Sloshspot: iPhone App for drinkers
Mashable: “Sloshspot is an index of bars and nightspots, where users can leave reviews, post photos, and check out other ‘regulars’ of different locales.”
I sometimes wonder if we shouldn’t have a no-technology exception for things like bars. Not on moral grounds but for poetic reasons. If word-of-mouth was good enough for Dylan Thomas and Charles Bukowski, it should be good enough for us.
12:54 pm - # iPhone pirating app pirated
Ars Technica: “The Hackulous pirating site is dedicated to cracking and distributing iPhone applications without paying any money to their developers. In what can only be described as hilarious irony, a beta version of that application was itself pirated and released before it could enter a full open-source distribution.”
12:45 pm - #
Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
Daring Fireball: “So, (a) Google Mobile is using a private API, and (b) to my knowledge, there is no way to duplicate the behavior of Google Mobile’s ‘just lift the phone to your ear to trigger the voice prompt’ feature using only the public APIs in the iPhone SDK.”
07:16 pm - # Release day
furbo.org: “Unless your Internet tubes are broken, you’re probably aware that we released Frenzic for the iPhone today... But let’s go beyond all of this self congratulation and look at some of the details about how to coordinate your App Store release.”
04:36 pm - # Mac devs take bugs into their own hands
MacUser: “Since Apple’s own database often contains protected information, Burks took a simple but clever solution: create a duplicate database into which developers could file the same bugs they’re reporting to Apple, but which allows for searching and other features that Radar doesn’t.”
09:25 am - # Lemonade Stand
Maverick Software: Lemonade Stand is “a faithful remake of the classic Apple II game” with an “optional ‘Classic Graphics’ mode that shows the original Apple II graphics, for the full old school experience.”
I spent many hours playing this game, getting beat by my younger sister — who later got a master’s degree in economics.
09:00 am - #
Holy crap, [Scott] wrote a book
Blankbaby: “Scott McNulty watchers (and you know you’re one of them) might have been wondering, ‘What the heck has Scott been up to?’”
Scott’s been writing a book called “Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read.” Now you know what to give as gifts this year. :)
03:56 pm - # Today 1.5
carpeaqua: “Today 1.5 is now out. It’s the biggest update since 1.0 back in the spring and features alarms, past due notifications and Growl support.”
11:09 am - # Why developers prefer Macs
Macworld: “Visual Studio is running on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine, which, in turn, runs on his Mac. He has a PC, a Mac, and a Unix development box all in one.”
11:04 am - # Revisiting Hulu
Macworld: “Hulu’s target audience is the increasing number of people who don’t mind the existing model of ad-supported brodcast, but spend more time in front of their computer than in front of their TV.”
09:41 am - # Free Idea: FullScreenKit
Fraser Speirs: “So, I propose a project - for some motivated person with more free time than I - to produce a UI framework based on Core Animation that visually mimics Front Row, but uses the conceptual design of UIKit from iPhone OS.”
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