TimeCommand dock turns your iPad into a very pricey dimmer switch
XtremeMac has been crankin' out iPod docks for years, and now former CEO Gary Bart has launched Stem Innovation, a company dedicated exclusively to iOS accessories. For its first trick, Bart and company have introduced TimeCommand which (as its name implies) goes beyond the whole dock thing and comes across as a control station for the bedroom. Among its many charms are iPhone / iPod / iPad compatibility, the ability to control your mood lighting (including a dimmer and a "wake by light" feature), battery backup (don't miss work, even if the power goes out), an app with Internet Radio playback, and something called Stem:Sonic iQ digital signal processing
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, bedroom, control-station, entry, feature, gary bart, internet, internet-radio, iphone, ipod, ipod-touch, power, stem innovation
Epson and Thinxstream making PrintJinni wireless printing app available for free
No doubt sensing a little heat from Apple's own AirPrint , Epson and Thinxstream have now announced that their PrintJinni wireless printing app for iOS devices will soon be available completely free of charge -- a permanent price drop, mind you, not simply a holiday promotion. Unfortunately, you can't grab it for free just yet, as it will still demand the regular $6.99 until the App Store processes the price change, which is apparently expected to happen before the end of the month
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: complete, doubt-sensing, entry, ipod-touch, printer, printers, thinxstream
New Potato reveals TuneLink Auto Bluetooth-to-FM transmitter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
We've never been on the volunteer cheerleading squad for FM transmitters; in our experience, they're downright useless in cities or other areas that actually have a large amount of radio stations nearby. But we'll hand it to New Potato Technologies -- this may be the slickest implementation yet. The newly announced TuneLink Auto looks like a typical cigarette adapter charger at first glance, but within, there's technology that accepts audio over Bluetooth and then sends it out over FM
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, bluetooth, fmradio, implementation, ipad accessory, ipod-touch, newpotatotechnologies, radio-stations
Magellan RoadMate GPS app updated for iOS 4, includes real-time traffic and multitasking
Magellan may not be the head honcho when it comes to standalone PNDs here in North America, but that's not stopping the outfit from keeping its iOS app up to snuff. With TomTom, Navigon and Garmin all introducing iOS 4-compatible apps over the past few months, Magellan has finally done likewise -- version 1.3 of the app now enables navigation to occur in the background, meaning that iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users will still hear turn-by-turn guidance while using another application.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: all-introducing, charge-through, done-likewise, gps, ios4, iphone, ipod-touch, navteq, north, over-the-past, real-time traffic, real-timetraffic, result, RoadMate, source
iOS 4.2 coming Friday with iTunes and Mac OS X updates, sans AirPrint? (update)
We knew it was coming , and now we're hearing from MacStories (and their source at AT&T, who was probably wearing a trench coat and fedora) that iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad will roll out beginning this Friday, November 12, at 10AM PST. Of course, in order to take advantage AirPlay we'll have to see an update to iTunes as well, which is good because iTunes 10.1 is rumored to be coming tomorrow at some point
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ability, airprint, before-the-week, coming-tomorrow, ios 4.2, ios 4.2 on ipad, ios4.2, ipad, ipod-touch, osx, osx10.6.5macosx10.6.5, product, result, take-advantage
Epic Games, Id Software show off jaw-dropping new iPhone games
We've already seen Epic Games and Id Software show off their respective game engines for iOS devices, but they're only now finally giving folks a look at the first actual games that will use them. The first of those to roll out will apparently be Id's Mutant Bash TV , which looks as impressive as the Rage demo promised (although that's aided in part by being on rails), and will cost just $0.99 for the standard version or $1.99 for the Retina Display-enhanced version.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: blade, director, entry, epic, epiccitadel, fame, infinity-blade, iphone3gs, ipod-touch, mutant bash tv, mutantbash, touch-arcade, unreal engine
Sprint’s ZTE Peel embracing your iPod touch sans contract on November 14th?
Still clinging on to your iPod touch in the hope that Sprint will one day launch an iPhone ? Well, it's rather early to make a call, but news has it that we may get the next best thing very soon.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: actually-turn, apple-peel, appleipodtouch, buddies, fcc, grab-yourself, ipod, ipod-touch, Modem, our-buddies, overdrive, peel, sprint, zte3200
Skyfire browser for iPhone hits the App Store, ready to play your Flash videos
It's been over two months since it was first submitted for approval , but the Skyfire 2.0 web browser for iPhone is now finally, officially available for download, complete with the ability to play Flash videos... sort of. To get around the iPhone's Flash restrictions, the browser actually transcodes the video in a way that lets the phone only see HTML5, and it compresses all videos by about 75 percent in the process to ease bandwidth concerns
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, app store, engadget, facebook, head-on-past, iphone, ipod-touch, mode, store, video, web-browser
Skyfire for iOS gets App Store approval, available soon
Getting something like a browser through Apple's App Store approval process can be a nail-biting experience both for the developer and for would-be users -- but now that Opera Mini set the precedent , there's little justification for denying them (assuming there's no foolishness going on under the hood). This time around it's Skyfire , submitted in early September and finally cleared by Cupertino's powers that be this week which means that it should pop up in the App Store in short order. As in the Android build, Skyfire's iOS browser does some back-end magic to convert any Flash videos that it finds embedded in web pages so that they can be viewed, a feature that could make this a pretty popular download.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, browser, engadget, entry, ios, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, result, skyfire, web
Comcast’s iPhone app gains caller ID capability for triple play customers
Comcast's mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch customers got boosted to version 2.5 in the past few days, bringing with it a handful of tweaks that seems to justify the 0.5 increment.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Comcast, ipod, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, official, play, triple-play, useful-feature