Podcast Episode #042
Little Big Planet 2 Programming levels Verizon: iPhone Sets First-Day Sales Record T-Mobile’s Two-Day ‘Free’ Phone Giveaway “Previous Purchases” Hits iPad App Store New Search Controls In the App Store On iPad Google Mail Adds “Priority Inbox” To iOS Web App How to Integrate iWork with Dropbox on Your iPad [Dropbox] NoteTote Makes Quick Work [...]
iPhone/iPod touch/iPad app: Fractile
Fractile is an amazing piece of software for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad that draws the Mandelbrot set in all it’s glory. Benoît Mandelbrot first discovered the set back in 1979 and later published a book; The Fractal Geometry of Nature in 1982. Mr. Mandelbrot recently passed away which may have been the reason that this particular [...]
Android app steals data
VentureBeat.com has an interesting article about an Android app that was downloaded several million times that collected browsing history, text messages, the phone’s SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even voicemail passwords. Normally I wouldn’t even bother bringing up such an article. However, this pretty much highlights the need for some sort of vetting in [...]
Are template-based apps next on Apple’s list of No-No apps?
Update (3/9 2:54pm): From what I can see so far, this banning/not approving apps that are template-based/cookie-cutter type apps doesn’t seem to be happening. There is a new developer, LMK.com, that has added 51 new apps all of which use the same app to display different data. Just the kind of think that Apple would [...]
