TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone

July 18, 2008

In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. that is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright’s sure…

id’s Hollenshead: Apple “has not followed through” on gaming

July 10, 2008

id software’s CEO Todd Hollenshead met up with Kikizo for an interview recently, and the conversation turned, as often seems to do with id nowadays, to gaming on the Mac. Hollenshead was confronted with what his peers Gabe Newell (of Valve), and id’s John Carmack had previously said about Apple,…

Square surprises us with Song Summoner for the iPod

July 8, 2008

Square Enix has released their new game for the iPod, called — wait, hold the iPhone. Say what again? Square Enix has apparently been hiding a huge secret, and the word is out already in iTunes. They’ve developed an iPod classic game called Song Summoner, and whether the video above is any indi…

States add K-12 educational composition to iTunes U

July 7, 2008

Users of iTunes U, the free educational subject matter channel inside iTunes, will have a lot more elementary education material to choose from — the states of Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah have all added some of their K-12 material to the mix, and a numbe…

Finding Jobs 2.0

July 3, 2008

Is it even possible? Forbes does a little bit of speculating on just who might take by when Jobs takes his leave from Apple, and candidates aren’t precisely jumping out of the woodwork. Jobs is about as visionary as they come — only a guy like Steve could lead Apple from the iMac to the iPod to…

Security Update 2008-004

June 30, 2008

Along with the 10.5.4 update, Apple has just released defense Update 2008-004 for users of Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). According to Apple, the update “is recommended for all [Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)] users and improves the protection of Mac OS X.” You can download that update for the following systems:…

Complete My Album is selling music

June 30, 2008

I was just as much a naysayer as Dave was when the service first came out (and for the record, I haven’t used it all either), but apparently there are lots of public who do use Apple’s “Complete My Album” service in iTunes — the NYT says that it has become a prime selling tool, particularly for…

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