This is a good one. Really, could you imagine that App Store director Phillip Shoemaker, the guy who’s in charge of accepting and rejecting apps, sells his own fart and urination simulator apps in the App Store?
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Even The App Store Director Sells Fart Apps
Adam Atomic Talks Canabalt and Indie Gaming [Video]
Adam Saltsman (aka Adam Atomic) is the man behind Canabalt, seriously one of the best “indie games” ever released in the last decade. What’s Canabalt? It’s a parkour-inspired game where you have to run and jump to avoid obstacles. Actually, the character automatically runs and you only have to press the jump button - or tap the screen in the iPhone and iPad versions.
The following footage was produced by James Swirsky and the team behind Indie Game: The Movie, due out next year. This segment won’t be included in the final movie. Check it out below. [Indie Game: The Movie via Engadget]
Apple Granted Patent for “Slide to Unlock”
When Apple introduced the iPhone and Steve Jobs showed how to unlock it for the first time, people went “ooohhh”. Back then, it was a revolution. Over the years smartphone makers and OS designers for touch screen-enabled mobile devices have been trying to copy Apple’s unique implementations and to reach the bar set high by Cupertino’s magical designers.
Three years ago Apple filed patents for the two most distinctive features of the iPhone: “slide to unlock” in the lockscreen and pop-up letters when you type on the virtual keyboard. Perhaps you’re so used to them you wouldn’t even think there’s a need to patent them.
Indeed there is, and United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple two design patents titled “Animated graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof ” that will allow Steve to keep on sliding on his iPhone 5 while wandering around Google’s campus without the fear of being observed by Eric Schmidt and his evil design team.
I guess that’s what Apple patents are all about.
[via TUAW]
Actually, Apple Has Been Using Liquidmetal All Along
Last week we found out that Apple had closed a deal with Liquidmetal, a Californian-based manufacturer of an alloy that is extremely light, hard and that shows a glass-like structure. From what we heard, Apple had acquired “substantially all of [Liquidmetal’s] intellectual property assets,” not to mention a “perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license to commercialize such intellectual property in the field of consumer electronic products in exchange for a license fee.” [Engadget]
Google & Apple, By The Numbers [Infographics]
Lady Gaga at Infinite Loop - iPhone 4 Commercial Coming?
Apparently, Lady Gaga just dropped in Cupertino and visited Apple’s campus at Infinite Loop. Not that big of a news, but remember? Back in May, when we didn’t even have a name for the iPhone 4 (we kept calling it “4G” - some people still do), 9to5mac reported of a deal between Apple and the pop singer about a commercial for the new device.
Back then, Gaga’s label Polydor said “no comment”. Sure, many artists visited Apple’s campus (Maroon 5 performed, too) - we just thought that, considering the previous speculations, this might mean something.
We’ll see.
The MacBook Air Project: Modder Puts Mac Under Apple Keyboard
This is the reason why I love the modding community: they have no limits. Whether it’s about hardware or jailbreak / graphical modifications, modders always push themselves beyond the limitations and come up with exceptionals, custom creations.
Bart Reardon of The MacBook Air Project decided to try to fit a MacBook Air right under an Apple keyboard and make everything a single piece. Yes, a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM and 80GB hard drive computer inside a standard keyboard. He later thought of putting a Magic Trackpad next to the keyboard, too. He thinks that the device “will be used much beyond internet/email….maybe as an AppleTV replacement.”
Seriously, it’s awesome.
Apple Discussions To Be Renamed “Apple Support Communities”
Last week discussions.apple.com was hit by an alleged malicious attack that forced some users to be redirected to a blank page showing a message from the “hacker” who managed to inject code in the website. Apple quickly took the boards down for mantenaince and, after that, announced that Apple Discussions will soon go under a major change and be renamed “Apple Support Communities”.
An Overheating iPod Delays Tokyo Commuter Train
Sometimes timing is everything, and in this case it’s very bad for Apple. Last month, in fact, Apple was ordered by Japan’s trade ministry to improve safety warnings over some overheating first generation iPod Nano units that caused minor burn injures in four cases. Three days ago another overheating iPod delayed a rush-hour Tokyo train, Reuters reports.