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- NES emulator on the iPhone
Filed under: Gaming, Hacks, Odds and ends, iPhone
Wow-- something I've noticed after my little vacation last week is that the iPhone application community is at a full sprint (no pun intended) on making applications. When I left, people were dropping Hello World, and now we're up to the evolutionary step of NES emulator. By this time next week, we'll have a screenshot grabber (oh wait, we've already got that-- guess it's time to go for Open Office).
Wily programmer "stepwhite" has brought the InfoNES core onto the iPhone, along with Mario, Zelda, and all your favorite NES roms. As you can see, it's not quite done-- the emulator runs too slowly to be playable, and the controls are implemented with an actual controller image which, as the programmer says, "...while cute, sucks."
I don't know if theres any way to save states, either. Not a problem for Super Mario Bros., but Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy might be a little long to have all in one go. But it is awesome, and just amazing that we've already gotten to this level on the iPhone. At this rate, we may not even need an SDK.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/nes-emulator-on-the-iphone/#comments - Something we won't see tomorrow: iMac Multitouch
Filed under: Humor, Rumors, Odds and ends, iMac, Apple
The rumors are flying about what Apple might do to the Mac lineup tomorrow-- for my part, I just hope Jobs stays away from the Mac Mini long enough for me to get one with Leopard on it. But I can guarantee you that you won't see this baby, as cool as it is. This is a 3D demo from a guy working on a demo reel for ad agencies. But it is pretty amazing.
Now, people have said before that a multitouch computer like this wouldn't work-- to find out why, touch your screen for five minutes and notice how tired your arm feels. However, an interface like this is too good not to use somewhere. Sure, we may not see an iMac with a big touchable screen like this, but "...a guy can dream, can't he?"
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/something-we-wont-see-tomorrow-imac-multitouch/#comments - iPhone Coding: Recording Audio
Yesterday, I figured out how to record audio on the iPhone. Today, by popular request, I'll go through the how-to part. And, for those of you paying close attention, I've updated the application with lots of nice new features. For those of you playing along at home, here are the basics you'll need to know to get started with audio recording.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/iphone-coding-recording-audio/#comments - Rumor: 16GB flash iPods in Sept.
Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors
It's Rumor Day here at TUAW and next on the agenda is the iPod.
DigiTimes is reporting that a 16GB, flash-based video iPod is imminent. According to their "sources," the new iPod will be announced in September and use NAND flash.
Grab your salt shakers, as you'll need to extract a very large grain to accompany this story. Still, here it is.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/rumor-16gb-flash-ipods-in-sept/#comments - .Mac updates coming tomorrow morning?
Filed under: Rumors, Software, Internet Tools, .Mac
Yes, the most recent rumor about Apple's announcement tomorrow has been debunked by commenters and other sites, but this one stems from a scheduled maintenance message Apple has posted on their oft-debated .Mac service page (tip of the hat to reader Jake Coventry). Quoth Apple's message at www.mac.com:
Due to scheduled maintenance, .Mac members might be intermittently unable to access some .Mac services from 10 AM to 12 PM PDT on 08/07/2007. We apologize for any inconvenience.
While this doesn't necessarily guarantee .Mac will be getting any kind of upgrade or new features, it is a bit uncharacteristic for the service to tell its users about such a major downtime before it happens. On top of that, this outage is happening during the day of a big announcement that Apple clearly stated was going to be all about the Mac. Here's hoping for the best.Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/mac-updates-coming-tomorrow-morning/#comments - iPhone skins from DecalGirl
If going all-out with a custom Colorware paint job for your iPhone is a bit too over-the-top, perhaps some new iPhone skin kits from the everlasting DecalGirl are more your style. Printed on premium grade adhesive-backed cast vinyl with a high-gloss clear protective coating, all of their skins boast easy repositioning and goo-free removal (I've never used one of these - can anyone comment on their experiences with accessories like this and their goo factor?).
For the iPhone, DecalGirl already has over 160 designs that can easily be sorted by a large selection of colors and themes, and as a bonus, you also receive a matching iPhone wallpaper to complete the redecoration. Skins seem to all be priced at a reasonable $6.99, with extra protective or stylistic finishes - like Screen Armor, Matte and Gloss - available for $4.50 to $9.99.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/iphone-skins-from-decalgirl/#comments - Apple sued over iPhone keyboard
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPhone
People like to sue each other (Americans at least), and they love to sue Apple.
Supposedly, the iPhone's keyboard infringes upon a patent awarded to Florida's SP Technologies LLC in 2004. They're seeking compensation for iPhones sold, as well as an injunction against the continued "...willful and deliberate" use of their intellectual property.
We'll see where this goes. In the meantime, we'll say it again: People love to sue Apple.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/apple-sued-over-iphone-keyboard/#comments - Rumor mill: August 7 iMac announcements... likely NOT true
Filed under: Rumors, iMac, Apple
[Update 1:15 pm -- And this is why we don't often post product rumors... indications are that this is coming from someone posing as our "reputable source," and other sites have received and debunked the rumor. We tried to reach the source for verification but were not able to do so. Our apologies if this turns out to be complete bunk. -Ed.]
We don't often post product rumors hereabouts, although we're certainly not above reporting on them and linking to them; it's just not the regular beat. That said, when an email comes in from a reputable source (thanks, Mr. X) with supposed details on Tuesday's product announcement... well, we gotta let you all know. Pile on the disclaimers (this is a rumor!) and here we go. Our source says that there are plenty of new products coming on Tuesday:
Two new iMacs, with 20 and 24 inch screens, and entirely covered in brushed metal (!) plus the previously hinted new keyboard design and a slightly slimmer enclosure. Even more surprising, our source says the iMacs are shipping with a 2.4GHz Intel Penryn chip. Intel's first 45-nm CPU was originally slated to ship at the end of the year, and it's not clear that Apple could get enough parts to actually build these puppies before October, so take this with a grain of salt. The machines might ship with the dual-core Conroe part instead.
Three new Apple Displays at 20, 24, and 32 inches. These are supposed to have an iSight camera built in.
The Mac Pro will get a speed bump as the Xeon/Woodcrest chips are swapped out for Penryn chips, running at a brisk 2.4, 3.0, and 3.33GHZ.
Lastly, the long-expected end of life for the Mac Mini may finally come around as the machine is expected to be dropped from the product matrix. *sniffle*
Again, this is all unconfirmed. We'll know for sure on Tuesday!Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/rumor-mill-details-on-the-august-7-imac-announcements/#comments - VMware Fusion officially available today
Filed under: Software, Universal Binary
There are two kinds of virtualization products for the Mac: first, the kind that develop fast, release quick, and damn the torpedoes; second, the kind that bake in the goodness and hold off on a release until everything meets the exacting standards of an enterprise software vendor. Today we get to see the final result of the second approach, as VMware Fusion is officially shipping after an extensive beta release. (Still love ya, Parallels, don't ever change.)
Fusion is available for $60 (after a $20 rebate) and offers all the XP-running, virtual-appliance-library downloading, window integrating, 3D emulating features you'd expect. I'm planning to do a little bake-off between the agile rookie and the wily veteran, now that everyone's on a fully released & supported plateau, to see which of the two meets my needs best.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/vmware-fusion-officially-available-today/#comments - Walt Mossberg's Got a Secret
Filed under: Software Update, Apple, iPhone
No, I'm not talking about anything bad. Actually, its very good -- secret iPhone features! Yes, as usual Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal digs deep into all-things-Apple and reveals some hidden features included in the recent 1.0.1 iPhone firmware update. Sadly, these "secret" features don't include some of the ones I, and others, would like to see, such as the ability to text message more than one person at a time or an IM client.
But even though they might not be fantastic, earth-shattering enhancements, they still, as Mossberg points out: "make the iPhone nicer to use." Some of the "secret" features found by Mossberg include the capability of having 50 favorite numbers in the phone application instead of the previous 20, the option to BCC yourself in the mail application instead of just CC, and the ability to now play music through previously incompatible car adapters and speakers originally designed specifically for the iPod.
That last one made me particularly happy because now I can listen to the terrific TUAW podcasts in my car via iPhone when all I got previously was seriously annoying feedback and an error message on the iPhone asking if I wanted to turn on Airplane Mode. So, kudos to Apple for "secret" updates and to Mossberg for uncovering them.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/06/walt-mossbergs-got-a-secret/#comments - We're not revealing Fake Steve
Filed under: TUAW Business
Just a quick announcement for all of you bombarding our tip line this evening. We've made a pledge to keep Fake Steve fake and we're sticking with that promise. We all know the news has hit the wires. And you know what? We don't care. We love Fake Steve just the way he is. Fake.
Some things in life should be left pure and untouched: a beautiful flower, a snowflake, an unaudited tax return, and the identity of Fake Steve.So go easy on the tip line, 'kay?
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/05/were-not-revealing-fake-steve/#comments - iPhone Voice Recorder Utility
My iPhone broke. The screen just died a slow death, getting brighter and brighter and then very hot and then...nothing...over the course of a morning. With no phone to play with this morning, I did a lot of thinking and hunting through iPhone foundation files instead. And I seemed to find quite a lot of interesting calls in the Celestial framework, specifically the AVRecorder class.
I was pretty sure the capability was in there to begin with--after all, didn't the Steve promise us one back in the January Keynote? So that certainty made the class hunt go a little quicker.
When I returned home from the Apple Store Genius Bar with my new loaner, I put all that thought into code and this is what turned up: my newly written iPhone Voice Recorder utility. Yes, it is little more than a proof-of-concept but (a) it works, and (b) is the first step towards iPhone VOIP.
The recorder saves in Adaptive Multi-rate format (.amr files) that you can play back in QuickTime. I put them into the /tmp folder and tell you the name of the file when you finish your recording.
As always, I'd love to hear feedback and questions.
Update: Improved version with app wrapper is here
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/05/iphone-voice-recorder-utility/#comments - Cyndicate RSS reader released
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
The Mac is not lacking for RSS reading solutions, led by TUAW favorite NetNewsWire, but more choice is good right? Cyndicate is a new feed reader, but with a good pedigree. It was developed by some of the original talent behind PulpFiction, an older feed reader which was sold and then fell out of active development. So in some ways Cyndicate is what PulpFiction should have become (Cyndicate includes an importer from PulpFiction and there is a limited time upgrade offer).
Cyndicate uses a three-paned interface very much like Mail.app. A few years ago the designer of both programs offered some justification for this with regards to PulpFiction. Whether you like this paradigm or not will probably depend on how you read your feeds. Personally, I still feel that NNW offers the most efficient methodology, but that may be primarily because I'm most familiar with it. Cyndicate does offer some interesting features revolving around searching, filtering, and smart folders that hold out promise for organizing the torrent of information hundreds of feeds bring in, so I'll be giving it a closer look.
Cyndicate is $29.95 and a demo is available.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/05/cyndicate-rss-reader-released/#comments - Share your iPhone stories with Apple
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Apple, iPhone
Attention enthusiastic iPhone owners - Apple would like to hear just what it is you like so much about your new gadget. At a new page under apple.com/iphone, Apple has presented a form with which you can share your iPhone stories. Has the iPhone changed the way you work? Perhaps you warmed grandma's heart with your finger-flickin' photo albums? Or maybe your two-and-a-half year-old figured out how to use your iPhone? Whatever the tale, Apple would like to hear it, probably so they can scatter some quotes from real world folks like you around the iPhone product pages.
Personally, I had to thank Apple for finally putting the real internet in my pocket, as no other device - not even a BlackBerry or IE on Windows Mobile - has been able to handle the home-grown content management system we use for Weblogs, Inc. blogs. The iPhone can, which means I'm able to perform some of my administrative duties at Download Squad anytime, anywhere I need, and that's enough of a life-changing story for me.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/05/share-your-iphone-stories-with-apple/#comments - FlickrExport 3 teaser screencast
Filed under: iLife, Software, Productivity, Internet Tools
Fraser Speirs' FlickrExport plug-ins for iPhoto and Aperture are the undisputed kings of bridging the gap between Flickr and your Mac-managed photos. The plug-ins are pretty powerful, offering a lot of strong integration with Flickr by adding photos to sets or creating new sets on the fly, as well as keeping in step with the tags you use in your account. The Aperture plug-in can even keep track of the photos you upload to Flickr and replace them with updated versions - instead of creating a duplicate. Apparently not one to sit in one place for too long, however, Speirs is already hard at work on a new version, FlickrExport 3.
Not many details are known just yet, but Speirs has been tweeting some teasers about the new version, and just this morning published a screencast (.MOV link) demoing some of the impressive new Groups features in FlickrExport 3 for Aperture. Most notably, users will no longer be limited with adding a picture to one group at a time - the new version features a table of all the groups to which you belong, allowing you to check more than one group for adding the images to. FlickrExport 3 will even check with Flickr to make sure you haven't overstepped the upload quota for each group.
[Update: Mr. Speirs stopped by to comment that the new features in this particular demo will also be present in FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto as well; he just happened to be demoing them in Aperture for this screencast.]
No release date has been set for FlickrExport 3 just yet, and I assume the prices will remain the same for the iPhoto plug-in (~ $23 USD) and Aperture plug-in (~ $27 USD).Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/04/flickrexport-3-teaser-screencast/#comments - iGTD Pro details, Inbox Widget released
Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools, Widget Watch
Bartlomiej Bargiel has been hard at work on iGTD, his incredibly powerful task task manager based on David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy, and has recently unleashed news on what he has in store for iGTD Pro. As a matter of fact, iGTD will be split into three versions: iGTD Basic (the one that will continue to be free), iGTD Home&Office and iGTD Pro, each offering increasing abilities to sync and share tasks between Macs on the network and, with the Pro version, around the world. iGTD Pro will also allow to access your data with a web tool, possible a sooped up version of iPhoneiGTD. Licensing and availability details on these new versions, however, are still under wraps.
In other news, Bartlomiej has also released an iGTD Inbox Widget which offers yet another way to quickly enter tasks and even use the Quicksilver syntax assign them to contexts. I personally prefer the f-key Quick Add window, but widget junkies will likely appreciate this streamlined iGTD interface.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/04/igtd-pro-details-inbox-widget-released/#comments - TUAW Best of the Week
Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
Create iPhone ringtones from iTunes previews
Those 30-second previews from iTunes make snazzy (and free) iPhone ringtones.The curious case of how bad AT&T sucks Episode 2: Just the Internet - every last bit of it
How can you not love a post with a title like that?Hack Alert: ssh from iPhone
And this past week, creating a secure shell session from your iPhone became a reality.Apple TV USB hard drive patch has arrived!
It was a big week for Apple TV as the long awaited USB hard drive patch became a reality.Let the iPhone class-action lawsuits begin
We all got a good chuckle from the first iPhone class action suit.iPhone "Hello World" binary released
It's only been 6 days. Do you remember a time when you couldn't write 3rd party apps for the iPhone?iASign 0.2 released
One of the most important iPhone hacking tools available got a fresh new upgrade.An easy way to import NetNewsWire feeds into Safari
A nice way to bring your RSS feeds into synergy.iTunes Store sells three billion songs, keeps on truckin'
Billions. Billions and billions of songs. </Carl Sagan>Updates galore: Security Update 2007-007, Safari 3.03, iPhone 1.01
It was Safari-hole-patching-palooza time this week.Liveblogging the iPhone 1.0.1 update
Pretty much everything you needed to know about the update.Ask TUAW: Open Firmware passwords, Desktop pictures, folder syncing and more
Mat versus the TUAW readers. Everyone wins!iTunes: Free Wednesday
Still available for free download.Leopard achieves UNIX 03 certification
Fully. Leaded. Leopard.Stream audio, video, and pictures from your Mac to a PS3
Sweet.VMware Fusion set for August 6th release
Parallels has a real competitor now.TUAW talkcast available for download
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/04/tuaw-best-of-the-week/#comments - iPhone screenshot utility
Filed under: iPhone
Earlier today, I learned about this iPhone screen shot snippet meant to be used inside an application. It produces PDF results. After playing with the code and realizing it probably couldn't be expanded to a general purpose screenshot utility, I decided to write one from scratch by taking advantage of UIApplication's _dumpScreenContents: protocol.
My screenshot utility, which you can download here runs from the command line and produces a PNG output of your screen. I look forward to using this tool. It's certainly going to be a lot easier than trying to light the iPhone correctly and avoid reflections while snapping pictures with a digital camera.Update: My daughter figured out that if you set the iPhone to never sleep and put it into camera mode, you can script it to take screen shots every minute (or five minutes or however long) to take time lapse series of images. We are so going to try this out.
Update 2: Tried it out. Only gets about 4 pictures per minute when in a loop so video is a no-go.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/03/iphone-screenshot-utility/#comments - Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK
Filed under: iPhone
I have now spent a pretty solid week writing applications for the iPhone. And what an exciting week it's been. I've been privileged to view and interact with the iPhone in a way that few other people have had the opportunity to. The iPhone is tight, robust and its SDK--even seen through such imperfect tools as class-dump--is beautiful.
Let me give you an example. This morning I decided to write a basic word processor for the iPhone. In about 30 lines of code, I was able to create an application that saved all changes to disk and reloaded that text launching the application. That kind of success doesn't happen because I'm some sort of phenomenal programmer, it happens because Apple makes amazing, usable libraries. I was able to use classic Cocoa strategies like reading a string to and from disk and combine it with new UIKit strategies like creating a keyboard that automatically knows how to enter and edit text.Continue reading Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/03/journeys-inside-the-iphones-sdk/#comments - Open-Source iClip SVN established on Google Code
Filed under: Humor, Peripherals, Cool tools, Hacks, How-tos, Productivity, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, Open Source, Mods, The Woz, iPhone
Today hackers have responded to InsanelyGreatTee's post about the official Apple iPhone paperclip. We have created an open source (and free) alternative to Apple's proprietary and closed paperclip architecture hosted at Google Code. All developers are welcome to contribute and to help with the open-source iClip project and we hope to have a working pre-pre-alpha prototype delivered in under a week.
Update: make sure to check out the issues list
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