Archive for October, 2010

Games watch

This week’s roundup looks at games for the family and early learners * An iPhone Math Game Designed for Girls * Hungry and adorable woodland creatures * iPhone Game Makes Math Physical * Mega Bloks Toy for Preschoolers * Very Simple Game * You’ve played ‘Twister’ … now Twistar * and more

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Stay Incognito online – FREE

Safari extension that helps ensure greater privacy This is a free Safari extension that helps ensure greater privacy by preventing Google and Facebook from tracking the user’s movements and actions while online. Incognito protects the user by blocking Google AdSense and Google Analytics on non-Google pages. Continue reading »

Cross-Browser Bookmarks

BookMacsterConcluding a year of testing and refinement, BookMacster has passed final testing with the release of version 1.2. This version supports automatic cross-browser bookmarks synchronization via the user’s choice of file-syncing services in the cloud. It also rounds out BookMacster’s web-browser support by adding iCab and Pinboard.

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ShapeEffects for iPad

ShapeEffectsIndependent developer, Scott Gruber has released ShapeEffects 2.0, a major update to his image editing tool for iPad. ShapeEffects offers a very different and exciting way in creating composite works of art from a list of 13 pre-defined shapes and a large variety of colors.

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Generate Realistic Data Sets

RandommiteKMCode Enterprises, has launched a powerful new tool for generating realistic data sets. The tool, Randommite, enables anyone to quickly generate large amounts of data in a variety of modern and legacy formats.

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In-App Purchasing Is Where the Dollars Are At

Full title of this Fast Company article by Kit Eaton i “Forget Advertising: In-App Purchasing Is Where the Dollars Are At.”
In it, Kit says that the new way to make money with Apps, is to allow purchasing from within the app.
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IMHO: Best Holiday Season Ever?

This would appear to not only be the best Christmas ever for Apple, it could well be the best ever for any consumer manufacturer!
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PDF Expert for iPad 1.1

pic Readdle has released PDF Expert for iPad 1.1, a new version of its cutting edge application for working with PDF documents. PDF Expert for iPad 1.1 lets people overview and navigate annotations in the document. Also, a new version adds several important types of annotations into supported mix: text and geometry shapes.
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Share Your Internet Connection in Leopard

This article on the “Apple blog” by Brandon Eley Explains how to turn your Mac into a WiFi Hotspot.
He talks about turning his Mac, on an Ethernet connection into a hub for access by iPhones and then another time to be accessed by several computers in his office.
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iSoundGrid Halloween 1.1 Released

pic Fred started the talk about Halloween applications. Here is one for iOS. Mobz technologies has announced the release of iSoundGrid-Halloween 1.1, an update to their popular app for iPhone. This update to iSoundGrid Halloween contains completely overhauled graphics for the retina screen of the iPhone 4.
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Top Ten Halloween Apps

halloween appsWell, someone had to do it … so, here are the selected choice apps for iPhone, iPod, or iPad for HALLOWEEN. If you find another, please send it in!

Scarfaced … Surprisingly Approved by Apple * Free Halloween Sounds * Halloween themed sticker scene * Ghosts! for iPhone and iPod touch * Walking Dead Invade App Store * iPhone Treat now also plays Tricks * and more

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Heads in the sand

creativecow blocks spamcop Sometimes you run into situations online that just make you say “hmmmmmmmmm.” Some you cannot figure out. Some you can do something about — others, you can’t. Such is the case with being blocked by ‘the creative cow’ web site.

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VPN for the rest of us

ShareTool is a smart, easy, and highly secure utilityToday, more and more employers and business owners realize the benefits that working from home or from a remote location can have for their company and employees. The key challenge is often determining how to set things up in order to do this reliably, securely, and in a way that ensures the most seamless transition from office to home/remote location. Continue reading »

What the Font is WOFF?

Web designers have generally relied on a small number of typefaces, such as Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman, when creating text on a Web page. These fonts are open for anyone’s use, can be rendered by various browsers and therefore considered “Web-Safe.” However, a large number of other typefaces available with desktop applications are not available for the Web because we lacked an interoperable format supported by different browsers as well as practical Webfont licensing options. That’s going to change with WOFF..

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Photography Expert Inside iPad

PhotoCaddy for iPhoneAspyre Apps has rolled out PhotoCaddy — now available for the iPad. PhotoCaddyHD is a handbook for photographers of all skill levels, with content that is constantly evolving thanks to an active user community.

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