In the age of COVID-19, smart health gadgets are a sound investment. The Thermo Smart Temporal Thermometer by Withings is called smart for a reason: the innovative design takes over 4,000 measurements to ensure accuracy, and the Thermo syncs with an accompanying app, which makes monitoring your own health and that of your loved ones much easier.
OWC introduces yet another impressive gadget in the company's esteemed tech collection. OWC's Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C solid state drive (SSD) allows you to save your work quickly and easily, even on the go. The rugged drive is waterproof, dustproof, and crushproof, all while being the size of the front pocket in your blue jeans—half the size of a smartphone.
(Sponsored Post) By Erin MacPherson on Thu, 11/12/2020
If you've purchased a new iPhone 12, you're going to want to do everything you can to protect it. Drops and scratches can wreak havoc with your iPhone, both functionally and aesthetically. Even if you're not planning to purchase a new iPhone this year, you still want to protect the trade-in value of your existing phone in case you decide to upgrade down the road! When it comes to protecting my iPhone, I'm sold on Raptic Shield iPhone 12 Case ($29.99), and not just because they're some of the most affordable high-quality cases on the market.
By Mike Riley
Dire Wolf Digital has been making quite a name for itself as a preeminent digital board game conversion developer. Its latest release is a highly rated board game from 2018 that pits forest creatures against one another for dominance of the land. The game is essentially an area control and resource management title with a couple unique twists and die rolls to spice up randomized outcomes. Has Dire Wolf struck gold digging its conversion expertise into Root ($9.99)? Read on to find out.
By Mike Riley
With the advent of streaming gaming services along with the migration of Apple Silicon-powered laptops to run iOS applications, the ability to play high-end, graphically intense games on iOS devices has arrived. PlayStation 4 owners have had the ability to stream their PS4 games to their iPads or iPhones ever since Sony released its free PS4 Remote app. Unfortunately, even though Microsoft has provided Android users the ability to do the same for Xbox owners, iOS users are still waiting for official support. Given the ongoing public battles between Apple and Microsoft on being allowed to stream games via Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service, Xbox owners wanting to stream games to their iOS devices need a third-party alternative.
By Mike Riley
One of my favorite digital board game translations of all time is Temple Gates Games' Race for the Galaxy ($6.99). Shortly after releasing Race, Temple Gates announced it was working on the dice-based version of the game, appropriately called Roll for the Galaxy ($9.99). Several years later, the company has finally made good on its promise with the simultaneous release of the game on PC, Android, and iOS. Read on to find out if Roll for the Galaxy is my new favorite digital board game.
Apple introduced the ability to take full page, or scrolling, screenshots in Safari with iOS 13. In addition to web pages, users can take a full page screenshot in the iPhone Notes app and iPad Notes app. This means that, rather than capturing only the section of the note that's visible on your display, you'll now be able to do a full page screen capture on your iPhone or iPad. Let's get started learning how to screenshot a whole note on your iPhone or iPad. You can use this tip to learn how to take a full page screenshot on the iPhone SE (first generation) and later models, including the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone 11, and the iPhone 12 series. You can also take a full page screengrab in the Notes app with the Pad Air 2 and later, all iPad Pro models, the iPad 5th generation and later, and the iPad mini 4 and later.
By Mike Riley
Feral Interactive has been at the forefront of PC-to-iOS game conversions, and its latest conquest is the highly rated 2006 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes ($13.99) by Relic Entertainment. Does Feral's iOS prowess reincarnate a nearly 15 year old classic into the modern era of touch-based gesture gaming? Read on to find out.
By Mike Riley
While nearly all of the headphones I review for iPhone Life are wireless, there are those rare occasions when a product comes along that is so unique with lofty claims that warrant further investigation. Such a product is AIAIAI's TMA-2 HD wired modular headphones ($295). Just like vinyl records compared to CD's, wired headphones still offer an edge over their wireless counterparts in terms of audio fidelity since, unlike Bluetooth, there is no compression or manipulation of audio data to factor in wireless transmission data size or errors. And since all iPad models still include a headphone jack and there are people who don't want to deal with the hassles of maintaining a battery charge with their headsets just to quietly listen to music or watch a video, this review is mostly for them.
In the 147th episode, David and Donna are joined by iPhone Life's CTO Raphael Burnes to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the M1—the first Apple-designed processor for the Mac. Tempted to buy the 2020 MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, or Mac mini with an M1 processor? Listen to this first!
