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XKCD hilariously takes on misleading app review ratings [Comic]
The delightfully nerdy and often hilarious XKCD comic – from the mathematically geared mind of Randall Munroe – recently tackled the misleading nature of app store star ratings. But even more pertinent, we think, is Munroe’s take on the the hilarious and pointless nature of many app reviews one typically stumbles across on iTunes. Nothing […]
Continue reading...OS X Lion’s new gestures visualized [Hilarious Photo]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
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OS X Lion is great and all, and we’re still coming around on the new scrolling mechanism, not to mention the new scrollbars and the like, so the always entertaining folks from Joy of Tech did us all a solid and came up with this handy graphic depicting some of OS X Lion’s lesser known […]
Continue reading...Dilbert on the iPhone 4G [Comic]
Monday, April 26, 2010
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams delivers comedy gold in the form of two, count ’em two, comics which poke fun at the leaked iPhone 4G story. Adams notes that if he waited the usual amount of time from draft to finished product, the iPhone 4G comic wouldn’t drop until June 18th. Figuring that the story would […]
Continue reading...Will the Marvel app for the iPad taint the comic book reading experience?
Friday, April 2, 2010
In a long post detailing why he won’t be getting a iPad, Cory Doctorow takes umbrage with the Marvel app for the iPad: I was a comic-book kid, and I’m a comic-book grownup, and the thing that made comics for me was sharing them. If there was ever a medium that relied on kids swapping […]
Continue reading...Hands on review of Marvel Comics app for the iPad [Video]
Friday, April 2, 2010
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Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing takes a close look at Marvel Comics new iPad app and it looks pretty sweet. Xeni writes that over 500 titles will be available when the iPad goes on sale this Saturday, and that many of the selections will be priced at $1.99 – though a few will be available for […]
Continue reading...Marvel to start selling digital comic books on iTunes, and why the format might help children learn
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Marvel Entertainment announced at the New York Comic Con that it would begin selling a new form of digital comics on iTunes. According to GeeksOfDoom, this new breed of comic, which are called motion comics, will “feature panels that animate scenes and add spoken dialog from voice actors.” Intriguing. It all sounds pretty cool, and […]
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Friday, August 12, 2011
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