According to Hardmac, Apple market share in Europe has risen to 6.8%, two percentage points higher than last year. Ok, maybe Europeans are not so into the whole Apple thing, at least not as much as American people are, but still these results are promising and I wonder what’s going to happen this summer and fall with the iPad and new iPhone. 10% market share by May 2011? I would bet on it. [via TUAW]
Apple Market Share In Europe Rises to 6.8%
iPhone Vulnerability Allows Read Access On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, Even When PIN Locked
So you thought your PIN-protected iPhone was secure enough to keep your friends away from trying to unlock it and call your mom pretending they kidnapped you. I’m sorry folks, you might want to reconsider your mobile security.
Valve Working On Source SDK Update to Bring Mods to OS X
Steam for Mac is doing great (the latest updates should have fixed the few bugs we encountered with first release for Mac) and users seems to be very satisfied with the performance of the platform on their Macbooks. Still, there’s one big feature missing: an update to the Source SDK to compile mods for OS X.
As you can see from the screenshot after the break that’s exactly what Alfred Reynolds (software developer at Valve) is confirming: “a code update so you can compile your mods for OSX”. This should bring the whole Steam / Source platform at the same level of Windows’ one, and we’ve got the feeling this update will be out by the WWDC.
Firefox Home sends Bookmarks to your iPhone
Unfortunately it’s not Fennec, but at least it gives me access to the hundreds of Firefox bookmarks I’ve collected since 2004. Firefox Home (why not just call it Weave Sync?) is a Mozilla iPhone application that lets you sync bookmarks between your favorite mobile device, and your favorite web browser. While I’m more interested in the NES case in the video than the application itself, those few dozen iPad case links you saved (of which I’m guilty) can now follow you wherever you take you an iPhone. Click past the break for a demo vid.
Steve Ballmer To Show Up At The WWDC Keynote?
So here’s the big news guys: Steve Ballmers might take the stage at the upcoming WWDC keynote and talk about Visual Studio 2010, the development tool that will allegedly allow devs to write native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac OS.
As Barron’s reports:
“Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools.”
So, what was the story about surprises, again? Seriously, this is gonna be interesting.
Yes Houston, an iPod Nano Phone was Patented
Remember the year 2006? Me neither. But Apple apparently begun plans to turn their iPod Nano into an eventual mini-iPhone. I’m not terribly surprised, considering that Apple has bestowed the Nano with a wonderful little VGA camera before the iPod touch. Perhaps a phone may be in lieu as 2010 plays out, but didn’t the rotary dial die some years ago?
Win A Copy of Chirpy for iPhone
Chirpy is an iPhone we reviewed last week that allows you to use Twitter DMs as text messages. It supports push notifications and it’s powered by a nice and well designed user interface.
We have 5 copies up for grabs, and to enter the contests you just have to leave a comment below telling us why you’d like to win the app. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 28th.
Good luck!
Turn your Cassette Deck into an iPod Dock
Are you like me? Do you drive an ancient vehicle that still has one of them cassette things? Lack an AUX jack? Have an iPod? Then this is for you. Maybe.
TinyGrab for iPhone Is What We Were Missing
It’s been a while since I last wrote about quick file sharing apps. I’m talking about excellent pieces of software like Cloud, Droplr, Fileshuttle and Tinygrab: apps that allow you to select an image, file or URL from Finder or Safari and send it to the cloud with a few clicks, and then share a short link on your social network of choice.
Let’s talk about Tinygrab. Tinygrab is one of the most popular image sharing services that, unlike many others, comes both with a Mac desktop app and a Windows version. They have a pretty huge userbase and they have just released a shiny new iPhone app, developed by my good friend Tim Davies. Wait, what? An iPhone app to share images? Yeah, I have to admit that it’s a new thing to me as well - I mean, if I want to share an image on Twitter I use the built in img.ly uploading features.
Could a mobile image sharing app hold on to its desktop version?