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Filed under: Odds and ends

PCMag.com’s recent article The Best Apple Product Alternatives couldn’t smell any more like “bait” without being covered in worms.

Hoping to appeal to those who have some innate desire to not buy from Apple due to “a limited budget or an anti-Apple stance,” PCMag put together a list of “alternative” products to Apple gear like the iPhone, iPod touch & iPod shuffle. The headline will surely grab attention, but as a friend Read More...

Amazon.com introduced a free software package Thursday that gives Mac computer users access to the online retailer’s Kindle e-book store in more than 100 countries. Called Kindle for Mac, the beta e-reader completes Amazon’s goal of offering consumers access to e-books and other digital content across a wide spectrum of electronic devices.

Kindle books can now be read on dedicated Kindle and Kindle DX devices, BlackBerry handsets, and PCs, as well as Apple’s Mac, iPhone and Read More...

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

The idea behind Set, the now-classic card/puzzle game, can be mind-numbingly difficult to explain. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around the “all the same or all different concept.” Of course, some people get it right away. For both types, the new Set app [$2.99] for the iPhone and iPod touch is a fine challenge, even if it’s not perfect in all aspects.

Here’s the gist of the Read More...

Filed under: WWDC

It’s March. It’s the month where beer turns green, where the road repair crews start taking over the midwest of the United States, and when Apple usually announces its Worldwide Developers’ Conference dates. With the hotly anticipated iPad introduction this year, more devs than ever are looking forward to seeing what WWDC will have on offer.

Will WWDC bring the iPhone OS 4.0 announcement and the hardware refresh that we’ve speculated about? Or will Read More...

No need to spot clean your spectacles, and no need to brush the cobwebs out of your dome — you really are seeing yet another IR dongle for Apple’s dear iLineup. Hot on the heels of New Potato’s FLPR, ThinkFlood’s RedEye mini and Power A’s solution comes this: an all-too-similar way to convert your iPod touch, iPhone or forthcoming iPad into a universal remote. Functionality wise, there’s really nothing here that the other guys don’t Read More...

Mac sales were up 43 percent year over year during the month of February, according to a note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. As seen by Apple Insider, Munster forecasts that Apple will reach somewhere between 2.8 and 2.9 million sales in the March 2010 quarter, a number slightly above most Wall Street estimates.

Similarly, iPod sales saw positive growth in both January and February, with a five and 10 percent increases respectively. February marks Read More...

Continuing with a very source agnostic digital book strategy, Barnes & Noble has announced it will soon be offering an e-reader app for the Apple iPad.

The app will be designed specifically for the iPad’s tablet form factor, and will join B&N’s existing e-reader app family already available for Mac, PC, iPhone , iPod touch, and BlackBerry.

In other words, although the company is selling its own Nook e-reader device, it doesn’t want to lock potential Read More...

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

The clever 2006 card game Knights of Charlemagne has made it to the iPhone and iPod touch as a simple little number placing app [$1.99, iTunes link]. We don’t mean simple in that it’s easy to beat or uninteresting. We mean that the game is clearly designed and plays quickly. While the beginner level (the Squire) is really only worth playing through once or twice with the tutorial minstrel Read More...