Beepocalypse: How Apple could improve multi-device reminders
May 17, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Today, beloved leader Victor pointed me to this write-up over at Tidbits . Although Joe Kissel’s experience with quite so many devices (nine, I believe) falls a bit into the extremes of iOS/OS X use, the problem of dealing with distributed alarms …

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Daily iPad App: Total War Battles brings big-time RTS to iOS
April 23, 2012 – 4:00 pm | No Comment
Daily iPad App: Total War Battles brings big-time RTS to iOS

I first saw Total War Battles (now out on the iPad and iPhone) at GDC earlier this year, and walked away excited about its potential. The Creative Assembly has been making phenomenal …

RedSn0w updated with Corona A5 jailbreak, more
April 23, 2012 – 3:45 pm | No Comment
RedSn0w updated with Corona A5 jailbreak, more

Over the weekend, the iPhone Dev Team released two new versions of its RedSn0w jailbreak tool that has several features for unlockers, iPhone 4S owners and iPad 2 owners. Version 0.9.10b7 adds support for the corona-A5 jailbreak for…

Apple sued over all touch-based products
April 23, 2012 – 3:30 pm | No Comment
Apple sued over all touch-based products

FlatWorld, a Pennsylvania company, is suing Apple for patent infringement in California’s Northern District Court in San Francisco, according to a report in Patently Apple . The company owns Patent RE43,318 which describes “a testing tool with a touch screen …

iBorg: I have become them
April 23, 2012 – 3:15 pm | No Comment
iBorg: I have become them

The other evening, I cracked open a nearly 600-page book by Scott Sigler . (Summary: it was pretty bad, cannot recommend it, but that has nothing to do with this post.) And…

iPhones smuggled into China in beer bottles
April 23, 2012 – 3:00 pm | No Comment
iPhones smuggled into China in beer bottles

It’s pretty easy to understand most of this story. Someone in Hong Kong wanted to get a bunch of iPhones into Shenzen, China, so they decided to smuggle them across the border. That’s illegal, but it makes…

Deepworld launches Kickstarter project to help fund a Mac beta
April 23, 2012 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
Deepworld launches Kickstarter project to help fund a Mac beta

When I first met the guys making Deepworld, a 2D sandbox-style building game similar to Minecraft, at GDC in March , I told them that the project would be bigger than they thought. They do have extensive experience developing software…

Video from South Korean launch of new iPad
April 20, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment
Video from South Korean launch of new iPad

Today Apple launched the new iPad in an additional 12 countries around the world. While eleven of the countries — Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela — are relatively small markets, …

Motorola’s patent enforcement against Apple could cost German taxpayers dearly
April 20, 2012 – 7:30 pm | No Comment
Motorola’s patent enforcement against Apple could cost German taxpayers dearly

In a recent article , FOSS Patents points out a loophole in German law that forces taxpayers to pay for part of the court proceedings between Motorola and Apple. Motorola is currently enforcing an injunction against Apple and has deposited money for the injunction as required…

Disk Art visualizes hard drive space usage
April 20, 2012 – 7:00 pm | No Comment
Disk Art visualizes hard drive space usage

When an email from the Clean Cut Code , the makers of Disk Art , showed up in our inbox yesterday, I jumped at the chance to take a peek. I’m a huge fan of Grand Perspective ‘s space visualization software and am always happy to…

Second Perth, Australia store set to open
April 20, 2012 – 6:15 pm | No Comment
Second Perth, Australia store set to open

Apple is preparing to open another retail store in Perth, Australia, according to a PertNow report . A recent job advertisement for the store invited potential employees to “be part of an exciting team…