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Geekbench & boyfriend evaluator
Friday, 02 July 2010
Geekbench 2 now in iPhone version: The software I use to measure Mac performance is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Geekbench 2 for iPhone features a completely new interface that's designed for the iPhone and iPod touch, and is available today on the iTunes App Store for $6.49. Geekbench 2 for iPhone runs the same benchmarks as Geekbench 2 for other platforms. It's possible to compare benchmark results not just between iPhones and iPods, but also between iPhones, iPods, Macs, and PCs.
Geekbench 2 for iPhone also works with the Geekbench Result Browser allowing you to upload and share your iPhone and iPod touch results with other Geekbench 2 users.
Another evaluator – this time for boyfriends: Cogitoad, Inc has released an application called Boyfriend Evaluator 1.0, exclusively for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The Boyfriend Evaluator is an application that enables women to objectively evaluate the suitability of a boyfriend for a more serious relationship.
The Boyfriend Evaluator asks 50 questions about a boyfriend, analyses the answers, and gives him a numerical score, a summary of his overall suitability (pic), and a detailed description of any detected negative traits. In other words, you pay $4.19 to confirm all your friends have been telling you! (I guess it's cheaper than a night out for the same result ... but imagine how sexist a girlfriend evaluator would seem!)
New Apple gallery app: Apple has pushed out a new version of MobileMe Gallery, a free app for people who post pictures to the MobileMe service and want to access them on their iPhone or mail them to friends.
Apple says the app now has higher resolution images on an iPhone 4 when connected to a Wi-Fi network. Apple also says it has 'various bug fixes'.
What's missing from all this is that iPad owners still have to use the same Gallery app and scale it up, which makes their images look bad.
How to quit apps to free up resources in iOS4: iOS 4 makes it easy to leave apps without quitting, but what happens when you actually do want to terminate an application? There's two ways to quit, according to Apple's documentation, although neither is particularly obvious.
1/ Remove the Application from the Recents List – this is simpler. Double-click the home button to display the recently accessed applications. Press and hold any of the icons shown, then navigate to the application you want to quit and tap the red circled minus button. This sends a signal to the application in question that allows it to quit.
The application will be re-added to the recents list the next time you launch it.
2/ Force Quitting requires bringing the app you want to quit to the foreground, then pressing and hold the sleep/wake button for several seconds, until the Slide to Power Off control appears. Release the sleep/wake button and hold down the Home button for another 7-10 seconds. Your screen will flash briefly and you will return to the main iOS 4 Springboard home page with its icons. This method works for all operating systems from iPhone OS 3 forward, and is the preferred method listed in the iOS 4 documentation. (From TUAW.)
iPhone 4 antenna: Are you hoping this will all be sorted before we get the iPhone 4 in NZ? I am (but I'm a leftie). Anandtech has done a complete analysis of the iPhone 4′s antenna problems, illustrating the exact strengths and weaknesses of the iPhone 4′s antenna. This is reported by Macgasm.
Wired Mag for iPad 2 arrives with mods: Wired magazine revamped its approach to tablet magazines today with its second, July issue for the iPad. The new app version drops the single-issue download approach and adopts the more common in-app strategy; readers can get both future and past issues from the same app. Prospective buyers also no longer have to commit to the full magazine to see how it works, as a smaller 50MB preview is available with the download. The app is free, but you pay for the magazine download.
iPhone users might like the free iPhone Wired product review app.
