http://macnapple.com Macbook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac, Apple News and Shopping Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Filed under: Gaming, Retail, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on ... http://macnapple.com/gdc-2010-call-of-duty-world-at-war-zombies-postmortem/ Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, App Store Tonight at GDC 2010, I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV app to the App Store on various screens around ... http://macnapple.com/gdc-2010-street-fighter-iv-for-the-iphone-out-now/ The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily afford such a purchase and the results would be interesting. I would love to see Adobe restructured by a company like Apple. Adobe has many applications that are the gold standard but it seems ... http://macnapple.com/why-apple-should-buy-adobe/ Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewI've always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It's sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting -- an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news. Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the ... http://macnapple.com/slate-comes-to-the-iphone-along-with-a-lot-of-advertising/ Filed under: iTS, Retail, iTunes, Apple This feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program -- while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as "the visual experience of the record album," it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. According to ... http://macnapple.com/report-riaa-pressured-apple-into-creating-itunes-lp/ My kid wants an iPod touch for her birthday. I’m inclined to fulfill her wishes, but I’m a little concerned about her looking at objectionable content on Safari or YouTube, or running up big bills downloading apps and music. Does the iPod touch come with parental controls?It does. You can’t ... http://macnapple.com/setting-up-parental-controls-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK Steph Tirion is an excellent game designer who I've had the good fortune to meet a few times. He first released a great game called Eliss on the App Store and he's now announced the second game he's been working on, called ... http://macnapple.com/steph-tirion-creator-of-eliss-annouces-faraway/ Filed under: Software, Developer, iPhone iQapps has updated their app Trip Journal to version 4.0, and the new update adds a fair bit of functionality to the already pretty impressive set of trip recording and tagging features. As with previous versions, you can track pictures, notes, and maps of your trips, ... http://macnapple.com/enter-to-win-trip-journal-40-for-the-iphone-do-not-post/ So here we are, just past the six month mark since Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard was sprung last August 28, and I’m still using OS 10.5 Leopard. I have lots of company. The NetApplications HitsLink Market Share data for February 2010 shows that Leopard is still the most widely-used OS ... http://macnapple.com/snow-leopard%e2%80%99s-been-out-for-six-months-why-are-so-many-of-us-still-using-leopard/ Don’t get us wrong, we appreciate tasty eye candy like Avatar. But documentaries tend to be the films that really amaze us. The impact of the right story told by an artist compelled to share it tends to stay alive in our hearts and heads long after we’ve forgotten whatever ... http://macnapple.com/oscar-nominated-documentary-film-makers-talk-about-their-films-and-final-cut-pro/