Linus Winterseel has released X4Shortcuts 1.1 (http://macte.ch/sUA06), an update to his development utility for Mac OS X. It’s a lightweight tool that offers iOS and Mac Reference, Google and over 300 keyboard shortcuts for Xcode4. Version 1.1 offers a new iOS and Mac Reference-Search, a new web based search, with several bug fixes and code tweaks.
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By Greg Mills
It seems there isn’t a day that goes by without another data security risk coming to light. As I have mused in this space, the cloud is not secure. I have Dropbox on my iPhone and iPad but haven’t used it much. Those who have posted their data to their Dropbox account ought to reconsider using that site for anything remotely private. Your data is not secure or even encrypted.
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Particle Code (http://www.particlecode.com) has announced the availability of the Particle SDK (software development kit) Free Public Beta to the mobile app development community.
The Particle platform allows developers to write complex applications and games once, then deploy both HTML5 and native apps to the entire smartphone and tablet ecosystem — including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and more – from one codebase.
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“The MUG Event Calendar” stays in full swing this week.
Mac author and expert Jim Heid will present to one California group, while Jon Parshall of CodeWeavers will make a virtual visit to another, and Micromat will appear in person at yet another. Other topics on this week’s agenda include Google Earth, Skywalk for iDevices, digital audio, Macintosh security, the Utilities folder and more.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
UANGEL has announced Touch Band 1.0, a music performance tool for iOS devices. The free app replicates five major instruments — namely, drums, piano, guitar, bongo drums and ocarina in its interface where users can beat, play and strum the active interface in order to create the musical notes just as they would on the real instruments.
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