A supercharged clipboard manager for Apple devices with on-device intelligence, iCloud sync, and text expansion.
Sometimes I happen to go out with some friends and enjoy a good beer over at a pub called “Porter”. Usually, a few pizzas go over with that beers.Then, when it’s time to split the bill and pay - nobody knows what to do. Should I just pay with my credit card and than take the money from my friends? Should we all put our cash together and pay the right amount? What about the tip?
Bistromath for iPhone really comes in handy in situations like the one described above.
Earlier today we posted a tutorial on how to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4 with an unofficial build of PwnageTool. Now, the Dev-Team has just release its official build of PwnageTool, read the blog post here.
PwnageTool 4 works on the iPhone 3G / 3GS and iPod Touch 2G. iPhone 2G, iPod Touch and iPod Touch 3G are not supported. The process of creating a custom firmware is the same we described this morning.
Enjoy your jailbroken iOS 4, folks.
Here’s a video comparison of an iPhone 3G running iOS 4 and another iPhone 3G running 3.1.3. No matter what, iOS doesn’t seem to play nice with the 3G.
Stay tuned for a similar post in a couple of months, when we’ll put the 3GS to shame against an iPhone 4.
Looking for the best magazine experience for the iPad? Sure we have flashy titles like Times and Wired, but Gourmet Live for the iPad helps you reveal your inner cook by providing users with an incredibly clean format.
When it came to Wired’s debut, one of the biggest complaints was about the column layout. Gourmet does away with such silly jitter and flashy animations. In fact, there’s nothing completely broken or confusing about Gourmet - it captures the essence of the iPad by being linear, simple, and elegant. I’m not a cook, nor am I interested in learning how to make a great Pumpkin Pie, but Gourmet Live may at least encourage me to try.
Aves is a new game engine entirely based on web technologies. It will be used to build 2D / 2.5D videogames running in every browser with modern CSS, HTML and Javascript web standards. It will handle viewports automatically, and - being based on web technologies - the developers promise Aves games will run just fine on the iPad and other iOS, Android and WebOS devices.
But it doesn’t stop at building games with HTML. It’s got some great API stuff we should all look forward to:
“So again, what are action surfaces? As you know, the whole Web 2.0-Idea is actually about sharing and exchanging data using APIs. We have thousands of those in the web today and you can integrate data from Flickr, YouTube, Twitter or Google Maps on your website today by adding a few lines of code.
Guess what? Now you can integrate all those into your games with a mouse click!
If you want to display certain photos from Flickr on an object like a TV-Set you simply tell the Aves Engine that this particular object should have an action surface attached to it and that you want to fill this surface with some data.”
It’s very promising indeed. Check out the official page here, and the demo video after the break. We’ll keep you posted about this.
While I wish Apple would update their Remote application for the iPad (Am I the only one that uses AirTunes?) – even though it would ruin their “remote” metaphor – Sonos is set to release an iPad native controller that’s incredibly well done. Though you’ll have to wait a bit before you can get your hands on it. All Engadget has obtained is a demo, and reportedly we won’t see this bad boy until August. But hey, that gives you some time to save up enough money so you can actually buy a Sonos wireless speaker system, right?
VLC 1.1 is getting lots of love today as it rolls out on Windows, Mac, and Linux. But Mac users seem to be left behind, as Nvidia-based hardware acceleration only works on Windows and Linux systems. Though don’t let that stop you from from the open-source goodness, lots of additions and updates have been applied to the client that should improve playback and performance all around.
You know what to do - download VLC 1.1 here (direct download).
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Transmission, the popular cross-platform torrent client, has been updated over the weekend to the final 2.0 version. Beta versions of 2.0 have been released in the past months for testing.
Transmission 2.0 brings very important changes such as a new compact view on Mac OS X, faster startup times and verification of data, a local peers discovery feature and optimization of downloads according to bandwidth available. Check out the full changes here, and check for updates if you’re running an old version of Transmission.
How do you sell a $1000 dollar application on the iTunes App Store? You sell it to law students of course.
Law students who are taking the bar exam in California can currently purchase BarMax CA from the iTunes app store for the measly price of $999.99. But this actually isn’t bad, considering the leading competitor BarBri charges up to $4000 for their study guides.
Earlier this year, TechCrunch made aware the purpose of such an application.
“So what do you get for your $1,000 BarMax CA app? A lot, actually. The app is over 1 gigabyte in size, which is the largest application I’ve ever seen. It includes thousands of pages of materials as well as hundreds of hours of audio lectures. It’s all the information you could ever want for the two-month course. And again, it can be done all on your iPhone.”
Now, they’re following up to see how well it’s done in the App Store. Spoiler: it’s a success.
