Huge discounts from Amazon on Apple kit. E.g., the current price for a new white MacBook is just $884.98 — savings of $114 off the regular price. iPods, MacBooks, iMacs — all on sale. Shop from this link (for anything from Amazon) and I’ll get a kickback.
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In an in-depth review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, Ryan Faas (computerworld.com) cites “performance gains, improvements to several collaboration tools introduced in Leopard Server, enhanced simple administration for non-technical users and new features designed for mobile access and for supporting the iPhone.” Adds Fass: “Snow Leopard Server is a tremendous value.”
Apple:
Automatic, electronic submission of your iTunes LP or Extra is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. Until then, the submission process is manual and limited.
Includes an interesting appendix on TuneKit, the JavaScript framework.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Remember: the iPod Touch accounts for about 40 percent of the overall iPhone OS market. Neither Android nor Palm has anything like it.
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My thanks to Tap Tap Tap for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Voices. Voices is a fun new iPhone app — make an audio recording and Voices will change your voice into one of several funny characters, including a chipmunk, a robot, a protected witness, and over a dozen more. You can [...]
Free Pac-Man-style iPhone game by Neven Mrgan — but, fitting in with this week’s theme, it’s a web app, not a native app from the App Store. And it runs locally, no network access required.
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I want to kiss them, they’re so beautiful. Best batch of Field Notes Colors yet. And check out this swell video the gang at Coudal just released (which includes a nice coupon on yearly Field Notes Colors subscriptions).
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Still no mention of the Cocoa Touch framework. I’m telling you, that’s the key to the popularity of native iPhone development.
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Which would explain the stink eye Apple Legal cast at The Little App Factory’s initial attempt to rename iPodRip to PodRip. I still say it’s crummy. (Via Nilay Patel.)
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