Archive | February, 2009
Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” Ad Focuses on Children
The following ad is the first in a series of three new “I’m a PC” commercials from Microsoft that will feature young kids using Microsoft software in an effort to show how simple it can be. The video below shows a 4 1/2 year old girl hooking up a camera to her computer, importing a […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects Obama trampoline app for the iPhone
7. February 2009
First Apple rejects an iPhone game that lets you throw a shoe at George Bush, and now it rejects a game that lets you bounce a number of political figures up and down on a trampoline! Oh the humanity. According to TechCrunch, ‘Obama Trampoline’ lets users “select a known U.S. politician (both republicans and democrats) […]
Continue reading...Google e-books come to the iPhone, Kindle App on the horizon?
7. February 2009
As part of its initiative and lofty goal to scan every book ever made into electronic form, Google began by scanning in 1.5 million public domain books and making them available for download for PC users. Now, Google is taking that a step further as it recently announced that those same books will now be […]
Continue reading...Nickelodeon to release cartoon related iPhone Apps
7. February 2009
In yet another sign of the strength behind the iTunes App Store, Nickelodeon recently announced plans to develop applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch that center around a number of its cartoons, namely “SpongeBob SquarePants”, “Dora the Explorer”, and “iCarly.” If the iPod Touch is able to position itself as a must-have device for […]
Continue reading...Use your iPhone to help find missing children and wanted fugitives
7. February 2009
Recognizing criminals on Milk cartons is so 1980’s when you can now use an iPhone instead. A relatively new application in the iTunes App Store called “FBI Most Wanted” allows users to view pictures and listings of the most wanted men in America, and then gives them the ability to contact the nearest local FBI […]
Continue reading...Friday Morning Link Round Up
6. February 2009
Apple’s iPhone TV Ads Boost Individual App Sales – MacRumors Design of Apple Store in DC hits yet another wall – Washington Post The Kindle is not the next coming of the iPod – Roughly Drafted Sims 3 coming to the Mac and iPhone in Summer ’09 – TUAW Exploring Windows 7 on the Mac: […]
Continue reading...Apple Stores ban Facebook
6. February 2009
In an attempt to curb customers from browsing around Facebook for extended periods of time, Apple Stores recently banned access to the site on store computers. MySpace, another popular social networking site, was banned in 2007. I suppose this is the first time that MySpace has actually paved the way for Facebook. Talk about a […]
Continue reading...Playing “Hot N Cold” on the iPhone with Ocarina [Video]
6. February 2009
Check out this cool video of a guy using the iPhone app Ocarina to play the song “Hot N Cold” by Katy Perry. Towards the end he’s just singing and playing the guitar, but it’s still worth checking out.
Continue reading...Apple’s design process – the work behind the scenes
5. February 2009
BusinessWeek has an interesting article about Apple’s design process as relayed to SXSW conference goers by Apple Senior Engineering Manger Michael Lopp. An interesting excerpt: Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely. As Lopp put it: to “go crazy”. Then they also hold […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
5. February 2009
Apple recently rejected a Pakistani developers iPhone application that lets users use the iPhone’s accelerometer to hurl a virtual shoe at former President George W. Bush. If you recall, in the weeks preceding Bush’s tenure as President, he was giving a speech in Iraq when a journalist popped up and threw a shoe at him. […]
Continue reading...Analyst predcits that Apple is planning HDTV with DVR functionality
5. February 2009
AppleInsider reports: Although Apple has publicly denied interest in such markets, investment bank Piper Jaffray said Thursday it expects the company to introduce a networked television in the next two years and update its Apple TV set-top-box with DVR capabilities by year’s end. “We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two […]
Continue reading...The nuances of App Store pricing and marketing
5. February 2009
David Frampton, the creator of the popular iPhone game ‘Chopper’, has an extremely enlightening blog entry about his experiences with App Store pricing and marketing in iTunes. Frampton on the trend of lowering prices in order to boost sales volume: But the biggest problem with setting an app price at the lowest possible value is […]
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8. February 2009
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