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.”
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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.
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