MacRumors iPhone and iPad Blog: Apps, News, and Rumors

iPhone owners who have a tendency to lose their parked cars but not their phones may want to check out Parkbud. The app, which touts itself as a "hand-sculpted luxury parking app", includes a number of useful features to guide users back to wherever they left their car, all wrapped in a slick and polished interface. There are a quite a few parking reminder apps, but with a wide variety of...

Earlier today, a photo was sent to both MacRumors and 9to5Mac showing an instructional image included in the latest iPhoto 9.2 beta that includes an unusual looking iPhone-like device. The image has naturally led to speculation that it could represent the iPhone 5. German site Appdated.de has also posted some actual screenshots showing the image in question. Aside from the...

JibJab, the company behind the smash political parody This Land in 2004, has kept busy the past few years with more political videos and commercial work for various companies. With their latest product, the brothers behind JibJab, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, are getting away from political satire and focusing on their kids. The pair is introducing a new line of children's books exclusively...

New Zealand's TechDay.co.nz claims to have exclusive date on the New Zealand launch date for the iPhone 5. Now, with fans clamouring for news of the iPhone 5, Techday has learned from a source within Apple that the device will be launched here in New Zealand on October 9.Early October has been the recent rumor consensus on when the iPhone 5 might actually become available to customers. There has ...

Apple has removed the Financial Times app from the App Store after the FT refused to acquiesce to Apple's updated guidelines regarding in-app subscriptions. Instead, the FT launched a well-regarded HTML5 web app in June, designed specifically for the iPad and iPhone, to provide a similar service to the now-defunct app. An email announcing the switch said the "new app is now the focus of our...

Flapcraft is a gorgeously drawn ">one-off game from the developers of Pixelmator. In it, users control a "Flapcrafter" -- a Viking who, in the absence of any wars to fight, tries to fly by standing on a log (and upgrading it with wings, rockets and other improbable things). The developers note that they aren't getting into the game business -- on the contrary, they made Flapcraft as a way of ...

Grand Prairie, Texas is experiencing an epidemic of fake Apple products -- but not the kind from a fake Apple Store. The details of this scam come from the Grand Prairie police department: A car load of two or three males will pull up to someone at a convenience store or shopping center parking lot and it’s “Pssst, hey buddy. Want to buy an Apple iPad or MacBook?” They will tell the...

Adobe is expanding its suite of iOS apps with >CreatePDF, a universal app that takes files in a number of different formats and converts them to PDFs. This ensures that formatting and document layouts are preserved when passing them on to coworkers or clients. The app uses Adobe's online PDF creation service to do the heavy lifting. Some apps, including the iWork apps from Apple, already...

Dominique Leca, the co-founder of the much-loved Sparrow mail client, tells Business Insider that his team is working on an iPhone version of Sparrow. BI: Isn't one of Apple's rules for the mobile App Store that you can't "duplicate functionality"? DL: Yes, but on the Mac, they can't really apply it, so you've got a way out. You can license your software without being considered a rogue...

PopCap games is offering Bejeweled 2 + Blitz for free through Sunday morning, as part of a FreeAppADay promotion. Bejeweled has been a $0.99 app for nearly a year, but was $2.99 before that. It was one of the first major apps to be launched on the iPhone, selling for $9.99 in August of 2008. PopCap claims Bejeweled is the world's most popular puzzle game, and is a big part of why Electronic...

Forbes notes that Apple's longtime camera sensor supplier for its iOS devices, OmniVision Technologies, today offered remarkably weak guidance for the current quarter, suggesting that Apple may indeed have shifted camera orders for the iPhone 5 to Sony.For FY [Q2], the company sees revenue of $255 million to $275 million, and non-GAAP profits of 52-64 cents a share, well short of the Street...

SPY mouse is the latest game from Firemint, the Australian developer behind Real Racing and Flight Control. In the game, players guide Agent Squeak through 72 levels on 6 worlds, gathering up precious cheese. The control scheme is very similar to Flight Control, with players tracing Squeak's path through the various levels, swiping to avoid obstacles, cats, and using "zany gadgets, gizmos...

It's not just pilots who are finding iPads help them at work. Football players are too. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have given all 90 of their players iPad 2s, loaded with playbooks, and practice and situational videos from any NFL team. The iPads are considerably easier to use, and carry around, than thick books the size of Yellow Pages, and spending hours sitting around a projector watching...

Documentary film producer and web developer Steve Rosenbaum's "The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future" app is an interactive look at the history of the World Trade Center. It chronicles the original development of the towers, the 9/11 attacks, and the lengthy rebuilding process of the memorial and museum. The New York Observer reports the app will have 400 still photographs and hours of ...

In line with reports that the iPhone 5 will debut in "mid-October", AppleInsider reports that Apple and its longtime advertising partner TBWA/Chiat/Day are beginning work on an advertising campaign to support the new device, with production on the first round of television commercials said to be wrapping up in the first week of October.More specifically, one person familiar with the matter says ...

Reuters reports that Apple and China Telecom continue to be engaged in talks regarding bringing the iPhone to China's third-largest carrier. China Telecom currently has over 100 million wireless subscribers, making it larger than either AT&T or Verizon in the United States."We have a confidential agreement with Apple and can't tell you anything as of now," Wang told a news conference after the ...

New "iPhone 5" cases based on the leaked design document have started appearing online. True Supplier has posted a new "hard shell" case design for the iPhone 5, in addition to the soft case designs we'd seen previously. These new cases show the same tapered back design of the leaked design document, as well as the mute switch being moved to the other side. We'd previously had rende...

Apple has lowered the price of a refurbished entry-level 16GB iPad 1 to $299. The price seems to have been dropped this weekend and is the lowest price we've seen for an iPad direct from Apple. All Apple's refurbished products come with the same warranty as new ones and include a new battery and aluminum outer shell. This weekend HP slashed the price of its now-cancelled TouchPad tablet...