Archive for January, 2010

Apple Corrects iPad Demo Video; Reconfirms it Has No Plans to Support Flash

If you were hopeful that Apple iPad would support Flash based on Apple’s official iPad video then we’ve some bad news. Apple has just corrected the iPad demo video by removing the Flash content from it. It now shows the broken Flash plug-in icon

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How many icons on that iPad dock?

Filed under: Rumors , SDK A reader has sent us the above screen shot. It clearly shows six application icons on the iPad dock

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Voice Mark Lets You Audio Tag and Go

Voice Mark — If you and your iPhone 3G or 3GS get around a lot, you may find it’s sometimes hard to remember your impressions about each place you’ve visited. GeoGraffiti’s Voice Mark provides you with the ability create audio geotags of each location that interests you as well as listen to the audio geotags created by other users of this app.

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Catan: The First Island brings tabletop gaming glee to iPhone

Filed under: Gaming , Features , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Catan . If you’ve ever visited, there’s a good chance you’re passionate about it.

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Infographic: Cost/benefit analysis of the entry-level iPad and six other ereaders

In the tradition of the Billshrink infographics, Darren Beckett has thrown together this nice little infographic comparing the entry-level iPad’s cost and functions to other popular e-readers like the Amazon Kindle DX and the Fusion Garage Joo Joo . While the iPad ties as the most expensive on the list, I think it’s fairly obvious if you need anything more than a simple e-reader, the iPad offers the most bang for your buck.

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PlacePop

PlacePop, with their self-titled iPhone app, is another social networking tool at your fingertips. It uses your iPhone’s GPS to locate businesses, restaurants, bars, parks, etc. around you, which you can then Check-In at (you can also search for the location).

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VIDEO: A Rare Look at the Man Behind Apple

Filed under: Steve Jobs ABC News had an interesting piece on last night about Steve Jobs, naming him “ABC World News Person of The Week” . The segment includes a rare look at Jobs’ personal life growing up.

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Anrufen Online

If you’ve been looking for an MMORPG on the iPhone, you may be interested in Anrufen Online. Originally released by WiSTONE Wireless Entertainment for the Symbian OS, there are currently 3 servers: English, Chinese and Russian, all of which are cross-platform.

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iPad inside, but what was going on outside?

Filed under: Humor We were all glued to our computers watching the latest feeds of what was happening inside at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27th, but what was going on outside? Thanks to Current TV’s infoMania Tech Reporter Ben Hoffman (who was never going to get through the doors under any condition), we now know.

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Got some time? Crush the Castle

Filed under: Gaming , Odds and ends , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review I admit it. I am iPadded out. I am iTired

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How to "clean install" Snow Leopard

Filed under: Hardware , OS , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Troubleshooting , MacBook A friend’s MacBook had slowed down to a snail’s pace. Despite looking everywhere for the issue, streamlining everything I could, and yelling at it, it failed to accelerate to usable speed.

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iPhone OS 3.2 supports video calling, file downloads, SMS and…multitasking?

Filed under: SDK Engadget has just confirmed with “extremely trusted sources” that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain that mysterious space at the top of the iPad’s leaked pictures they received. Engadget’s sources said there are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which suggests a front-facing camera) and — most importantly — run the video call in either full screen mode or in just a portion of the screen

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More rumored Telltale plans for the Mac

Filed under: Gaming , Software We posted a little while back about Telltale possibly bringing its games over to the Mac, and now there’s even more rumblings to be interested in. Rumor has it that since most of their games use the same platform, one port is the same as all of them, which means we may see the whole catalog released in one fell swoop on OS X, and sold right alongside their PC brethren.

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