Steve Jobs offers the world freedom from porn. Freedom from Porn offers WWDC all the porn you can get. The vandalism proudly on display in San Francisco, we’re going to warn you: clicking past the break may be slightly NSFW.
San Francisco Gets Freedom from Porn for WWDC
Apple Now Allowing Limited Analytics Data Collection
Remember D8, when Jobs said they were pissed at Flurry for abusing Apple’s developer agreement with their ad analytics? It’s Day 2 of WWDC, and Apple seems to have loosened up a bit. MediaMemo via MacRumors posts:
“If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads – though you will need to get their permission to do so.”
MacRumors clarifies, however, that there is one interesting catch.
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The iPhone 4 Patents: Gyroscope and Videoconferencing
The new iPhone really is the most advanced phone in the world. And when you own the single most important piece of smartphone technology, you better patent its technologies pronto. Today, we go hands on with some of Apple’s newest iPhone related patents pertaining to the gyroscope and video calling.
The iPad Arcade Cabinet
Gamer Hideyoshi Moriya managed to build a custom arcade cabinet for the iPad out of some cardboard, using an Arduino board to connect with joystick and buttons. It’s an amateur project, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this end up in some online store in the future.
Check out the demo video after the break. [via TUAW]
Pulse Removed from the App Store, NYT and Boston.com Lawyers Rejoice
Pulse is a promising news reading app for the iPad which we’ve reviewed a few weeks ago. It’s developed by two college students, and it’s become a major hit in the App Store selling more than 35.000 copies. And when Steve Jobs mentions you in a WWDC keynote, you know you must have done something good with your app.
Adobe Teams Up with Greystripe to Deliver Flash Ads as HTML5
Adobe has decided that delivering HTML5 ads to mobile devices might be a good business, after all. That’s why they’ve teamed up with Greystripe, which is developing an interesting solution to transcode Flash to HTML5 on the fly for iOS, Android and “mobile web”.
Check out the press release after the break. [via Engadget]
A First Overview and Roundup of Safari Extensions
One of the most important features of Safari 5 is support for extensions: it’s what Safari users had been wanting for a very long time, and it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal for users who want to customize their browser the way they want, it’s a huge deal for developers who may start to charge for full-featured extensions in the future. Just think about Twitter clients or RSS apps living inside the browser.
Safari 5 has been available for 12 hours now, and some developers have already released their first extensions. Obviously these extensions are far from being “complete” and “full-featured”, but still it’s worth taking a look at them, as they’re giving us a glimpse at what devs might offer in a few weeks.
Apple Posts WWDC Keynote Full Video Online
Apple has published the full video of yesterday’s keynote here. This is the Quicktime version that will stream the movie to your computer, we’re still waiting for the high resolution version to become available through Apple Keynotes on iTunes.