As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it’s NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can’t be in front of a television. As I’ve I mentioned in the past I’m looking for something to suppliment [...]

This picture just cropped up on MacRumors of a screen cover for the 4G nano.It comes from Alibaba, a B2B marketplace (via Zollotech). Who cares about the screen protector frankly, look at the photo. It looks like it could be the real. It’s much clearer than the previous, fuzzy shots we’ve seen. But then again, why [...]

With Tuesday’s iPod event beginning to take shape, a couple of Super Tuesday rumors slipped through the cracks in my fortune teller piece yesterday. 1. TUAW thinks that we may see an updated Nike+ rig (Nike Pro?) for the runners out there. Since the original Nike+ kit came out in 2006 it kinda smells like an [...]

It may have gotten lost in the end of yesterday’s particularly long-winded fortune teller piece, but the Oracle of Cupertino, ahem Kevin Rose, posted a pretty convincing-looking snippit of a document proclaiming to be “What’s new in iTunes 8.” It goes like this: iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go [...]

Now that it’s official that Apple will be holding a special “Let’s Rock” media event in San Francisco on Tuesday let’s take a look under the curtain to see what announcements may be in store from Cupertino. It’s pretty apparent that new iPods are in the offing, mostly because the invitation clearly shows and iPod display [...]

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has sent out media invitations for a special event next week. An invitation for the Sept. 9 event in San Francisco, sent to media today, is entitled “Let’s Rock” and shows a silhouetted dancer holding an iPod, Apple’s music and video player. The event [...]

One of the biggest tech news story coming out of the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. is that Google is going to be releasing an open source operating system in the form of a Web browser. Google’s new Web browser – Named “Chrome” – is being released in, what else, beta form tomorrow in [...]

According to a piece at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhones to date. But that’s not an official stat from Apple, it’s an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording [...]

On 15 August I posted a piece about what’s on Michael Phelps’ iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What’s on Obama’s iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner (article offline) says that Obama’s iPod contains an ecclectic assortment of music [...]

When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn’t exactly ubiquitous and free Wi-Fi seems to be getting scarcer with each passing day. To make matters worse, Apple removed NullRiver’s NetShare tethering software from the [...]

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it’s an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and date of his death. What’s even more interesting is Blolomberg’s [...]

Gizmodo has unearthed a security flaw in the iPhone OS and boy is it a doozy. According to the post it’s simple to access a locked iPhone’s address book, Mail, SMS, Contacts, and Safari. The vulnerability works like this on a password protected and locked iPhone: Then slide to unlock Tap emergency call Double tap the home button This give [...]

Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out. Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post. So it came to pass that when my Engineering and Design team had irreconcilable differences with where the company seemed [...]

Apple has banned an R-rated comic from the App Store called Murderdome for violating a term in their SDK that prohibits offensive content in “Apple’s reasonable opinion.” In a blog post the InfuriousComics says “we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that [...]

Those following the Psystar saga will be interested to know that the Miami-based clone maker has fired a salvo in their legal battle with Apple. Psystar has been selling Apple clones with Mac OS Leopard pre-installed since April 2008. At a press conference yesterday Psystar CEO Rudy Pedraza said that his company is answering Apple’s copyright [...]

I’ve been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service. Loopt uses the GPS chip in the iPhone 3G and Wi-Fi triangulation in the iPhone 2G to pinpoint your exact location. When you [...]

The MacBook Pro is due for a re-design, this much we know. But is this the new professional notebook from Apple? The picture above surfaced in an a Digg submission purportedly of a “new ad” (a version also appeared on NeoWin) and is hosted on an anonymous pictures hosting site, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. [...]

On Friday I posted a piece about a problem with vertical lines appearing on PowerBook G4 17-inch screens just as they got outside of their three-year AppleCare warranty. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there may be a similar problem with some third generation 17-inch Intel iMacs with serial numbers in the W860****U2N range as reported by MacNN [...]

One feature that ranks up there on most people’s iPhone wishlist (somewhere between Copy and Paste and MMS) is video recording. Now there are two options for recording video on the iPhone – the only caveat is that you have to jailbreak your iPhone to use them. iSmashphone posted a review of the two video recording [...]

Is this the much-rumored fourth-generation iPod nano? On Friday Digg’s Kevin Rose posted a rumor about a “revamp of the entire iPod” coming in the next 2-3 weeks. In addition to iTunes 8 and iPhone firmware 2.1 Rose predicts that the entire iPod family will receive “fairly large” price cuts, the iPod touch will receive cosmetic [...]