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My top 3 iPhone apps: Angry Mac Bastards [NSFW]
If you've never heard the Angry Mac Bastards podcast you may not be aware (although you may have guessed from the title of their show) that there is some "salty" language, if you will. Who are we kidding? Profanity permeates their show. The swearing is resplendent in this week's installment of "3 apps" -- so brace yourself, this video is well beyond PG-13. Still, the AMB crew of Peter Cohen and John C. Welch (partner Darby Lines was not around) are quite hilarious in this extended remix edition of "My top 3 apps." Yes, technically we asked them their "favorite" 3 apps this time. The rant on cheap, $0.99 apps is worth the wait as they note "premium apps" have a place on the store and on your iPhone. If you are easily offended, next week we'll have a kinder, gentler edition of My top 3 iPhone apps. Until then, swear-laden video is on the next page, plus a list of the apps mentioned with handy iTunes links. We've come in for our share of abuse from the AMB from time to time on their show, but we hope this video shows those Bastards that there are no hard feelings. Well, relatively few hard feelings.
My top 3 iPhone apps: T-Pain
We're starting a new series at TUAW called "My top 3 iPhone apps" -- and to kick it off, we're starting with rapper T-Pain. We caught up with the Auto-Tune master himself at CES promoting the I Am T-pain microphone, based on the popular iPhone app. He let us know his top three iPhone apps; one of them is the Delta app, because the man is a true jet-setter (and has a crazy travel schedule). Look for more "My top 3 iPhone apps" video segments featuring other personalities and celebrities, each Saturday right here on TUAW.
ASUS courting Toshiba in bid to become top-3 PC maker?
ASUS has already gone public with its plans to jump past Dell to become the number three PC vendor by 2011. Naturally, with fierce competition from all sides, the Taiwanese PC maker isn't going to achieve this by simply slapping the Eee logo onto everything it can build; acquisitions are the key to that kind of rapid growth. So it's no surprise to hear Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, listing Toshiba's PC business amongst its possible targets for acquisition according to the Commercial Times. After all, Toshiba's estimated 5% global marketshare is enough to bring ASUS within wrastlin' distance of Round Rock, Tejas. In a shocking admission by Shih, talks have already begun but the results are not yet finalized.
