Application: Shadows Never Sleep
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...the story of a restless shadow on a nighttime adventure. I describe it as a “zoom narrative” which takes advantage of the multi-touch interface of the iPhone and iPod Touch to allow readers to swipe their fingers across the screen and zoom in and out of images instead of turning pages.
--Aya Karpinska, developer of “Shadows Never Sleep”
When you launch the book app, you will see a series of squares with strikingly minimalistic images and words in black Read More...
According to a report published in CNN Money the third generation iPhone sales have gone down after the first weekend! 1 million in three days and then a slow progress through the rest of the month: only 2 million more units were sold. This figure exceeds the initial estimates by Wall Street analysts, who had predicted a modest 3–4 million sales quarterly.
Considering Apple's original goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of the year, this isn't bad progress. At the present rate itself, Apple stands to sell 15 million units by the end of the year. However, consider Read More...
The most expensive iPhone. You have read about the most expensive iPhone cases in this space. Now you will know about the most expensive iPhone. Yes, it is developed by the Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson, who has made a customized iPhone, designed the phone that is. The deal is an iPhone with 17.75 carats of diamond and a stunningly bejeweled look. Price? only $176,400.
Just a thought. The most expensive iPhone case is priced at $20,000, a 42 diamond studded case. So the diamnod studded designer iPhone + the diamond Case + “I Am Rich” app. What is Read More...
The latest version of the iPhone OS has been released. But all is not well. There is a major problem in it if you are trying to install/upgrade an app.
What is happening: If you are trying to install an app or update an existing one, and something interrupts the iPhone and/or iTunes from completing the task, the iPhone automatically starts rebooting, the screen goes blank for a while before coming back and displaying the Apple logo. The booting stops at the Apple Logo.
Why is it happening: It happens with every iPhone. It is not that you have reached the iBrick Read More...
Yes. Steve Jobs confirmed that today. Apple Inc. CAN delete apps from your iPhone. This is what Jobs told the Wall Street Journal:
[H]opefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.
How is it done? Jonathan Zdziarski figured out that there is a “back door” left open in the iPhone’s software coding that allows Apple to erase any software that does not meet Apple’s rules. The idea is to control any malicious program that can be distributed to the iPhones through the App Store.
What is not clear though Read More...
Steve Job’s stated in a recent release that through the App Store Apple is earning a revenue of $1 million/day ! That too when a large chunk of the apps are free. At this rate the Apple Inc stands to gain a whopping $360 million in a year in terms of new revenue. Just through the App Store Apple has racked up a cool $30 million within the first month of its launch. That puts Apple right there among the top 10 stories in the week’s Wall Street Journal this Monday.
Apple charges 30% in revenue for each App, for the Read More...
Google engineers, Allen Hutchinson and David Singleton have customized the web app Google Translate for the iPhone. It supports bi-directional translations between all the existing language pairs in Google Translate. (23 languages, both European and Asian, with bi-directional translatibility among any of them) It is fast and like all Google products, very neat. You can directly go to Google Translate from your iPhone safari browser.
What is special:
Client-side data store on the iPhone, which allows the user to use the past translations even if they are not able to access the local data network.
The program is written with AJAX Language API. Read More...
The recent trend of Blacklisting apps has created some confusion among third party developers as well as customers. The Apps removed so far are NetShare, Box Office, I Am Rich and now Slasher. Even Aurora Feint was temporarily removed. While the blacklisting parameters remain as hazy as ever, here is something about App store Application standards from section 3.3.12 of Apple's SDK:
Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple's reasonable judgment may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch Read More...
It is not official yet, but according to Katie Miles' post in Apple Insider, Piper Jaffray, the investment bank believes that the new industrial designs for iPods and Mac notebooks will be launched in September. The speculation is based on Apple’s tradition of launching new line of iPods in September since 2005.
Also expect the Mac notebooks to be launched in a new avatar, specially so after its tremendous success in the enterprise sector, also because of the additional factors – Apple’s forays into the Asian IT powerhouses – China and India. As analyst Gene Munster, of Piper Jaffray points out:
“MacBook Read More...
Simple. Make an app that is staggeringly priced. So staggering that the price itself (and absolutely nothing else) will stand up and cry for itself. Put it on the App Store and count on the chances that some of the people visiting the store are doped. If you are not convinced, read the Los Angeles Times. The amazingly useless, featureless and audaciously priced “I Am Rich” app did attract customers and fetch a cool $5,600 for its developer, Mr. Armin Heinrich overnight:
…curious aristocrats -- eight of them -- had purchased it. Six people from the United States, one from Germany Read More...