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Daily iPad App: Monster Wars is a great addition to Legendary Wars series

by Mike Schramm (Feb 6th, 2012)

I first saw Monster Wars a little while ago at Macworld as Liv Games was just publishing it, but the title has been out for a little while now and I've had a little longer to play with it. Monster Wars is not only another huge content pack for Legendary Wars, with tons of new stages, modes and ...

Daily iPhone App: Star Marine Infinite Ammo

by Mike Schramm (Feb 6th, 2012)

Glitchsoft's oddly-titled Star Marine: Infinite Ammo (more on why that's weird in a moment) is both good at bad. First, it's good at heart. Star Marine: Infinite Ammo is a Contra-style run-and-gun title that has you controlling a soldier on a spaceship among other environments. Your job is to ...

Atari team rejoins to make mobile titles

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Seamus Blackley is one of the co-creators of Microsoft's original Xbox console, and he put together a really interesting team of old-school Atari game developers recently to make mobile games. Blackley's new company is called Innovative Leisure, and while the website isn't anything more than a ...

iBooks Author Challenge: Adding spelling quizzes to iBooks

by Erica Sadun (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Dave Caolo and I were chatting this morning about iBooks and spelling. "It's not my daughter's favorite subject," he said, "and I'm looking for a way to make it more appealing to her." He asked if there could there be any way to incorporate spelling quizzes into iBooks via Author. The answer is, ...

Apple seeds seventh 10.7.3 beta to developers

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th, 2012)

Apple released the seventh beta of Mac OS 10.7.3 (build 11D50) to developers yesterday amid the hubbub of the financial conference call. The update lists no known issues and asks developers to focus on iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The delta update is a ...

Discount on 360|MacDev and a chance to win a free pass

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 20th, 2012)

Last year's 360|MacDev was filled with good food and great company, plus sessions with some of the best developers in the world. The annual event in Denver is one of the must-attend Mac developer conferences out there if you want to learn from the best. This year's conference is almost upon us, but ...

iBooks Author accounts are free, existing developers need a new account

by Chris Rawson (Jan 19th, 2012)

Setting up an account to publish books to the iBookstore has always been free, and the new iBooks Author tool has brought that fact into the spotlight. Self-publishing books to the iBookstore does still have a few hurdles you have to leap through, however. As AppleInsider points out, for iOS and ...

OS X Lion 10.7.3 build 11D46 seeded to developers (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 18th, 2012)

The next Lion seed is out for developers. OS X Lion 10.7.3 build 11D46 is a 1.2 GB combo update / 989 MB delta update file. This build focuses on iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The last seed was released a week ago. Apple released 10.7.2 to the general ...

Daily Mac App: Slender

by Erica Sadun (Jan 17th, 2012)

New from Dragon Forged Software, Slender (US$9.99, currently on sale for $4.99) is a narrowly-focused utility that will either be exactly the tool you're looking for or one you can safely skip. It helps you non-destructively optimize Xcode projects by allowing you to view, evaluate, and adjust ...

Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers

by Chris Rawson (Jan 9th, 2012)

Apple has released the third beta of iOS 5.1 to developers. iOS 5.1 beta 2 was released nearly a month ago, but now that the holiday lull is out of the way it's probably not going to take that long before the next beta comes out. The beta is available both through over-the-air download and a ...

WWDC Alerts will help make sure you get into Moscone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 6th, 2012)

Two Mac developers have created an alerts service, which you can sign up for free right now, that will let you know the very moment that tickets go on sale for this year's WWDC in San Francisco. Just put in your cell phone number, send back one code for verification, and then you'll get a text ...

App developers skirt Apple's 100-device testing limit

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal reports that some big iOS developers are having a real issue with Apple's limit on testing devices. According to the App Store rules, developers are restricted to 100 devices for testing via ad-hoc distribution. That may sound like a lot (and it likely is for small or ...

Apple seeds new OS X 10.7.3 build to developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 21st, 2011)

Apple released the latest OS X 10.7.3 build to developers earlier today. Build 11D36 urges developers to test iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari, Macrumors said. The delta update is 986 MB, and the combo update is 1.2 GB OS X 10.7.2 was released in October. ...

When it comes to launching your app, Sunday is tops

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 20th, 2011)

If you're a developer, your app is more likely to be successful if you launch it on a Sunday. That's according to a 17-week analysis by mobile analytics firm Mobilewalla. The company looked at the apps released on a daily basis in Apple's App Store and Android's Market from May 16 to September ...

Hungarian software company casts Jobs in bronze to remember him

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2011)

A Hungarian software company named Graphisoft has decided to erect a bronze bust of Steve Jobs in the country's capital of Budapest to celebrate the life and times of Apple's founder. Graphisoft's founder first met Jobs back in 1984, and Jobs has since offered lots of advice, insight, and even ...