Blog on iPod and iPhone

Nike has updated Nike+ GPS once again, this time with support for Facebook notifications. Basically, users can request encouragement from their Facebook friends from within the app. After enabling the option to “get cheers” from Facebook, runners can start their run while the app publishes the start of the workout to Facebook. As readers choose [...]

The essence of a role playing game is, well, … playing a role. Theoretically, you can play a tabletop RPG with not much more than your thoughts, a rule book or two, and some dice. In practice, though, an entire industry is engaged in releasing products to make imagining and inhabiting fantastical worlds a multimedia [...]

Steve Jobs admitted it. Apple TV is a hobby. He has stated so more than once. But there are compelling reasons to believe that the newly released Apple TV Mark 2 matters even more than its expected sales (currently estimated at about a million devices per quarter) might indicate. Here are some of the points [...]

I’m pretty far from being a Luddite, but I’ve never understood the point of the Apple TV. Even after its update to the newest version, I still don’t get why this product exists. Erica posted the reasons she and other members of the TUAW team feel the Apple TV is every bit as revolutionary as [...]

I’ll admit it was a problem that I had created myself: I had moved my iTunes library from one computer to another. Then I tried syncing it across two computers. Add in a bunch of music from SXSW, along with other music given to me along the way, and before I knew it, my iTunes [...]

Apple has given final notice to those publishing content through the old .Mac service. A note was sent to MobileMe members today stating that as of November 8th, Web pages published using the obsolete .Mac service will become unavailable. Those publishing via iWeb will not be affected. If you’re one of those still going about [...]

Apple is rumored to be discussing music subscriptions with major labels that would bring unlimited, streaming music to its iTunes customers. According to the New York Post (NYP), Apple’s VP of iTunes, Eddy Cue, has been in talks with major labels about a subscription model that would give customers unlimited access to music for a [...]

Dear Mark Zuckerberg, You’ve made the the biggest social network on the planet, you’ve made quite a few enemies, and you’ve made Jesse Eisenberg into Hollywood’s next Oscar-winning megastar (I know all this because I just saw your Mr. Fincher’s movie). Now why can’t you make a Facebook iPad app? When you announced your “event” [...]

Pocket Legends has been out on the App Store for quite a while now, but if you (like me) haven’t seen it in a while, you might want to check it out again. Spacetime Studios has been steadily updating the game, and the title they showed off at GDC Online 2010 this week was pretty [...]

The quirky and fun Tilt to Live is one of the most-loved iPhone games out there, according to its fans, and now, lucky iPad owners get their very own version of the title with Tilt to Live HD. Rather than just a port, the big-screen version updates the graphics and brings a new model into [...]