Crystal Defenders for iPad- app review

With this weeks sale of Square-Enix games in honor of Chaos Rings release, I thought it fit to review Crystal Defenders for iPad. This is a very fun strategy/tower defense game: hardcore players apply only. Crystal Defenders has you assume the role of master strategist as you place your units on a map to...

iPad putting a hurt on Asus netbook sales

Since iPad doesn’t seem (yet?) to be cannibalizing Mac sales, those 1 million units moved a month have to be eating into something and it looks like netbooks — which Steve Jobs said aren’t better at anything — are the ones on the buffet: Asustek Computer saw sales of its netbooks...

Apple hires mobile payments expert — iPhone to replace your credit card?

Looks like Apple has gone and hired a NFC (near field communications) expert to be their new head mobile commerce. Benjamin Viger, formerly product manager for mobile wallet, payment, and NFC at mFoundry, NearFieldCommunicationsWorld rounds up a plethora of recent Apple patent filings he just may be...

What’s the deal with iAds on iPhone?

iAds is Apple’s attempt to bring the emotion of television to the interactivity of online, but the Wall Street Journal says it’s off to a bumpy start. Apparently, part of the reason is — surprise, surprise — Apple is exerting tight control over the platform (what, punch the monkey...

Best of Smartphone Experts, 15 August 2010

Droid 2 launch: Our hands-on, benchmark tests and must-have apps. Sprint Epic 4G coming Aug. 31 for $249 after contract Froyo updates: Original Droid gets its OTA, Evo 4G Froyo pushed to early adopters RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Curve 3G Smartphone BlackBerry Torch Cases and BlackBerry...

TiPb contest idea contest! Enter now!

We’ll be running some amazing new, weekly contests in the iPhone Forum and iPad Forum and what better way to start than a contest to help us think of amazing new contests? Let us know your ideas for cool, weird, funny, and all around fun contests and if we like your idea and use it, we’ll give...

Don’t want to use your credit card in iTunes? Use a gift card instead!

Want to buy from iTunes but don’t want to use your credit card? No problem. Just head on over to a pharmacy, supermarket, big box, or any of the myriad of places that sell iTunes gift cards, buy one for yourself, and use it to top off your account. Bonus tip: Costco sometimes has packages for a few...

Installing Frash on a Jailbroken iPhone

A lot of people have been waiting for Flash on an iPhone (unofficially of course), and if you’re jailbroken, you can have it now, via Frash.  Frash is basically a port of Flash 10.1 for mobile.  We also have to keep in mind, it’s in a severe Alpha stage.  And it shows.  But if you just...

Star Trek production artists talk iPad

Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman has a terrific interview up with Star Trek production artists Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler about how they conceptualized iPad-like devices for TV and movies… some 23 years ago. Their device was known as the PADD (Personal Access Display...

Apple manager caught in elaborate iPhone and iPod accessory kickback scheme

It appears an Apple supply manager, Paul Shin Devine, has been arrested and is currently facing severe indictment charges alongside Andrew Ang, of Singapore for kickbacks involving iPhone and iPad accessories. No company is immune to dishonest employees and fraud, not even Apple. For those of you not...