Tony Bradley at Macworld points out something interesting that I've also been thinking about: Apple is being awfully sneaky with its timing when it comes to product announcements. The upcoming March 2 event happens to land not only right around the time that Motorola's much-anticipated Xoom tablet will hit consumers' hands, but also right in the middle of next week's Game Developers Conference, when quite a few developers will be announcing new games for both the iPad and Android tablet…
The magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand on Tuesday has caused incredible damage and hit close to home for many of us at TUAW. Developer David Frampton ( @majicdave on Twitter) from Majic Jungle Software had a particularly scary few days. Although Dave lives in Wellington on the North Island, his mother Ann Bodkin was trapped in rubble for several days before being rescued . We were thrilled to read Dave's tweet when she was close to being rescued: "Mum is…
Gameloft has slashed the prices of 34 games for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to $0.99 for a limited time. Gameloft announced the surprise sale on their blog: As February comes to an end, we’re hosting one HUGE sale for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. We’ve got over 30 titles slashed down to $0.99 [...]
Two of TUAW's favorite App Store apps (and probably yours as well) have been updated with new content . Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja has a few new swords to play with, including one that plays piano music as you swipe. There are new leaderboards to fight your friends (and everyone else on) for the Classic and Zen modes. Great free update for a terrific app -- no wonder it's sold six million copies (inspiring Halfbrick to build up an orchard to pay back karma for all that destroyed virtual fruit). …
As rumored, Apple launched new MacBook Pros earlier today with Sandy Bridge Quad core processors with Intel’s Turbo Boost 2.0, a hybrid Thunderbolt/mini Display port, FaceTime camera and more. Apple also surprised us by releasing the first developer preview version of Mac OS X Lion today, which was first demoed last October. Mac OS X [...]
Now that you’ve read all those stories of the nice new features packed into Mac OS X Lion, I’m sure you’re dying to get your hands on the Developer Preview and try them out for yourself. Luckily for those of you not signed up to the Mac Developer Program, there are already a few websites [...]
I don’t have a Mac developer account to access the OS X Lion beta that Alex posted on earlier today, but it looks like I’ll still get a chance to see some of the new UI tweaks, thanks to MacStories.net. Federico Viticci took a little leap earlier today and installed the beta on his own [...]
Brand new from the maker of desktop Gmail client Mailplane is Replies, an app designed for people who do a lot of customer support. The idea was born from Mailplane developer Ruben Bakker’s own success with Mailplane. He was soon so inundated with support requests, he found himself writing similar replies time and time again. [...]
Apple’s Developer Forums going crazy about the new way to install OS X Lion through the Mac App Store. There’s complaints about failed downloads, invalid redemption codes and overall installation issues. But once developers get it installed, they say the new OS is awesome and totally opens up the Mac to new possibilities. What Apple [...]
There were speculations the 21-years old notorious iPhone hacker GeoHot has got an exploit that can be utilize to unlock the fourth-generation iPhone that runs on iOS 4.2.1 baseband 03.10.01 and baseband 02.10.04. Furthermore, there were also rumored that he might release an unlock solution for iPhone 4 with the name of Rubysn0w. But the statement from the man himself marks the end of all these rumors. On his recent blog entry on his new blog “GeoHot got Sued”, GeoHot said that he doesn’t have unlock…
As we already know, the iPhone Dev Team has released the PwnageTool 4.2 software jailbreak tool for Mac OS X, and iPhone hacker iH8sn0w also launches his sn0wbreeze 2.2 for Windows. Both tools will allow you to do an untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak on your iOS device with the help of the Chronic Dev Team’s kernel based Greenpois0n exploit, which is the same exploit used in the Greenpois0n RC5 tool. Most importantly, both PwnageTool and Sn0wbreeze create a custom pre-jailbroken iOS 4.2.1 ipse / firmware…
Welcome to our latest kid-focused edition of iPad Gems! Today, we’re looking at three recently released applications from noteworthy companies—one long-established in the world of Japanese comic books, another with several successful App Store edutainment releases under its belt, and a third from a new developer that came roaring out of the gate with a highly impressive new storybook for children. Two of the three titles merited our high…
The developer preview of Mac OS X Lion released to developers on Thursday sports a new interface look akin to iTunes for the Finder, Mail and iCal, while applications like Address adopt design elements borrowed from the iPad. AppleInsider offers a first look.
The HappyBirthdaySteveJobs.com tribute website is going gangbusters. Thrown up a couple of days ago, the site has survived attacks from malicious hackers and has seen more than 45,000 visitors from 147 countries. It is currently displaying more than 13,000 birthday wishes to Steve Jobs, whose birthday is today. One of the site admins, London student Raoul-Gabriel [...]
Apple's in app purchasing policy has upset many developers. However, one company, Amazon, has yet to comment on the matter. They also haven't updated their Kindle application to add an in app purchase option. Interestingly, there is an Amazon service that might mean the company can cut out the App Store altogether.
Amazon Already Has An Alternative To The App Store is a story by AppAdvice.com
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Amazon Already Has An Alternative To The App Store is a story by AppAdvice.com
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BGR reports that iOS 4.3 Golden master is ready and will be released anytime soon. The Golden Master version means that it is the shipping version of the software that developers must use to develop and submit apps that are compatible with iOS 4.3. BGR also claims that Apple will release iOS 4.3 at next [...]
Today, Apple announced that Mac OS X Lion will include software that previously cost IT departments an extra $499: Mac OS X Lion Server . "Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion," says Apple's marketing web page . "It's easy to set up your Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lion Server has to offer." Some advantages of the newly integrated suite of server administrative software include a guided setup process for configuring a Mac as a server ; "local…
BGR, who was accurately tipped about the last iOS 4.3 beta release data and build, has heard that the Gold Master release for iOS 4.3 (8F190) is done and could go out to developers at any time, with the full release version possible for next week’s iPad 2 event. Certainly sounds reasonable. We’ll know the first [...] iOS 4.3 GM seed incoming, general release next week? is a story by TiPb . This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store . TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
Apple has just dropped the first developer preview of OS X 10.7 Lion and is now pumping it out to applicable devs through the Mac App Store. At the same time, they’ve updated their Mac OS X Lion page, revealing some new features including universal auto save, a possible new version of Safari, some new [...]
Mac OS X Lion, the next version of Apple's Mac operating system, got a developer preview release today. Alongside the developer preview, Apple gave a little more insight into the upcoming changes Lion ushers in for OS X, including many features borrowed from the iPad.
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