By Greg Mills
Currently the Apple Developer Tools used to create apps for iOS, that run on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are really professional programs. While they have drag and drop elements, the way they all fit together and work to create an app is not something a child can easily do.
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On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com) Duncan Champney and Steve Sheets of WareTo discuss Save My Place for the iPhone and iPad.
They talk about the origins of the application, how users are bending it to uses not originally intended, and how that is influencing their future direction. Save My Place leverages Google maps, but improves on them with bookmarking and comparison features to deliver a more useful, personal experience.
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Apple is in the number one spot for the most bugs found in all of its products during the first half of 2010, ahead of Oracle, and Microsoft, according to Secunia (http://secunia.com/gfx/pdf/Secunia_Half_Year_Report_2010.pdf).
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By Greg Mills
I read an interesting article in “Barron’s” on-line that laid out a scenario where the Google Android operating system eats an Apple cell phone OS for lunch.
I see his points, but come to another conclusion. Mark Veverka fails to give Apple due credit. See http://macosg.me/2/i9 .
The facts are clear: if there is an Apple iPhone killer out there, it is the Google Android. Sales show that Android is overtaking the iPhone. The underlying reasons are that at least 12 cell phone manufacturers are building phones that run Android.
Read MoreReggie Ashworth has updated AppDelete (http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete), an application deleting app for Mac OS X, to version 3.1.2. the upgrade includes Chinese localization, fixes an issue where a selected item might not be moved to the trash, and has lower memory usage.
Via drag ‘n drop, AppDelete will delete any chosen app with all of its associated items that belong to that application. You’ll no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.
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