Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
iPhone may finally get Flash
February 1st, 2009 • 2 comments
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems, Apple, flash, iPhone
Adobe‘s CEO has stated they are now in collaboration with Apple to develop Flash for the iPhone. It seems to me that, if this ever comes to fruition, we will see a major shift in the type of games available in the app store. After all, why would I pay $5-$10 for a tower defense game or a card game when I could play them for free in the web browser? Now all we need is a version of the Kongregate site for the iPhone…
Apple plans “Premium” games section on iTunes
January 29th, 2009 •
Tags: Apple, AppStore, games, iPhone, itunes, premium games
Complaints leveled at the iTunes app store by developers are that any app priced over 99 cents risks being overshadowed by the plethora of quick and cheap apps. I have to admit it takes much less deliberation to decide if I should fork over a buck for a game. A five-dollar or more game receives a little more thought. This is natural, and I’m not sure there is any way to avoid it.
Apple has decided the best remedy is to separate so-called “premium” games from the standard games section of the store. The only problem is that the new division of the store is said to be limited to large publisher. Fans of indie games and developers will be a little miffed to say the least. The app store has really leveled the playing field to allow small-time developers to compete against the larger developers. It would really be a shame to see all that go out the window.
Thanks to Cult of Mac for the heads-up.
iLife ’09 ships tomorrow
January 26th, 2009 •
Tags: Apple, garageband, ilife, iphoto, mac, Software
The Apple blogosphere has erupted with the news iLife ’09 will ship out to stores tomorrow. I have to admit I’m a little excited for the facial recognition in iPhoto. I think the change with the most potential is the addition of music lessons to GarageBand. I wish I were excited for it, but I realize I have neither the time, the patience, nor the inclination to sit down and learn an instrument. Sigh…
Jets’n'Guns Gold promo pricing
January 23rd, 2009 •
Tags: Apple, deals, games, mac, Software
Today’s MacUpdate Promo deal is the critically acclaimed shooter Jets’n'Guns Gold. The game is normally $30, but today it can be yours for $10! Mac gamers and shooter fans rejoice. If you happen to be both a Mac user and a shooter fan, you are probably already in some kind of shock coma due to rapture.
Eversave insures you won’t lose your work
January 22nd, 2009 •
Tags: Apple, eversave, mac, Software, utility
Eversave is not a mega-church as you may have guessed. Cult of Mac has caught wind of a cool Mac application which will periodically save open documents automatically. It sounds like a pretty cool idea. I have heard a million horror stories about how people lost 20 hours of work because they hit the surge protector’s power button with their foot. It’s really discouraging to have to start over. I personally have been saved numerous times by Gmail’s autosave feature. Thanks to this app, your documents will be saved whether or not your other applications have an auto-save feature.
White Macbook gets serious upgrades
January 21st, 2009 •
Tags: Apple, Macbook
Apple’s best-selling computer ever has gotten a pretty decent upgrade. The plastic $1,000 Macbook now has a 1066MHz frontside bus, twice the RAM (2GB), and Nvidia’s 9400M graphics processor. The most significant item is the graphics card which will really give gamers a big boost. This leaves the $1,300 aluminum 13″ Macbook very few selling points over the little white book that could.
Thanks to Wired for bringing this my attention.