Flipbooks are those little paperback books with a series of images arranged so that you can flip from front to back and watch what looks like a very short movie. Flickbooks is an iPhone app that lets you create a flipbook. Here’s how it works. You download and install the free app, shoot a short video with your iPhone’s camera, design front and back covers,… Read more »

WeatherBug provides several weather apps for Android, with WeatherBug Elite sitting at the top of the heap. This version of the app is ad-free and includes some premium features including radar animations. Normally the app costs $1.99, but Amazon is offering WeatherBug Elite for free today only. I took the app for a spin, and while I’m not exactly a weather junkie (I don’t see… Read more »

The AT&T Zero Charger is a power adapter that lets you recharge any mobile device that charges through a USB cable. It also uses technology from Freescale which is designed to automatically shut off the charger when your battery is full to kill vampire energy draw. When I met with Freescale earlier this year, the company gave me a Zero charger. I’ve tested it periodically… Read more »

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Grallery is a free app for iPhone that makes the tedious work of finding superb smartphone wallpaper easy. Personalizing the iPhone in detail is no easy task, but Grallery makes the process feel natural and simple. The app is essentially a library of user generated wallpapers, and its user interface is stunningly clean. The Grallery icon itself is a crisply designed logo, and the corresponding launch… Read more »

Mobiputing is looking for mobile tech enthusiasts to contribute mobile app reviews and news reports. The ideal candidate is an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, webOS, or Windows Phone power user with a passion for finding, recommending, and talking about apps. You need to have your own smartphone or tablet to test apps, and familiarity with multiple platforms such as iPhone and Android is a plus. You… Read more »

The basic purpose of the iPhone lock screen is to keep your device from turning on accidentally when it’s in your pocket. But that doesn’t mean that the only thing that matters on the screen is the “slide to unlock” switch at the bottom of the screen, as anyone who’s ever pulled their phone out of their pocket just to check the time can tell… Read more »

Research in Motion recently rolled out a new app which provides real-time traffic updates, courtesy of other BlackBerry users. From an end-user perspective, you simply enter and address and BlackBerry Traffic will estimate how long it will take for you to get from point A to point B, based on current conditions or historical data if current information isn’t available. You can set home and… Read more »

Classic open source dungeon-crawler NetHack has been around since the mid-80s, and it looks like it, thanks to its low quality graphics. In fact, you can even opt to play NetHack using ASCII art instead of tiled graphics. That said, there’s something addictive about this simple game, which probably has something to do with the fact that you can play it over and over and… Read more »

Say you’ve got an Android phone with a nice high resolution 800 x 480 pixel display. You can fit an awful lot of text and graphics in 800 x 480 pixels… but the way Android works, the home screen and most apps pretty much look the same on a high resolution display as they do on a 400 x 240 pixel screen… just sharper. ResToggle… Read more »