This holiday season should be a good one for Apple. Spending on consumer electronics gifts will reach historic highs, despite an overall decline in gift spending, according to new research released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (http://www.CE.org/). And it’s good news all around for Apple.
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MACTECH CONFERENCE 2010 FIRST TO SHOW MAC-BASED PLANETARY ROVERS
– Autonomous Rovers based on Mac Mini controlled by iPod Touch
– First public display outside a university or research setting
– Special registration bundle/options expires Oct 25th
– Hotel room block close to sell out
Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Logic Consulting has announced BaDaBing 1.0 for the iPad, a free, animated, virtual drum kit. The animations of the drum kit provide the user instant visual feedback in addition to sound. The drum surfaces depress and the crashes rock back and forth giving the user a complete experience.
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Macgamestore (http://www.macgamestore.com) has begun taking pre-orders for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy, for the Mac. The first 3D releases in the epic saga are here together in sequence: Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
This limited edition packaging makes it “the ultimate collector’s set of GTA games on Mac,” say the gang at Macgamestore. The game is scheduled to ship on Nov. 22. Pre-order pricing is US$39.95.
Read MoreMonotype Imaging Holdings has introduced its Fonts.com Web Fonts API (application programming interface), which enables developers to integrate the Web Fonts solution in web applications, providing users with the ability to tap into Monotype Imaging’s Web font offering.
Also new are plug-ins for the open source WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! content management systems. Using any of these popular CMS offerings, users are able to create websites that support Fonts.com Web Fonts.