iPhone app allegedly improves eyesight
by Darren AllanLike us, you may have to stare at a computer monitor for a full working day, week in, week out, which probably doesn’t do your eyes much good. We know our glasses prescription has got stronger a few times over the last decade. It can certainly help to keep your eyes well rested in terms [...]
September 16, 2011
Calendarised launches on Facebook and iOS
by Darren AllanGummy Media has announced the launch of its Calendarised service on Facebook, as well as an iPhone app. Calendarised allows the user to share their calendar with Facebook friends in order to make organising events easier. If you’re on Facebook, you can sign up for a free online calendar, and you can download the iOS [...]
July 1, 2011
Facebook prepares to launch ‘something awesome’
by Jan HarrisAccording to Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, we can expect an ‘awesome’ new feature to be revealed next week. With the company’s current focus on the mobile market, speculation abounds that this could be a photo sharing product for the iPhone, or maybe the promised new iPad app. Another option, spotted by TechCrunch, is ‘Project Spartan’ [...]
June 16, 2010
Vuvuzela iPhone app most annoying ever?
by Darren AllanIf you’ve been watching the World Cup, then you can’t fail to have noticed the vuvuzelas. Or heard them, rather. These are the plastic horns the Africans, and other fans, can’t get enough of blowing, all the way through every match. The effect is such that to us viewers, it sounds like the spectators watching [...]
May 21, 2010
iPhone app lets you peer into London’s past
by Darren AllanSightseers enjoying the famous streets and attractions of London will be able to take a glimpse into the city’s distant past using a new iPhone app. The Streetmuseum app, which is available for free to iPhone 3G and 3GS owners, will offer a range of snaps from the 20th Century, all the way back to [...]
May 14, 2010
Skobbler sat-nav iPhone app launches in the UK
by Darren AllanThe oddly named Skobbler navigation app for the iPhone launches today in the UK. Already a big selling app in Germany, where it has some 150,000 users, Skobbler may prove just the thing for those who are jealous of Android phone owners and their Google Maps Navigation. The app is different from the norm in [...]
April 20, 2010
Apple to integrate Facebook in iPhone OS 4?
by Darren AllanThe latest rumour about all things Apple comes regarding the upcoming OS 4 for the iPhone. We already know that OS 4 will include multi-tasking, as well as numerous tweaks to the interface, and the company’s new iAds platform. Now it appears that Apple may be planning to integrate Facebook fully into the operating system. [...]
April 15, 2010
BitDefender warns about iPhone unlocking malware
by Darren AllanThose of you with an iPhone who might be considering unlocking it to run third-party applications should take heed of a new malware warning. BitDefender has issued an advisory about a scam email which offers a link to a new version of an iPhone jailbreaking program. Users are told to connect their iPhone to their [...]
April 9, 2010
Apple iPhone OS 4 features confirmed
by Darren AllanAt a press event yesterday, Apple announced what features its iPhone OS 4 would encompass, bringing an end to the rumours which have been flying around for a while now. The biggest rumour was that OS 4 would bring multi-tasking to the table, and indeed this proved correct. So soon you’ll be able to run [...]
April 5, 2010
Apple blocks iPhone radiation monitoring app
by Darren AllanApple has turned down an app which claims to work out your radiation level exposure when on the iPhone. The Tawkon app is designed to tell the user when radiation levels are potentially too high for comfort, and then provide advice on how to reduce those levels. Tawkon concocts a real-time estimation of the radiation [...]