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Entries from February 2009

An Inspirational Read About iPhone Game Development

Date February 22, 2009


The News & Observer shared with us a story of a man, 30 years of age, whom spent not but 6 weeks on the development of an iPhone game, which I’m sure many of you are well aware of to this day. That game is iShoot, and is available on the iPhone App Store for [...]

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Jailbreaking the iPhone is Illegal…. according to Apple.

Date February 18, 2009


Apple has made it’s first formal public statement about it’s legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking in comments filed with the Copyright Office.
Apple states;
“Current jailbreak techniques now in widespread use utilize unauthorized modifications to
the copyrighted bootloader and OS, resulting in infringement of the copyrights in those
programs. For example, the current most popular jailbreaking software [...]

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Oh wait, I have an iPod

Date February 16, 2009


Last night’s episode of Family Guy put Microsoft’s Zune player out to dry. Carter Pewterschmidt, Lois’ father, asks Bill Gates for some help with his Zune. Then comes the quick jab at the Zune Player as Carter reveals that the Zune is in fact an iPod, “like the rest of the world” has.
Take a look [...]

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Apple’s iPhone Now Accounts for Over Half of All Smartphone Internet Requests

Date February 16, 2009


According to Admob, Apple’s iPhone is now account for over half of the entire smartphone Internet requests in all of America.
Worldwide requests from Apple devices grew 28% month over month to 1.2 billion in January. Building on its strong December, iPod Touch growth outpaced iPhone growth in top markets. The iPod Touch now represents 40% [...]

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iPhone App Store 20% on its way to 100k Applications

Date February 14, 2009


As the title reads, it has been officially announced that the iPhone App Store has over 20,000 applications available for download. Some of which are free, and some of which will cost you much more than a pretty penny.
This announcement was made official on February 10th by Apptism, a site that tracks and rates App [...]

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A Crap Load of Farting Apps, All of which are, Sadly, Available on the App Store

Date February 13, 2009


TUAW recently uploaded a video to YouTube, providing a sneak peek at several dozen of the ever-too-many farting applications available on the App Store. How many farting apps are there on the App Store exactly? Over 60. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Have a look at the video via YouTube by clicking here.
It’s safe to say that my [...]

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Third-Generation iPhone to get Multitasking?

Date February 4, 2009


It’s all starting to make sense, now.
When Apple first touted their forthcoming Push Notification Service as an alternative to the multitasking The Steve was so loath to support on the iPhone citing performance and battery life issues, we all figured, okay, fine, it’s better than nothing.  At least we could still get IM, pish mail, [...]

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iPhone To Get Flash – For Real This Time

Date February 1, 2009


After all this time picking at the flower over Flash, it looks like the final petal on Adobe’s Flash saga will land on “loves me.”  As it turns out, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen isn’t merely in talks with Apple about bringing Flash to the iPhone at long, long, long last, he’s actually teamed up with [...]

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