ground hard and strong about exactly what to expect in the upcoming (yeah, yeah, possibly mythical) Apple tablet device. And the most important of those rumors, the fact most consistently cited, is the introduction of extra pixels. You might roll your eyes and say, "of course… read more

Nokia brings more legal complaints against Apple

Now, our sister site, Engadget reports Nokia has filed another federal complaint against Apple, alleging that Curpertino is violating 7 more Nokia Patents. Nokia says these violations are all implementation patents, or features that differentiate Nokia products from the rest of the market.

Nokia claims that the infringing… read more

Found Footage: iPhone/Mouse integration

What happens when you combine two amazing jailbreak utilities on the iPhone? You achieve remote mouse based support! iPhone developer Lance “ashikase” Fetters, author of the amazing Backgrounder jailbreak app, wrote a VNC style extension for the iPhone called MouseSupport. It provides a floating window with a virtual cursor that… read more

MarketWatch: Keep your eye on Apple in 2010

But seriously, the annual updates are compelling enough to prompt people to upgrade (iPod touch, nano with video) or cheap enough to warrant a second unit (iPod shuffle). Apple knows how to sell iPods and the trend should continue in the new year.

Also notable is Apple’s seemingly renewed… read more

Nestliving: a Beautiful site featuring Design furniture

I just love to look around for design furniture… I really like to check out the great products that some designers come up with. The style of furniture that I like to see is that classy-minimalist-stylish stuff that just get our attention and make us want to change almost every… read more

The Perfect Office #18

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

iPhone Apps List 2010: 700+ Apps Reviewed by Category

As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look.

To help you out, we’ve compiled all of Mashable’s iPhone app reviews in a definitive list to kick off the year. … read more

Congrats Palm: you’ve finally hit 1% of the App Store’s total.

<peptember 27, 2005 Jon Rubinstein, Palm CEO and former Apple Vice President of the iPod Division, said Apple would be silly to get into the mobile handset marketplace:

Is there a toaster that also knows how to brew coffee? There is no such combined device, because it would not make… read more

Our mistake, your gain: win one of fifteen free copies of Weightbot

When Paul Haddad of Tapbots offered us fifteen license codes for a giveaway, I blithely assumed that they were for Pastebot, their cool cut, copy, and paste app for iPhone. I set up the giveaway yesterday and have been thrilled with the number of entries (you can still enter until… read more

Ford to offer iTunes tagging in their cars

It’d be nice to have the song automatically sent to iTunes (or even transmitted via Bluetooth to your iPhone — maybe even via an official app — next time it happens to be near the car), but one step at a time, I guess. Don’t forget that you don’t even… read more

WEBMAIL WINS: 70% Prefer Gmail to Outlook

This week, we asked you to make a choice about the web’s oldest form of communication: email. We pitted Microsoft’s Outlook, standard-bearer of desktop email software and businesses worldwide, against Google’s Gmail, the webmail software that continues to innovate how we use and manage our inboxes.

After over 5000 votes,… read more

Fifteen lucky TUAW readers will start 2010 with a free copy of Pastebot

Well, Tapbots wants you to join in on the goodness, so we’re going to have a quick giveaway here at TUAW. We have 15 Pastebot promo codes to hand out, and you can enter the giveaway! Here’s the scoop:

Open to legal US residents of the… read more

In 2010, Your iPhone Could Be a Credit Card Reader

We’re just a week away from the annual gadget-lover’s dream event, otherwise known as CES. One company that everyone will have their eyes on this year is Mophie.

Mophie, a popular retailer of Apple iPhone and iPod accessories, is set to debut their iPhone credit card reader — said to be named… read more

Japan’s Apple Stores continue Lucky Bag tradition

Stores will begin selling a limited number of Lucky Bags for the equivalent of $380US on January 2nd. But the fun doesn’t end there. Each store will offer workshops on photography, video-making and presentations to kids aged eight to 12-years-old. Adults can share in the fun too, as a contest… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for January 1, 2010

Note that today’s deal list includes refurb availability on two of the current 21.5″ iMac models, plus older iMacs as well — most under $1,000. Happy shopping.

Apple Store: [iMac] Refurbished Apple iMac 21.5″ LED-Backlit Desktops from $999 + free shipping, more
… read more

Twitter’s Most Influential Topics of 2009

Brian Solis is a principle at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.

In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter released its new “lists” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality,… read more

7 Simple Mac To-Do List Apps

We’ve previously covered a range of complex task managers for the Mac, but what if you’re looking for something much simpler? Today I’ll be investigating a number of basic to-do list applications that can help with managing a straight-forward set of tasks.

Most are desktop applications, but a few are really… read more

Juice Pack manufacturer Mophie developing iPhone credit card reader

The Mac Observer is reporting that Mophie will provide a credit card reader similar to the one used at Apple Stores, and possibly supply software to manage transactions as well. The company hasn’t divulged its detailed plans for the device, but is expected to provide more information during CES 2010…. read more

Christmas Giveaway Day 24: The Grand Prize

It’s been a long month of prizes, and my thanks to all of you who participated. Giving away free stuff is fun — and even better when the quality of the prizes to so high.

Today we’re wrapping up the giving just in time for Christmas Day. Our grand prize is… read more

iPhone games review roundup

TUAWiPhone games review roundup originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Christmas Giveaway Finale!

It’s been a fast-paced, fun-filled month of festive giveaways, and you’ll be pleased to know that we’re ending our Christmas promotion in style. We have over $1,000 of hardware and software to give away, including a second chance to get your hands on a few popular applications, and various different… read more

HBO releases iPhone app

<phas released their very own app for the iPhone, and it's surprisingly deep for an app released by a premium cable channel. There's the obvious stuff — you can view schedules and watch clips and previews of HBO shows as well as behind-the-scenes and other content. But there's even some… read more

BTstack Keyboard jailbreak app provides iPhone text entry

Due to hit the Cydia store momentarily, Matthias Ringwald’s BTstack Keyboard app allows users to type text into any iPhone application using an external Bluetooth keyboard. Built on the open source BTstack project, BTstack Keyboard runs a daemon in the background of any jailbroken iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPod… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 23, 2009

<p iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Freebies: Super Santa, Roller Uberball, Enso-Dot, BuddyFeed, more
Other World Computing: [Store Events] OWC Holiday Sale: Accessories, HDDs, RAM, LCDs, more
Other World Computing: [Apple Computers] Used Apple laptops at Other World Computing: Deals… read more

Next-gen iPhone to get a 5 megapixel camera?

Take this with the requisite grain of salt, of course — we’ve expected cameras in some of Apple’s devices before, and a few of us were disappointed. But it’s not a big stretch to think that if Apple does release a new version of the iPhone as expected this year… read more

My wife needs an intervention for her Live Cams addiction

It all started when she was searching for new apps in the App Store, and she noticed a little app called Live Cams [US$0.99, iTunes Link]. It sounded innocuous enough — the app provides a way to search, browse, view, and in some cases, control live web cams all over… read more

Christmas Giveaway Day 23: DEVONthink

If you’re looking to perform research or manage information on your Mac, there’s a good chance you will have come across DEVONthink. It’s a powerful app, designed to manage and keep in order all those disparate pieces of information so important to your work or studies.

Today we’re giving away five… read more

30 Gadget Design Tutorials for Photoshop

Gadgets are a favorite subject for many designers. There are some excellent tutorials out there to help you create amazing results in Photoshop for this type of design, and we’ll feature 30 of them here. You’ll find tutorials for designing iPods, iPhones, a Blackberry, cell phones and more.

MP3 Player Design

Create… read more

Intelligent and insightful mobile movie reviews: the Empire Movie Guide app

Now, the entire Empire archive has come to the iPhone and iPod touch with the Empire Movie Guide [iTunes link]. The US$4.99, 8.9 MB app puts all of the reviews on your phone without need for a data connection. As a nice bonus, Empire grabs the most recently published reviews… read more

Pastebot, another useful and beautiful bot from Tapbots

<pr the past couple of years, I've had the pleasure to write about iPhone / iPod touch apps from Tapbots. First there was Weightbot, a beautifully designed app for tracking your weight. Next came Convertbot, a unit converter calculator that featured an innovative and extremely useful interface. Now Tapbots has… read more

Attention last-minute Christmas shoppers: try Express Shopping at the Apple Store

Apple has had an “Express Shopping” service since 2006 at the Apple Stores. They take a limited number of Apple products and keep them in a roped-off area. If you need to purchase a MacBook Pro, for example, you wander into the area and one of the Apple Store employees… read more

The Pre-Christmas News and Notables

Hey everyone! The office here is bunding up for our extended holidays but before we do, I figured i’d give you a couple of heads up on things to keep you busy:

Raffle for a Signature Guitar from Scott Kelby!
I think that this is such a great cause, I… read more

Unreal Engine 3 running on the iPod touch

Whenever you talk about games on a mobile platform, you usually have to also mention that while things like high-end 3D graphics are certainly possible, there are usually some concessions that have to be made. But in the case of the iPhone, perhaps not: Epic Games has apparently been showing… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 22, 2009

iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] Wild West Pinball for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free, more
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: I Am T-Pain, DOOM, Tetris, Rock Band, more
Apple… read more

Abduzeedo’s Christmas Wishlist

It’s that time of year that everyone got their own wishes and expectations for this Christmas. We are no different, so each team member of abduzeedo wrote a 5 item list of our wishes for this Christmas. It’s a super cool list full of crazy things—we ask that you complete… read more

Abduzeedo’s Christmas Wishlist

It’s that time of year that everyone got their own wishes and expectations for this Christmas. We are no different, so each team member of abduzeedo wrote a 5 item list of our wishes for this Christmas. It’s a super cool list full of crazy things—we ask that you complete… read more

NES emulator on the App Store? Not anymore.

I would like to think this is the issue Apple saw with Nescaline and that’s why it vanished, since the “Nintendo’s knickers are in a twist” reason seems more heavy-handed. Then again, there’s also the “no un-vetted code running in emulation” rule that the C64 emulator ran afoul of previously,… read more

Christmas Giveaway Day 22: 1Password

I’m a big fan of 1Password, and find it to be one of the most useful day-to-day utilities I use on my Mac. It can help save the headache of needing to remember every password, speed up the process of filling in repetitive forms, and automatically generate remarkably secure login… read more

All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

This is the season of giving, whether it is for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or just to exchange gifts. So, with so many people here self-employed and thus lacking a company to give out those turkey dinners, terrific bonuses, and whatnot; I thought it would be a great idea to provide… read more

Giddi Makes Product Comparison Dead Simple

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Giddi

Quick Pitch: Product rating engine built on data… read more

Twitter Faceoff: Old Versus New Style Retweets

We thought we’d try something a little bit different for this week’s edition of our Web Faceoff series. Last week we saw Digg beat out Reddit and StumbleUpon for social news champion, and this week we’re throwing out a timely but more provincial battle: Twitter’s new official retweet feature versus… read more

Get your current weather from Outside

The app also features an interesting pay model: when you buy the U.S $2.99 app, you get 30 days of push notifications for free. Then it’s $0.99 per notification every three months, or if you take them all, it works out to $3.99 every three months. Notifications include letting you… read more

Elegant simplicity: the power of SimpleNote for iPhone

I’ve tried a handful of other notepad apps, but none of them have provided the simplicity of Notes with the power of cloud syncing. SimpleNote [US$1.99, iTunes Link] is an inexpensive app that is a worthy replacement for Notes. Launching the app, you’re greeted with a very simple user interface… read more

Survey: 45% of iPod touch users running old firmware

<pika Research, a company that helps deliver online advertising, has released numbers from its network that claim 45% of iPod touch users still haven't upgraded to the iPhone 3.x firmware. Only 55% of the users measured have paid the cash to upgrade to the latest version (because of accounting regulations… read more

Magellan Car Kit for iPhone nav apps coming soon to a car near you

The latest news comes from Magellan, who will soon be introducing a new vehicle mount for the iPhone 3GS, 3G, and the second generation iPod touch. As with the Navigon and TomTom car kits, the US$129.99 Magellan Premium Car Kit includes a built-in GPS receiver for better accuracy. Other features… read more

Simpsons Arcade (sort of) released on iPhone

<pou happened to be wandering around a St. Louis, Missouri arcade in the early nineties, you'd probably find a young me, playing the Simpsons Arcade game (either that or the Avengers game, I loved that one too). It was great: beat-em-up action, The Simpsons, and impressive animations and graphics for… read more

Tapulous making a million a month off the App Store

Well, even with rampant piracy, review craziness, and that funky approval process, it’s good to hear that someone can still make a truckload of cash on the App Store. According to Reuters, that someone is Tapulous, who is apparently making almost a million dollars a month thanks to twenty million… read more

Resolve to keep better track of client billing in 2010 with Time Keeper!

Time Keeper! works on a hierarchy of three elements: Clients, Projects (which are assigned to clients), and Times / Costs (assigned to projects). Once the application is launched, you can begin by adding a client at a particular rate. Time Keeper! allows any currency to be entered for the rate,… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 21, 2009

MacUpdate Promo: [Home & Hobbies Software] Videobox 2 and MainMenu 2 for Mac downloads for free
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Freebies: Groove Golf Swing, Theme Clock Alarm, TapIt Water, more
Other World Computing: [Store… read more

Tapulous Sells Nearly $1 Million in iPhone Games Each Month

Creator of the popular iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge and its many iterations, Tapulous is becoming one of the truly big success stories among iPhone developers.

According to Reuters, it’s now raking in around $1 million from iPhone app sales every month; of course, this doesn’t tell us how much… read more

More than one way to stream Bluetooth

Want an easy way to use the Bluetooth in your iPhone/iPod touch to stream music to your traditional stereo? The new Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver, announced this week, should do the job nicely. It’s a little dongle that connects to your stereo either through a 3.5mm headphone jack or, using… read more

Count The Beats: Toyo from Amidio, Touch DJ and Noise.io

We got together with Toyo from Amidio, the creators of the mighty Noise.io Pro [iTunes Link] synth app (and other cool music apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch), to get the inside scoop on their newest app, Touch DJ [iTunes Link], the rewards of playing eastern wind instruments, some… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 20, 2009

<p Sony Style: [46" - 47" LCD TVs] Refurbished Sony BRAVIA S 46" 1080p LCD HDTV for $550 + free shipping
Logitech: [Computer Speakers] Logitech X-240 2.1-Channel Speaker System with iPod Dock for $22 + $7 s&h
Staples: [iPod Accessories] iHome Rotating Alarm Clock… read more

Digg Buries Reddit and StumbleUpon in Reader Vote [POLL]

We’ve seen some epic battles in our weekly Web Faceoff series, where we put opposing social media and tech tools into the Colosseum and have them go to war for your vote. Our very first faceoff, Firefox vs. Chrome, had over 8000 votes, while only 31 votes separated Last.fm… read more

Moodagent: Going iTunes Playlists one better

You are given 5 colored bars, each with an icon representing an aspect of music. The symbols didn’t make much sense to me, but by hitting an info button, I found that the icons represented, in order: Sensual, Tender, Joy, Aggressive and Tempo. I could have used a full explanation… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 19, 2009

iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Freebies: File Ninja, Target WEIGHT, TomatoRoll, HyperBowl Classic, more
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] Classical Music Master Collection for iPhone downloads for $1
Apple Store: [iMac] Refurbished current-generation… read more

Gamefly updates GameCenter iPhone app

<pFly (which is sort of a Netflix for video games) sent along word that they have updated their free iPhone app called Gamecenter [iTunes link]. Not only does it work as an official app — you can update and add to your queue straight from the app, which is definitely… read more

Hitting the road with iPhone GPS apps: A holiday buyers guide

A few words about this guide: I haven’t seen or tested everything on the market, and the choices are constantly changing and updating. I’ve done my best to keep up and get some time on the road with each of the apps listed here. If I haven’t talked about your… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 18, 2009

iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] UniWar for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] Tic Tac Toe Connect 5 for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free
Small Dog Electronics: [iPhone]… read more

TUAW Livechat: Developing for the (possibly mythical) Apple Tablet

Today, TUAW chats with Craig Hockenberry of Furbo.org and Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software. Hockenberry is the senior software engineer for Iconfactory, a software and design house that ships both Macintosh and iPhone products. Jalkut, formerly of Apple, is the founder of Red Sweater Software (aka the “MarsEdit” people)…. read more

iPhone Conquers New Territory

Two separate reports – one from AdMob, the other from Impress – show that Apple’s iPhone is not only huge at home in the US, it’s also conquering foreign markets, especially Japan.

The AdMob Mobile Metrics report for November 2009 highlights the international growth of iPhone and iPod touch users,… read more

Dragon Search hits the app store for free

Using the same technology that’s in Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, Dragon Search allows you to speak your search terms into the iPhone and get hits from the web including iTunes, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Google. You can also add Yahoo and Bing to the searchable universe.

I’ve tried… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 17, 2009

<p iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] Gameloft iPhone / iPod touch Apps: Real Soccer 2010, Blades of Fury, more for 99 cents each
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Ice Age, IM+, Remote Desktop, Command & Conquer, more
… read more

iPhone, iPod touch leading product search for Christmas

<p is an interesting little statistic, but it could be very telling about what's going on in terms of sales this holiday season. 9to5Mac says that over in the UK, the iPhone and the iPod touch are the current most searched-for products this holiday. iPhone made up 1.75 percent of… read more

Apple requiring the HTTP live stream protocol for iPhone apps

The HTTP Live Stream protocol uses web standards to implement video, and also allows for use of iPhone-friendly formats like H.264 encoded streams for QuickTime (supported on the iPhone since iPhone OS 3.0).

This change also requires developers to create a minimum stream of video no larger than 64kbps,… read more

A bevy of iPhone and iPod accessories

<p
Texthook holder puts your phone where it belongs: between you and your progeny

Finally, proper protection for your baby. The child, too.

JVC gets tubular with XS-SR3 iPod speaker dock
… read more

Recycle that contract-free iPhone as a holiday gift

Your iPhone 3G contract was eligible for the upgrade pricing not too long ago, so you purchased an iPhone 3GS. You have your old iPhone 3G lying around the house with no purpose. Obviously, you could try and sell it… but maybe your child has been begging you for an… read more

Dozen Daily Deals for December 16, 2009

iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Freebies: bitFlip, Plane Sight, Money Tracker, 7 Cities, more
Facebook.com: [MP3 Downloads] iTunes Starbucks MP3 Sampler for free
All-Battery: [Rechargeable Batteries] All-Battery.com Sale: Up to 80% off + 15% off… read more

Bada Bing! Microsoft delivers Bing search app

It’s notable that Microsoft is going after iPhone mind-share after Steve Ballmer famously dissed the iPhone more than 2 years ago. He’s had to sit back and watch the iPhone eclipse Windows Mobile phones in the marketplace, which can’t be pleasant, but business is business, and Microsoft is pushing the… read more

TUAW gift guide: Griffin eXport In-Flight Video Cable

As if they’ve heard your pleas, the folks at Griffin have produced the eXport In-Flight Video Cable. It connects with the in-flight entertainment system that a growing number of airlines have begun using. Once connected, you can watch video and listen to music while charging your iPhone or iPod. The… read more

Announcing the Winner of the Zappos Sharing Happiness $3,000 Shopping Spree

In the past week we’ve received over 300 great responses to the Zappos.com #SharingHappiness $3,000 Shopping Spree Giveaway Contest. It was an absolute pleasure reading through all of the entries; earlier this week we even highlighted eight of our favorite ways to share happiness.

I’d personally like to thank Zappos for… read more

“Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has an excellent article over at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog on Morgan Stanley’s The Mobile Internet seminar. The article is full of juicy tidbits, but here is the main course:

Based on past performance, according to Morgan Stanley, Apple is in the “pole position” in the race to… read more