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Call of Duty Elite mobile apps for iOS out today

by Mike Schramm (Jan 10th, 2012)

Activision has announced that its Call of Duty Elite mobile apps are arriving on iOS today -- they should be available for download from the App Store before long. The apps do require you to be registered to the Elite service (which works in conjunction to track all of your stats from the ...

HTML5 game running on Apple TV

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 8th, 2011)

The Apple TV 2 could become a new platform for playing HTML5-based games and applications. A hacker installed the Couch Surfer browser on a jailbroken Apple TV and used it to play an HTML5 version of BlackJack. The game is rudimentary, but it's a sign that the Apple TV is capable of more than ...

GetJar responds to Apple's cease and desist over App Store term

by Mike Schramm (Jul 11th, 2011)

It's come out this week that Apple sent a letter last month to mobile application database GetJar asking them to cease and desist using the term "App Store" to describe their mobile app offerings. Apple's been trying to keep the term "App Store" for itself, with varying degrees of success, and ...

Taipei insists Apple, Google offer seven-day free trial for apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 6th, 2011)

In an unusual story coming out of Taiwan, the Taipei City Government is supposedly forcing local divisions of Apple and Google to provide a free seven-day trial for mobile applications. The Taipei Times claims the government is threatening to levy heavy fines, up to US$50,000 or more, if Apple ...

Many iPhone owners run apps before getting out of bed

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 12th, 2011)

When you wake up in the morning, bleary-eyed and still in bed, do you reach for your phone to check Facebook or read an email? If you answered yes, you are not alone. According to a survey conducted by telecommunications hardware manufacturer Ericsson, 35 percent of respondents grab their iPhone ...

iPhone apps that beat Apple's default apps

by Chris Ward (Apr 21st, 2011)

There's a nice little article over at Apple Matters about how, wonderful though Apple might be, there are still some things that others do better - in particular, certain apps for your iOS devices. Their list starts with the US$1.99 Instacast, which indeed does a better job of managing and ...

EyeTV for iOS 1.2.3 released, introduces AirPlay support

by Erica Sadun (Apr 4th, 2011)

Today, Elgato released version 1.2.3 of its iOS EyeTV software. Now available for download from iTunes, the US$4.99 EyeTV app finally adds the highly-requested AirPlay support so many customers have been looking for. EyeTV's iOS app works with your home computer, allowing you to view programs ...

Finder now offers to search Mac App Store for unknown file types

by TJ Luoma (Jan 7th, 2011)

If you try to open a file in the Finder and it doesn't recognize the extension, it will now offer to search the Mac App Store for applications that can open that file type. Before the Mac App Store's launch, the alert panel you see above would simply say, "There is no default application specified ...

Mac 101: The two Applications folders

by TJ Luoma (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Mac users quickly come to know the /Applications/ directory, where you will find all of the default applications that come with OS X (Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, iCal and so on), as well as the Utilities folder (/Applications/Utilities/), where more advanced users get to know Activity Monitor, ...

MacBundles invites customers to 'Build Your Own Bundle'

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 16th, 2010)

Ever since the success of MacHeist, it seems like resellers offering bundles of applications at heavily discounted prices are proliferating. MacBundles has an interesting new twist: a la carte application bundles. Just like buying a CD that has a few songs you really like along with a bunch of ...

Keep your CPU under control with App Tamer

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 17th, 2010)

It's been a little while since we've heard from St. Clair Software, makers of the well-known system utility, Default Folder X (which we've covered before). You may recall that we caught up with St. Clair Software developer Jon Gotow at WWDC '09. Well, he's got something new to announce today: App ...

Flurry agrees to stop device data collection

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2010)

Steve Jobs said a lot of interesting things on stage at the D8 conference last night (I'm surprised I haven't seen a t-shirt with "My sex life is pretty good" on it yet), but he did put one issue to rest. Third-party agencies like Flurry Analytics and others who use iPhone applications to track ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: How Ben Newhouse created Yelp Monocle, and the future of AR

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2010)

Yelp's Ben Newhouse (who is actually still a student at Stanford) gave a fascinating talk this weekend at the Seattle Voices that Matter iPhone conference. He talked about Yelp Monocle, the augmented reality (AR) iPhone app that he created, and revealed the surprising (and somewhat scandalous) ...

SecondBar puts your menu bar on a second monitor

by TJ Luoma (Mar 31st, 2010)

The menu bar is a quintessential piece of the Mac "experience." On the left, it shows all of the menu items for the currently active application; on the right, it shows icons from various menu bar application programs: the date/time, WiFi status, MobileMe sync status, and many, many more. The ...

iPhone app ecosystem bigger than Facebook's app space

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2010)

Last week at GDC, I joked that I really only heard about two things every day: Facebook and the iPhone. Of course, that's because I was mostly there to cover iPhone gaming (and certainly there were plenty of traditional game developers in the house), but those two platforms are definitely the ...