Archive for October 28th, 2009

Video: Watch Apple’s Jonny Ive Geek Out Over Reductive Design

Here’s Apple’s head designer Jonny Ive geeking out over reducing lots of parts to one single, unibody part — beautiful. From the recent ‘Objectified’ documentary about industrial design

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WootWatch

Are you a shopaholic? WootWatch is a free iPhone app from David Rahardja that lets you check out the daily deal from Woot on your iPhone or iPod touch.

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Priceline Hotel Negotiator

Priceline Hotel Negotiator is a new free iPhone app that helps you find hotel deals on the go starring the Priceline spokesman, William Shatner. Launching the app plays the familiar…

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The dark side of Skee-Ball for iPhone

Filed under: Gaming , iPhone , App Review I won’t make any excuses, and I won’t beat around the bush: I’m addicted to Skee-Ball [ iTunes link ], at least to the very-entertaining iPhone version from Freeverse . In fact, the reason I haven’t written about it until now is that every time I get ready, I decide a little more “research” is in order, and I find myself on another Skee-bender.

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Welcome to CultofMac.com’s Redesign, How Much Do You Hate It?

We’ve redesigned the top of the site to make it easier to navigate, bring more attention to our top stories, and add a couple more ad units, which we haven’t turned on yet. The biggest change is the sidebar, which is now located on the left instead of the right. We’re not certain that’s a good

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Plex 0.8.3 brings on the Snow Leopard love fest

Filed under: Multimedia , Open Source , Snow Leopard If you’re rocking the Mac mini — or any other Mac, for that matter –as a media center, then chances are pretty good that you’ve had some tough times following the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Anticipating such problems, some of us held off upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Now the wait is over

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iPhone app claims 95% piracy rate

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Hacks , Apple , Developer , iPhone , App Store With all of the success stories coming out of the App Store, it’s been pretty easy to forget the problem of piracy for most developers. Not so for Fishlabs , who’ve posted over on the Touch Arcade forums that their latest game, Rally Master Pro 3D , is experiencing a 95% piracy rate. You read that right: supposedly 95% of the people playing the game on the iPhone haven’t paid for it

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GeoMaster makes geography fun – yes, really

Filed under: Gaming , iPhone , iPod touch The French developers at Visuamobile make exceptionally well-designed apps. They sent me a promo code for GeoMaster [ iTunes Link ], and I wondered aloud how they would make geography attractive, both visually and as a game.

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Syncing iPhone and iPod Touch With Linux Now Possible

If you are on Linux and have been wondering how to sync your non-jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch with your Linux computer, the solution is finally here. Hector Martin from the MarcanSoft blog recently announced an unofficial solution that could make life easy for the Linux users.

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WordWeaver

Word games on the iPhone have come a long way, and WordWeaver from Mini Monster Media, is pushing the envelope yet again with a brilliant iPhone word game. So you know there are hundreds of other..

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Giant iPhone wedding cake threatens to devour us all

Filed under: Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , iPhone Or maybe it was devoured first? Jerry Brito emailed a link to his wedding cake photos , made by the good folks at Charm City Cakes .

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Pic of the Day: A Most Marvelously Detailed iPhone Wedding Cake

What says “I love you” better than a big iPhone cake? This cake was made by Charm City Cakes (of ‘Ace of Cakes’ fame) for iPhone fanboy Jerry Brito and his lovely bride. It’s fantastically detailed — from the icons onscreen to the screws next to the speakers on bottom.

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Marware Introduces Sports Grip for iPod nano 5G

Marware, maker of iPod and iPhone accessories, Wednesday introduced a sports grip for Apple’s update iPod nano. The $19.99 sports grip provides a slip-free silicone surface which also protects the device’s sides, top and back

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