iPhone 4 Bumpers Also a Hit

By Cody Fink

While I admit it’s somewhat of a silly product, Apple’s hip Bumpers for the iPhone 4 are apparently a big sell. TUAW reports that the cotton candy colors are almost selling as fast as the iPhone, four of the six colors – pink, white, orange, and blue – now have delayed shipping for July 2nd. We don’t know how many have actually sold, but the fact that shipping dates are being pushed back means that people are genuinely interested in protected their stainless steel investment.

Apple, these Bumpers should glow in the dark. I’d buy one of each color.

Macworld: Safari 5 Secrets

By Cody Fink

While they aren’t necessarily secrets, they are rather hidden features of the browsers that casual users might not even discover or need to explore. Though once revealed, they can be incredibly helpful. Macworld has posted four Safari 5 secrets that you might be interested in if you’re wanting the most out of Apple’s new web browser.

iPad Knockoff Runs Android - Doesn’t Look Half Bad

By Cody Fink

In the land of China, KIRF (keeping it real fake) products are quite common – some of the most notorious being attempts at mimicking Apple’s iPhone. Today, we have our first glimpse at an iPad KIRF… running Android.

AT&T Investigating iPhone 4 Pre-order Security Issues

By Cody Fink

The iPhone 4 pre-orders were plagued with an incredible mess of mis-payments, wrong account information, and overall bad juju. Yesterday Gizmodo readers sent the infamous blog details (rather, complaints) of the day’s events. It became an incredible security issue, as people ended up logging into others accounts - which allowed customers to purchase, change, or update information in their name. What’s worse is that of the customer’s who were successful, some were overcharged for their orders, or others had completely screwed up order information ranging from the wrong phone to weird plans.

As Charles who wrote in to Gizmodo puts it, “AT&T Sucks.”

iPhone 4 Demand Reported to be 10x Bigger than 3GS

By Cody Fink

Don’t get too excited just yet – we seriously doubt Apple really had ten million successful iPhone 4 pre-orderes amongst the problems AT&T had yesterday. Despite our wishful thinking, 9 to 5 Mac reports that Geman Telekom (who had problems similar to AT&T) revealed to NTV that demand for the iPhone 4 is ten times higher than that of the iPhone 3GS. Needless to say, 9 to 5 Mac is just as skeptical as we are, and even NTV doesn’t recognize that amount in a recent report this morning. It’s suggested that Apple has probably hit the the million mark, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated with more official numbers once the tally is counted.

Check the updates after the break!

iHub to Bring Wireless Local Network Syncing to OS X and iOS

By Cody Fink

There’s two problems I ultimately have with iOS and the devices that support it. The first is push notifications, and the second is the stupid cable. Focusing on the cable, why hasn’t Apple implemented a wireless solution yet? While they dilly-dally with a much wanted feature, Macworld reports that Nova Media has announced their own solution for wireless syncing called iHub.

Is This Felt & Leather iPad Case Worth it?

By Cody Fink

Appearing on Gizmodo a couple days ago, this Felt & Leather iPad Case – The Tilt from Hand Graft – has been making rounds on the Internet as a rather unique combination of case and stand. Though I find it to be functionally flawed.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Apple & Network Improvements

By Cody Fink

It’s a big deal when you’re the CEO of a company whose networks are straining under iPhone 4 pre-orders, dropped calls, and overall spotty 3G performance. Yet Randall Stephenson remains optimistic about the future of AT&T and Apple, and had rather positive things to say about Apple’s iPad.

GameSalad is a Game Creation Tool for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

By Cody Fink

If you’re not impressed with the games at this week’s E3, why not make your own? TUAW reports that GameSalad gives anyone the ability to create games for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. If you’ve ever wanted to create the platform adventure of your dreams, this is your chance. Though TUAW admits,

“Apparently, lots of people have that know-how, because there are already over 700 games that have used GameSalad’s development kit to bring their titles to the App Store. Herring showed me a few of them, and while they were playable, none of them really intrigued me. It’s tough to blame GameSalad for that, though; most of the fault on the games that I played came from the creators, not the tools.”

Hopefully we’ll see someone put these tools to good use, and in the meantime you can check it out for yourself here.

[via TUAW]

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