Year: 2010

Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Color me this

Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Color me this

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | , |

Every weekday I produce a five minute enhanced audio podcast on several top Apple stories of the day. As a result, even though I’ve a catalogue of images that I have built for the show. However, with every episode I have to produce a few more for new stories. For the last several months I have been using Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com, created by New Zealand based Ambient Design Ltd. to accomplish this task.

“Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.”

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Screencast looks at iPhone game programming

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | |

A screencast by Pearson looks at “Learning iPhone Game Programming.” You can find it here: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=9e7d48e6-ff5b-46de-bd20-25ea1a4e8c6a

Author Mike Daley provides an overview of his book, “Learning iPhone Game Programming.” The screencast shows you some basics on writing ames on the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad.

Daley currently runs the Europe Middle East and Africa Sales Consultant Product Specialists group for Oracle Communications. He’s been programming games since getting his first Sinclair Spectrum 48k computer in 1983.

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BBC iPhone apps postponed

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | , |

The BBC says (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8593206.stm) its plan to launch iPhone apps for its news and sport content have been put on hold by its governing body.

The BBC Trust has asked the BBC to postpone its plans while it looks into the business case for the new services. The free applications were due to be released in April but have met with criticism from groups who say they will skew the market for news apps.

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Analyst says Apple will ship six million iPads this year

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | , |

iPad suppliers are already raising their build rates in expectation of strong sales, thanks to encouraging pre-order rates, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty.

As reported by “All Things D” (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100329/morgan-stanley-apple-will-ship-6-million-ipads-this-year/?mod=ATD_rss), she told clients that Apple’s manufacturing partners now expect to ship 2.5 million iPads between March and May, considerably ahead of her previous estimate of 750,000 for the June quarter.

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iPad Camera Connection Kit available for pre-order

iPad Camera Connection Kit available for pre-order

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | , |

Apple’s Camera Connection Kit for the iPad is now available for pre-order. It costs US$29, and is due to ship in late April, around the same time as the iPad Keyboard Dock.

The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. It lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera’s SD card.

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