Filed under: Fun, Podcasting, iPhone, Humor Much has been made of the amazing number of fart noise apps in the iTunes App Store. Sure, they can be amusing, but if you've heard one iPhone fart, you've heard them all. Or have you? Pantscast is a much more refined fart machine that injects flatulent so...

Filed under: News, iPhone, web 2.0 Many iPhone developers have horror stories about their apps being rejected from the iTunes App Store for frustrating, sometimes arbitrary reasons. After today, Atebits, makers of the bestselling iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, might take the prize for the most absu...

Filed under: Fun, Video, Macintosh If you've got a huge movie collection, whether it's physical DVDs and Blu-Rays or just movies ripped to a hard drive, Multiplex can help you keep track of all of them on your Mac. Its Leopard-like interface uses Apple's latest Core Animation improvements and looks ...

Filed under: Audio, Macintosh, Social Software I went looking for a Last.fm client for my Mac recently, and discovered that Amua is well worth considering. It passes the basic tests for a good Last.fm app: it scrobbles tracks, it lets you skip, love and ban songs, and provides access to artist, user...

Filed under: Audio, Fun, Time-Wasters You've never seen anything as tubular, funky or mondo as this web-based drum set from RonWinter.tv, loaded with awesome 80's sounds. It's got kicks, snares, a few vocoder-ed out vocal bits, and everything else you need to annoy the crap out of anyone in listenin...

Filed under: Audio, Business, News Last.fm has finally put up an official blog post to respond to the TechCrunch-initiated rumor that they turned over users' information to the RIAA as part of an investigation into leaked copies of the new U2 album. The post reiterates that Last.fm takes its users' ...

Filed under: News, P2P Have you torrented the new U2 album? We won't tell, and neither will Last.fm, if those unreleased tracks show up on your listening profile. That's not what TechCrunch is saying, though. Earlier today, they incorrectly reported that Last.fm turned over listener data to the RIAA...

Filed under: Design, Photo, Macintosh, Productivity Pixelmator has earned a following by doing the tasks most people use Photoshop for, but doing them much cheaper. That's truer than it's ever been in the new version 1.4, which adds a new painting engine, new brushes, and support for Photoshop brush...

Filed under: Fun, Web, Humor I honestly didn't know what to make of Cornify at first. It's a bookmarklet that you can click on -- repeatedly -- to add sparkly unicorn and rainbow graphics to the page you're currently viewing. Cornify is a horrifying abomination, a crime against web design, a throwba...

Filed under: Audio, web 2.0, Web I have fond memories of Muxtape, which briefly reigned last year as the online music sharing method of choice for hipsters everywhere. Well, Muxtape is finally back, after shutting down for a while due to problems landing an affordable licensing deal for the music th...