Electonic Arts hot new title, The Sims 3, doesn’t come out until June 2, but as Peter Cohen (macworld.com) tells us, “that shouldn’t stop you from trying it out” ahead of time. Just visit an Apple Retail Store. There, Cohen reports, “you can test the ‘Create A Sim‘ feature. You can also sample [...]
Archive > May 2009
App Store Pick of the Week: Need for Speed Undercover
With its pounding soundtrack, non-stop action, superb graphics, and intuitive tilt-control steering, Need for Speed Undercover is one of the best racing games on the App Store. It features 24 challenging ventures and 8 race modes that will keep you busy and entertained for a long time. And you can pick your ride from any [...]
Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee Interview at AllThingsD Regarding the Palm Pre
I’m linking to John Paczkowski’s notes from the interview, but they have a nine-minute video of highlights as well, and the video includes a new Pre demo.
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New Yorker iPhone Cover Boosts Sales for Brushes App
Jenna Wortham on Steve Sprang’s Brushes, the iPhone app used by artist Jorge Colombo to paint this week’s New Yorker cover:
The novelty and popularity of the cover has provided a healthy boost in sales for the 32-year-old who works shifts in a coffee shop when he’s not developing applications for the iPhone and Mac.
On Monday, [...]
Google Expects 18 Android Models by Year’s End
That’s a big jump, since there are only two right now, and just one — the G1 — that’s available in the U.S.
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Chrome Extensions
Slides from Aaron Boodman’s presentation on the upcoming Chrome extension API at the Google I/O conference. Looks very good, and very Google-y: Chrome extensions are simply signed bundles of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, taking advantage of HTML5 features for drawing and database storage.
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Introducing Typekit
Jeffrey Veen announces Typekit:
That’s where Typekit comes in. We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level [...]
Palm Pre Syncs Music With iTunes
Philip Elmer-DeWitt:
Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, with Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes.
In fact, the iTunes Store treats the Pre just as it would an iPod or an iPhone with one exception: it can’t handle old copy-protected songs.
Questions: Does it also sync with iTunes on Windows? If you add a song to your [...]
Public Builds of Chromium for Mac
Not yet ready for prime time, but definitely getting there fast. I like what I see.
Update: Chromium is the open source browser on which Google Chrome is based, but they’re not synonymous.
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The Panic Three-Day Sale
50 percent off the entire selection of major Panic apps, including Coda and Transmit.
Update: This informative infomercial explains how it works.
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