Remember how Apple removed all stocks of protective films for iPhone/iPod Touch from it's retail stores a while back? How it was supposedly to prevent liability issues down the track? Well, Patently Apple have another theory up their sleeves - and true to form, apparently it's got to do with yet another patent.What's cooler than being ice cold? A car controlled by an iPod Touch, that's what. Ingenius hacker Dave Phipps had modified his 1969 Pontiac to include such things as voice control, automatic windows and doors, and it's very own Wi-Fi network. Eat your heart out, Q.
From the guys that brought you the previous touchscreen shoot-out, Moto Labs are at it again. This time around they've gone with a more scientific approach - using robots instead of humans to do the drawing, as well as carefully selecting their drawing app to minimise any algorithm compensation.
Speaking about screens, if you've read any reviews of the Nexus One at all you'll probably have noticed how the reviewers commend on how brilliant the screen is. Ars take an in-depth look at the Nexus One's touchscreen, and exactly why it's as good as it is - unsurprisingly, there's some pretty heavy maths involved.
I wish my mum loved me enough to make me a sweet iPhone pillow exactly like this one.
In iPhone and iPod Touch games this week we Depict. Like Charadium, it's a Pictionary-like game where you play against strangers on the internet. Unlike Charadium, however, it uses a different art style, leverages the OpenFeint network for social gaming, and is also free. Enjoy!
In case you're still looking for a new CD/DVD burning app, unfortunately I couldn't find a good review of Burn for your reading enjoyment today. What I did find, however, was an excellent roundup of 11 CD/DVD burning apps for your Mac from Mac.AppStorm, the guys that brought you the original review of Burn. And hey - Burn is even mentioned in their roundup!
Microsoft have released Bing 1.1 for iPhone, but that's not where the good news ends, oh no - fortunately for you, dear reader, the Bing app isn't available in the Australian App Store. For a second there, I thought you might have actually gone and downloaded it.
Suberapps say that MobileRSS could be the best iPhone RSS reader yet. Whether it will surpass Reeder 2.0 is yet to be seen, but MobileRSS does seem to have a couple of pretty cool features, including the ability to search and subscribe to feeds right from within the app. And yes, it syncs to Google Reader - but then again, so does your mum.
How to tell a hardcore iPhone user 101: out of the four original apps that are in the dock (Mail, Phone, Safari, iPod), they have one or less - the rest have been replaced by third-party apps. David Chartier is one such hardcore iPhone user, and thanks to First and 20, we get to take a look at the apps he uses everyday. One interesting thing to note - he's currently using MobileRSS instead of Reeder, which he seemed to trumpet pretty loudly back in December.
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