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Friday, 05 March 2010
Radio Flare REDUX for the iPhone and iPod touch: Developed by Chillingo radiolaris as a successor to its popular Radio Flare, REDUX is a music-based side-scrolling shooter featuring action choreographed to a techno, club and house soundtrack by internationally renowned DJs and dance artists. It's in our App Store for $4.19.
Google buzz app: iPhone developer Alberto Garcia Hierro has released Buzzie, a native iPhone app for accessing Google’s new Google Buzz service. Buzzie allows iPhone and iPod touch users to post public or private Buzz messages, view messages from other Buzz users and comment on messages and mark them as liked. It's in the App Store at an introductory price of $2.59.
Wall Street Journal has iPad to develop on: Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp, has confirmed that an iPad application for the Wall Street Journal is presently under development. This follows a report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had visited the Wall Street Journal last month to provide a personal demonstration of the iPad. According to Murdoch, WSJ developers have been given access to a pre-release iPad for development purposes – but the device is “kept under padlock and key” by an Apple employee.
Real World Dates and development for iPhone: When you're programming for the iPhone, time plays an important role. The core NSDate class could be refined a little in how it approaches many common tasks.
Ars Technica builds these ideas out, starting from scratch and pushing the concept even further, to provide a handy set of date methods and properties that you can use in your own application.
iPhone down as Android eats market share: Apple’s iPhone, which has steadily risen in marketshare against most competitors, hit a bump in February, losing 3.2 percent of its marketshare, according to a Web analysis firm. By comparison, the marketshare of Android-based phones rose 8.3 percent in February.
Penguin demonstrates iPad books: Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson demonstrated some upcoming books (pic) that will be coming to the iPad. Perhaps the most impressive demo was for the iPad version of the beloved children’s book, Where’s Spot? says Cult of Mac, "which has been transformed into an adorable interactive learning app."
Penguin’s not stopping there: their Vampire Academy ebook is “an online community for vampire lovers” that features live chat between readers (a nice touch, but parents might get their heckles up at the idea of a real-life Edward Cullen prowling for pre-teens in the pages of their cildren’s book) , while a Paris travel guide switches to street map view when it’s put on a table.
Worried about a zombie apocalypse? Don't worry, there are apps for that: Macworld has posted six essential iPhone apps for a zombie attack. Your trusty iPhone can help – there are apps that could save your life in the event of a zombie attack.
