Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking "why didn't someone do this before" and "what a great idea that I wish I'd thought of." I'm still blown away that the angle is adjustable like that. Read More >>
Featured comment by gayrath:
"Chances are, by the time it is released, Apple will have changed the iPhone and removed the neat grooves that make the tripod work.
But it is a rea..." More »
Buried deep within the first beta release of iOS 7 are a handful of neat and potentially useful features. The hidden enhancements were dug up by Hamza Sood and offer a smidgen of insight into what we might expect in later versions of iOS or even when the latest version ships to the public this autumn. Read More >>
It's that time of the year again, where Apple's next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mr P:
"They should stick a super battery in there and not worry about the weight. Imagine a heavier iPhone 5 that lasted 2 - 3 days with heavy/constant usage..." More »
It was a huge week for Apple—especially anything software related. While we'll have to wait and see how the fruits of WWDC's labour turn out, there's plenty of other app makers out there still churning away. And as you can see in this week's set of apps, they've got some good stuff. Read More >>
Coming as a welcome reminder that iOS 7 is still very much in beta, subject to change, and everyone needs to take a few deep breaths, Apple's website is currently showing off a few much-needed updates to its less-than-lauded icon designs. Read More >>
Featured comment by dwr:
"Watching too many of these things. Eventually, you begin to ape their behaviours yourself and the future echoes around in your head like an unwelcome ..." More »
A lot has happened since 2007. Just look at how much the iPhone home screen has changed. Or how little? Back in the days of the first iPhone (it wasn't even called iOS yet), we couldn't get third party apps or even move apps around. Now, we have a bigger screen and all these funktastic icons. Read More >>
Featured comment by J2ozac:
"So because they never said they were doing something, yet they did, means that this time they're not saying they're doing something, they think they s..." More »
Here's an under-reported feature of iOS 7: you can finally zoom in while video recording now. It seems like it could get a little choppy, as you have to pinch to zoom while already recording video but from the looks of the video above shot by 9to5Mac, the results are pretty seamless. Read More >>
Featured comment by magicguppy:
"Yeah, I think I know what you mean. The iOS thing sweeps through the image using the accelerometer, kind of slightly augmented reality style, all base..." More »
You can have every last note-taking, scrapbooking, idea-saving app installed on your iPhone 5, but it still won't replace the usefulness of always having a pen and paper handy. And ensuring that at least half of that duo is readily available, the Idealnotes are soft-covered Moleskine knock-offs designed to live with your iPhone 5 in perfect harmony. Read More >>
iOS 7 won't be coming to your iPhone and iPad until this fall, but a lot of its best features are available through third-party apps and jailbreak hacks right now. If you want to get in on the action early, here a few ways to add some of the new functionality right now. Read More >>
We didn't get a new verision of Android at Google I/O, but it's not like there weren't enough already. As Apple pushes on into its iOS 7 future and brings the lion's share of its user-base along with it, there's still a lot of Android users stuck in a multiple OS-ghettos. Read More >>
Featured comment by harry.bithell:
"Android is a totally different OS to iOS. Android is open source to ALL manufactures. If iOS was they would have this same level of fragmentation.
I..." More »
The BBC has pushed out a standalone weather app for both Android and iOS today, bringing those classic, trustworthy icons and the forecast that unites the nation to mobile phones. And it's quite hot. Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"Preferably, I'd like to know what to wear -before- I go outside. And the temperature at the level of my high-rise flat won't tell me much." More »
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) doesn't kick off until 6pm tonight, but the internet's been wildly speculating about the company's plans for months. Some of it is almost definite (hello, flat design) and some of it's absurd (stop it with this). Here are all the goodies we actually expect Tim Cook and his funky bunch to throw at us later today. Read More >>
Featured comment by Danjc2:
"Well a quick glance at previous WWDC tells me it seems to always happen on the week beginning 8-11, so the second full week of June. Its been that way..." More »
Featured comment by thracianii:
"So this was pretty spot on, at least App Icon wise. Awful! I'll get used to it I'm sure but c'mon... I liked some of the details! Too bland now!" More »
Whether or not we can really afford to, it's hard to start slacking off a bit once the warm weather rolls around. And the bounty of apps making the process that much easier certainly doesn't help. We can't help but love them anyways, though. This week's app selection is full of goodies to take the pressure off slacking off. Read More >>
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