iPhone developer Phil Dhingra bought a Droid, and initially liked it. A lot. A month later, he’s written a follow-up piece titled “After the Honeymoon,” outlining 20 things he dislikes about the device. I love stuff like this — showing how people feel about their gadgets after the OMG IT IS SO DAMN SHINY AND NEW [...]
It’s a good read.
Sweet Moses, I’ve been waiting for this: Kick it old school with games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Nescaline allows you to play a wide range of NES games on your iPhone and includes five public domain games developed as freeware. You may also use the download feature to add games to your library [...]
Apple Support: Updates the graphics firmware on ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards to address issues that may cause image corruption or display flickering. The iMac Graphics Firmware Update will update the graphics firmware on your iMac. Now they just need to get the glass-breaking-in-shipping issue resolved.
Chitika: Yes, we know it now costs $5, but looking at the numbers, it appears that users of devices with iPhone OS on them aren’t willing to pay for it. iPhone users, who have always been able to upgrade to OS 3.0 for free, use the more recent versions 94.4% of the time. iPod Touch [...]
John Welch on Adobe Reader and Apple’s Preview: I don’t think that Adobe understands that there is a market for a lightweight application that does a minimum beyond viewing, and does so with a clean UI. It’s not like all Preview does is let you view. You can do annotations, notes, add links, simple shapes, bookmarks, [...]
I’m going to say no on this one.
Macworld: Unfortunately, the AP left some of the stylebook out of this mobile edition: some entries are less complete than those found in the paper version, and at least one refers to the stylebook’s Briefing on Media Law, which is not included here. Some entries with tables or graphics didn’t translate well, and URLs are [...]
According to Apple, fixes include: • Allows the Mail service to recover from an interruption in Directory Services • Reduces Mail service memory usage Now, if they’d just add push mail to the iPhone.
