Two auto performance meters for iPhone
July 30, 2008
I’ve seen a lot of fun accelerometer uses in the App Store so far, but that is probably the coolest — Dynolicious will actually use your iPhone’s accelerometer to determine all kinds of stuff about how awesome your ‘92 Subaru is, from 0-60 and 1/4 mile duration up to lateral Gs and horsepower. Just…
Longtime mobile developer feels no love from Apple
July 18, 2008
Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs produce it to the store.
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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…
Yuma: New scripting tool for web developers
July 15, 2008
To web developers, scripting is the glue that connects web pages and back-end systems. For example, PHP is a very popular scripting environment that has been used to write web apps like WordPress and phpBB. For those of you who use PHP, you know that it is a dynamic, weakly-typed hypertext prepr…
iPhone game news from EA’s press conference at E3
July 15, 2008
I’m at E3 in Los Angeles all week for TUAW’s sister site Joystiq, and that afternoon we got to see the Electronic Arts press conference at the Orpheum Theater. Among bigger EA games like Spore and Dead Space, Travis Boatman (who has graced these pages before talking about mobile games on the iPh…
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,…
Take command of iTunes with PowerTunes
July 9, 2008
PowerTunes is iTunes management software from Fat Cat Software, the developers who produced the popular iPhoto Library Manager (we’ve written about iPhoto Library Manager before). Its purpose is to produce somewhat pesky tasks easy.
You can use PowerTunes to create multiple libraries. Perhaps…
