Apple Releases WWDC Session Videos to Developers

Apple has just released the WWDC 2010 session videos. A registered Apple developer account is required to download them, and you can find them at developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/. They’re available both in standard and high definition.

“Watch over 100 in-depth technical sessions from WWDC 2010. You’ll learn advanced coding techniques that will show you how to enhance the capabilities of your applications with the revolutionary technologies in iOS and Mac OS X. Download the videos, then take them with you on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad to watch anytime, anywhere.”

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CBS Preparing to Deliver HTML5 Content for iPad

Consuming media is incredibly important when staying mobile, whether it be news or entertainment. CBS is rumored to be testing iPad-friendly HTML5 content, removing the need for Flash videos on their network. Ultimately this will be great for consumers as it will broaden access to millions of iOS and Android devices.

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Remember Quark? They want to take on Adobe.

Quark isn’t a name I’ve heard recently, but 9 to 5 Mac reports that they’re ready to take on the war against Adobe. Specifically, Quark feels open-web standards will ultimately prevail over Adobe’s creative technologies in the publishing arena.

“You could reflect that one person’s challenge is another chap’s chance, so Quark has stepped out of the shadows to pitch in with its new vision of digital publishing, promising to deliver a new “publishing revolution” in which content publishers will be able to publish to multiple platforms all from one standards-based creative suite (which isn’t Adobe Creative Suite).”

Quark is careful to admit, however, that they’re willing to work with any formats publishers wish to implement. So while you could publish a great HTML5 magazine, they’re not tied to it, able to deliver Silverlight and Flash content as well. Calling their strategy, “Digital Publishing 2.0,” Quark wants to help publishers deliver automated content to any platform.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

“Release the Fail Whale” Animates Twitter’s Fail Whale

Alright Twitter, I have a bone to pick with you. If your Twitter service is going to go down every two days, I don’t just want to see a Fail Whale: I want to see an animated Fail Whale! So leave it to a Safari Extension called Release the Fail Whale to make my silly dreams come true. Delivering the Fail Whale in high-def CSS3, never before has such fail warmed my Twitter heart.

Check out Release the Fail Whale on Rawksome’s excellent page and test bench.

Apple to Integrate New Emoji Modules into iOS?

While Emoji is enabled for our friends in Japan, the United States never received the same love and attention, and at times, had hissy fits over Emoji keyboards available in the App Store. So while iOS 4 does and doesn’t have emoji available to customers, Apple is intending on updating the little emoticons to be used with applications like FaceTime and Google Maps. At least I think so according to Patently Apple’s latest finding, which shows Apple taking a deep interest in making stock and custom emoji prevalent in certain applications.

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vBookz is iBooks for Text-to-Speech

While authors are agreeable when it comes to audio playback of their creative works, books published or listed in the public domain under Project Gutenburg have the freedom to be used however the reader wishes. vBookz for the iPad gives readers a mechanical (though well) sounding text-to-speech playback of their favorite open books, yet as Kyle VanHermet from Gizmodo writes,

“But if you’re not already text-to-speech inclined, vBookz probably won’t leave you a convert. I still found that it took more effort to listen to the books than to read them myself, and where I might, in some instance, listen to an audiobook, I don’t think I’d ever be able to make it through a novel’s full text-to-speech recital.”

Designed to be an aid for the visually impaired, vBooks is $5 from the iTunes App Store.

Sencha Touch Delivers an HTML 5 Framework to Mobile Devices

We might not be able to deliver cross-platform Flash applications to mobile devices, but we can implement HTML5. Sencha is a combination of efforts from jQTouch, Raphaël, and Ext JS who’ve delivered the first public beta of Sencha Touch, which is the first HTML5 Framework for mobile devices. HTML5 applications allow powerful web apps to be used offline, across mobile devices (iPhone & Android), and can take advantage of third party analytics services.

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OnLive Games Running on the iPad [Video]

We’ve talked about OnLive before. A revolutionary service that will allow you to stream videogames to your computer / TV / mobile device using a simple set-top box or a browser plugin. You’ll be able to play Crysis on 2004 PC. Now you get it, it could change the way we think about videogames forever.

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