While many of you may not be familiar with this name, Rich Dellinger is the man behind the widely acclaimed webOS (Palm, acquired by HP some weeks ago) notification system. And he’s now working for Steve Jobs.
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Apple Hires Creator of webOS Notification System
Apple Design Awards 2010 Winners Announced
Apple has announced the winners of this year’s Apple Design Awards (ADA), which unlike the past years are restricted to the iOS platform. We’ve talked about this before.
The Apple Design Awards “recognize applications that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption, and quality.” They represent the best that you can have on iPhone, iPads and iPods.
Even though the website hasn’t been updated yet, we’ve followed the event and you can check out the winners after the break. Congratulations to all the winners!
San Francisco Gets Freedom from Porn for WWDC
Steve Jobs offers the world freedom from porn. Freedom from Porn offers WWDC all the porn you can get. The vandalism proudly on display in San Francisco, we’re going to warn you: clicking past the break may be slightly NSFW.
Apple Now Allowing Limited Analytics Data Collection
Remember D8, when Jobs said they were pissed at Flurry for abusing Apple’s developer agreement with their ad analytics? It’s Day 2 of WWDC, and Apple seems to have loosened up a bit. MediaMemo via MacRumors posts:
“If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads – though you will need to get their permission to do so.”
MacRumors clarifies, however, that there is one interesting catch.
WWDC Keynote in Under 5 Minutes
The iPhone 4 Patents: Gyroscope and Videoconferencing
The new iPhone really is the most advanced phone in the world. And when you own the single most important piece of smartphone technology, you better patent its technologies pronto. Today, we go hands on with some of Apple’s newest iPhone related patents pertaining to the gyroscope and video calling.
Adobe Teams Up with Greystripe to Deliver Flash Ads as HTML5
Adobe has decided that delivering HTML5 ads to mobile devices might be a good business, after all. That’s why they’ve teamed up with Greystripe, which is developing an interesting solution to transcode Flash to HTML5 on the fly for iOS, Android and “mobile web”.
Check out the press release after the break. [via Engadget]
A First Overview and Roundup of Safari Extensions
One of the most important features of Safari 5 is support for extensions: it’s what Safari users had been wanting for a very long time, and it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal for users who want to customize their browser the way they want, it’s a huge deal for developers who may start to charge for full-featured extensions in the future. Just think about Twitter clients or RSS apps living inside the browser.
Safari 5 has been available for 12 hours now, and some developers have already released their first extensions. Obviously these extensions are far from being “complete” and “full-featured”, but still it’s worth taking a look at them, as they’re giving us a glimpse at what devs might offer in a few weeks.
Apple Posts WWDC Keynote Full Video Online
Apple has published the full video of yesterday’s keynote here. This is the Quicktime version that will stream the movie to your computer, we’re still waiting for the high resolution version to become available through Apple Keynotes on iTunes.