We have a release date for Google’s Goggles iPhone application. Sort of. The Register reports that, during the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Monday, Google staff engineer David Petrou confirmed that Goggles for iPhone is almost ready, and should be released by the end of 2010.
Google Goggles Coming to iPhone “By The End of 2010”
Slow Start? AT&T and “The Switch” iAds Rolling Out to Users
Business Insider has just found out that Apple is rolling out to new iAd campaigns: one for AT&T’s $15 monthly data plan and one for “The Switch” movie Jason Bateman and Jennifer Anniston, which debuted last week.
I haven’t been able to test them, but from what I read on BI’s report - they look great.
Win A Copy of Dunk for iPhone
Dunk is a great Dribbble client for iPhone I reviewed a few days ago here. From the review:
“For a first release, Dunk works very well and looks good. It could use some additional features, API love and portrait mode support, but I’m sure 1.1 (and the future 1.2, I guess) will solve all these issues. Cheers to Robocat for releasing the first great mobile Dribbble client.”
Moleskine iPhone 4 Case
I can’t say I didn’t see this coming: a moleskine-like case for the iPhone 4? Could you even have doubts about it?
So here it is, a case that looks just like an old moleskine complete with its traditional elastic bland. It’s the classiest way to hide an iPhone. Or the worst way to access the volume buttons.
Your call.
OS X Releases Of The Day: Alfred Powerpack, Swatch 2.0
Alfred, the new kid on the block of “applications to search on your Mac” Cody reviewed back in March, can now be extended with a £12 ($18) “Powerpack” that allows you to quickly navigate your Mac’s filesystem and perform actions with files and folders.
The first Powerpack also includes support for an iTunes Mini Player, but the developers are promising way more feature in the next iterations of the addon such as Clipboard integration, Applescript and Address Book integration. Alfred Powerpack is available at £12 here.
Swatch (missed our Fuel Collective week?) is a must-have tool for any designer, and the long-awaited 2.0 version was released earlier today. The new version sports a brand-new UI design (I love it) and comes with many new features such as the possibility to create and manage collections, support for ACO, ASE and CLR files, customizable cursors and possibility to switch from the standard Color Wheel to CMYK, RGB or HSB sliders.
Swatch 2.0 is available at $9.95 here.
Google Mobile App Update Available: Retina Graphics and Push Notifications
Acer: “iPad Market Share Will Drop from 100% to 20%”
He’s Acer chairman JT Wang, speaking with the Economic Daily News about the iPad market share, and how it will drop from the current 100% (or so) to 20% / 30% because of its “closed” nature and other “open” products that will be released starting this fall.
iMac Touch Finally Shows Up in Patent - And It Runs Both OS X and iOS
There’s this iMac Touch rumor that has been floating around on the internet for quite a while now: back in January Digitimes reported that Apple was working on a 22-inch touch-enabled Mac in addition to the iMac line, then 2 months ago LoopRumors claimed that Apple was developing a touchscreen iMac running iOS. I called that rumor “absurd”, and you know why? Because a desktop computer running only iOS doesn’t make sense.
But a desktop computer capable of transitioning from OS X to iOS depending on the device’s orientation? Now that’s interesting.
iPaintings: A Community for Artists Using iPhones and iPads
In the past few months we’ve posted some of the finest and most impressive portraits / paintings drawn on the iPad and iPhone using apps such as Brushes or Sketchbook Pro. The Beyoncè portrait, Toy Stoy 3 + iPad, David Newman’s works or David Jon Kassan’s exceptional speed painting.
Now we can say that there’s a website for that.