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Foursquare and Gowalla

Posted 12/08/2009 at 2:10pm | by Susie Ochs

Those precocious, over-achieving iPhone users, always multitasking: Reading restaurant recommendations. Finding out where their friends are. Playing games. Foursquare and Gowalla let them do all three of those at once.

These hybrid apps combine the iPhone’s location services, friends lists, databases of user-generated hot spots, and user-achievement systems borrowed from the world of videogames. While you’re out and about, you check in to nearby locations, letting your friends know where you are, even via optional push notification.

One Arm Battle

Posted 11/12/2009 at 2:49pm | by Susie Ochs

3

In this slot-machine battle, you race a computer-controlled opponent to $5,000 playing a fast-paced slot/video-poker mashup.

Luxor

Posted 11/02/2009 at 10:17am | by Susie Ochs

Combining elements from Zuma and Breakout, Luxor has you firing your own colored balls at advancing chains of other colored balls. You’re trying to remove balls from the chain by matching three or more of the same color. The chains move along tracks that twist and turn and double over each other, so you can’t always get a clear shot. And if you don’t clear them fast enough, they reach the end of the track--and you lose.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert iPhone

Posted 11/01/2009 at 11:16pm | by Zack Stern

EA reduces the Mac and PC strategy game giant for the iPhone, but the conversion boils away some of the flavor.

Bust-a-Move

Posted 10/29/2009 at 9:56am | by Susie Ochs

2

Taito’s Bust-a-Move, also known in Japan as Puzzle Bobble, resembles the 1996 Mac puzzle game Snood. You fire colored balls at a puzzle of colored balls, trying to match three and make them disappear. The balls gradually move down the screen, and if they reach the bottom before you clear the board, you lose.

iPhone Accused Again of Gobbling Up Bandwidth

Posted 10/27/2009 at 10:39pm | by J Keirn-Swanson

7

Remember when Ralph De La Vega, AT&T's Wireless CEO, suggested that the carrier might have to figure out some way to effectively better manage the bandwidth of their 3G network?

Well, he's not the only one singing the "iPhone's hogging up the airwaves" blues. Turns out the Chairman of the FCC has that same song stuck in his head, and between the two of these men, iPhone users could be running into some stiff opposition to their unlimited access plans.

myPantone

Posted 10/27/2009 at 12:18pm | by Jon Phillips

The color-matching industry standard comes to the iPhone. Will it replace the Pantone deck sitting on your desk?

Doug Adams Dupin

Posted 10/21/2009 at 1:20am | by Roberto Baldwin

Initially we all had just one Mac and one iPod. We’d dutifully sync our iPod with our Mac, and life was grand.

Then we got a MacBook, another iPod, and finally, an iPhone. Soon it was apparent that our music library was scattered across multiple machines and the idea of trying to figure out which machine had which songs became an onerous task. So we just threw them all together, resulting in tons of unwanted duplicate tracks.

Mozilla's Mystery App Coming Soon

Posted 10/19/2009 at 8:22pm | by J Keirn-Swanson

While Apple retains the right to deny apps that they claim duplicate core features (the supposed excuse for the Google Voice blanket rejection), there are any number of apps that do just that. Try searching browsers in the app store for proof.

So with an announcement from Mozilla's CEO John Lilly that the open source giant plans to "release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks," that he claims will "surprise people," speculation began. Theories centered around two strong contenders.