Blog on iPod and iPhone

If you want to pass like Tom Brady from the comfort of your living room chair, then you should grab a copy of NFL Flick Quarterback for the iPhone. The app is a flick-style passing game that lets you take on the role of an NFL quarterback. The game isn’t a full-fledged football simulation like [...]

The Super Bowl is just around the corner which means it’s time to get ready for the big game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. Rather than our usual five apps, I couldn’t contain myself and, instead, put together five categories of apps that’ll set you up nicely for food, football [...]

Learning a new language can be challenging, especially when you’re not in an environment where that langue is predominant. Lingibli is an iPhone app that’ll bridge that gap by helping you learn vocabulary and basic phrases from native speakers. The app will teach you the top 100 words which comprise the bulk of conversational language. [...]

I first met Liv Games’ Orian Livnat at last year’s Macworld, where he showed me a wild game called Legendary Wars that mashed up a number of different genres and ideas in a mix created by Livnat and his family and friends. At the time I thought the game was a really interesting idea, but [...]

Glooko makes it easy for customers with diabetes to monitor their blood sugar on the go. The company’s MeterSync Cable lets users share data between self-monitoring blood glucose meters and an iOS app, Glooko Logbook (free). Glooko recently raised US$3.5 million in funding, ensuring that development will continue on new versions of its products. Glooko [...]

Sanho had its Kickstarter-funded CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012 this year, and the project has generated a lot of excitement. Sanho’s Daniel Chin originally sought $100,000 in funding through Kickstarter, but wound up with more than 2,700 backers and more than $262,000 by the time the pledge drive ended three weeks ago. CloudFTP is [...]

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 [...]

If you review cases I have to feel bad for you. With so many to choose from, it must be like reviewing bags of sugar. By now there are also only so many ways to skin an iPhone, so the cases you see tend to be decorative, protective or novelty. That’s about it. And we [...]

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 [...]