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Spotlight – Subway Shuffle App

MacGeek reviews an addictive puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Video and more after the break.

MacGeek – iPhone update 2.2.1 available

We are free to Copy & Paste!! Oh…wait…that wasn’t in the update. Oh well, update details after the break.

MacGeek – Free Your iTunes Music: The Tutorial

This is a guide on how to use Apple’s own software to strip the DRM from the last six years’ worth of music.

Quest for the Ultimate PADD

I’ve been a fan of portable electronic organizers since my first one in the 1980s. I’d like to share my thoughts on the evolution of these devices through a historically review of the ones I’ve owned while on my quest for the ultimate PADD.

Circuit City Closing

Sixty years after opening its doors, Circuit City is going out of business. The electronics chain announced today that all of their U.S. stores will begin liquidating their stock immediately in order to pay off the company’s creditors. Circuit City stores in Canada will be unaffected by these closings.

Jobs takes a 6-month leave-of-absence from Apple

MacNN reported today that the Apple CEO cites “health related issues” for the absence.

GadgetGeek – Best of CES

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is complete for another year and has brought along lots of gadget & tech goodness. Here are some of what I feel are the most interesting tech to be announced.

GadgetGeek – Release Your DVDs to the Mobile World

Ever wanted to watch your favorite movie or TV show on the move? One excellent piece of software allows you to achieve this effortlessly and best of all its free!

Apple Implodes at MacWorld SF ‘09

Okay, so it didn’t implode, but Apple definitely leaves its last MacWorld with a wimper rather than a bang.

GadgetGeek – Archos 5g – Better than the iPhone ?

As we move into 2009, I see the battle for the best mobile internet and mobile media device will continue to develop. Here are some of my thoughts on a couple of the leaders.

GadgetGeek – Introductions

Introducing Geekshow Entertainment’s new tech and gadget writer, Simon Fidler.

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Apple iPhone 2.0 Update

Apple realeased their software update 2.0 on July 11th. This update was highly anticipated and hyped, but does it live up to the hype?

I got my hands on the update the day it came out and decided to wait a week or two before coming to any conclusions. Downloading apps from the Apple store is a breeze. You have two options to get your apps, from iTunes or from the new AppStore icon on the phone itself.

There were tons of free apps when the store launched and three times as many paid apps. Some apps are useless, while others are the best thing since sliced bread. My wife and I have had issues with some apps randomly crashing and/or taking the whole system with it. It seems that we experience this less and less since we are no longer just playing around and actually using the apps we are comfortable with.

There are a couple of new features added to the phone but the one most people asked for was a contacts button. Before, you had to go into the phone and there was an icon at the bottom for viewing and editing your contacts. Now there is an icon on the home screen that can be placed anywhere.

If you don’t have the 3G iPhone with GPS, you are not totally shut out when it comes to location specific apps. Using the cell tower triangulation technology, most apps will work fine. The apps that require more precise coordinates may seem buggy, but that’s to be expected without GPS.

The biggest expectation I had for this update was the ability to play games now. Sega has announced that the iPhone is about as powerful as the Dreamcast. This was no lie. With games like Super Monkey Ball being a launch title, this phone looks like it could be a great new gaming platform. The battery, however, is the only thing holding it back. Playing a simple tile game seems to drain my battery so fast that I have to plug it in to play.

Overall, I would say that Apple has finally made the iPhone worth the price, especially since they lowered the price. Now my only quarrel is with AT&T. Please lower the monthly cost. $200 a month for two phones is killing me!

One last thing I have to add, a new WordPress app was added to the store the other day, so this whole review was written on my iPhone.

Google Instant Messenger

We generally don’t cover a lot of tech news here. But today, some potentially huge tech news surfaced, and I thought I would share it with you guys. Google has released their much rumored instant messanger client today. Despite constant denial, they finally released it at http://talk.google.com/ this morning. I haven’t tried it so far, but being as how nearly everything they tough lately turns to gold, I thought it deserved a mention. Let us know how you like it in the messageboards