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Apple just posted iOS 4.2 Gold Master build in the iOS Developer Center. You can go download the GM seed now. Look for updates on what’s new in this (almost) final build here on MacStories in a few minutes.
Build number is 8C134. It’s a 549MB download for iPad and, as usual, it’s also available for iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G and iPod Touch 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gen. Read more
Doodle Jump is the iPhone game that started the “Doodle something” trend in the App Store. A simple game where you control a tiny…”thing” that has to jump using the iPhone tilt controls. Simple and addictive.
Doodle Jump’s latest 1.25 update brings support for Game Center: you can now compare your score with your friends to see who’s the best Doodler out there. Please don’t get mad at us when you’ll find out that you wasted 6 hours just trying to beat your friend’s record on Game Center. This update also brings the beloved ghost theme back.
You’ve been warned. Doodle Jump is available at $0.99 in the App Store.
Jim Dalrymple knows what’s wrong with hardware reviews on the internet.
As you may know, I try a lot of apps every week. Perhaps that is wrong, as one may be tempted to constantly jump between different softwares just for the sake of having something new to play with (like kids are always attracted by new toys), but I’m firmly convinced I’m doing this because there are hundreds of indie developers that don’t have the resources or the knowledge to virally promote their apps, yet they deserve attention.
That’s why I’m doing this. And thanks to this “method” (or habit), every once in a while I discover gems that redefine and refine my workflow. New apps that set new standards and raise an already high bar. It’s not easy. But it’s possible. Read more
Target, US-based retail store chain, will carry the iPhone 4 (and iPhone 3GS) just in time for the holidays season starting November 7th. Target will be selling the iPhone 4 across all its 846 stores that come with Target Mobile centers. The retail chain will also provide quick in-store activations.
Press release embedded below. Read more
We’ve come to the point where every month a new Mac-related bundle is publicized on the internet, and not so many of them are really worth a mention. The iUseMac bundle, though, is pretty damn good: 9 “premium” Mac apps at only 29 bucks instead of the $290 price tag you’d usually get when buying each of them on the developers’ websites. Not a bad deal.
The apps included in the offer are mostly productivity apps for your Mac, and a few really popular ones are in there as well: Renamer, an awesome utility I use every day to batch rename files on my MacBook, and Picturesque, a well-known lightweight image editing software. If you consider that Renamer alone costs $25 (and it’s totally worth the price anyway), you can guess iUseMac set up an interesting offer.
The other apps included in the bundle are Proview, MacCleanse 2, Labels & Addresses, Clean Text, iFlicks and TypeIt4Me. An additional utility app will be delivered to everyone who buys the bundle, and I have to admit is another good and useful one.
So head over iUseMac’s website, take a look at the applications and hit the Buy button. iUseMac is undoubtedly above the average bundles for Mac we see launching every week or so.
When Steve Jobs announced the “iAd” program in April, a few people claimed they had seen that term somewhere else before. As CNET reports, Apple indeed settled a lawsuit in July over the “iAd” trademark with company innovate media, which had been using the “iAd” term since 2006 and was even granted two trademarks in 2008.
The interesting part is not the amount of the settlement (that we’ll likely never know), but rather the history behind the disclosure of this settlement. Consor, intellectual asset management company, posted a release on their website detailing how four of their clients managed to close favorable settlements over trademark lawsuits they had filed. In the release, they mentioned: “iAds, a 7-figure settlement from Apple Computer in a trademark infringement case.” Read more
We covered NFC (Near Field Communication) technology before: many rumors and patents surfaced in the past detailing how Apple might be interested in implementing NFC in future iPhones to turn them into “digital wallets” capable of doing things such as on-the-go instant payments. While NFC cellphone-based payments are already reality in Japan and there are a couple of applications that can already do that on the iPhone without NFC (like Visa payWare), we have been speculating about Apple deploying its own solution for months now.
According to new report by Cult of Mac from an anonymous source, Apple might implement NFC in the iPhone 5, but not just for mobile “iWallet” payments. The source claims Apple has been working on a solution to let iPhone users carry their whole OS X experience around and use any Mac as if it was their own computer through an iPhone-based transfer system. Neat stuff. Read more
TellMeLater is an extremely useful utility for the iPhone to remind you of those routine things that always slip your mind but that you don’t want cluttering your to do app. Not only it’s an extremely simple app to use it also looks beautiful on the Retina Display.
