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Daily iPhone App: Async Corp

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2012)

Async Corp. is about as charming as a puzzle game gets. There are a few flaws with it (most notably that the game does a terrible job of actually telling you how to play, but I'll fix that in a second), but it's just so cute and so charmingly ...

iRig Pre makes iOS device a pre-amp

by Steven Sande (Jan 20th, 2012)

IK Multimedia is always coming out with new ways for musicians to use their iOS devices to assist in performing or recording. Now the company has introduced the iRig PRE, a mic preamp designed to let you use standard XLR mics with your iPhone or ...

Three new apps support console games from iOS

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2012)

As if there aren't enough apps that supplement or promote console games, here are three more that have appeared recently. First up is Dragon Shout (free), the Skyrim-mapping app that was released a few weeks ago. It's quite handy, and players ...

Daily iPad App: Kingdom Rush

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2012)

I first played Kingdom Rush as a Flash game online, and it's very good in that context as well. It's pretty straightforward tower defense, in that you face a series of invading monsters, and need to build up towers to defend against them. But ...

Zynga picks up four more mobile gaming companies

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2012)

Mobile/social game giant Zynga has made four more acquisitions in mobile gaming, having already picked up quite a few iOS and mobile development companies in the past. This time around, the biggest pickup is a company from Germany named ...

Bloomberg: Apple plans to bolster iPad use in schools

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2012)

Bloomberg adds yet another dollop of confirmation to the rumors about tomorrow's event that Apple will have plenty of educational news to share. Most of the rumors have revolved around a textbook-based system for iBooks, and Bloomberg agrees, ...

Hands-on with ION Audio's Guitar Apprentice and new iCade models

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2012)

We first saw ION Audio's really impressive iCade followups at the beginning of CES last week during CES Unveiled, but that little taste at the crowded event wasn't really enough for us, so later in the week we went by the company's booth to get ...

Daily iPhone App: Hero Academy

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2012)

Honestly, I'm not very good at Hero Academy. It's a deep game, slow to develop (asychronous multiplayer mode dictates the pace) and tough to learn. Still, I've enjoyed it. It's the first iOS title from Robot Entertainment, the company behind the ...

Smule's Ge Wang plays Magic Guitar for us at CES

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

We got to sit down for a quick chat with Smule's own Dr. Ge Wang at CES in Las Vegas last week, and the result is the video below. Not only is the co-founder overseeing Smule's musical experiences for mobile devices (and its recent merger with ...

Slacker Radio tries to break through a flooded streaming music market

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

One of our final meetings at CES last week was with Slacker Radio's VP of Marketing, Jonathan Sasse, who sat down in a Las Vegas lobby restaurant to tell us what his company has been up to lately. Slacker Radio is one of the many streaming radio ...

Daily iPad App: Run Roo Run HD

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

5th Cell is the developer behind the very popular Scribblenauts (which was released on iOS to great acclaim last year, and just had a new level pack update), and it recently brought a new title to the App Store called Run Roo Run. 2D platforming ...

Audio workarounds in iMovie for iOS

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2012)

While iMovie for iOS is a technological tour-de-force that somehow crams a complete video editor into the limited real estate of an iOS app, it does have its Achilles Heel -- a less-than-stellar ability to work with audio. Macworld author, TidBits ...