Celebrate Earth Day, Dr. Seuss Style
Just in time for Earth Day, Oceanhouse Media has released two special iPhone and iPad apps based around Dr. Seuss’s classic book, The Lorax. First published in 1971, The Lorax was written by Dr. Seuss to teach children about the value of caring about the environment. Like the other Dr. Seuss apps for the iPhone […]
Explore Space with Buzz Aldrin on Your iPhone
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s currently the one of the most popular apps in the Apple App Store’s Education category. “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” is divided into five sections: Space Buzz, […]
Steve Jobs Show Premieres Off Broadway Next Week
The CEO of Apple is certainly no stranger to the stage, being known for giving keynotes that typically have the effect of rendering tech geeks into little piles of goo after the announcement of a new product. But now Mr. Jobs — or at least, the story of his career — will be gracing a […]
Glee Gets an Addictive iPhone and iPad App
Calling all Gleeks! Fox Interactive has partnered with Smule – the team that brought us Magic Piano and I Am T-Pain – to bring the Glee experience to the iPhone and iPad. The app [iTunes link], priced at $2.99 and available in the App Store, takes the best elements of Glee, I Am T-Pain, Rock […]
It’s Official: Cats Love iPads [VIDEO]
Love it or hate it, the iPad is definitely the kind of device that opens up new possibilities, ones you probably didn’t think of when it was first launched. Now that it’s present in several hundred thousand homes, it reached a new and unexpected user base: cats. What, you thought that the iPad’s touch screen […]
eReader Faceoff: Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iBooks
It’s time once again for another edition of our long-running Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two similar or competing web services, gadgets, apps and more against each other in a head-to-head battle for supremacy amongst Mashable readers. This week it’s a war for best electronic book reading experience between two of the heaviest heavyweights: Amazon […]
Alice for the iPad Shows Why E-Books Are Cool
Yeah, we all love paper books. But you have to admit that e-books can, indeed, do stuff that paper books cannot. A good example of this is Alice for the iPad, Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turned into a children’s storybook but with an interactive twist. This particular e-book is not meant […]
BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie
Twitter has just announced that it has acquired Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application. Tweetie’s creator, Loren Brichter, will be joining the Twitter team as well. The app will be renamed “Twitter for iPhone” and be made free in the next few weeks. Twitter CEO Evan Williams explained […]
iPad Dominates the Netbook in Reader Vote
If you’re in the market for a smaller-scale computing device, which one should you get: the netbook with its physical keyboard or the iPad, which has sold more than 450,000 units in less than a week? That was the question for this week’s Web Faceoff, our weekly poll series where we ask you, the reader, […]
RIM Acquisition Could Bring BlackBerry Connectivity to Your Car
Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry, have just finalized a deal to acquire QNX Software Systems from Harman International. QNX is a company that offers middleware, development tools and other products aimed at embedded platforms — that might not sound that cool, but it actually makes its acquisition extremely interesting. RIM’s announcement emphasizes […]
Parody Asks: What is the iPad Revolutionizing? [VIDEO]
Do you want an iPad with every wretched fiber of your being, but you can’t quite articulate why? Well, College Humor’s Jake and Amir feel your pain. After all the waiting in line, televised hype and general silliness, it’s kind of a relief when the parodies start coming out in full-force — especially when they […]
Kindle and Nook Both Coming to Retail Stores
It’s an already hot space that’s getting hotter: The e-book market just got a few big jolts, with Apple adding iBook support to the iPhone and now two of the frontrunning e-reader devices coming to retail. Engadget reports that Barnes & Noble’s Nook will be sold at Best Buy starting April 18, and that Amazon’s […]
Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015
The iPad may indeed be the future of computing, at least when it comes to the way you interact with it. According to IT research company Gartner, more than 50% of PCs, purchased for users under 15 years of age, will have touchscreens by 2015. Leslie Fiering, research vice president at Gartner, thinks kids will […]
CloudApp Brings Drag-and-Drop Cloud Uploads to the Mac
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: CloudApp Quick Pitch: “Share files fast with your Mac. The simplest, most effective […]
The First iPad Compatible Vest is Here
The iPhone is not a problem – it fits into most pockets and you can make do without special iPhone pockets in your clothes. But the iPad is a much bigger beast; if you’re not content to wear it in your hands or a backpack, very few clothing items have big enough pockets to accommodate […]