iOS

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution

Tim Cook has been making the interview rounds this past week, and in one of them the Apple CEO implied that his company has jumpstarted its work in the realm of television. “When I go into my living room and turn on my TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” he said on [...]

Finally: Here’s the Amazon Prime and Instant Video iPad app

Finally: Here’s the Amazon Prime and Instant Video iPad app

After months of leaving us all hanging, Amazon has finally released an iPad app for streaming Amazon Instant Video and Amazon Prime TV and movie videos. It’s free, and it allows you to use your iPad to watch your shows and movies. Amazon Prime started out as Amazon’s $79 per year unlimited 2-day shipping package, but it also gives you [...]

Inkling app brings interactive, multimedia books to your iPhone

Inkling app brings interactive, multimedia books to your iPhone

Today, the interactive ebook experts at Inkling finally brought the same digital reading experience they crafted for iPad and the web to the iPhone. The Inkling mobile phone app is available in the Apple App Store for free right now with some sample chapters that demonstrate how the technology and content work. This is of course the very same Inkling [...]

This choose-your-own-adventure Frankenstein app is a new kind of book

This choose-your-own-adventure Frankenstein app is a new kind of book

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was originally published 94 years ago, but a new iPad and iPhone app adaptation sheds light on potential future of books and reading, not the past. Profile Books’ iOS app is simply titled “Frankenstein, for iPad and iPhone,” and it uses historic artwork, wonderful design, and some light Choose Your Own Adventure-style elements to tell the story in [...]

Sid Meier’s Pirates! for iPhone docks at the App Store

Sid Meier’s Pirates! for iPhone docks at the App Store

Legendary game designer Sid Meier is probably best known for the classic strategy game Civilization,  but no less classic is Sid Meier’s Pirates!, a swashbuckling adventure game that challenges you with building a crew of conniving, thieving pirates and plundering the Caribbean. Now you can play it on your iPhone; the 3D version of the game hit the Apple App [...]