Tech Buzz Although Apple bans porn from the iPhone, there are quite a few alluring apps that sneak by the censors. Everything from 'The Asian Boobs App' to yes the 'Latina Bikini Fart App'. Current TV's Ben Hoffman tests them out just for you.
The June 1st New Yorker cover was finger-painted by artist Jorge Colombo using the Brushes app on his iPhone. Overall it took him just an hour to draw the scene outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square, and for the process nuts, there's a corresponding video that shows every streak - from start to finish.
“Want to encourage your drug problem? There's an app for that!” (via Urlesque)
Sports Buzz Golf fans! Escape from your cubicle today and go directly to Augusta National with The Masters iPhone app. You can actually watch holes 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 live from the course, follow scoring, pairings and tee times and basically renew your obsession with Tiger Woods. Supposedly works on 3G, Edge and WiFi.
Tech Buzz Foursquare is the new Dodgeball, but with games and badges and stuff. You can also be a Mayor, which is why I'm going to play. So far it features 12 cities, but luckily, Austin is one of them—so all the SXSW-ers can play on the new iPhone app this very weekend.
“Kids” by MGMT played entirely on iPhones, using various musical iPhone apps. Much like being super-good at Guitar Hero, this performance is kind of impressive and kind of still not as cool as actually playing music.
Tech Buzz Pretty soon your iPhone will resemble your 3rd grade classroom. IGN sneakily posted some screens yesterday, and holy rattlesnakes does this game look cartoony or what?!
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NPR profiles Brian Greenstone, a computer game designer who's adapted his work for the iPhone. He talks about how the iPhone app store created a level playing field for game designers. And how he's really rich now.
Tech Buzz An iPhone app that lets you bling out photos of you and your friends, giving you all the accoutrements necessary to look just like the hip hop wunderkind. Of course, if you really want to get Lil's look down, make sure to look bonkers and rap with auto tune. That should do it every time.
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Fart apps are apparently big business on in the iPhone App store — VentureBeat reports the most popular ones make almost $10,000 a day.
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For $8, the Agile Lie Detector uses voice stress analysis, a 3D spectrograph and special lie meter to detect if the speaker of truth/non-truth is lying to you.
Tech Buzz The new Google iPhone App adds a neat feature: Voice search for those too lazy to type. If you're slow with iPhone typing, the voice option may make looking for sushi directions much easier. (Also, why is everyone in iPhone demos always searching for sushi? Is that all that yuppies ever eat?)
This app turns the iPhone into a musical instrument with particular appeal for fans of the Legend of Zelda. Play the “Song of Time” at your own risk.
Tech Buzz Set the name of the fake caller and when you want them to call, and get yourself out of awkward conversations or boring office meetings with ease. This is how I'm going to end all my future conversations: “Gotta take this, it's Joan Rivers calling, again.”
Tech Buzz Google’s Earth software becomes a free iPhone app. Now there’s another reason to constantly be pulling out your iPhone in the middle of conversations.
A soon-to-be-released app for the iPhone handsomely packages classic books for touch screen reading. If I could figure out how to update my hacked iPhone, I would totally get this.
Tech Buzz The Obama campaign becomes the first to add the iPhone to their list of recruitment tools. The main feature: The app organizes your contacts by key battleground states, so that you can call and harass your friends, loved ones and business contacts into voting for Obama.
Tech Buzz An app that recreates your uncle’s “pull my finger” routine was rejected by the Apple Apps store. Farting noises: What Jobs dreamt of when He begat the iPhone.
Looks like someone actually bought the I Am Rich iPhone App, albeit accidentally. Here’s a hint about the internet: Clicking the ‘buy’ button usually leads to things being purchased.
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