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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.]