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Galcon 2 gets a Kickstarter

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2012)

Phil Hassey is a very talented iOS developer who we've covered before. Probably his biggest game is Galcon, a sort of streamlined real-time strategy game that he's seen a lot of success with on iOS. He's actually made Galcon a few times before and released it on a number of other platforms ...

Romo the iPhone robot is back, Kickstarting version 2

by Mike Schramm (Oct 16th, 2012)

Romo is a little iPhone-powered robot that showed up on Kickstarter around this time last year. It was successfully funded and distributed out into the world, making everyone happy by cycling itself around with the buzz and whirr of tiny mechanics. But as is usual with these things, the team ...

Sword of Fargoal 2 crosses the Kickstarter finish line

by Mike Schramm (Oct 15th, 2012)

Sword of Fargoal was one of the earliest great games on the iPhone (after making the transition over from the Commodore 64 version a long time ago), and as we reported previously, the developers behind the game recently took to Kickstarter to try and pick up funding for a sequel. They held a ...

GIMP now (finally) available as a native Mac app

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2012)

This is something that's been a long time coming, and it's finally here. GIMP is an excellent Photoshop-esque open source photo editor. While it's been available on Mac for a long time, it has required the X11 Window environment, which itself needs a separate (and somewhat messy) installation. ...

Tim Cook focuses on charity during Town Hall meeting

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2012)

Apple held an all-employee Town Hall meeting a little while ago after the earnings call, and The Verge is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook took quite a bit of time during the meeting to point out Apple's charitable contributions to the world. He said that Apple has given $50 million to Stanford ...

Apple cake pops made to raise money to fight pancreatic cancer

by Mike Schramm (Nov 5th, 2011)

A baker in England has made these gorgeous cake pops (featuring some Apple logos and Steve Jobs's likeness) to raise some donation money for a pancreatic cancer charity. The pops will go on sale next Wednesday in London, when cake blogger and maker "Miss Cakehead" is set to open up a "Steve ...

Apple joining effort to build $2 billion hospital

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Apple has joined up with other computer firms, including eBay, HP and Intel, in an effort to build a brand new hospital in Stanford, near Palo Alto, CA. The hospital is expected to cost over US$2 billion, and $550 million of that will be donated and raised by the corporate partners program, which ...

iPads now helping food charity feed the hungry

by David Quilty (Nov 22nd, 2010)

Just last week we wrote about iPads being given out to doctors in Australia, and now we are seeing another hospitality-based use for them -- tracking food donations and pickups for Melbourne's FareShare food charity. An iPad app developed by volunteers and employees of FareShare acts as a ...

Adafruit shows off the Square dongle for credit card payments on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2010)

Adafruit is one of a few companies that has been chosen to test the Square dongle that automagically takes credit card payments on any iPhone. Even though we got to see it in action at Macworld, I think every look we can get at this thing is worth it, considering just how darn revolutionary it ...

The obligatory SmashMyiPhone.com debutes

by David Chartier (Jan 10th, 2007)

Here we go again - as if smashing one's iPod (and Playstation 3, and Wii...) wasn't enough, someone has already registered SmashMyiPhone.com and is - obviously - taking donations to purchase an iPhone whose number is already up. Unless this site finds a workaround to purchasing an iPhone ...

Ten donationware programs that are worth your money

by Erica Sadun (Dec 14th, 2006)

It's the givingest time of the year, so if you're in the mood to be generous, why not donate to some of the best and most useful Mac software projects. Programs like VLC, Cyberduck, Adium and Handbrake all allow you to donate money to support the continued software development effort. Weblog ...