iPhone
How to Watch Live TV on the iPhone
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of MobiTV. All opinions are 100% mine. We’ve all had it happen at one point or another. There’s something you really wanted to watch on TV, but you’re either on the road or someone else is hogging the set in your living room. Do you [...]
How to Play PC Games on Your Phone
For many StarCraft fans, finding the will to leave the house and stop playing can be difficult. Thankfully, Splashtop Inc. has created a product that allows you to play DirectX 9, 10, and 11 games where other remote desktop clients often lack any support for 3D. In short, they’ve created an app that allows you [...]
Eton Soulra XL Sound System for iPod and iPhone Review
What’s better than an iPod speaker dock powered by solar energy? The answer would be a solar powered iPod speaker dock with 8 speakers. This is what you’ll find in the NSP500B Soulra XL Sound System by Eton. The Soultra XL connects to your iPhone or iPod and gives you incredible sound with no annoying [...]
Are Dedicated Digital Cameras Going Extinct?
A LockerGnome.net user named Senzers69 asked, “Are digital camera’s becoming obsolete now that phones have such good cameras?“ What does this mean? Well, it certainly serves as a strong indication that the technology behind camera phones has advanced to the point where they are becoming “good enough” to replace the traditional point-and-shoot for many of [...]
How Does the iPhone Keyboard Compare to that of an Android Device?
Brandon Wirtz and Jake Ludington of LockerGnome joined me in a discussion about the various differences between the iPhone and Android in relation to how the keyboards differ on the two platforms. While they both share many of the same core functions and features, there are a few notable differences. The iPhone uses predictive text [...]
How Notification Center Works on iOS 5
Apple has announced the features users can expect to see when iOS 5 launches in the Fall. Though they say over 200 new features will be included in the update, there are a few that stand out as being likely selling points for the iOS platform after the update. One of these new features is [...]
Go Back in Time with YTTM and Video Time Machine
This guest post was written by Reza (RMalayeri) about Video Time Machine for iOS, an app that allows you to browse through videos throughout history in a simple and easy way. What do you get when you spend all night watching nostalgic video’s on Youtube, drinking beer, and eating free pizza? Well, if you ask [...]
How To Unbrick Your iDevice After Upgrading to iOS 4.3.3
This is a guest post written by Reza Malayeri, a frequent contributor to our LockerGnome channel on YouTube. Reports are flying in that apple’s iTunes server is experiencing a glitch that will turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a very high priced BRICK. Needless to say, this is a very scary scenario, and [...]
How to Install iPad Apps on Your iPhone
The iPad has many amazing applications that, unfortunately, are not universal. Apps like Garage Band and FlipBoard do not currently offer an iPhone version. There is a solution out there that can make this happen, if you’re willing to jailbreak your iPhone. You can install iPad apps on your iPhone easily using a free Mac [...]
Are Phone Specs Important?
Before the iPhone, I owned a Samsung BlackJack. At the time, I thought a true qwerty keyboard, replaceable battery, and 3G coverage were must-haves and three of the best features of what I felt was one of the better phones of the time. When the news came out that the first-generation iPhone was going to [...]
How to Use the iPhone for More than Making Phone Calls
The iPhone has a wide range of uses thanks in part to an active developer community and their ability to easily distribute apps through the iTunes App Store. While geeks have certainly taken up the practice of downloading and trying out as many apps as they can get their hands on, the question as to [...]
What App is Your Favorite?
For longer than I can remember, people have asked me, “What is your favorite app?” The answer to this question is typically whatever does the job I need it to do when I need it to do it. This means if I am out of the house and I want to make sure my alarm [...]
iPad vs Netbook: Does a Physical Keyboard REALLY Matter?
While his email is original, the question from community member “Tamloo” is an all-too-familiar one for me (unedited): Hey Chris, I have been a really big fan of yous over the past couple of years. You are one of the main sources I get my technology news from. One thing I really like about you [...]
Android vs iPad? Why Android Tablets Can’t Beat the iPad
I just received an email from community member Andrew Wellings: Hello Chris! When I’m doing stuff around the house, I like to keep my phone on me to listen to music or browse the Web (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and reading up on my news/tech blogs). As you may know from experience, this drains the battery [...]
Google and Bing Apps for the iPhone Won’t Translate Spoken Swear Words – in Any Language
Yeah, I use “swear words” on a regular basis. I don’t think that makes me a bad person, either. At least I don’t mispronounce “nuclear!” I’m also guilty of wanting to learn the “bad words” in other languages – if only to know when someone is calling me something I’d rather not be called. And [...]
