Here’s Homer Simpson’s iPhone. Pretty dull, actually. Only one page of apps, and most of them look like the defaults. No iFart? No iBeer? No iDoh? Wait – what’s that app there? Third row down, third from left

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After Street Fighter, Tekken’s one of the biggest fighting game franchises around. It’s no surprise, then, that the iconic Namco brawler would be quick to follow Capcom’s Street Fighter IV as an iPhone-specific port. There’s nothing official yet, but according to Pocket Gamer, an anonymous source has told them that iPhone and iPod Touch owners can

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Accessories , Reviews Provides: iPhone cradle with enhanced GPS reception Developer: Magellan Minimum Requirements: iPhone or iPod touch (2nd Generation or above) with Magellan RoadMate app Price: $129.99 Availability: Now If the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the iPhone’s built-in GPS receiver isn’t cutting it for you, you have basically two options to improve it; TomTom or Magellan.  Both function nearly identically. The main difference is that there’s only one Magellan version from which to pick for both iPhone and iPod touch. But how does it compare to TomTom’s car kit? I think the first thing I should discuss is why you might need a GPS enhancing car cradle. Obviously, you need something to hold your iPhone in the car if you plan to use it as a GPS navigation device. You could just get a standard car cradle, like the ones from JustMobile . This would work just fine, but you might notice your position in an app like TomTom or Navigon tends to jump around from time to time.

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  The Gregory Brothers use Macs and Auto-Tuning to make talking heads and politicians break into T-painfully infectious song.   Case Study: The Gregory Brothers Occupation: Musicians Gear: Mac Pro, Logic Pro 9 with Antares Auto-Tune and Celemony Melodyne plug-ins, Final Cut, Digidesign Digi 002 audio interface, USB MIDI keyboard, homemade green screen, iPhone. The Gregory Brothers–Evan, Michael, Andrew, and Sarah–have an EP of original bluesy-country-soul music available on iTunes. Joe Biden breaking into hyper-melody. The health care debate set to a funky-fresh beat. Congressmen warbling melodically about climate change. No, you’re not having a fever dream. You’re watching “ Auto-Tune the News ,” the YouTube sensation by Brooklyn-based musicians and lifelong Mac users the Gregory Brothers. Auto-Tune is a pitch-correcting technology appearing with increasing frequency in hip-hop tracks by artists like T-Pain and Akon. It was created to fix the pitchiness of talent-deficient singers, but when set to super-high levels of correction, it makes a singer (or rapper or talker) sound vaguely robotic. The Gregorys take the “Auto-Tune the heck out of everything” gimmick to a new level by creating Auto-Tuned songs from the voices of politicians and wonks in news footage and even C-SPAN.

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  The Gregory Brothers use Macs and Auto-Tuning to make talking heads and politicians break into T-painfully infectious song.   Case Study: The Gregory Brothers Occupation: Musicians Gear: Mac Pro, Logic Pro 9 with Antares Auto-Tune and Celemony Melodyne plug-ins, Final Cut, Digidesign Digi 002 audio interface, USB MIDI keyboard, homemade green screen, iPhone. The Gregory Brothers–Evan, Michael, Andrew, and Sarah–have an EP of original bluesy-country-soul music available on iTunes. Joe Biden breaking into hyper-melody. The health care debate set to a funky-fresh beat. Congressmen warbling melodically about climate change. No, you’re not having a fever dream. You’re watching “ Auto-Tune the News ,” the YouTube sensation by Brooklyn-based musicians and lifelong Mac users the Gregory Brothers

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Love was in the air. As was the smell of flowers and candies and chocolate and that really warm funny smell that comes out the vents of your MacBook when you’ve been streaming videos for hours. Yes, love. So instead of finishing off that Whitman’s Sampler, give your waistline and your scale a break and sample some of this week’s tasty treats from the Mac|Life crew. We promise: no coconut. Features: – 20 Years of Image Editing: Photoshop from 1.0 to CS4 – You’ve come a long way, baby. That’s right, little ol’ Photoshop’s all grown up now. It seems only yesterday that you were just a twinkle in Thomas Knoll’s Mac Plus when all people wanted was a way to fiddle with a tiny black and white image. Now, look at you

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In the first year that Macworld Expo San Francisco did not see Apple attend, the speculation leading up to the show was centered on what Macworld Expo would be like without its best known exhibitor. David Pogue gave us a look at the world without Apple, and then the show itself gave us a look at Macworld Expo without Apple. The results in both cases were still pretty enjoyable. In any other year, the start of Macworld Expo would mean looking forward to a riveting Stevenote with all sorts of product announcements. This year, the Expo started with David Pogue of the New York Times leaping on stage to do his best Steve Ballmer impersonation .

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Steve Jobs has been bad-mouthing Adobe’s Flash once again, according to a recent Business Insider report . The Apple head honcho recently visited the Wall Street Journal to demonstrate the iPad. During his stay he allegedly criticized Adobe’s Flash technology, with the intent to move the popular broadsheet newspaper away from using the web display technology. The report details that Apple’s CEO attempted to convince the Journal by downplaying Flash, describing it as a “CPU hog” that has “security holes.” He then added that Apple does not “spend a lot of energy on old technology” comparing Flash to other dead technologies, including Floppies, Firewire and even the humble CD. This continued dislike for Flash comes after Jobs downplayed Adobe’s technology at a town hall meeting with Apple employees earlier this month. But could the typically forward-thinking Steve Jobs, and in turn Apple, be acting too quickly in disregarding Flash? It’s commonly accepted that Adobe’s Flash does not run as effectively on Mac platforms as it does on Windows, with Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch even accepting that there are some problems . However, due to Flash’s widespread adoption, it seems that labeling it as a dead technology now is a premature move. The iPad’s widely reported lack of Flash means you can’t watch your favorite shows on Hulu, crop your corn on FarmVille or watch the latest video on the New York Times. Of course these are just a few examples of what a future without Flash would be like. But with hundreds of thousands of web sites playing host to flash content, it could be years before Apple’s desire becomes reality and a move away from the format is seen. So what alternatives could Apple be hoping to replace Adobe’s prevalent plugin with? HTML5 is the immediately obvious choice for replacing Flash, with Apple itself already using it

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Due to repeated and numerous customer complaints, and despite the fact that they seem to pretty regularly make their way into the top 25 and 50 lists of both free and paid apps, Apple decided this week to begin removing software from the App Store it deems “overtly sexual.” News of the policy change comes via a letter sent to the developer of “Wobble iBoobs,” which informed them that under the new guidelines the app was determined to be inappropriate and would be removed. In the letter, Apple explained that the App Store policies are subject to change, and that it is “constantly refining” its definition of what’s deemed appropriate, based at least in part on user feedback. TechCrunch received a copy of the email notifying Wobble iBoobs developers about the policy change and resulting removal of their app. Apple does note in the following excerpt that the ban is reversible: We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. If you believe you can make the necessary changes so that Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored) complies with our recent changes, we encourage you to do so and resubmit for review. While a few other similarly-themed apps have been removed from the App Store, too, apparently in keeping with the new policy changes, some others remain, raising the question of what exactly Apple categorizes as “overtly sexual.” The top 25 and 50 lists appear to have been scrubbed pretty much clean, but some apps in the Entertainment category still seem pretty sexual to me.

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It’s probably not easy for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to slip in & out of anywhere these days, but when he heads to New York to meet with newspaper publishers only days after announcing the iPad, it’s gotta be even worse. New York Magazine is reporting that Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with “50 top executives from The New York Times ” — and even the restaurant’s management didn’t know who the VIP guest would be. But on Wednesday night, Jobs came strolling in for his dinner meeting wearing what their source calls “a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing.” The Apple executive then proceeded to order a mango lassi and penne, neither of which are on the menu at the trendy Southern Asian restaurant. The whole affair was an “intimate, family-style gathering” according to the New York Magazine source, with Jobs sitting at the head of the table along with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger. Jobs demonstrated the iPad and its functions and spoke at length about how it could “serve the future of media.” While The New York Times certainly isn’t an iPad exclusive — rumors abound that the Times executives are wary of cutting such a deal with Apple — the paper was featured prominently at the media event to unveil the device. And ironically, Jobs himself confessed to his Times buddies that while he reads the paper online every day, even he likes to hold the Sunday edition in his hands. So much for the iPad killing print, we’d say…

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