Six App Discovery Search Platforms Worth a Second Look | Intel® Developer Zone: "App discoverability – whereby an app that is targeted toward a specific user is able to be found by that user - is one of the biggest obstacles facing developers today."
Early Apple prototypes by frog design's Hartmut Esslinger featured in upcoming book: "Pre-release images from a retrospective of work by Hartmut Esslinger, founder of early Apple design partner frog design, showcase a number of unreleased products and prototypes including an early 'Tablet Mac' study from 1982. "
Mark Cuban Is Doing Just Fine With Less Facebook in His Life - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD: "Cuban’s thoughts on Facebook. "
'jOBS' biopic to close Sundance Film Festival in January: "In an announcement on Monday, the Sundance Film Festival revealed that the jOBS biopic starring Ashton Kutcher will premier on the last day of the event which runs from Jan. 17 to 27, and will take the honor of being the event's closing film."
Gangnam Style Is YouTube's Most Popular Video With 804 Million Views - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsDNot only is it the world's most popular YouTube video, but in the 10 days or so since I first heard about it (late to the party), it added 300 million views. Which points to exponential growth.
Thursday was Thanksgiving. Yesterday was Black Friday. And today is Gangnam Style Day — the day the world’s most-popular-but-not-sure-why video became the most popular video on YouTube ever, with some 804 million views."
Oprah plugs Surface tablet -- from her iPad - CNN.com: "There's only one problem. Winfrey -- or whoever manages her Twitter account -- sent the tweet from an iPad."
Steve Jobs film to consist entirely of scenes before product unveilings: "The award winning screenwriter scripting a movie on the life of Steve Jobs has revealed that the entire film will consist of three scenes that will take place before the unveiling of the original Mac, NeXT, and the iPod."
FTC Hangs Up On “Rachel From Cardholder Services” – The Consumerist: "All five companies are charged with making misrepresentations to consumers in violation of the FTC Act, along with multiple violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule for misrepresenting their services, making illegal robocalls, , calling numbers on the Do Not Call Registry, and collecting up-front fees."
Review: iPad mini: "It’s important to understand how I use my iPad. My iPad is the device I use at the end of the day when I put my computer down, but still have a few things to do. I’m winding down at that point in the day."
Final Cut Pro X gets significant update with new features & RED camera support: "The Final Cut Pro X update also includes RED camera support with native REDCODE Raw editing, as well as optional background transcode to Apple ProRes."
'iPad mini' build cost estimated to start at $200, may retail for $299I think the Mini will need to be more than $299 unless they are offering less storage than the iPod 5G. Why would anyone buy a $299 iPod 5G if they can get a mini iPad for the same price?
A preliminary breakdown of expected component and manufacturing costs finds that Apple is likely to spend $195 to $254 in building the various models of its rumored 7.85-inch iPad"
Microsoft Misses on Revenue and Earnings in Q1 - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD: "One of the main things that Wall Street analysts had been watching for in the first-quarter earnings for Microsoft today was how its current flagship Windows software business was doing in the lead-up to the release of Windows 8 on October 26."
City of Cupertino posts further details, renders of Apple mega-campus: "The proposed circular structure would use curved glass all the way around and may become "
Rumor: Video of alleged 'iPad mini' Wi-Fi-only mockup hits the web: "A somewhat blurry video of what is supposedly a model of Apple's as-yet-unannounced 7.85-inch iPad was posted to YouTube on Friday, showing slight differences from previous mockups possibly pointing to a Wi-Fi-only version of the rumored device. "
Whypad.
The full-length version of a "lost" Steve Jobs speech given at the Design Conference in Aspen was unearthed and posted to the web on Tuesday, illustrating some of the prescient insights the late tech guru offered as to how computers would one day be an overwhelming presence in our lives.Read it at AppleInsider.com.
Apple removes iPod Socks from online store: "iPod Socks, a cloth accessory that Apple has sold for years to protect its portable music players, have been removed from the company's online store."It's going to be a cold winter in Canada for iPods.
Media camps outside Apple's Fifth Ave store as world awaits iPhone 5: "Apple's online store has gone dark ahead of today's product announcement in California while media gather at Apple's flagship retail store across the country in New York, as excitement builds for the company's next iPhone."Camp Big Apple.
New iPod touch said to have built-in GPS & new colors, to act as game controllerIt's about time we had a new pod.
Apple is reportedly set to unveil a next-generation iPod touch that will be a major change from its predecessor, packing in a dedicated GPS receiver, a high-definition FaceTime camera, and a 4-inch in-cell touchscreen — and potentially acting as a game controller with other devices like the Mac or iPad.
Sony releases Sound Forge Pro audio editor for Mac
Sound Forge Pro Mac is a multichannel audio recording and editing application that was developed from the ground up on a clean slate for OS X. It ships with a full suite of audio mastering and repair plug-ins, which Sony said makes it a comprehensive solution for audio professionals who work on the Mac platform."
Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, 'iPad mini' engineering samples pictured: "A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an 'engineering samples' of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web."
Steve Wozniak on Microsoft Surface: 'Steve Jobs came back reincarnated at Microsoft': "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak quips Steve Jobs 'came back reincarnated at Microsoft' referring to the Redmond-based company's recent design breakthroughs that have culminated in the new Surface, a tablet which sports a marriage of art and technology reportedly befitting of the late tech guru."
'iPad mini' predicted to use same display tech as Apple's iPhone 3GS: "John Gruber of Daring Fireball believes that if Apple does produce a so-called 'iPad mini' for sale this year, it will use the same display as the iPhone 3GS. That's because LCD screens are manufactured in large sheets and are then cut to the size needed, allowing the company to more easily produce 7.85-inch displays with a 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution. "
BBC News - 'It's the economy, clever,' says New York: "Roosevelt Island is a long narrow strip of land beside Manhattan in New York, shaped like a fountain pen that someone dropped in the East River."
Google shutters dedicated Mac-iOS blog due to popularity | MacNN
For over five years, Google has offered a dedicated blog that detailed any changes, updates or additions to its line of products and services for Mac and (later) iOS users. The rise of Apple over the last few years, however, has prompted to the company to fold such announcements into its main blogs instead, leaving no reason for a dedicated Mac and iOS blog, and thus the company has filed a final post."
Paul Feig's 'The Heat' Adds Online Comic Spoken Reasons - Deadline.com
Leaping from YouTube to the big screen, Spoken Reasons has been added to the cast of The Heat. The online comedy star joins Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in the Paul Feig-directed film. Specifics are sketchy but Reasons will play a lead character called “Terrell Rojas.”"
Apple possibly prepping premium podcast model for iOS 6
A seemingly innocuous "Redeem" button in the new iOS Podcast app could hint at a possible Apple initiative to monetize the popular digital media format which is currently free to listeners."
Apple launches App Store in 32 new countriesHow did you app before app store?
Apple flipped the switch on the App Store in 32 new countries on Thursday, making good on a promise made by CEO Tim Cook during WWDC 2012 that was slightly overshadowed by the unveiling of the MacBook Pro with Retina display and a host of other product launches."
Matthew Modine signs on to play John Sculley in jOBS biopic: "Veteran actor Matthew Modine has been added to the cast of the upcoming jOBS biopic and will be playing the role of former Apple CEO John Sculley, who many recognize as being the man who 'fired' Steve Jobs from his own company.
Modine told CBSNews on Tuesday that he would be playing Sculley, the former CEO of Pepsi who was brought in by Jobs to help Apple in 1983 and famously fired the company's co-founder two years later."
US Virgin Mobile iPhone coming as soon as July 1st | Electronista: "The Sprint-owned US branch of Virgin Mobile will soon announce prepaid iPhone sales, with a launch taking place as soon as July 1st, according to sources for the Wall Street Journal. No other details are mentioned, but the move would make Virgin Mobile just the second US carrier to sell prepaid iPhones, following an announcement by Cricket Wireless last week. That carrier will start iPhone sales on June 22nd."
ITC judge invokes 'Cheech and Chong' test in Apple-Samsung case: "According to Bloomberg, Judge Thomas Pender said that the patent design case may boil down to the 'Cheech and Chong' test, which identifies an object using the following no-nonsense qualifications: ‘Does it look like it, feel like it, smell like it?’"
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hired as 'tutor' for Sony's Steve Jobs film
Wozniak served as the technical mind to Jobs' keen business sense in the early days of Apple. "We were very much alike in that time frame," Wozniak said in a recent interview."
SOURCE: AppleInsider
Aaron Sorkin to pen screenplay for Steve Jobs film - Yahoo! News
Let me be the first to say that if the writing is starting now, it's going to be a long year of Steve Jobs bio-pics:
Steve Jobs Biopic Starring Ashton Kutcher To Cannes: Inferno To Make Offshore Deals - Deadline.com
Alternatives to $60 video games | Games Blog - Yahoo! GamesIt's a revolution in apps! Power to the people.
"I think there's something exciting going on," says Simon Munk, a freelance gaming and tech journalist. "I grew up playing in the 70s and 80s when games were made by developers in their bedroom. And now that's happening again — loads of games recently wouldn't have been made even four or five years ago, but now have a chance. We're seeing a return to creativity and risks.""
SOURCE: http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/alternatives-60-video-games-192535376.html
Macware Review: [Freeware] MoviesForMyPod: "MoviesForMyPod is a program i personally use when i am not in the mood to use iSquint! It has a very nice interface, and is very productive in getting the job done, and getting it done right! You have the ability to change the Quality, the sound issues, and also allows you to choose what format you want to pick!"It's a little moldy, but the facts are right.
