March 16, 2010 - 9:30 pm
Tags: country, entry, GPS, include-the-new, individual, iphone, ipod touch, live traffic, navigon, north, price, regional maps, user
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Filed under: iPhone If you’ve been lusting after the Navigon apps for your iPhone, the company has just released lower-priced regional versions that divide the country into three sections and let you add other parts of the U.S. with an in-app purchase.
Filed under: iPhone You might think you’ve got some PowerPoint skills, but check out what Screenr user slhice of Ice Ltd . has created . With some graphics work that might impress even a veteran Photoshop user, she’s assembled a great-looking iPhone template from scratch on a PowerPoint slide (she’s working in PPT 2007 on Windows, but you can probably replicate her steps in PPT 2008)
One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications. More
Filed under: Surveys and Polls , iPhone If a recent survey from market research firm Crowd Science is anything to go by, there’s dark times ahead for RIM , maker of the Blackberry smartphone. 40% of survey respondents said they plan to ditch their Blackberry handset for an iPhone when it’s time to upgrade. As if that wasn’t bad enough, another 32% of those surveyed said they’d be getting a Nexus One for their next smartphone instead of another Blackberry.
March 16, 2010 - 7:52 pm
Tags: charge-people, crappy, hearst, iphone, iphone apps, iphoneapps, perfect-acumen, phone-apps, quality-content, weaselly, weaselly-aggregators
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Rather than provide quality content to the App Store, humungus publisher Hearst is taking a page from the now-banned Perfect Acumen playbook : charge people for other people’s content. More
March 16, 2010 - 7:18 pm
Tags: chance, existing, forums, gift-card, ipad, iphone, itunes, phone-feature, post-wallpapers, regular features, some-wallpapers, thoughts, thread
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From the Forums is a great way to see what all of the current hot topics are on the TiPb forums. In order to create any new threads of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member.
Who knew that the PS Move would be so fun to stick into out-of-context situations? Because man, the results of this week’s Photoshop Contest are some of the best ever.
March 16, 2010 - 6:30 pm
Tags: apple, companies, endorsed-or-not, family, iphone, iphones, love, microsoft, phone-workers, retail, steve ballmer, steveballmer, street-journal, windows, windows phone
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Filed under: Odds and ends , iPhone According to The Wall Street Journal , about 10% of Microsoft’s employees are avid users of the iPhone . While it’s not surprising that tech geeks like those who work for Microsoft would be interested in the iPhone, what is surprising is the lengths some Microsoft workers go to in order to hide their “forbidden love” for a competitor’s device. While workers openly use their iPhones around fellow employees, when senior executives walk by, iPhones mysteriously disappear
Filed under: App Store Last week at GDC, I joked that I really only heard about two things every day: Facebook and the iPhone.
March 16, 2010 - 5:00 pm
Tags: 3d movies, alice, avatar, avid-moviegoer, feature, movie, movie studios, movies, none-solid, not-convinced, studios-try, the-worse, these-half-baked
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Are we ready for 3D? As CG supervisor and avid moviegoer, I’m sad to say that I’m not convinced we are. Yet. And the worse is yet to come, as studios try to milk us all for these half-baked goods.