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The iPod Revolution Transformed Our Lives and Economy
The iPod is essentially Apple’s typewriter: a piece of technology that reshaped society completely, then was made redundant by its descendants. However, the iPod’s birth a decade ago launched a legacy...
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Cleaning Up Your Messy iTunes Playlists Can Boost Your Brain Power [Interview]
You might have suspected that the right music – whether it’s thrash metal or Mozart – keeps you more focused or relaxed. Now a trio of brain researchers have studied the effects of playlists on the...
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iTunes 10.6 Will Sync Music At Higher 192kbps and 256kbps Bitrates
iTunes no longer punishes you for low bitrate convenience ITunes has long given users the option of scaling music down to 128kbps upon sync to their iPod or other device in order to save space. The...
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Here’s How Police Departments Use Mac Tools For Computer Forensics
Police forensics training for Macs in Middletown, Delaware. If you’ve ever taken apart an Apple device, you know what delicate work it can be. Imagine trying to extract incriminating child pornography...
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This iPod Nano Concept Better Is Than The Real Thing
I'd trade my crappy square Nano in for one of these in a second We love us a good iConcept design here at Cult of Mac, and we especially love those which appear to be better than the Apple product they...
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Pad&Quill’s Tiny Moleskine-Alike Case For… The iPod Nano?
The iPod Nano, like an iPad for little folk If you’re going to launch a real product on April 1st, then you may as well make it seems as ridiculous as possible, and that’s just what Brian Holmes did...
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Will Apple Save the Wristwatch?
The wristwatch has fallen out of fashion. Sure, a few geezers still wear watches out of habit. Hipsters wear them ironically. Geeks wear them defiantly. And the fashionable wear them decoratively. But...
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Drone Warfare Comes to Cubicle Conflict
The cubicle wars continue unabated, sparking an arms race of unprecedented idiocy. Now the conflict is escalating with a new weapons system coming online that could tilt the balance of power: A $130...
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The 2012 iPod Nano: An Agglomeration Of The Best Features Of Every Nano Ever...
Does the 2012 iPod nano offer anything new? For all intents and purposes the latest, 7th generation iPod nano is nothing new. We’ve seen it all before: the widescreen form factor, the touchscreen...
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Why Apple Has GOT to Fix Siri
Siri, Apple’s voice-based virtual assistant is a mixed bag of good things and bad. And Siri faces an increasing competition in the market, especially from Google. I believe Siri is probably the single...
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Will Apple Get Used?
Apple was caught last year selling Apple Certified refurbished hardware on eBay using the pseudonym Refurbished-Outlet. Allegedly. The prices and details of these products were generally the same as...
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It’s Time to Kill the ‘Apple Doesn’t Innovate’ Argument
There’s an argument in the platform wars, and also on Wall Street, that goes something like this: “Apple doesn’t innovate anymore. It moves too slowly, and is being taken over by more nimble, more...
View ArticleFlappy Bird Developer Succeeds With New App Shuriken Block [Video Review]
While the smash-hit app Flappy Bird has been removed from the App Store, developer Dong Nguyen has still found success with a few of his other games. Consistently ranking at the top of the app charts...
View ArticleHit Play For A New Music Experience With “Beats Music” App [Video Review]
With popular music streaming apps like Spotify and Pandora already popular and on devices all over the world, any newcomers are faced with an immediate challenge. The makers behind the popular...
View ArticleKeep Up With News In Facebook’s New App “Paper” [Video Review]
As Facebook tends to find itself on a decline of popularity, Mark Zuckerberg and the people of Facebook are making valiant efforts to refresh and revive their social networking site. With the...
View ArticleA Look At Facebook’s 19 Billion Dollar Purchase, “WhatsApp” [Video Review]
Keeping themselves in the news, Mark Zuckerberg and the people of Facebook have just recently acquired the hit messaging app WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars. With over 450 million people already using...
View ArticleJump To New Heights In The Game “Hoppy Frog” [Video Review]
Retro arcade gaming meets today’s latest hits in the application Hoppy Frog. Enjoy reminiscing the days of Frogger with the memories of Flappy Bird, as you progress your way up the high score charts....
View ArticleAccess Tons Of Disney Movies Instantly With “Disney Movies Anywhere” [Video...
While movie streaming applications like Netflix and Hulu Plus remain popular for what they have to offer, Disney has just released their own take on the genre. Disney Movies Anywhere is Disney’s latest...
View ArticleFix Your iOS 7 Wallpaper Woes With The App “Wallpaper Fix” [Video Review]
While the iOS 7 software update has brought along a total design revamp, with it has also come irritating wallpaper settings. Not being able to scale your photo to the sizes you’d like and more have...
View ArticleFall In Love With Flappy Again In The App “Flappy Fall” [Video Review]
App developers everywhere are posting their own clones of the hit app “Flappy Bird” to the App Store. While few have been able to publish their apps with many significant differences, the app...
View ArticleTap And Swipe Your Way To The Top In The App “Teggle” [Video Review]
We use our devices everyday tapping and swiping to perform the actions we need to. Effortlessly doing these things time after time, it’s only natural for us to become quite good at doing them. In the...
View Article“Jumpy Jack” Adds New Twist To Flappy Bird Formula [Video Review]
When going into the App Store it’s inevitable to find clone applications everywhere based off of the late “Flappy Bird”. While many clones can feel exactly like the original experience, the new app...
View ArticleShould Apple ditch the iPod?
For the moment, the Apple doom-mongers have been silenced by another record quarter. But there’s one area where things are down, and still dropping. It’s the iPod division, and it’s the closest thing...
View Article14 weirdest speaker docks to ever cradle an iPhone
Your iPhone’s speakers suck. No amount of magical design from Jony Ive can change the laws of physics to give those itsy-bitsy tweeters earth-shattering bass, but plenty of acoustic iPhone docks are...
View ArticleAn illustrated history of the iPod and its massive impact
Editor’s note: The iPod has enjoyed a good long run as one of the world’s most revolutionary music machines, but the time has come to bid adieu to the click-wheeled wonder. Apple quietly removed the...
View ArticleApple Lost the eBooks Trial, But It Can Still Win the eBooks Market
Amazon is beating Apple in the eBooks racket by using Apple’s own pricing strategy for music. But Apple can still clobber Amazon by out-Appling not the iTunes pricing strategy, but the Apple marketing...
View ArticleApple’s eBooks Tragedy Reads Like Shakespeare
Apple was found guilty in July of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of eBooks. As punishment, Apple must delete existing contracts with publishers and negotiate new ones, one at a time to...
View ArticleVibrant new iPod colors revealed in iTunes update
You may have written off the iPod as something Apple doesn’t care to breathe new life into by this point, but the iPod is exactly what appears to be getting an update. Alongside the release of iTunes...
View ArticleWhy you should never buy an iPod ever again
Today’s iPod refresh came as an odd surprise to some and maybe even a long-awaited update to others. Now that the iPod line is finally up-to-date after being dormant for a few years, you might even be...
View ArticleiMessage is Going to Be Huge! Here’s Our Hands-on Look at How it Works
Apple’s new iMessage app was one of the biggest surprises at WWDC yesterday. Once I got iOS 5 and Lion installed on my devices, I asked our Twitter followers what they wanted to know about the new OSes...
View ArticleCult of Mac Wednesday Twitter Trivia Giveaway, Today at 3pm PDT!
We’ve been giving out free stuff all week via Twitter, and while today is no exception we’ve decided to spice things up by having a Twitter Trivia Giveaway. If you’d like to join our two other...
View ArticleCult of Mac Thursday Twitter Trivia Giveaway, Today at 3pm PDT!
We’re back at it again today. After yesterday’s highly successful Twitter Trivia Giveaway we’ve decided to give everyone another chance to win the Twitter Trivia Giveaway. We’ve been giving out free...
View ArticleiOS 5 Allows Users to Delete Music Directly From iPhone/iPad
“What? No way, that’s not my Enrique Iglesias track. How’d that get on my iPhone?” Have you ever had your musical tastes harshly criticized by a friend who’s browsing through the music library on your...
View ArticleiMessage Poised to Become the Best Mobile Group Chat Client We’ve Seen [iOS 5]
We’ve been raving about Apple’s new iMessage feature in iOS 5 all week. If our current findings haven’t piqued your interest in the new messaging service that let’s you ditch SMS messaging, then maybe...
View ArticleLast Chance to Win – Cult of Mac Weeklong Giveaway!
We’ve given away an iMainGo X everyday this week. Although we wish we could keep it up, today is the last day for our awesome Cult of Mac readers to win this prize. If you’ve entered the contest...
View ArticleiCloud Changes iOS Calendar App, Allows Users to Add Invitees to Events &...
A full week has passed since WWDC, and yet we’re still finding little gems inside iOS 5. The latest finding is that the improved Calendar App allows creators of events to invite people to attend, and...
View ArticleHabbycam iGrip Made Only for Aspiring iPhone Filmmakers with Large Budgets?...
Anyone playing around with an iPhone 4 for any length of time will have realized that its compactness, decent sensor-processor combo and the huge selection of editing apps available make the darn thing...
View ArticleScreeeee! Vroom! KABOOM!! Dangerously Addictive Death Rally Now Temporarily...
There’re absolutely zero reasons not to get this incredibly slick, fly-by-the-seat-of-you-pants remake of the 90’s classic racing shooter Death Rally iOS game unless you hate fun or you’re dead. The...
View ArticleiPod Upskirt Perv Nabbed for Filming at Walmart
A 23-year-old man was arrested for using the iPod video camera to film up the skirts of women at a local Walmart. Stegall Jaquad Ponder was arrested last week for upskirt filming at Marietta, Georgia...
View ArticleExec pleads guilty to leaking Apple sales figures, iPad info
An former executive of an Apple supplier pleaded guilty to leaking Apple secrets. Walter Shimoon, who once worked at electronic manufacturer Flextronics a supplier of camera parts to Apple, was...
View ArticleSpotify to Launch in the US Tomorrow Morning
Finally, after years of waiting, Americans will be treated to one of the best music services on the planet. Spotify is set to launch in the US tomorrow. The initial launch will be by “invitation and...
View Article“Laptop Hunter” Agency Behind Bus Stop Ads that Charge iPhones, iPods
Vitamin Water may be the 2011 equivalent of snake oil, but now those bus shelter ads have got some actual juice: you can hook up your iPhone or iPod to charge on the go. The ads featuring USB ports...
View ArticleMobile Learning? School Disctrict Lifts iPad Ban on Buses
Students lobbied to have a ban removed so they can use their iPads on the way to and from school. The Manatee County School district in Florida had obliged kids to take the journey to and from school...
View ArticleTurntable.fm Brings Highly Acclaimed Music Service to iPhone With New App
The music options on the iPhone have sure gotten exciting over the last few months. First Apple unveiled iTunes Match, then Spotify launched their app in the US, and now Turntable.fm has brought their...
View ArticleForgotten iPod Loaded with Child Porno Leads to Arrest
33-year-old Jason Daniel Goodman left his iPod Touch behind at an Oregon gas station almost a year ago. Employees figured something that valuable would be claimed, so they waited five months. When no...
View ArticleiPod Has Stopped Slimming. Now’s The Time For It To Get Fit [Opinion]
The days of the stand-alone music player may be over, but the iPod’s role as the preeminent fitness gadget could keep the product relevant for the next decade to come. I still remember the moment, ten...
View ArticleHow the iPod Started 5 Revolutions
The original iPod, just a decade old today, was little more than a hard disk with earbuds. But this humble little gadget launched five revolutions that made consumer electronics what it is today. In...
View ArticleAn Ode to the Click Wheel as the iPod Evolves [iPod 10th Anniversary]
A decade ago Apple introduced the iPod, and with it a new method for controlling music playback: a scroll wheel with buttons around the perimeter. The interface was novel for a portable music player,...
View ArticleTim Cook is big fan of iPhone battery case’s lovely little hump
Tim Cook saw all the complaints fanboys levied against the ugly new Smart Battery Case his company unveiled this week, but the Apple CEO is defending the controversial new product, claiming Apple’s...
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