The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet’s past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customizable museum tours, and exhibit information, is nothing less than state of the art. A museum’s treasures aren’t worth much if you can’t actually find them, and with a sprawling [...]
Up until now, 24″ was all the LED Cinema Display you were allowed. Apple’s newer 27″-sized monitor has a resolution of 2560 x 1440, and now costs $999—which is 100 bucks more than the 24″ model. The other 27″-sized beauty in Apple’s pack is of course the iMac, which many of our readers had (much-documented) [...]
Earlier this week Apple was hit with a crushing blow when Consumer Reports, a prominent product testing and evaluation publication, announced their findings regarding the iPhone 4, which concluded that the device’s highly publicized antenna problem made it unworthy of “recommended model” status. The report comes as yet another round of negative press for the [...]
According to an official Apple statement, the reason you won’t see any white iPhones on shelves tomorrow is that they’ve “proven more challenging to manufacture than expected” and are delayed until mid July. Full statement: CUPERTINO, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than [...]
Apple’s iOS 4 has arrived, bringing multitasking and more to iPhones and iPod Touches everywhere (iTunes willing). Here are the apps that already take advantage of the new OS, and some that should be hitting the App Store soon. In the App Store NOW: • Dropbox – Sync your Dropbox files in the background. • [...]
Today we finally got to officially download iOS 4 and update our iPhone and iPod touch devices. There was a catch though: iPhone 3G users don’t get to use all the new features—like backgrounds or multitasking. Here’s why. Gizmodo reader Erica wrote Steve Jobs an email asking why her iPhone 3G doesn’t get to do [...]
Guest editor Peter Serafinowicz is back to talk about his storied relationship with Apple—one that leaves him frustratingly polarized. (We asked illustrator Wendy MacNaughton to help convey the madness.) Peter Serafinowicz, a celebrated British writer/producer/director/actor/musician/comedian/voice model, is joining us for a few weeks to talk about the tech issues that delight, frustrate and motivate him [...]
There has been a lot of discussion about the iPhone 4 Retina display lately. Forget about it and look at the amazing resolution in this extreme close ups. Compare it to the iPhone 3GS screen or your own phone. Insane. Click images for high resolution versions Check the video in full res and HD to [...]
In this week’s afterglow-y app roundup: Navigation, given away for nothing! The world’s most popular sporting event, parsed! Things, learned by rote! Drinking games, put to shame! Humans, zombified! And more… If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here. Skobbler: Free turn by turn—a bit like Waze, but with a [...]
iPhone OS: Boxcar is a push notification app for iPhones and iPads that works with your email account(s), Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, and more. It’s one app, and a whole lot of possibilities for instant alerts that’ll keep you informed on-the-go. Boxcar isn’t a new app, but it did just launch a free, ad-supported version. [...]
Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit of his keynotes for the end. But WWDC’s “One More Thing” was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what’s special about FaceTime, and how does it work? First, let’s get this out of the way: Yes, FaceTime is video chat, similar to [...]
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