Blog on iPod and iPhone

There’s a lot of buzz around cloning apps lately. Zynga recently received some flak for making a clone of Tiny Tower, and there’s a big lawsuit around Triple Town and its clone Yeti Town. I would argue that there’s a right way and a wrong way to clone an idea. Blatant rip-offs are obviously wrong. [...]

1Password is one of my most-used iOS apps, since I need it to log in to any site which requires a password. Since the introduction of 1Password on iOS, Agile has provided a bookmarklet which will open 1Password and then search for the current domain. That helps the fact that 1Password can’t be fully integrated [...]

Magic Window was one of the first apps on the App Store when the store launched. It is a simple idea, but wonderfully executed and now available for the Mac as well as iOS. Magic Window is time-lapse photography — for iOS it serves as a relaxing “picture window” and on the Mac it can [...]

We’ve mentioned MacPractice a couple of times before — professional software for the Mac designed to be used by doctors and dentists to do things like track patients’ appointments, keep and share health information, and do all the things a small-to-mid-sized health clinic needs to do. We were able to meet up with MacPractice’s CEO [...]

While there are still quite a few good comic book reader apps on the App Store, there’s really only one choice for buying digital comics directly from the publishers: Comixology’s aptly title Comics app. Comixology launched early on iOS devices, beginning with a web interface and then the very popular iPhone app. Since the introduction [...]

Valve has released Steam Mobile for iOS, a free app for the iPhone. According to Valve, “With the free Steam app for iOS, you can participate in the Steam community wherever you go. Chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to date on [...]

Hewlett-Packard took a step towards following through on its promise to make webOS, its operating system for mobile devices, available for free to any programmer who wants to use it. Bloomberg News Attendees use their mobile devices while waiting in line during an Hewlett-Packard event in February. The technology giant on Wednesday said it would [...]

I’ve posted about the “second screen” idea before — there is a growing trend among iOS and other mobile device users to both watch television or play games, and have their tablets or iPhones open and running apps related to that TV or gaming content, essentially using two screens at the same time. Viggle is [...]

Avatron is a company well known for their iOS and Mac utilities. We are particularly fond of their Air Sharing apps and Air Display, among others. They have a reputation for building solid, reliable products. I could sense the dismay in CEO Dave Howell’s message when he pinged me today to let me know that [...]

Summify is a curation service that cherry picks the most important news from your twitter stream. Known to many because of its iOS app, Summify helped you eliminate the noise coming from Twitter. In an announcement that’ll likely disappoint its users, the Vancouver-based company confirmed on Thursday that it’s being acquired by Twitter and shutting [...]