NoMoreiTunes Lets you View iTunes Previews in Peace

iTunes Previews don’t work as they should. If I’m viewing the content in my browser, why do I need to see it again in iTunes? A Safari 5 Extension from developer Florian Pichler (@pichfl) seeks to automatically stop iTunes from opening – a must have for anyone who regularly browses for App Store applications. As Pichler writes,

“NoMoreiTunes is an extension for Safari 5 which disables the script that tries to start iTunes when you visit a link to the iTunes Store. It’s annoying and redundant as there is iTunes Preview for Music and Apps now.”

As movies aren’t blocked, the extension provides users with a button they can use to manually initiate iTunes.

You can download NoMoreiTunes from his website.

Apple-Google Ad War Attracting Federal Attention?

This is a story that gets old real quick. A news journalist hears the feds are out to investigate Apple because they’re bullying the music industry. The story gets posted and the media goes crazy with it. We hear rumors of an investigation with no real action.

In the meantime Apple changes their developer agreement and has some fun blocking AdMob. The feds get interested again (this time in advertising), and thus starts another lifeless cycle. “Lifeless,” being the keyword here.

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Safari Best Contender in HTML5 Performance Test

It’s a safe bet Firefox won’t be getting any awards soon (Mozilla needs to pick up their game), which leaves Google Chrome and Safari to duke it out for a good ol’ fashioned HTML5 performance test. The race was close, but Apple’s Safari 5 now leads over Google Chrome 5. But just barely.

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Does the Retina Display Exceed the Human Retina or Not?

One of the most exciting features of the iPhone 4 is the Retina Display, which at 326 ppi exceeds the limits of human’s retina, thus making it impossible to see pixels on screen.

Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies (Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton, displays expert) told Wired that Steve pushed it too far. The Retina Display is a misleading marketing term, he says.

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The iPad Wedding

So there’s this couple that’s always dreamed to have a wedding ceremony with vows read off of an iPad and iPhones to update Twitter and Facebook status. And so they did. If they’re happy, we’re happy - and we even have the video after the break.

Cheers.

[via Edible Apple]

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Appsfire Removes iPhone App After 2 Months Wait

Steve Jobs said that 95% of applications are approved in the App Store within 7 days, and the 5% is made of crashy apps, apps that don’t work as advertised and developers who keep using private APIs in their software. Then, there are developers who submit working apps and don’t get a single word from Apple for months. It’s a limbo, a quite undocumented zone which Apple hasn’t clarified, yet it exists and, according to many devs, it’s the worst place you can find yourself in. What’s going on with Reeder for iPad, for instance?

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