Blog Profile / Cult Of Mac
| URL : | http://www.cultofmac.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology Industry News / Apple | |
| Posts on Regator: | 25690 | |
| Posts / Week: | 103.2 | |
| Archived Since: | August 14, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Forget The iWatch: Brando’s Crappy ‘Fashionable Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet’ Is Here Right Now
Waiting for Apple’s iWatch? Good luck with that if you’re expecting anything fancier than a fitness-tracking iPod nano with a wrist strap. You should save your money, your hopes and your time and buy Beloved Crapware Vendor™ Brando’s Fashionable Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet + Watch instead. This piece of plastic tat connects to any smartphone via [...]Show More Summary
MakeDoc For iOS Turns Beautiful Markdown Files Into DOCX Monstrosities
MakeDoc is a single-serve iOS app which costs just $3. That’s a lot less than the app it might replace for many of you: Microsoft Word. MarkDoc does (mostly) one thing: it takes a clipboard filled with Markdown text and turns it into a DOCX file. That’s it. Well, that’s almost it – makeDoc will [...]Show More Summary
NuForce Mobile Music Pump: The Best-Named Headphone Amp Ever?
To be honest, I’m writing this post based solely on the awesome name of this iOS-compatible headphone amp: the Mobile Music Pump. What is it? An amp to boost the puny output from your iPhone’s headphone jack to make big headphones sound better. According to the maker, NuForce, over-the-ear (OE) headphones need 10x more power [...]Show More Summary
Map Camera Adds Maps To Your Photos
You know how all your photos have a ton of extras tucked inside? Like – to pick a completely random example – the GPS data. And yet, whenever you send your vacation photos to your mom, she mails back to ask “where is that cool restaurant with the camel and the statue of Elvis outside?” [...]Show More Summary
One Ruggedized UE BOOM Bluetooth Speaker is Cool, But Two Gets You Stereo Sound
It’s unlikely that the Jawbone Jambox will be shoved off its throne anytime soon; not necessarily because it’s the best-sounding portable Bluetooth speaker out there, but because it was here first, and it made a huge splash (in part because, yes, it sounds pretty good). But I were to bet on a challenger, I [...]Show More Summary
Yelp Refutes Media Claims Of Impropriety In Its Restaurant Listing Service
In a blog post today, aimed squarely at reports in both the Washington Post and the LA Times, Yelp’s Vice President of Communications Vince Sollitto refutes any claim of wrongdoing or pressure to advertise in exchange for hiding poor user reviews. Sollitto points to a third-party, ongoing study by Harvard and Yale professors that hasn’t [...]Show More Summary
Analyst: Don’t Plan To See An iWatch Until Later In 2014, But It Will Probably Use Biometrics
Hoping to see an Apple-branded smart watch this June at WWDC? How about next March at MacWorld/iWorld? Don’t hold your breath, says Ming-Chi Kuo, a KGI Securities analyst. Kuo tells investors that Apple might not have enough resources to make an iOS compatible with such a new form factor, especially given Apple’s probable current iOS [...]Show More Summary
Sound for Disasters: Eton’s Tough New Rukus Bluetooth Speaker is Solar-Powered, Splashproof
Today Eton added the Rugged Rukus to their Rukus line of Bluetooth speakers. Like most of its Rukus siblings, the Rugged is solar-powered; unlike its siblings, the Rugged is splashproof. A great addition for our all-hell-has-broken-loose list. The Rugged Rukus carries a waterproof rating of IPX4, which means it’s pretty much immune to splashes (just don’t [...]Show More Summary
Microsoft’s New Surface Ad Uses Siri To Mock The iPad [Video]
Microsoft has released a new TV ad that slams the iPad touts the Surface tablet. This is the most directly targeted attack campaign on Apple in recent memory—even the Samsung Galaxy ads had more tact. The tagline of the ad is “Less Talking, More Doing,” a.k.a using apps like Powerpoint. Siri is used to mock [...]Show More Summary
Tim Cook’s Reaction To John McCain’s App Question Is Priceless [Image]
Senator John McCain had a lot of fun grilling Tim Cook at yesterday’s Senate Sub-Committee Hearing, but before he was done he couldn’t help but let off one little joke as he asked Tim why he has to keep on updating all the apps on his iPhone manually. “Can’t you guys fix that already?” [...]Show More Summary
iPhone Case Makers Collide: Otterbox Has Bought LifeProof
Popular iPhone case maker Otterbox has acquired LifeProof for an undisclosed sum. The news was announced today by the two companies at the CTIA wireless show. Both Otterbox and LifeProof specialize in rugged, water-resistant cases for the iPhone and iPad. Both companies have also branched out and made cases for competing devices, like the Samsung Galaxy [...]Show More Summary
The Omni Group Releases OmniPresence, Its Own Take On Cloud Sync Between Apps
The Omni Groups makes great, robust apps for OS X and iOS. Fans of the Omni apps will be pleased to learn that the company has released OmniPresence, its take on document syncing in the cloud. Instead of iCloud sync or Dropbox, The Omni Group has built its own solution using open standards like WebDAV and Apache. [...]Show More Summary
Pandora Updated To Let You Share Everything You Listen To On Facebook
Pandora has finally updated its mobile apps and website to let you connect with Facebook’s “Open Graph.” This means that you can now flip a toggle and share everything you listen to on Facebook. What you listen to is collected under the music section of your profile. Services like Spotify and Rdio have had this [...]Show More Summary
Google Voice Search Coming To Chrome For iOS In A Few Days
Google started rolling out voice search functionally for Chrome on the desktop earlier today, and now the company has revealed that the same feature is headed to iOS. Chrome for iOS will be receiving voice search in the App Store in the next few days. You can now speak your searches into the omnibox. Touch [...]Show More Summary
Popular Apple Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple’s Marketing Team
We love picking apart the stupid things analysts say, but Michael Gartenberg is a rare example of a veteran analyst that doesn’t make wild, ridiculous predictions about Apple. He has worked for the Gartner research group, and Apple has even used Gartner’s market share figures multiple times in its keynotes. After spending most of his career covering Apple [...]Show More Summary
Twitter Finally Gets Two-Factor Authentication
Along with an update for its Mac app, Twitter announced today that it is introducing a new security feature to protect accounts against hackings. Twitter’s new two-factor authentification feature should help reduce the number of hacked accounts that have plagued the service recently. To set up the new two-factor authentification feature on your account, log [...]Show More Summary
Acase Collatio For iPhone 5: A Great Wallet Case At A Great Price [Review]
The BookBook from Twelve South has long been the best and most luxurious leather wallet case for iPhone, but it has a new contender from Acase that wants to steal its crown. It’s called the Collatio, and in many ways, it’s very similar to the BookBook. Collatio by Acase Category: Cases Works With: iPhone 5 [...]Show More Summary
Categorize And Manage Your Larger iBooks Library With Ease [iOS Tips]
Is your iBooks library starting to outgrow those beautiful skeuomorphic wooden bookshelves that Apple provided for you? Have you purchased way too many Star Wars novels, only to find them crowding out your beloved Jane Eyre collection? Well, there’s a simple way to manage an epic, ever-growing iBook collection, of course (why else would I [...]Show More Summary
Twitter For Mac App Updated With Notification Center Integration
After neglecting its Mac app for more than two years, Twitter is finally rolling out a steady supply of updates to the OS X desktop app. Last month the app finally picked up Retina display support, and the company just released another update that brings Notification Center integration to the app. Twitter for Mac version [...]Show More Summary
Drive Awake Is The First iOS App That Will Keep You From Falling Asleep At The Wheel
There’s nothing worse on a road trip than battling the ZZZ’s while driving (except maybe a jack rabbit destroying your vehicle), so a chain of coffee shops has created an app called Drive Awake that tracks a drivers’ drowsiness and directs them to the closest coffee shop whenever they nod off. Drive Awake works by [...]Show More Summary