When Digg’s official app came to the iPhone, it was really stunning. It just pops with color and is incredibly functional. I feel the same way about Beatport, whose new app for the iPhone & iPod touch oozes with brilliant pixels.
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Beatport, now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch
Winscape: Your Mac-powered Virtual Window
Technology applied to real life can be awesome. Most of times it can be weird and dangerous. I really don’t know what to think about the Winscape, but it’s interesting for sure.
Basically, it’s a software running on a Mac Pro that creates fake, 3D landscapes in fake windows. There are two plasma televisions that receive the signal from the Mac Pro and “play” beautiful landscape on screen. The whole thing comes with an iPhone remote app and a sensor that checks your position in front of the screens and tells the software to rotate the scene when you move.
Seriously, check out the videos after the break.
iPhone Apps with Unity, Lua, MonoTouch, Python, or Other Engines
A Google Docs spreadsheet listing more than 100 applications developed with cross platform compilers. Not surprised to see most of them are crap.
Learn Objective C, do yourself a favor.
Once Upon a Fake
Remember those screenshots of the upcoming “iPhone 4G” many blogs posted yesterday?
This is he answer.
Magical Device: The First iPad Marriage Proposal
Steve Jobs told us the iPad was magical, and it turns out that many people took that words really seriously. TechCrunch reader Zach Iniguez used his new iPad to ask her girlfriend to marry him, in the same spot he asker her out 2 years ago. We’ve heard of many other “Apple-related” marriage proposals before, but this is one stands out for the “implementation”.
Really, take a look at the original email from Zach below.
“Hi TechCrunch,
I’m a huge fan of your blog and read it every day, and I thought you might be interested in this. This weekend I brought my girlfriend to a local ice cream shop where we had our first date. I also brought along my iPad, since I wanted to “field test” it, as I told her. We sat outside on the same bench we had 2 1/2 years ago, and I asked her to put on earphones. I then handed her the iPad and played a slideshow with music and photos of the two of us together, with a message at the end: “will you marry me?” I got down on one knee and proposed, and fortunately she said yes. Maybe Steve Jobs was right–the iPad is magical!
Thanks for providing me with years of news and entertainment.
Zach”
Oh by the way, she said yes.
MacBook Pro 15″ Core i5 iFixit Teardown
iFixit has announced that they’ve finally completed the teardown of the new MacBook Pro 15” Core i5 released earlier this week, and they’ve found some surprising and subtle changes.
The Airport and Bluetooth card has been redesigned and repositioned to allow a better signal reception in the Macbook internal case. Other tweaks include a redesign to the speaker casing and an increased capacity of the battery.
Jailbreak for iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1 Available
Dev Team’s Musclenerd has just announced the first public jailbreak of the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1. Aimed only at developers of jailbroken apps, this jailbreak is done using RedSnow (Mac-only) 0.9.5 beta, available here.
The jailbreak doesn’t work on the iPad and, again, is still very broken and unstable. Still, it seems to be working.
Also, iPhone 3G only for now. More to come in the next days.
Marketcircle Announces Billings Pro [Beta]
Marketcircle has just announced that they’re working on a Pro version of their award winning time tracking and freelancing tool, Billings, which we reviewed here.
The Pro version will come with support for multi-user tracking and billing, meaning that it will be geared towards small and medium teams and offices. You can sign up for the beta testing group here. We can’t wait.
Steve Jobs Replies To Email: “Are You Nuts?”
Once again, Steve Jobs replied to another email, and this time in quite a different mood. Paul Shadwell emailed el Jobso expressing his frustration about Apple’s delays for the international iPad shipping and lack of pricing information, and he got a nice “Are you nuts?” as response.
Full conversation and screenshots after the break.