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- Universal Music in talks to create iTunes Store competitor
Universal Music is desperate for Apple to face some real competition in the digital music download arena that it is now trying to work with the other record labels to launch their very own iTunes like store. The twist? Universal would like to see hardware manufacturers pay a fee (something like $5) for each device. That device would then have a free, to the consumer, subscription to the label's music service. Universal figures people will be happy because they can get the music they want on their player they want (as long as it isn't an iPod), the hardware manufacturers will be happy because people won't be buying iPods, and the labels will be happy because they can maintain their vice-like grip on the content their artists produce.
How can anything go wrong?
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/universal-music-in-talks-to-create-itunes-store-competitor/#comments - ChipWits lives on
Filed under: Gaming, Education
Back in the days when Apple pretty much owned the educational market, the Mac was new and Oregon Trail was the pinnacle of edutainment, there existed a little program called ChipWits. I played on my Laser 128, but there were versions for the Commodore 64 and Macintosh. Now some 20-odd years later ChipWits makes a triumphant return as an Adobe AIR app, so you can get your robot on with a Windows machine or a Mac (and hopefully Linux someday).
ChipWits is a programmable robot game. You build and program your little robot dude to travel through various environments (called rooms). Each one has specific rewards and risks, which makes programming the robot guy interesting. That may sound dry as toast, but your robot eats pie and drinks coffee. He can see, smell and touch. He can zap bugs but isn't too happy with bombs. The bit of whimsy thrown in with the robot-building makes for a really enjoyable game. Plus, it's surprising how fun debugging your robot can be.
The big improvement in what the authors are calling ChipWits II is that you can now create your own missions. If something like Desktop Tower Defense is your bag, the Mission Editor will appeal to you. Currently you can try ChipWits 15 times and buy it for $14.95. The release price will be $19.95, and the authors are donating 10% of their profits to 3 non-profit organizations.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/chipwits-lives-on/#comments - Apple boardroom now includes special "Nobel laureate" chair
Filed under: Apple Corporate
It's official: Apple's board of directors now has a shiny new certificate to pin up over by the coffee machine, between the volleyball game announcement and the worker's-comp sign. Board member Albert Gore, Jr., who had some government gig before he won an Oscar, is a co-laureate (with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, honoring his work in climate awareness.
TUAW extends congratulations to Mr. Gore and to the Apple board, who now have a much better shot at getting the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela to endorse the iPod and Leopard.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/apple-boardroom-now-includes-special-nobel-laureate-chair/#comments - Ecamm updates iPhone Drive with rockin' features
Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone
Gallery: Ecamm iPhone Drive Update
Ecamm Network has released version 1.2 of their iPhoneDrive software. This new version offers a total-rewrite from the version I tried out a few months ago. The updated software allows full read-write access to all public AFC areas of your iPhone or iPod touch storage.
One of the great things Ecamm has done is to offer an on-board media browser. You can scan through your music, TV shows, videos and more and offload just those files you're looking for. iPhoneDrive offers a "Send To iTunes" button that allows you to move that media directly into iTunes.
Another feature allows you to add custom folders. You're no longer limited to creating a single iPhoneDrive folder. Instead, you decide which folders you want to use and you can easily add and retrieve data as needed.
The advanced settings feature allows you to switch from seeing just the "safe" files into seeing every available file, including your manifests and the lock sync files created by iTunes during synchronization. This allows you to choose how you want to interact with your files and adds a nice level of safety.
There isn't much that you can do with iPhoneDrive that you can't do with a hacker tool like iPhuc but iPhoneDrive adds a really beautiful user interface and it simplifies so many tasks you'll want to do--like browsing through music using real names rather than iTunes' cryptic 4-character codes--that it's well worth the nominal ten buck price. And, oh yeah, there's a Photo mode too.
I've been playing with it off and on for a few days and give this a solid five apples out of five. A very good value for the money and a handy, useful tool.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/ecamm-updates-iphone-drive-with-rockin-features/#comments - Found Footage: Original iPod promotional video
Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and ends, Apple, Retro Mac
Who doesn't enjoy walking down memory lane? Picture it: October 23, 2001 Apple changes the world again but no one realizes it. That's the day Apple introduced the first iPod ever, and produced the above video letting people know what the heck an iPod was.
The original iPod had some things I miss on the newer iPods: FireWire support and a physical scroll wheel (oh, how I miss the physical scroll wheel!).
Here's a fun question, how may folks out there had one of the original iPods? You know, before our PC using friends could get in on the party and everyone from the Queen of England to the Pope could be counted amongst iPod users.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/found-footage-original-ipod-promotional-video/#comments - iPhone Elite Team publishes 'unbrick' procedure
Filed under: iPhone
Suppose you took your iPhone, running 1.0.2 firmware, and unlocked it using anySIM for use on alternate GSM networks. Then suppose -- against the advice of Apple, reliable sources, and men in the streets waving signs saying "The End Is Near" -- you tried to upgrade said phone to the 1.1.1 firmware. Now you have an iBrick, and you wish like anything you could take it back, and return to a happy place... but you can't, unless you have about $100 for the iPhoneSIMFree paid unlock. Well, now, maybe you can.
The self-styled iPhone Elite Team has published 19-step directions for rolling back from 1.1.1 to the original 1.0.2 firmware and an unlocked state. Not for the faint of heart (one step says "get the secpack 4.0... some people have it, I have no idea how they got it but it's needed") but some commenters there indicate that the process has worked for them. Note that unlike iPhoneSIMFree, this will probably not allow you to roll forward to the 1.1.1 firmware.
As with every iPhone hack, be aware that you will void every warranty your iPhone ever had, and Apple will burn all your LPs and talk smack about you to its girlfriends. Of course, if you need this procedure, you already know that.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/iphone-elite-team-publishes-unbrick-procedure/#comments - Sim Daltonism
Filed under: Software
Red is red, right? Wrong. There are some people out there (this humble blogger amongst them) who are color blind in one degree or another (I have a slight case of red/green colorblindness). This means you can't assume people see colors in the same way you do, which is very important when you're a designer.
But what can a designer who sees in full color do in order to make sure their websites are legible to all those colorblind surfers out there? That's where Sim Daltonism comes in. This little donationware app simulates what the area around your mouse looks like to a person with a variety of different types of colorblindness.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/sim-daltonism/#comments - THCanvasView: Icon viewer for Cocoa apps
Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Odds and ends, Open Source, Developer
Scott Stevenson has dropped a pretty handy Finder-like view interface for Cocoa applications called THCanvasView. I don't do a ton of Cocoa programming, but even I can see how handy this is-- Scott's coded almost all the functionality of Finder, including resizing of icons, image previews, Cocoa bindings awareness, and repositioning within the view, and it's available right there as a free download under a BSD license for your own application.
He's also included a short wrapper app called CorkBoard designed just to show off what the viewer does. Very cool indeed. If you're working on a new Cocoa application (at least before Leopard comes out and shows us all how applications should really look in 2008), it could be just what you're looking for in a file interface.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/thcanvasview-icon-viewer-for-cocoa-apps/#comments - TUAW Interview: Andrew Welch on WireTap Studio
Filed under: Audio, Features, TUAW Interview
After our interview about iToner last week, Ambrosia Software president Andrew Welch sat down with us again to talk about his company's newest product, WireTap Studio, which was released yesterday. WireTap Studio will supercede WireTap Pro allowing users not only to record any audio source on their Macs, but also to edit that recording in a lossless manner. As you can probably tell from the interview, Andrew is clearly excited about the product and expects it to make a big splash in the market.
Continue reading TUAW Interview: Andrew Welch on WireTap Studio
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/tuaw-interview-andrew-welch-on-wiretap-studio/#comments - Battlefield 3 on Vista (not XP) and OS X simultaneously?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends
Battlefield 2142 is already on the Apple Store, along with all the other games EA has released on the Mac, but we haven't heard anything official about Battlefield 3 yet, for any platform. That's why DigitalBattles was so surprised to find a list of Battlefield 3 features in a document meant for investors. And the most interesting "feature" on the list was this: "Windows Vista and OS X." That's right, if the leaked document is true, it appears EA wants to release Battlefield 3 simultaneously on OS X and Vista. And not on XP. That's what I'm talking about!
Of course, EA wasn't real happy with all the speculation, but they didn't actually deny anything. And as DB points out, the investor document didn't say that XP wouldn't be supported, it only specified Vista and OS X.
But still, if you told me earlier this year that Battlefield 3 would be released on OS X and not XP, I would have laughed in your face. If EA really is planning to bring out a top tier, anticipated title like this simultaneously on OS X, they might be able to redeem themselves to Mac gamers yet. Sure, I'm still angry at them for buying out BioWare, but brand new games on the Mac is good for everyone.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/battlefield-3-on-vista-not-xp-and-os-x-simultaneously/#comments - Replace the Finder with Quicksilver
Our love of Quicksilver, the sometimes inscrutable application launcher (and much more) runs deep, but Daniel over at waferbaby has us beat. It would seem Daniel isn't a big fan of the Finder and he is crazy for Quicksilver. Clearly, it took the next obvious step and replaced the Finder with Quicksilver. Read his post for the details, but be warned it isn't for the faint of heart.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/11/replace-the-finder-with-quicksilver/#comments - HACK: Enable adding calendar events on your iPod touch
Filed under: iLife, iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos
Hackers Nicholas "Drudge" Penree and Tony Hoyle have figured out an easy fix that allows you to add calendar events to your iPod touch. You'll need read/write access to your touch and a full jailbreak but once you do, all you need to do is add the following two lines to the N45AP.plist file inside your Core Services' SpringBoard app.
<key>editableUserData</key><true/>The plist is found at
/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N45AP.plistUpdate: Reader Andi notes that you need to put the editableUserData under "capabilities" not under "root" in the property list.
Update 2: If you'd rather use a text editor rather than the property list editor, convert the file to text-based xml. At the Mac command line, you can do this by issuing plutil -convert xml1 filename.plist. To convert back use binary1 instead of xml1.
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