Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Holidays, App Store, App Review
My wife and I are unabashed Disneyphiles, so the last two months have been a lot of fun. After my wife taught a tutorial in L.A. last month, we spent a few days at the West Coast properties -- Disneyland and California Adventure. This month, we had some Disney Vacation Club points left over, so we spent five days at our "home" resort near Disney's Animal Kingdom, Epcot, the Magic Kingdom, and Disney's Hollywood Studios. I thought these trips would be a perfect opportunity to try out some of the many travel apps that have sprung up for the iPhone, all of which purport to be the solution to all of your Disney dining, lodging, and theme park information needs. Full story...
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Software Update
It certainly caused a lot of excitement when the Apple web store went down this morning.
Filed under: Apple, Macbook Pro
Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release.
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware
Last month, we highly recommended the BearExtender n3 [US $44.
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch
Navigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date.
Filed under: Found Footage, iPad
In case you missed it last week, PBS top gab guy Charlie Rose (no relation) hosted a roundtable discussion about the latest product from Steve & co.
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Steve Jobs
Apple doesn't have a huge social media presence.
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Macbook Pro
Update: Commenters point out that our tipster pulled the Best Buy inventory screen image from this thread on the MacRumors forums (he did provide independent confirmation of the SKU deletion).
Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch
Game Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many developers working on iPhone games as are working on the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP handheld consoles.
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store
Yes, PopCap is at it again -- this time, their crazy addictive (just like all of their games) take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs.
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store
If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it.