By Andrew Eisner
Retrevo.com’s director of Community and Content
Everyone loves apps! A library of 225,000 iPhone/iPad apps and five billion downloads are impressive numbers for such a young platform and confirm the fast growing interest in apps-based computing.
Read MoreMaBaSoft (http://www.mabasoft.net) has updated its World Clock Deluxe time tool to version 4.7.2. Twenty-two cities in France and in the United Kingdom have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
Daylight-saving information for Egypt, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank has been updated. And on Mac OS X 10.6, the lowest palette level is now Desktop icons so that the Clocks palette doesn’t stop receiving mouse clicks after the Finder is activated.
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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/).
Read MorePING (http://www.ping.com) and its parent company, Karsten Manufacturing Corp., have entered into an agreement with Apple under which Apple will use the PING trademark in connection with Apple’s new social music discovery feature in iTunes. Apple introduced the iTunes PING feature at Wednesday’s special event.
Founded in 1959, PING is a brand that holds more than 1,000 trademark registrations around the world, many related to golf equipment.
Read MoreGoogle has launched Google SketchUp 8 (http://sketchup.google.com/), which sports a redesigned workflow for geospatial modeling, which is critical for both Google Earth modelers and professionals who need to make digital site models for their designs.
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