The “CubeCheater” iPhone app allows you to take a picture of your existing puzzle and the application will walk you through the solution to the puzzle. Although we’re not sure if we want to encourage cheating here at Make, we like the ingenuity of apps like this that mathematically deconstruct objects in order to find […]
Mobile phones on bar tables deserve what they get. But that doesn’t make it suck any less when you’re the drunk with the dead pixels. Ask MAKE subscriber Tim Watson. When his iPhone got a party night beer bath, he was faced with either replacing his screen or trying one of the free utilities or […]
By far one of my favorite iPhone apps, SynthPond provides a blank canvas for sound experimentation, accessed using cell/planet-esque components with individual parameters set by the user or at random. SynthPond’s creator ZachGage writes – synthPond is a music / art piece that I made for the iphone. It’s a spatial synthesizer, and it’s in […]
I haven’t had my iPhone for that long, but a constant frustration is its overachieving autocorrection feature, which could use a bit of training on the peculiar words and acronyms I tend to use on a daily basis. Our favorite iPhone hacker, Erica Sadun, recently investigated this very issue and found that not all text […]
O’Reilly author Wei-Meng Lee has published a short free PDF that will get you started building iPhone applications with Apple’s SDK: If you have always wanted to learn iPhone development but don’t know how to get started, download my free eDoc on Getting Started with iPhone Development. Try it out and see how easy it […]
Joyce is a teacher and librarian. She recently got an iPhone, and has fallen in love. Consider the portability of texts, the potential for blogging or taking notes and pictures in the field, the use of GPS for science and geography, the possibilities for organizing learning, the options for the music classroom, the opportunities to […]
This iPhone app, called “Brushes”, lets you add a painterly effect to your pictures or create your own finger paintings from scratch. The sketches above were created by Disney artist Stef Kardos using the app and shows the potential of this cool piece of software. There’s even a link to a Flickr group of “Brushes” […]
