As you probably know, the new Apple iPod shuffle can speak up the name of your songs, artists, and playlists. I initially thought it was a new text-to-speech chip. It is not: As you can see in this flowchart, the trick happens in your computer. Apple patented the process a while back, and it's going...

After working long and hard on Apple’s second generation iPod Touch, the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team released a little tidbit of information that is sure to please all you 2G Touch owners out there. It looks as though the Dev Team has identified a fatal flaw in the bootrom that allows...

Apple have just launched a new iPod Shuffle - it's even tinier than the last, and will announce songs in a crisp, clear voice to make up for the lack of a screen. It might be wise to teach it to yell "over here", too, what it with it being so small. Oh, and the hard drive is four times the size of t...

Talk about a sneak attack. It’s a little hard to get excited about a new iPod Shuffle but hey, new toys are new toys. The third-generation Shuffle features a completely new design, 4GB of storage and perhaps most notably, the controls have been moved off of the device and onto the headset cord...

It’s nice to see Konami push the gaming platform on the Apple iPhone/iPod touch platform. They released screenshots last week of their upcoming game – Metal Gear Solid Touch and I have to admit the screenshots look pretty darn sweet – almost to the point where I might be willing to plop down s...

You know that game at the carnival where you use a hammer to hit a button and it tells you how strong you are.  If you hit the top, you win your girlfriend a prize.  That game has made its way to the iPhone.  In this case you have to be careful who you let play the game.  If it is a clumsy perso...

If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and......

On my way back from India, cooped up in a big tube flying at super speeds over Eurasian skies, I really missed having something to read. As Matt lost himself in a Seth Godin piece on his Kindle, I was reduced to watching old episodes of “Numbers” on my laptop, which I had left pretty muc...

If it seems like Ma and Pops over at the iTunes store are toying with the idea of subscription music, look again. The iTunes Pass is more akin to buying a season of Celebrity Rehab: long-time Depeche Mode fans can put down $18.99 to get everything the band releases between now and the seemingly arbi...

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL) Wondering which sector is performing the best during the current economic crunch? The kind folks at MarketWatch provided the answer: technology. Nick Godt notes that the sector has gained strength from "investors playing an uncertain environment as both a defensive and ...