Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Nullriver has added a $9.99 utility to the app store called NetShare, which acts as a SOCKS5 proxy for your computer's browser to view web pages. This isn't quite tethering, which may explain why Apple allowed it to be released, but it is something.
Update - Apple pulled it down. Huge ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Garfield Minus Garfield concept is being turned into a book, published by Ballantine Books and sanctioned by Jim Davis.
The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison. Dublin, Ireland-based Garfield Minus Garfield creator Dan ...
Posted in Books, Web |
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Steve O'Grady has posted a fantastic Q&A with Joe Hildebrand, CTO of Jabber, Inc.
In all, XMPP has been around for almost 10 years. It is open, standardized, robust, widely-implemented, and straightforward to understand compared to most other protocols in this space. Yes, it’s different than HTTP, or anything else a ...
Posted in Web, XMPP |
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
This is how you design with CSS. These guys will probably get a ton of business from the link being passed around alone. Inspired.
Posted in Design, Web |
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
If you have an iPhone 3G and, say, car stereo integration, you may have noticed that your phone no longer charges while connected. How nice of Apple to move pins around. Ridax may have the solution to your woes.
Many devices made for earlier iPods or iPhones can no longer provide ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
TimesOnline has an interesting interview with George Lucas.
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the ...
Posted in Movies, Star Wars |
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
TechCrunch on the Microsoft Spherical Multi-Touch Computer Display 2008 Professional Edition:
Not content with a PC on every desktop, Microsoft wants to see every available surface become a computer screen. It has already developed a multi-touch Surface Computer (which is being used in AT&T stores), and turned that vertical in a multi-touch wall. Now, it’s ...
Posted in Technology |
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Corey Gilmore compares the speed of newly-launched Cuil to Google. Unsurprisingly, Google wins.
Posted in Google |
Monday, July 28th, 2008
The New York Times shares venture capitalists' advice to develop applications for all mobile platforms:
Startups should “intelligently hedge their bets across multiple platforms,” advised Richard Wong of Accel Partners. His firm has invested in mobile games and application site GetJar, “the store for the other 3 billion phones that aren’t ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
There's a lot of concern right now about the restrictive NDA that comes with the iPhone SDK. Chiefly, the concern is that people can't hold developer meetings, share ideas, write books, or open their code without breaking the agreement and risking the wrath of Apple.
One need only look to ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Chris Morris at Forbes has a story on Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata's warning that the Wii will likely still be in short supply this coming holiday season.
"We are really intending to increase the shipments to the U.S., especially compared to last year," says Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's global president ...
Posted in Games |
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
TechCrunch seems to think that Apple will be releasing a red iPhone 3G for the holiday season.
The red iPhone will presumably be sold as part of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, a charitable organization that donates money to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. Apple has released several products for ...
Posted in Apple |
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Unless you're running Internet Explorer ((IE breaks with negative margins. It's 2008. Get a better browser.)), you may have noticed the arrow button logo at the top of the page. The "_/" has received an unexpected degree of praise, but it seemed like something was missing.
Several concepts have been bouncing ...
Posted in Design |
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Amusingly honest description from Astronomer, a $4.99 stargazing app.
Astronomer makes browsing the stars fun. With multi-touch to pan, zoom, and spin around in the sky, Astronomer knows where you are and shows you the stars as you see them. Takes advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch's gravity sensor, so ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
TechCrunch shares the rumor of an app store beta program:
Details are slim, but it seems like Apple is capping the total number of beta participants at 100 per app. In order to download a beta app, users will need to submit their iPhone’s serial number to the developer, who will ...
Posted in Apple |