Month: July 2009

App of the Week: Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid

July 29, 2009 admin

Ready for a sequel that outplays the original? Rolando 2 breaks new ground, taking you underwater and up in the sky, offering new vehicles and weapons, and featuring a new 3D look and 45 levels of play. Like the original, it encourages you to touch, tilt, and slide your Rolandos to new levels of achievement. You can let friends know about your high scores, or challenge them via Facebook or email. Will you be able to discover the Golden Orchid?

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Troubleshooting the iTunes Store for iPhone and iPod touch

July 29, 2009 admin

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Financial Times Confirms Apple Tablet Features, September La

July 28, 2009 admin

According to the Financial Times, Apple is racing to launch the fabled Apple tablet in September, along with new iPods. They claim Apple is working with record labels and book publishers on new iTunes features created for the new device: More: continued here

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iTunes Store to add enhanced liner notes to album purchases

July 28, 2009 admin

Digital music purchases have been dominating the market for some time now as physical CD purchases continue to fall. For Apple, a significant lead over the rest of the music proprietor world is not enough: according to the Financial Times, the company is now working together with the four largest record labels in the business…

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Apple won’t accept augmented reality iPhone apps till Sept

July 28, 2009 admin

iPhone owners are excited to get their hands on the augmented reality applications, such as the one for finding nearby subways or for tracking down Twitter neighbors. But Apple is holding them from the App Store until v3.1 comes out, expected in September. More: continued here

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Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated

July 28, 2009 admin

Boing Boing Gadgets’ fantastic ease-of-netbook-Hackintoshing chart just got updated with three new models (all pretty promising) and a smattering of changes throughout. If you’re thinking about… More: continued here

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Bikinis, Weed and Booze Top iPhone App Lifestyle Category

July 28, 2009 admin

Time Inc., which publishes Sports Illustrated, announced that one day after launch its “SI Swimsuit 2009” iPhone app is the number-one paid lifestyle application in Apple’s App Store. The #2 and #3 apps are Ajnag’s “Cannibis” app (helps you locate medicinal marijuana collectives), and Digital Outcrop’s “Mixologist – 7900 Drink & Cocktail Recipes. More: continued…

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Review: Plants vs. Zombies game

July 28, 2009 admin

This is one of the most clever and original strategy games out there. Plants vs. Zombies leaves you hungry-not for brains, but for more games like it. Let’s hope there’s a sequel taking root. More: continued here

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Apple Again Allows Promo Codes for Mature-Rated Apps

July 28, 2009 admin

In a move that is sure to please many developers, Apple has decided to again grant promotional codes to mature App Store software rated for ages 17 and up — a distinction that still includes all browser-embedded apps. More: continued here

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Foxconn official says employee had suspicious history

July 28, 2009 admin

After a Foxconn employee allegedly committed suicide when an iPhone prototype vanished, an official with the Chinese manufacturing company said the former employee had demonstrated a pattern of suspiciously losing products. More: continued here

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Sonos unveils new Music System controller, software

July 28, 2009 admin

Sonos has announced a revamped hardware controller for the company’s Multi-Room Music System, as well as a major software update for the system as a whole. More: continued here

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Handwriting recognition service for Mac comes to Pulse Smartpen

July 28, 2009 admin

Livescribe and Vision Objects have teamed up to provide a Mac-friendly handwriting-to-text transcription service for the Pulse Smartpen, a computerized pen that captures audio and links it to handwritten notes. More: continued here

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Bugs & Fixes: Failure to launch bugs

July 28, 2009 admin

Some high-profile software updates this week from Apple and Microsoft both exhibited similar bugs in which updated apps either failed to launch or couldn’t open existing files. Ted Landau explains what’s up. More: continued here

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More Reasonable Rumor about the 10-Inch Apple Tablet

July 28, 2009 admin

Yet another rumor about Apple’s fabled touchscreen tablet has emerged, with sources claiming the product will hit stores in early 2010. There has been many contradictory rumors, but this one out of all seems the most reasonable because apple wouldn’t want to kill the sales of macbook during back to school season. Expected to release…

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Update and restore alert messages on iPhone and iPod touch

July 27, 2009 admin

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