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- Norwegian Apple reseller suffers break-in, 50 boxes stolen
An Apple reseller in Norway, of all places, suffered a break-in earlier this morning. According to the main local paper, Aftenposten, the thieves stole a BMW, which was then used to back into the store as seen in the wild pictures above. Once the storefront was broken open, 50 boxes were lifted from the property. While the stolen property was not identified, odds are that there were at least a few iPads in there, given that the device was just released in that country.
Two masked men were apparently seen fleeing the scene, but it's not known if the police have gotten in touch with Batman or Robin yet. Demand for the iPad is off the charts in other countries right now (not that it's suffering here in the US), so it's not surprising that they're seeing robberies overseas as well. Hopefully the thieves will be brought to justice and the stolen Apple products recovered.Norwegian Apple reseller suffers break-in, 50 boxes stolen originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Golden Axe gets Bluetooth multiplayer, EA titles on sale
Sega sent us a note that Golden Axe for the iPhone has been updated -- the game now offers co-op over Bluetooth, so you and a friend can grab a weapon and get to killing goblins and ogres. And I think the game has finally gotten down to a US 99 cent usual price rather than a special sale, but a buck (or two bucks as the case may be, for two players) is cheap for a few good co-op games of Golden Axe.
Additionally, EA has dropped prices on a few of its App Store titles, including Reckless Racing, EA Sports MMA, and our recent Daily App choice Heroes Lore III. The dev has deals going on its games all month long, so stay tuned for more to come.
Oh, and one more tip: Gameloft is apparently giving away one game every single day over on its Twitter account in a promotion it's calling the Gameloft Advent calendar. There have been some good deals over there already, and will probably be more as the month goes on.Golden Axe gets Bluetooth multiplayer, EA titles on sale originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - UK telecoms Three, Orange and T-Mobile launch subsidized iPad plans
Following up on the announcement made a few weeks ago, UK telecom providers Three, Orange and T-Mobile formally launched their iPad subsidies today. Those of us in the United States are used to having our cellphone prices subsidized by signing contracts, but so far we don't have anyone subsidizing our iPad purchases as well. The discount plan offers shoppers who enter a two-year service contract money off the price of a new iPad, bringing the price of the 16GB with Wi-Fi + 3G unit down to £199 (
plus VAT- Edited: VAT is included thanks @ crisss1205) or the equivalent of US $313 -- a steep discount from the normal price of $629.00 in the U.S..
While the price of the iPad is the same for each provider after the subsidy, each offers their own monthly plan and cost:
- Three offers 15GB of data per month for £25/month (US $39), with no Wi-Fi coverage included.
- Orange offers 1GB of data at peak times and 1GB between midnight and 4pm for between £25 and £27. This includes 3GB of Wi-Fi usage using BT Openzone.
- T-Mobile offers the same data limits as Orange but without any Wi-Fi coverage for between £25 and £27.
Of course, if you were willing to move to Japan you could get an iPad 3G for free after signing a contract, but it would probably be more cost-effective to stay right where you are and pay full price near home.
UK telecoms Three, Orange and T-Mobile launch subsidized iPad plans originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - SNES controller and N64 console turned into iPad docks
Etsy user Geekunique sent along some links to these great pictures of old school Nintendo gaming units turned into iPad and iPhone docks. Above, you can see a Super Nintendo controller fashioned into a working iPhone 4 dock, and he's also got a Nintendo 64 console (though unfortunately it's the green translucent one, not the best looking, if you ask me) turned into an iPad dock. Pretty funny -- not only does the build look pretty good from the pictures, but of course Nintendo is probably the game juggernaut most threatened by the rising field of iOS games, so it's ironic that you've got an iOS device using Nintendo hardware as a stand.
Geekunique is selling these (and only a few of them, so they'll probably be sold out by the time you read this), but it seems easy enough to cut a slot into one of these old devices and put an iPhone charger cord in there. If you have an old piece of hardware sitting around and do eventually hack it into an iOS stand, be sure to send us a picture!SNES controller and N64 console turned into iPad docks originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - News Corp plays coy about iPad-exclusive publication, suggests 2011 launch
You've probably heard us mention the upcoming iPad-exclusive publication "The Daily" coming soon from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. In fact, you have likely also read about the fact that it had been delayed until 2011. Well, now we have a maybe/sorta/kinda confirmation of the publication itself, as News Corp.'s chairman and chief executive Jon Miller let it slip that if The Daily does in fact exist, we should indeed expect it to launch in the first quarter of 2011. Speaking to the Business Insider's Ignition conference, Miller said that the iPad blew their minds, and it was a game changer for his industry.
With Richard Branson launching his iPad-only magazine Project last week and The Guardian announcing a new subscription-based news app just yesterday, News Corp. might want to speed up the release of its potential publication as well. I would think Mr. Murdoch wants to be at the front of this trend and not somewhere in the middle, right?News Corp plays coy about iPad-exclusive publication, suggests 2011 launch originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Patents aplenty: iPhone radio, fiber optic MagSafe, 3D without glasses
Apple's patent team must be cramming before the end of the year, because this past week we've seen a flood of patent applications come out of Cupertino. First up, Apple has patented a radio system in the iPhone (finally!), allowing you to listen to standard FM and AM broadcasts on the smartphone. The patent itself also includes an idea for a satellite radio connection, as well as a card to plug into Macs that would do the same thing. And there's a radio map idea as well, that would chart and let you browse nearby radio stations. Pretty cool idea -- hopefully we'll see it in the next iPhone revision.
Next up is a new version of the MagSafe power adapter that could include a fiber optic channel, so that the cord not only carries a power connection, but can also transmit data to and from another unit equipped to provide both (Intel's Light Peak technology isn't mentioned in the patent, but it would probably work). You can see four pins in the current MagSafe connector, but this fiber optic node would sit right in the middle of those. Cool idea, though it seems like the actual implementation would need to be worked on a little bit further.
Finally, Apple's also picked up patents for a 3D rendering system that would allow you to see live 3D in a room without glasses. This one's complicated -- it would track a user's position, and then send separate images to their right and left eyes through multiple projectors. This patent was actually filed a few years ago, so it's likely a hairbrained idea Apple had at the time, rather than anything that will eventually see the light of day. At least Apple's keeping up the creativity for us, right?Patents aplenty: iPhone radio, fiber optic MagSafe, 3D without glasses originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPad appears in US House of Representatives
Politico picked up the story of a Democratic congressman rocking out an iPad while at the podium in the U.S. House of Representatives. The stylish iPad wielder was Henry Cuellar of the Texas 28th, who's described himself as a "techie."
According to Politico's interview with Cuellar, the congressman uses his iPad first thing in the morning to check the papers while enjoying his cup of coffee. He uses his tablet again in the evening to check his email and see if there are any important news stories.
In terms of professional apps, Cuellar uses Congress in Your Pocket to keep tabs on his fellow politicians. He has another app that works like a teleprompter (unspecified, but likely to be ProPrompter) allowing his aides to send him important talking points. The app he doesn't have? Angry Birds. Apparently, Cuellar likes to keep his iPad productive and distraction-free.
That's not all. Cuellar confirmed that he's "seen a couple of other members that have their iPads." Maybe he's starting a Beltway trend.iPad appears in US House of Representatives originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Solved: The case of the missing .Mac widgets
Back in April of 2005, Apple released the much-awaited Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" OS. One of the big new features of Tiger was Dashboard. The overlay feature supported Widgets, mini-apps that were the descendants of Mac OS 9 Desk Accessories, and that some might consider the precursors to modern iOS apps.Dashboard widgets were (and still are) fairly useful tools, and some pretty cool eye candy to boot. But the number of widgets that shipped with Tiger were limited, and many hoped Apple would quickly release additional widgets. Apple eventually did add more widgets with the release of Mac OS X 10.4.4, but that release didn't happen until January 2006. Apple did, however, plan to release some additional widgets to select Mac users before 10.4.4 shipped...
If you were a .Mac member (now known as MobileMe) in mid-2005, you may recall a certain call-out on the .Mac Member's Central page that stated "Members Exclusive Widgets - Coming Soon!" The promise of additional Apple-made widgets set Dashboard fanboys drooling. Months passed, however, as the message remained on the .Mac Members Central site, but the widgets had yet to appear. And they never would.In the end the member exclusive .Mac widgets failed to materialize without any explanation from Apple; eventually all mention of the member-exclusive widgets was removed from the .Mac page. Many wondered just what had happened to the elusive exclusive widgets, but no answers ever materialized...until now. I thought I'd finally take the time to close this small chapter of in the book of Apple mysteries.
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Переслать - Viber for iPhone could give Skype a challenge
Viber is a new free VoIP app for the iPhone. It allows you to talk using the AT&T data network, rather than the cellular network. I kept looking for a catch, but there isn't one. Works on WiFi and 3G. Check. You don't need to create a friends list. Check. Alerts you to incoming calls without the app being open. Check. No ads. Check.
International and domestic calls between 2 Viber equipped iPhones are free. You aren't burning your voice plan minutes, and soon there will be an Android version. Of course, if you have a metered data plan, you may have to watch out to make sure you don't exceed the limit, but many long-time iPhone users are still hanging on to their unlimited data contracts.
In my tests, voice audio quality is terrific. It makes you realize how bad the AT&T wireless voice audio quality really is. Registration for Viber is completely pain free: you give Viber your phone number, and then they text you with an access code. You enter the access code into the app, and then you are on your way.
The Viber interface looks just like the built-in iPhone dialer. You can see your regular contact list; the difference is that friends who are on Viber are marked so you know who you can call for free. You can even call out to non-Viber equipped phones, but you'll use your regular minutes.
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Viber for iPhone could give Skype a challenge originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple takes down AirPrint Hacktivator, and now it's back
Remember AirPrint Hacktivator?
It's the little hack that makes it possible for AirPrint to work with any shared printer on a Mac. We've covered the free app several times on TUAW, most recently when version 1.7 came out.
After we published that post, a TUAW reader pointed out that despite the fact that developer Netputing had touted "no Apple files are redistributed nor installed by the latest version," those files were indeed still in 1.7. TUAW contacted Netputing, and they immediately removed the files in version 1.7.1.
Despite a busy lawsuit life, Apple's legal department apparently has nothing better to do, so they sent Netputing a nice little email via omm.com asking them to remove all of the pre-1.7.1 versions of the app. The site was down temporarily, but now it's back and 100% legal.
Here's hoping that AirPrint Hacktivator is here to stay!
[via MacStories]
Apple takes down AirPrint Hacktivator, and now it's back originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Ask TUAW: Canceling Mobile Me, iPhone backups, playing Windows media files and more
Welcome back to another edition of our weekly Q & A column Ask TUAW. Each week this column will appear with questions and answers. If you have questions for the following week's column, drop them in the comments, and I will do my best to get to them. I won't be able to answer them all every time, so please, be patient.
When asking a question, please include which machine you're using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we'll assume you're running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don't specify). If you're asking an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad question, be sure to note which model and version of iOS you have.
For this week we've got a new batch of questions about how to cancel Mobile Me, getting Windows Media files to play on a Mac, backing up an iPhone and more.
Rusty Cantor asks
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Переслать - Mophie juice pack plus: more iPhone 4 battery life, less filling
Many of us on the TUAW staff are big fans of the Mophie juice pack battery packs for iPhone, and now the company has come out with one that packs a lot of capacity into a case that's only 1 millimeter thicker than the skinny juice pack air.
The juice pack plus for iPhone 4 ($99.95) comes with a whopping 2,000 mAh capacity, which can provide up to 8 hours additional talk time or 7 more hours of internet use on a 3G network, or up to 11 hours more internet use on a Wi-Fi network. That's 500 mAh more than the juice pack air ($79.95) in virtually the same volume.Mophie added some other features to the juice pack plus as well. It's designed as a virtual speaker box that redirects sound from the bottom of the iPhone 4 -- where the speakers are -- to the front. That's useful in providing richer sound and helpful during those long conference calls with the iPhone 4 in speakerphone mode.
Mophie seems to be going to the printing world for their choice of colors for the juice pack plus, as it will be CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black)). The black case is available now; the colors should be available in January according to a Mophie spokesman. We'll have a full review and giveaway in the near future.
Mophie juice pack plus: more iPhone 4 battery life, less filling originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mark Frauenfelder on maker culture, openness and Apple
I'm attending Respect The Internet in NYC, a one-day conference highlighting the sometimes tenuous and touchy relationship between online culture and traditional marketing/media. Among the morning's star presenters was Boing Boing founder and MAKE magazine/Maker Faire standard bearer Mark Frauenfelder, who discussed the maker ethos and the DIY manifesto (user-replaceable parts! screws not glue!) while highlighting some fascinating sites, companies and grass-roots efforts around the world.
I noticed that Mark was presenting from an 11" MacBook Air, which had the effect of making his lap and hands look unusually large -- but it also made me wonder how the idea of a hackable product ecosystem with full user access is reconciled with Apple's attitude toward hacking in general and hardware modification/upgrades in particular. Since I had the chance to ask him about it, I did. His response is nuanced; he's "not an extremist" about openness, although he wants to see greater accessibility in product design. "Not everything has to be open," he noted.
A video clip of the Q & A (sorry for the Stickam quality) is in the second half of this post. The conference continues this afternoon; you can tune into the live feed here.
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Mark Frauenfelder on maker culture, openness and Apple originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: Taking to the great outdoors
Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier.
When you live in a state of amazing natural beauty like Colorado, it's not just a given that you'll be spending lots of time outdoors using Apple products, it's the law. State troopers will regularly stop by and knock on your door to remind you that it's a beautiful day out there -- and don't you want to get away from your Mac and go enjoy it? Or maybe I meant your mom instead of state troopers. Whatever.
If someone you love is an outdoor enthusiast, there are many ways that you can find just the right gift to enhance their enjoyment for getting out of the house, without having to leave their Apple products at home. Here is our TUAW holiday gift guide for the great outdoors.
Phone Gloves. With capacitive screens, iPhone devices aren't particularly receptive to gloves. As the weather grows cold, users might find it harder and harder to keep taking off their gloves to manipulate their screens. That's where touchscreen-capable gloves come in. You can buy gloves that work with the iPhone anywhere, from Walmart to high-end fashion retailers. Prices start at around US$15 and go on up.
These gloves work by providing a contact that allows the electrical charge from your body to transmit through to the iPhone. That means the gloves are going to have touch points that won't feel uniformly soft and flexible at their tips. So, caveat emptor. But anyone who has tried to make a phone call while waiting in the winter wind for their child's school to dismiss will appreciate the convenience.Continue reading TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: Taking to the great outdoors
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Переслать - The Guardian announces subscription-based news app, is rumored Newsstand looming?
AppleInsider reports that, on Thursday, The Guardian announced it will be replacing its current app with an all new version "soon." Although the current version of the app will continue to work (but eventually be discontinued), the new app is to introduce The Guardian's award-winning video, reader comments on articles, improved live blogs and landscape reading.
Jonathon Moore, the mobile product manager for The Guardian wrote, "We'll be launching the new app globally for the first time and although we can't confirm exactly when it will be available, we're working towards a pre-Christmas release."
However, the more interesting side of this story is that the new app will be subscription-based, costing £2.99 for six months and £3.99 for a year.
Although Moore didn't indicate that the new app's pricing structure had anything to do with any changes in the way the App Store delivers news content, it certainly does coincide with the rumored December 9th (or thereabouts) press event -- supposedly announcing an App Store news subscription service (featuring Steve Jobs as well as News Corp's Rupert Murdoch introducing The Daily -- unless it has in fact been delayed).
Publishers have been seeking a better way to deliver their content on the App Store for some time now. Is the much-speculated App Store Newsstand (perhaps similar to the iBookstore) about to be introduced in time for the holiday season? We're holding out for December the 9th!
The Guardian announces subscription-based news app, is rumored Newsstand looming? originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Gameloft's holiday iOS releases: NOVA 2, Asphalt 6 and Shadow GuardianGameloft kindly allowed TUAW to sit in on a preview yesterday of the games it's planning on releasing later this year, and we got to see three new iOS titles. NOVA 2 (seen above) is the sequel to the very popular first-person shooter for iPhone. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline is the latest in Gameloft's high-quality racing series and Shadow Guardian is a brand new IP that borrows a lot from popular action/exploration games like Tomb Raider and Uncharted. After the break, you'll find descriptions of all three titles. They will be available for both iPhone and iPad sometime later on this year.
Gameloft is also releasing three more titles this year that we didn't get to see: Dungeon Hunter 2 (which is the sequel to the popular Diablo-style hack-and-slash RPG), and two games called Eternal Legacy and Space Fracture. We'll have more about those games soon, and we'll likely see them live on the App Store before long anyway.Continue reading Gameloft's holiday iOS releases: NOVA 2, Asphalt 6 and Shadow Guardian
Gameloft's holiday iOS releases: NOVA 2, Asphalt 6 and Shadow Guardian originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mobiola WebCamera gets localization, AppleScript support
It's always nice when developers respond to the suggestions of reviewers.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Mobiola Web Cam from SHAPE Services. It's a combination of an iPhone app and a desktop (Windows and Mac) client that turns your iPhone into a webcam. At one point in my review, I suggested that it would be nice to see scripting support built into the Mac desktop client for automating the process of capturing screen shots or video from the camera.
Just over two weeks later, the app has a slightly different name (WebCamera instead of Web Cam), it's localized in German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Dutch, and AppleScript support has been added. The app is currently on sale for US$1.99 from the usual $4.99 price, so if you're thinking about picking it up, now's a good time.
A quick look at the Mobiola WebCamera Scripting Suite from AppleScript showed three new verbs:
take snapshot,start recording, andstop recording. With these, and aconnectedproperty that's part of the application class, it's quite simple to write an AppleScript that waits for the iPhone to connect to the desktop app, and then takes a picture or timed video at regular intervals.I found that I also no longer needed to specify an IP address and port for the client and app to get the camera to connect, so it's obvious that the developers at SHAPE Services are paying attention to reviewers and customers to make a good app even better.
Mobiola WebCamera gets localization, AppleScript support originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Daily Deals for December 3, 2010
Deals! Continuing our march towards the end of the holiday season, DealNews sends word of several fresh opportunities to save money. Some apps for free, some Pages templates, even a few printers. Please note the printers are not on Apple's list of AirPrint-compatible printers, however.
- iTunes Music Store: iPhone App Store Freebies: Etch A Sketch, Cops & Robbers, iQuarium, more
- iTunes Music Store: 180 for iPhone / iPod touch or iPad downloads for free
- MacUpdate Promo: Pages Templates 6 for Mac downloads for $20
- HandHeldItems: Professional Photo Studio Shooting Table w/ $3 credit for $17 + $17 s&h
- Apple Store: 10 refurbished Apple iMac Desktops: Core i3 22" for $1,019 + free shipping, more
- OfficeMax: OfficeMax Furniture Sale: Up to 50% off, deals from $40 + $8 s&h
- iTunes Music Store: iPhone App Price Drops: MMA by EA Sports, Cupcake Shop Matching, more
- MegaMacs: Used PowerMac G4 450MHz Desktop for $70 + $31 s&h
- Meritline: Network Cable Tester for $3 + free shipping
- TigerDirect: WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 3Gbps Internal Hard Drive for $30 + $3 s&h
- Epson: Epson Stylus R1900 Inkjet Photo Printer for $184 after rebate + free shipping
- B&H Photo Video: Konica Minolta 4650DN Network Color Laser Printer for $230 + free shipping
Daily Deals for December 3, 2010 originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mac 101: The two Applications folders
Mac users quickly come to know the /Applications/ directory, where you will find all of the default applications that come with OS X (Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, iCal and so on), as well as the Utilities folder (/Applications/Utilities/), where more advanced users get to know Activity Monitor, Terminal, Network Utility, Airport Utility, Spaces and more.
If you have run an installer -- such as for iLife, iWork, Microsoft Office and so on‚ more than likely that installer has added programs to the /Applications/ folder. The /Applications/ folder is also usually linked to when you mount a disk image (those files that end with .dmg), encouraging you to drag applications to the /Applications/ directory. The Applications folder is also in the sidebar of the Finder.
But some other users use a second Applications directory in their Home folder: ~/Applications/. Why keep two separate sets of Applications?
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Переслать - Be a turntable hero with djay for iPad
An iPad app might not be enough to convince a seasoned DJ to go iPad-only, but then, a medium-sized, multi-touch surface can only come so close to replicating a turntable, right? With djay for iPad (US$19.99 on the App Store), algoriddim has not only impressively mimicked traditional decks, they've added features that your average DJ setup doesn't have. Plus, they made it easy enough for even the most inexperienced music-lover to rock their next party.
Our own Victor Agreda recently gave us a great rundown of djay for iPad's predecessors, djay for Mac and djay Remote for iPhone. A quick recap: djay on the Mac gives you two turntables and a crossfader, BPM analysis and automatic syncing, an "Automix" feature for effortless and seamless playback and plenty of extra goodies. djay Remote on the iPhone lets you control a significant number of those features, but not all of them. The combination is really fun, but the iPhone app doesn't do anything without a locally-networked Mac running djay. Enter djay for iPad.
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Переслать - Mac OS X 10.6.6 build 10J537 seeded, Mac App Store clarification says no demosTwo items: last night Apple seeded another build of 10.6.6 (we reported a build had been sent back in November) build 10j537, and a Mac App Store statement from Apple has put the kibosh on any demo apps.
More intriguing is this bit as reported by Macstories, wherein developers are encouraged to host demos, trials and the like on their website. Presumably developer websites listed in the Mac App Store will lure buyers to the site, where they can download a demo. Then they'll come back to the Mac App Store and buy the full version. It'll be interesting to see the numbers when this all shakes out. In any case, the Mac App Store is coming sooner, now that January 17, 2011 deadline is looming.Mac OS X 10.6.6 build 10J537 seeded, Mac App Store clarification says no demos originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Live Nation releases free app
Ticket seller Live Nation has released its very own iOS app on the App Store -- you can download it for free there right now. Not only can you browse upcoming events and buy tickets to shows directly from within the app (as well as get news about presales and upcoming deals on tickets), but once you go to a show in person, you can pick up setlist information, see photos and videos and check-in with friends through social networks.
Personally, I have kind of an issue with Live Nation, given its rocky past with Clear Channel Communications and Ticketmaster, so I can't really recommend the app just to buy tickets with. The company's never really been generous to customers, to say the least, taking advantage of high ticket fees and the artists that it works with. If there's an alternative way to buy your tickets, either from the venue itself or from the artists involved, it'll probably be cheaper than Live Nation, and better for the industry at large.
But they are a huge company with a lot of partnerships going, and quite a few shows nowadays (if not all of the big venue shows) are sold through Live Nation. So if you're planning to buy tickets with them anyway -- and sometimes you don't have a choice -- using the app will give you some nice bonuses.Live Nation releases free app originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Daily App: Rise of Atlantis HDI really enjoyed (and still occasionally play) Russian developer Playrix's Call of Atlantis on the iPhone. It's a pretty straightforward match-3 game that nevertheless has a lot of appeal. Somehow, the pieces (including some weird-shaped boards), certain items that you need to release from the grid to match up and some special power-ups are tuned just right so that I find it more fun than most games of the type -- it's almost as great as PopCap's own Bejeweled. And now, the company has released the next game in the series, Rise of Atlantis as an HD version on the iPad.
It's worth checking out, especially if you're in the mood for an iPad-specific match-3 experience. The graphics and colors are vibrant, and like Call of Atlantis, there's a very loosely connected "story" mode to go through with 77 different levels to beat. And you can even go back and beat them for a high score if you're into that. There's no multiplayer or achievements or anything, unfortunately, but then again, a solid match-3 game is just a game where you sit on the couch and flip little icons to match them up by yourself -- and is there any better device for a game like that than the iPad? I think not.
The Mac version of the game was spotlighted by Apple, and this one should be popular as well. You can try out the lite version for free, or pick up the full iPad game for a launch sale price of US $4.99.TUAW's Daily App: Rise of Atlantis HD originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - FlickrExport for iPhoto and Aperture updated to version 4
FlickrExport, Connected Flow's popular photo management plug-in, has been upgraded to version 4 for both iPhoto and Aperture. Full of new features like video uploading, support for multiple Flickr accounts, the ability to add photos to multiple photosets during uploading and metadata-only uploads in Aperture, FlickrExport is a must for anyone serious about sharing their photos via the popular online photo sharing site. It's an easy way to quickly upload a lot of pictures, something you might want to do if you plan on using Flickr HD as a digital picture frame on your iOS device this holiday season.
Sure, you can use the Flickr export tools already built into iPhoto '11, but FlickrExport offers you so many more options that it's definitely worth the price of admission. Available in a feature-limited version that's free for 30 days, licensed versions are available for iPhoto at £12 (about US$19) and Aperture at £14 (about US$22). FlickrExport requires OS X 10.5.8 and either iPhoto '08 or Aperture 1.5.1 and up.
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FlickrExport for iPhoto and Aperture updated to version 4 originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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