When Digg’s official app came to the iPhone, it was really stunning. It just pops with color and is incredibly functional. I feel the same way about Beatport, whose new app for the iPhone & iPod touch oozes with brilliant pixels.
Beatport, now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch
Winscape: Your Mac-powered Virtual Window
Technology applied to real life can be awesome. Most of times it can be weird and dangerous. I really don’t know what to think about the Winscape, but it’s interesting for sure.
Basically, it’s a software running on a Mac Pro that creates fake, 3D landscapes in fake windows. There are two plasma televisions that receive the signal from the Mac Pro and “play” beautiful landscape on screen. The whole thing comes with an iPhone remote app and a sensor that checks your position in front of the screens and tells the software to rotate the scene when you move.
Seriously, check out the videos after the break.
Articles for iPad: Wikipedia Where It Was Meant To Be
Some applications make more sense on the iPad, some don’t. When I first reviewed Articles from Sophiestication in its iPhone version, I said it was the best Wikipedia app for iPhone out there. I still think it is, as no other application has managed to get even near to the sheer amount of quality Sophia has put into that tiny Wikipedia client. But one could argue whether the iPhone is any good for reading, and that’s a complete different story. Once you try an iPad, you realize how much it is better for reading and consuming content than the iPhone, which is meant for accessing that content on the go.
As you try an iPad you realize how much a previously iPhone-only application makes more sense on it, and Articles is no exception.
Icebird: Best New Twitter Client for iPhone.
Right after Twitter announced the acquisition of the popular Tweetie app from Atebits’ Loren Brichter, many third party developers of Twitter clients started complaining that Twitter just killed the platform by entering the market itself. We may have different positions on this, but that’s not the point.
Point is, there are lots of developers out there who don’t care about “the big names”, they just want to keep developing for the sake of it and for the user base they’ve managed to build. I respect these guys. There’s a problem though: what about those that come up with new apps now? It shouldn’t be easy, knowing that you’re just getting started and Twitter is about to release the best mobile Twitter client ever made…for free. It’s a difficult situation, but fortunately there are some developers who love challenges and are releasing their apps anyway.
Meet Icebird, a new Twitter client for iPhone which I’m falling in love with.
iPhone To iPad Free Upgrade
If you’re tired of waiting, this is the perfect way to have an iPad now.
iPhone Apps with Unity, Lua, MonoTouch, Python, or Other Engines
A Google Docs spreadsheet listing more than 100 applications developed with cross platform compilers. Not surprised to see most of them are crap.
Learn Objective C, do yourself a favor.
TechRestore’s iPad Teardown Stop Motion Video
Once Upon a Fake
Remember those screenshots of the upcoming “iPhone 4G” many blogs posted yesterday?
This is he answer.
Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want Shit In His App Store, And Neither Do I
“Steve Jobs wants Apple to be the arbiter of quality in the App Store, denying apps that are ugly, poorly-thought, lame, explicit or featureless. He can’t say that in the Terms and Conditions so instead they’re using carefully-worded language that excludes certain technologies associated with the kinds of apps he doesn’t like. Steve Jobs doesn’t want shit in his App Store. If you’re a developer who may be interested in building shit, there’s another platform right down the street.”
Amen.