Author: dfinnigan
San Diego, California – Brain-new, an emerging new mobile game developer, is excited today to announce the launch of Find It 1.1 onto the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch this engaging new experience turns social photo sharing into a puzzling turn-based scavenger hunt game! It is a simple yet endlessly entertaining proposition – players simply pick an object for their real world opponents to photograph, and off they go. It’s up to them to put…
Dr. Steven Weyhrich, a well-known character in the world of Apple II for over two decades, is publishing for the first time a revised and expanded edition of his famous Apple II History in a book called Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life & Times of the Apple II Computer. This book is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com with a price of, at this time, just $20. Despite humble beginnings, today Apple, Inc. enjoys unprecedented popularity and prosperity with its products, and…
Casselberry, Florida – Econ Technologies updates ChronoAgent for Mac to version 1.4. This update features the addition of ChronoAgent to the menu bar and the transmission of sync and backup results sent directly to ChronoMonitor running on an iPhone. ChronoAgent 1.4 is $10 and as always, all existing ChronoAgent users update for free. No user is ever left behind. Now you can display ChronoAgent on the menu bar providing you with instant notification of ChronoAgent’s status. Know at a glance…
KansasFest 2013, the Apple II convention scheduled for July 23–28 in Kansas City, Missouri, comes on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Disk ][ disk drive, Apple DOS, and Applesoft BASIC. To celebrate this anniversary, Randy Wigginton, Apple employee #6 and engineer who worked on all three of these innovations, will be the keynote speaker. In 1978, Wigginton was a brilliant young high school student working alongside Apple co-founder Wozniak. Wigginton was an early member of the famous Homebrew Computer Club,…
Enschede, The Netherlands – Score Media Netherlands is delighted to announce the release of an update of their globally popular Tunecast application to the Apple iTunes store, compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Tunecast 1.5 is available now at a cost of $1.99 USD. Tunecast 1.5 retains all of the brilliant features of the original application, and provides users with a slicker, more aspirational appearance and high-quality user experience that is unrivalled across other mobile music download services….
New York, New York – Developer Dr Robert Belluso’s first game, Little Bird combines current technology, exotic landscapes, objects, and contraptions, allowing the player to interact with the game in ways they’ve never seen before! Unlike games that rely on tapping, sliding or swiping, Little Bird 1.0 takes advantage of the latest iPhone technology. The user tilts the device to the right or left, using gravity and speed to build momentum to get through each level. Before long you will…
Raleigh, North Carolina – Apparent’s new Doxie One, the simple and affordable new paper scanner for everyone, is now available worldwide. Doxie One scans anywhere in your home or office – no computer required – and syncs with your iPad, Mac, or PC. Included Doxie software offers a complete solution for going paperless. Scanning made simple: Doxie One scans your paper – simply, automatically, and with no computer required. Just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere…
According to an article on Gamasutra by Frank Cifaldi, a German game-making company is asking Apple to remove apps from the App Store that contain the word “Memory” in their name. Ravensburger claims to hold trademark to the term in Europe. They are the makers of the popular Memory board game. As a result, Apple is sending notices to App Store developers letting them know of the situation. The developers are supposed to either rename their apps or remove them from…
Not every Apple product is destined to be a run-away success. Roberto Baldwin tells of several Apple products that unfortunately, for whatever reason, didn’t have what it takes to catch on with consumers. Apple’s breakthrough products are so massive that it seems everything the company does is destined to succeed. But it doesn’t take much digging to find a trail of failures and false starts. Even in recent years, there are examples of products that seemed great but never resonated…
Brendan Robert has released a new and improved version of his Java Apple II emulator. ] 65c02 CPU emulation is now 100%, tested and verified thanks to Klaus Dormann’s test suite: https://github.com/redline6561/cl-6502/blob/b008…nctional_test.a65 ] Overall CPU usage is way down thanks to recent changes: Video generation rolled into main thread and this made things a lot more efficient Switched to older timer model, newer lock-based timers were considerably slower Memory listener model streamlined to be more efficient ] Skyfox now detects…
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Ewen Wannop, British programmer of 16-bit telecommunications programs such as Spectrum, SAM, SNAP, and SAFE. The hosts share feedback galore from the last episode and contemplate how to record a live show. After catching up on some headlines from last month, we plow forward, celebrating the return of an interactive fiction publication and grumbling that even beginner IF can be as obscure as the medium is infamous for. The September 2012…
As long as mobile devices such as my 3rd generation iPod touch still require me to squint at everything, and require me to jab at a glass screen to “type,” the desktop computer is still worlds easier to use for so many tasks. Sarah Purewal at PCWorld thinks so, too. It’s an intriguing proposition, but don’t count on mobile devices killing off your desktop PC any time soon. While mobile gear is certainly convenient when you’re trying to conduct business on…
When last year’s hard drive shortage threatened Backblaze’s all-you-can-store cloud backup service, the company had to get creative to keep up its 50TB-a-day hard drive habit. The solution: external hard drives from retail stores and an army of volunteers making sure they kept coming. “We buy lots and lots of hard drives . . . . [They] are the single biggest cost in the entire company.” Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman, whose company offers unlimited cloud…
Here’s your chance to ask the Woz some questions for an interview on Slashdot. To kick-off our [Slashdot’s] 15th anniversary month, Woz has agreed to take some time to answer a few of your questions; as with other Slashdot interviews, you’re invited to ask as many questions as you’d like, but please ask them in separate posts. We’ll be running a number of other special interviews this month, so keep your eyes open. Post your question to Slashdot
The new location-aware app from Foursquare Labs is now available from the iTunes Store. Its exciting new feature is personalized searches for your friends. According to a Mashable article by Stan Schroeder, “Users can now see where their friends check in, explore places they haven’t yet visited and monitor popular destinations. They can also toggle the map so it only displays previously visited places, as well as “Saved” locations — that is, place you’ve added to your to-see list.” The App…
Just a few months ago, in June, Apple announced the latest major version of its operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It finally became available this week, though not all of the new and improved features are being welcomed by all of the new users. One point causing the most uproar in the online discussions is the completely redesigned Maps application. Since the beginning, the Maps app used Google’s satellite and map data. Now, Apple is using…
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport, AppleCommander, CiderPress, OpenEmulator, DiscFerret, CFFA3000 — and much, much more. Collectively, the show’s hosts marvel at the deluge of Apple II games that are being ported to iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system … though we question the direction Jordan Mechner is taking the classic Karateka. Apple-1 computers continue to fetch…
Java Apple II emulator author Brendan Robert was quite understandably pleased to announce that his JACE emulator has reached a new milestone. Said Mr. Robert: This is the first major release, bringing this emulator within a hair of my original vision for what I wanted it to be: it is a complete recreation of the computer I had growing up. (yaaaaaay!) There are a few bugs left to fix, but the only people in this world that claim software is…
The popular Apple II emulator for the Windows PC is now better than before with this latest version that incorporates the following improvements: Changes: [Feature #4399] Allow Z80 SoftCard to be inserted into slot 4 or 5. (Allows CP/M v3 to work) Reworked Configuration (property sheets) to allow multiple hardware changes. Updated Help .chm with info on No-Slot clock. Fixes: Floating bus not returned for empty slot $Cnxx addresses. Fixes: – A2VGA.DSK: Apple][VGA card detection. – [Bug #018643] Mabel’s Mansion….
The infamous “top-secret” document-leaking web site WikiLeaks recovered just Monday from what appeared to be a massive, week-long DDoS attack from thousands of distinct IP addresses. The group took assistance from security and performance firm Cloudfare in order to handle the extra capacity needed to withstand the attack– over 10 gigabits per second. A posting on the site states: “The bandwidth used is so huge it is impossible to filter without specialized hardware, however… the DDoS is not simple bulk…
