Category: Apple Computing
Apple Products from the current generation of items.
Push Panic!, the game that brings new meaning to the columns theme is available as a free download. The program which drops multi-colored boxes as you do your best to explode them, is not just a challenge, it is also addicting. Your objective is to explode as many boxes as you can, keeping the boxes below a red line. The more boxes you “link” together in the explosions, the higher the score. Push Panic! works on both the iPhone and…
The Donut Games free game of the week this week is Monkey Flight, a delightfully entertaining game which will keep you going for hours. The game now has 60 levels in the challenge section of the game, making for even more fun. This game is one you must get! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311768443&mt=8
According to a survey run by IDG recently, iPad use by professionals in the work place is at a very high level. This phenomena is not just a U.S. trend, it is a major global trend. The lowest rate of usage of the iPad for communications is in Europe where only 80% of professionals use it. However, in the US, this rate is 93% and in Asia and the middle east, that number reaches more than 97%. According to one…
Adobe announced this morning that they are releasing their Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta and that it will be free for users to download. This latest update to the Lightroom application includes some new features specifically targeting the latest DSLR capabilities as well as the ability to create better quality photo books. To download your own copy of the latest Lightroom 4 beta, go to: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/
For those who have been waiting for the next edition of their iPad, it appears that your wait is nearly over. Bloomberg is claiming that the iPad will be released in March, complete with high definition screen as well as LTE networking capability. This speculation could be due to the Apple Event which is scheduled for next week, however, it is highly unlikely that Apple is ready to deliver on such an advanced model of the iPad so soon. The…
The Beijing Apple store has had a major debacle in its opening of sales of the new iPhone 4S there. The store was supposed to open at 7:00 am but as the time reached 7:15, the crowds of people who had amassed waiting for the sales to begin, began chanting and hurling eggs at the store. Swat teams were called in to control the crowd and the sale of the iPhone there halted. In most other cities, tickets were given…
A new coating produced by Liquipel, a company in Santa Ana, California, totally waterproofs the iphone. The process, being displayed at CES 2012, cost $59.95 to have done, and the user must ship the iPhone to the company to have it waterproofed. This process can be applied to any smartphone and apparently will protect the phone even if it is totally submerged in water. For more information about Liquipel, check out their website at: http://www.liquipel.com
Have you ever wondered what would happened if you dropped your ipad? What if it was dropped out of an airplane? Well, the guys at G-Form already did that one and had to go one better. Using a weather balloon, they took an iPad to 100,000 feet insulated with their G-From Extreme Edge Case. Amazingly, the iPad drops to earth and survives. Dont believe it? Check it out for yourself!:
Apimac has released the latest version of their iDatabase program. The program which allows users to create and support databases on their Apple portable devices, has a number of features found only on larger database systems. From the Press Release: iDatabase is a simple and easy-to-use database manager that offers the most natural and easy way to organize information and data. With this database manager for Mac, you can manage membership lists, expenses, projects, keep track of your internet accounts…
Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad. While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting. And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…
During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone. This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter. While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…
Apple announced today that they will be rolling out their latest version of the iPhone series, the iPhone 4S, to another 21 countries including China on the 13th of January, 2012. The countries included in this roll out are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,…
When a 20 year old Vista, California man decided to burglerize several homes in his local area, he forgot one basic fact: Find my iPad will get you. One Patrick Krewson has robbed one home of of children’s gifts and another man’s home of several items including his iPad. When the owner of the iPad let police know the location it was broadcasting from, they proceeded to go to the location, finding Krewson, the childrens gifts, several other missing items…
According to the DigiTimes site, two new versions of the next generation iPad are scheduled to make an appearance in January. While Apple has as usual, no comment about the rumors, this is not unusual for their stance. The funny part of this is that Samsung, Apple’s bitterest and most outspoken opponent in court, is the supposed supplier for much of the technology in the machine. Apple will supposedly release the new machines at iWorld on 26 January 2012. While…
The latest version of the Mini vMac emulator has been released. The Paul Pratt managed project is now in version 3.2.3 of the emulator. The Mini vMac emulator emulates a 128K Macintosh and runs on a variety of platforms including Mac OS X. One requirement is that you have a 128K Macintosh ROM in file form. The operating system on the other hand is little problem as Apple, Inc. has released all Apple OSes through 7.5.5 as freeware. The Latest…
According to the BGR website, there is a high probability that the latest version of the iPhone will be released in Late 2012. While the iPhone 4S was released as just an update to the iPhone 4, many of the features that were instituted into the 4S are only available on the 4S. However, some changes in design including the case are coming according to BGR. “We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic…
Google has released an update to their Google Currents application just a week after the introduction of the package. Version 1.0.1 is intended to resolve some of the stability issues with the Application as well as to fix scrolling issues on older versions of iOS 4. There are also some library issues that have been resolved. While this upgrade will work for some folks, several users are complaining about their feeds disappearing from their library. Also errors in the interface…
The latest build of Mac OS X, Build 11D36 is the developer version of 10.7.3. With this update arriving less than a week after the previous build, it is expected that a gold version will be available to developers within about month or so. With the normal upgrade of Apple’s line of computing platforms in early 2012, it is suspected that Apple is trying to release 10.7.3 in time to coincide with the upgrade of the product line. The latest…
According to an article in the New York Post, 141 New York City merchants have been busted in a major crackdown on places which deal in stolen iPhones. The problem of iPhones and iPads being stolen in New York has reached epic proportions and it seems the merchants have been just a bit too eager to help the crooks out with this one. This sting by the New York City Police began at the crook level and worked its way…
The free game of the week from Donut Games this week is the hilarious but fun Icy Escort for the iPhone. Icy Escort is a game in which you play the mother penguin, working your way through a series of mazes, jumping from platform to platform, trying to get all your kids. When the mother penguin reaches a kid, it latches onto the mother and follows along to the next destination. At the end of the puzzle, you will have…
