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Wednesday Morning Link Roundup
Apple’s Snow Leopard to load printer drivers on demand – AppleInsider ‘Rolando Lite’ Coming Soon – Touch Arcade Test your hearing with Audiometry for the iPhone – TUAW App Store hits 20,000 Applications – MacBlogz The Future of Television, starring the Apple TV and Boxee- NY Post Firm reiterates claims of entry-level iPhone this Spring […]
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 […]
Continue reading...Oregon Trail coming to the iPhone… eventually
Monday, February 9, 2009
“I Tried to Ford the River, and my Oxen Died” – a classic line from everyone’s favorite 1980’s edutainment video game, Oregon Trail. Soon, iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to relive the excitement of living life on the trail as a pioneer during the 1800’s, all from the comfort of their 21st […]
Continue reading...Friday Morning Link Round Up
Friday, February 6, 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 rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
Thursday, February 5, 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...Child Prodigy in Singapore writes iPhone apps
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A fourth grader from Singapore has written a drawing app for the iPhone called “Doodle Kids”, and its already been downloaded over 4,000 times. The fourth grader, named Lim Ding Wen, happens to be fluent in six, count em’ SIX!, programming languages, and he’s currently hard at work on another iPhone game called “Invader Wars”. […]
Continue reading...iPhone users download games like crazy
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new report from ComScore shows that over the past year, downloads of mobile games increased by 17%. Naturally, a huge reason for this increase is the ever-growing popularity of smartphones, which are significantly more geared towards gaming than regular voice phones. What’s even more interesting is the fact that iPhone users are seemingly downloading […]
Continue reading...Is Apple working on a dedicated gaming device?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The iTunes App Store, fueled by the popularity of gaming applications, continues to grow at an astounding rate. Though Apple has never taken gaming too seriously, it did a complete 180 once it noticed how well they were selling on iTunes. In fact, the iPod Touch is now advertised more as a gaming device than […]
Continue reading...Is Apple planning opening up a premium games section on the App Store?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Pocketgamer is reporting that Apple has plans to open up a section on the iTunes App Store dedicated solely to games priced over $19.99. ..The initiative will only be open to a restricted number of large publishers, rather than the thousands of smaller developers currently selling their titles on the main App Store. The rumour […]
Continue reading...More iPhone developers strike it rich
Thursday, January 15, 2009
First there was Trism, then there was iFart, and now there’s iSteam. The latest story of an iPhone developer striking it rich comes by way of a couple of 22 year olds who have already earned $100,000 for their iPhone app called “iSteam”. iSteam is a program that makes it appear that you have a […]
Continue reading...Clever new iPhone App – iSteam
Friday, January 2, 2009
Check out the video below for this new iPhone app called iSteam. It essentially turns your screen into a “Steam” screen, and lets you write messages on it as you would on a steamed up bathroom mirror. Very clever and original! It’s free and you can find it on iTunes over here.
Continue reading...GTA IV makes fun of Apple, predicts iPhone 3G reception problems
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
As 2008 comes to an end, we thought we’d look back at one of the best Apple spoofs from the last year. And the winner, hands down, is Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA IV hit like a bombshell when it was released in April, received a ton of accolades, and subsequently won a few “Game […]
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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