Software

Let Your iPhone Robotically Read You A Bedtime Story With vBookz

vBookz, the somewhat useful text-to-speech iPad app we’ve covered before, is now iPhone-ready. It doesn’t appear that many of our quibbles with the app have been rectified since we examined vBookz’s previous iteration, but the robotic narrator is now pocketable.


September 10, 2010
Software

Send Auto-Tuned Voice Mails With The New I Am T-Pain App Update

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/0b_Dva-KBls&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":400,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); It’s a fact: everyone sounds better Autotuned. Smule’s I Am T-Pain app now lets you send autotuned voicemails to friends and family for a small fee. Because there’s no better time than the present to start calling your Aunt “shawty.”


September 1, 2010
Gaming

Spider-Man: Total Mayhem For iPhone Puts Web-Slinging In The Palm Of Your Hand

Shrinking an entire beloved comic book universe down to an iPhone game is a dangerous prospect, but that’s just what Spider-Man: Total Mayhem does, allowing you to swing from buildings, battle baddies, and hone your spidey senses on your iPhone.


August 24, 2010
Software

Google Goggles Is Heading To iPhone This Year

Google Goggles, easily one of the biggest wow factor apps out there, will be released for the iPhone by year’s end. The app, which lets you search visually with your phone’s camera, has been Android-only up until now.


June 28, 2010
Online

Apple Easing Up On Book App Censorship?

In 2008, the App Store rejected the app for Knife Music, a novel penned by Giz friend and CNet editor Dave Carnoy, for “objectionable” content, and he was forced to censor his book to gain admittance. Now, backed by a major publisher, a new Knife Music app has been accepted to the App Store, naughty language and all.


June 20, 2010
Software

Facebook’s iPhone App Now Plays Videos

Facebook just updated their iPhone app, fixing bugs and allowing you to watch your friends’ pets and imbibing feats, in video, right in the palm of your hand. That’s nice, Facebook, but where’s your iPad app? [iTunes]


February 21, 2010
Software

Apple Says No More Titillating Apps, Period

Earlier this week, Apple removed Wobble—an app that adds real jiggle to photographic boobs—from the App Store. Other removals followed. A developer who talked to Apple has the scoop on the future of titillating apps: it is bleak.


December 10, 2009
Software

iClassic App Lets You Revisit The Good Old Days Of Click Wheel iPods

If the end of the decade has you feeling nostalgic for the click wheel iPod days of yore, iClassic lets you relive that thumb-twirling excitement by bringing it to your iPhone.


November 29, 2009
Online

Apple Rejected Me, A Site For Scorned App Developers

Apple Rejected Me reads like FML, but features stories from rejected app developers instead of inappropriate innuendoes dropped by “that uncle” at Thanksgiving. Got a beef with Apple’s approval process? Sound off. [ARM, Thanks Matt.]