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- C64 emulator approved for iPhone
Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App Store
Well how about that. A Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone is nothing new -- we covered the fact that one had been developed a little while ago. Here's what is new (and a little surprising, to be honest): Apple approved it. In an environment where Apple seems intent on rejecting anything that might encroach on their platform, even just a little bit, they have apparently allowed an emulator right there on the App Store.
There are catches, of course -- the emulator comes bundled with five officially licensed titles: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck and Jack Attack, and more will be available to purchase soon, so it'll all be above board and legit (and the flip side is that if you want to play classic titles like Elite or Ultima, you'll have to hope that whoever owns the rights to those will let them see release). The biggest catch is that the emulator doesn't come with BASIC support enabled by default (although, via Daring Fireball and the iPhone Blog, it's possible to get to it via a backdoor), so it's more of a C64 arcade emulator rather than an actual software emulator.
But of course this is a step in the right direction -- someday we may finally see official SNES or NES emulators running in full glory on the iPhone and approved and available to purchase on the App Store. This emulator, simply called C64, is available right now on the App Store for $4.99.TUAWC64 emulator approved for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - AppStore - Apple - Emulator - Unofficial Apple Weblog
Переслать - Offensive line not the only thing broken at Oklahoma game
Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends
It's one thing to have your computer crash. It's another to have it crash in front of thousands of sports fans. This latest humiliation took place Saturday at the pre-game festivities for the Oklahoma/Brigham Young game
at the at the brand new $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Reader Jeff tells us that they had a breakdown on the scoreboard screens: first, the screens went blank, then displayed some odd ASCII gibberish, then announced to the assembled crowd that things weren't going so well in Microsoft land. Jeff was there with his trusty iPhone to capture the moment for us, and we present it to you on this day when you're not working, either.
It's not the first time this kind of embarrassing stuff has happened; Microsoft had another glitch at the Beijing Olympics last year. But hey, it could happen to anybody, right? If you've seen another example of an embarrassing public computer-based slipup (PC or Mac -- we don't discriminate on comedy), feel free to send us a tip!
Thanks, Jeff!TUAWOffensive line not the only thing broken at Oklahoma game originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: IPhone - Apple - Microsoft - TUAW - Unofficial Apple WeblogПереслать - The few ants at my Snow Leopard picnic
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Bugs/Recalls, Snow Leopard
Ahhh, Labor Day - the weird U.S. holiday that celebrates work by encouraging people to take the day off. Since it also coincides with the beginning of September, many Americans associate Labor Day with the end of summer, which isn't until 3:18 PM on September 22nd. Since the colder temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere will soon mean no more picnics, it's a great day to get out and have one more al fresco meal.
Like a picnic, where a good time can be spoiled by a group of aggressive little ants, my first ten days of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been a lot of fun, interspersed with some tiny, nagging annoyances:
- Preview, an app I use constantly to resize screenshots for TUAW, crashes way too frequently
- Without having changed any preferences, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro 1 TB drive I have attached to my iMac now spins down between Time Machine backups (this actually saves power, so I'm not complaining -- I just find it strange that it didn't happen before!)
- An unexplained kernel panic the other morning when I woke up my MacBook Air by opening the "lid"
- Having to reset the synchronization between my two Macs, MobileMe, and my iPhone after duplicate calendar entries began to multiply
- Occasionally having to physically remove and plug back in the USB receiver for the Logitech wireless mouse on my iMac when the mouse refuses to work upon waking up from sleep
- Exports from iMovie '09 to YouTube aren't working properly for me
TUAWThe few ants at my Snow Leopard picnic originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Apple - Mac OS X v10.6 - IPhone - MobileMeПереслать - Dear Aunt TUAW: Snow Leopard killed GrabUp, Auntie fixes it
Filed under: Accessories, Software, Internet Tools, Snow Leopard
Dear Auntie TUAW, I love GrabUp. GrabUp is my BFF. It automatically uploads my screen shots to the GrabUp web site and copies the URL to my clipboard. If GrabUp were a girl, I'd marry her like *snap* that. But Snow Leopard has killed GrabUp. It doesn't work. My darling is dead.
I tried TinyGrab as well and that isn't working either. Frankly, between you and me, TinyGrab has issues. It's slow and does not work all the time. I miss GrabUp :(
Love and kisses,
Your Nephew J.
Darling J,
My heart goes out to you. I too am a GrabUp aficionado! Because I love you (and all my nephews and nieces) and because I really needed to get GrabUp working again for my own use, I put together a work-around for you! (Here is the zipped command line utility) Download, unzip, switch off GrabUp, and run this at the command line.
Grabupper looks for new screen shots on the Desktop using the Snow Leopard screenshot naming standard. When it finds them, it uploads the data to the GrabUp website, copies the URL, pastes it to your clipboard, and lets you know when the URL is ready to use.
The grabupper utility uses a few shortcuts for expedience. It only looks on the Desktop, and it only looks for names starting with "Screen shot". The reason I mention this is because you can change the screen shot prefix using defaults write com.apple.screencapture name prefix, but if you do so, you'll have to update the utility source code to match that prefix.
You'll find the source code over at GitHub. It works like this. A notification observer looks for
com.apple.carbon.core.DirectoryNotificationevents, which are associated with the screen shot updates. When these events trigger, the file manager searches for new screen shots that are less than 5 seconds old. When it finds one, it converts the file to JPEG format (Auntie loves using non-compatible TIFFs for book illustrations), and uploads them to GrabUp.Once GrabUp returns a successful upload response, the code extracts the URL string and writes it to the system pasteboard. It then spawns a system process to alert the user (system("say 'You Are Ell is ready'");). Isn't that just adorable?
Here's hoping this will hold you until GrabUp becomes Snow Leopard ready!
Hugs,
Auntie T.
UPDATE: Based on suggestions by TUAW co-blogger Joachim Bean, the source and executable have been updated to use the defaults written to com.apple.screencapture, both name and path. Thanks, Joachim!
TUAWDear Aunt TUAW: Snow Leopard killed GrabUp, Auntie fixes it originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - TUAW - Unofficial Apple Weblog - Uniform Resource Locator - AppleПереслать - How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free
Filed under: OS, Software, How-tos, Odds and ends, Freeware, Open Source
I received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox. The tweet asked, "You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. How about Linux?," which set up a challenge. Not only can you install Linux distributions on a Mac using VirtualBox, but it's extremely easy to do.
Why would you want to run Linux on a Mac? There are probably a few good reasons -- learning about a different OS, using software that's not available on the Mac platform, or for a Linux class in school. While you can create a bootable partition on your Mac and boot Linux from it, I prefer to do things the lazy way. In this short how-to post, I'll demonstrate how I installed Ubuntu Linux 9.04, also known as "Jaunty Jackalope."Continue reading How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free
TUAWHow to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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