A haunted house? Yes please. A crowded house? Sure, as long as someone's always playing "Don't Dream It's Over." But one thing I could not stand is a rainy house, like this one, which will be rainy for the entire month of June.
Love Twitpics (or Lockerz now or whatever?) but hate having to open them individually every time you see one pop up in your overstuffed Twitter timeline? Check them all out at once, Instagram-style, with Photofon for iOS.
They're small, they're powerful, and they're finally here. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for the iPhone are packed with features, proving just how extensive pocket-size productivity can be. They also prove that it can be a real pain in the ass to do work on your phone.
Your voice! It's the only instrument you always carry with you. Unless you're that weird guy who always walks around with a harmonica in his pocket. But for most of us, it's the voice. Everyday Looper lets you layer vocal track on top of vocal track for to make simple and sonorous acapella sandwiches.
Woodstock is perhaps the single most mythologized pop culture event of the '60s, perhaps the most mythologized decade in pop culture history. And because your hippie aunt's account of the historic concert can't really be trusted (if she did it right), the interactive On the Way to Woodstock app is an invaluable…
The iPad's native iPod app isn't particularly pretty nor easy to use—you either get a dense list of artist names or a scattershot cover view—but even if it did get a swell redesign, it's hard to imagine it existing in the same universe as the breathtaking cosmic music player Planetary.
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there's no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore's noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the…
Here's a problem you might have encountered: you're boppin' along to a song on your computer when you realize it's time to leave. So in addition to putting on socially acceptable clothes and making sure you have your keys, you have to tap, tap, tap your way to that same song on your iPhone, too. Ugh. What a pain.…
The weather is easy to come by these days, what with mobile apps and desktop widgets and the windows in your wall and all that. But sometimes that dry meteorological data can be deceiving. Weddar tells you how it feels outside.
This week, a sperm bike makes donor deliveries, the first EV built by Porsche 100 years ago, an iPhone infographic, find out if you're in a nuclear hot zone, a couple cool gadget-y videos and more!
In this week's app roundup: Panoramas, produced; Sword & Sworcery EP, miniaturized, slit-scan photography, discovered; mobile browsing, made social; Wikipedia, beautified; The Civil War, learned about; the wisdom of age, brought to your iPad, and much, much more.
Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It's got Microsoft's Photosynth engine under the hood, stitching together as many shots of a given area-up, down, left, and right-as you feel like snapping to create a surprisingly smooth model of the space. Whereas other apps of its ilk have you do…
Qwiki: Qwiki for iPad, like their website, is like a visual Wikipedia. Which is to say it's a super pretty way to learn stuff. How so? Instead of delivering information in text and hyperlinks, Qwiki provides a narrative to the topics you search for with an audio commentary and relevant visuals. But! It ain't perfect.…
Maybe you've heard about slit-scan photography, a process in which an image is developed one thin 'slit' at a time. Probably you haven't! But if Photo Booth has taught us anything, it's that the joy of taking wacky warped pictures is universal. And the Slit-Scan Camera iPhone app is like Photo Booth on acid.
Back when everyone was smoking cigarettes wherever the hell they wanted, concertgoers apparently did this thing where they'd wave their lighters around during certain songs? Or something like that? That was before my time so I don't really know—I had to turn to the anthropologists at Wikipedia to get the historical…
Parking perilous. There's always the problem of the meter: How much money did you feed it? And how much time did that give you? When was that, anyway? Then there's the less common but far more concerning question: Where the hell did I park to begin with? Don't panic. Honk knows all.
A hacked trumpet becomes beautiful iPhone speakers, printable batteries store 40% more energy, new apps for Android users, chip breakthrough allows for instant gadget upgrades, a better way to shop Craigslist with one click, and more!
Russian marine biologist Alexander Semenov studied invertebrates at Moscow State University Moscow State with an emphasis in squid brains. Yeah! Squid brains. Pretty awesome. And that's only like the fifteenth coolest thing over at WonderHowTo, where you'll find an interview with Semenov along with some stunning…
One of the first TED Talks I ever watched was a fellow from Microsoft demoing a new technology called Photosynth. It used hundreds of photos from Flickr, all snapped from different perspectives, to synthesize beautiful 3D models of popular tourist destinations—I think they showed Chartres during that…
Soon, in a spectacular display of viral marketing for the new HBO series Game of Thrones, the House of Windsor and the House of Middleton will be joined by the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. If this is something you're interested in keeping up with, NBC News has put together a fittingly elegant (and…
