Date archive for March, 2010
MyGirl (0)
3/15/10 •
When I think My Girl, I think of innocent things like The Temptations, and the sad movie where Macaulay Caulkin dies, and of sweet little girls in their summer dresses playing hopscotch, or dipping their feet in the almost warm pools of early spring. Oh, silly me, right? When I came across the MyGirl app, ... Read More
Short Word Maker 1.0 (1)
3/15/10 •
Short Word Maker 1.0 has an interesting premise: Designed and programmed by one Kevin Neelands, it has the objective, in short, of expanding a new reader’s vocabulary. Meant to be used in tandem with a more experienced reader, the app displays three-letter words only, with definitions for each, for the user to learn and eventually ... Read More
Monday Links (0)
3/15/10 •
Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web This is a story that should surprise no one, but the Wall Street Journal still made it “news” on Saturday: Apple’s iPhone is “forbidden fruit” on the Microsoft campus. The forbidden fruit of iPhones at Microsoft In a few short years, PDAs have given way to ... Read More
Area 51: Conspiracy Theory (0)
3/12/10 •
When I hear the phrase Area 51, my mind instantly conjures up those little green men, fallen spacecraft, military jurisdiction, and Agents Mulder and Scully – mostly Mulder. It’s an exciting phrase, more exciting, probably, than the actual military base, itself. Whatever conspiracy theories may or may not have actually happened, when viewing satellite images ... Read More
Friday Links (0)
3/12/10 •
Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web Reports/rumors are circulating that Apple is planning to include multitasking in its iPhone 4.0 OS. Will the Cupertino giant backtrack on its claim that users don’t need to be able to run more than one app at a time? Will Apple backtrack on iPhone multitasking? We ... Read More
Soul (0)
3/11/10 •
Soul by Kydos Studio kind of scares me. Really. It’s a freaky app. In Soul the game starts with a beating heart on a black screen, with the title Soul etched faintly in glowing blue white. A beating heart in a black setting always conjures the most vivid of horror movies for me, so upon ... Read More
Moodagent (0)
3/11/10 •
We’ve all heard of Pandora, right? It’s a fun device that creates playlists for you according to your individual tastes in songs, artists, or genres. It uses its cool musical technology to figure out underlying beats and riffs, tempos and so forth inherent to, say, “Sky Blue Sky” by Wilco, and then filters out other ... Read More
Thursday Links (0)
3/11/10 •
Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web The EFF, which has already sparred with Apple over it’s stance on “jailbreaking” iPhones, found a loophole through which it could legally obtain and publish the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement” for the edification of the public. Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes iPhone developer licensing agreement Everyone knows ... Read More
Kill the Fly (1)
3/10/10 •
BAANZAAII!!!! These crazy flies are the real killers of Kill the Fly. The Kamikaze fly is but one of the many winged pests you will encounter in this strangely addicting app by Playsteria, an appropriately titled company name, if I may say so myself. Kill the Fly will definitely drive you to hysteria, if in ... Read More
Wednesday Links (0)
3/10/10 •
Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web It’s been a confusing few weeks for developers of software for Apple’siPhone. Apple continues App Store pruning as developer agreement emerges 200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be “addicted” to their iPhones. PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!! WBGO Jazz ... Read More
