August 29, 2011 | Digital Life

MIT and Princeton have come up with a way to avoid red lights if you drive slow enough. SignalGuru, an iPhone app, uses pictures from dash-mounted smartphones to calculate the speed you should travel to avoid hitting red light, or having to brake.

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January 18, 2010 | News

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OK, you’ve heard of the $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app, right? It was a dummy app that did nothing but announce to onlookers that you are rich enough to afford the program. At a thousand dollars, it sold eight copies before Apple pulled the plug on it. Now there’s a new app trying to [...]

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May 28, 2009 | Digital Life, Software and Downloads

This month’s New Yorker cover was drawn by artist Jorge Colombo while standing outside the wax museum in Times Square. He used an iPhone application called Brushes. There’s a video on the New Yorker site which shows how he did it. The video is created by another Brushes application called Brushes Viewer, which converts the [...]

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