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Have you gone Flick Sports Fishing? The Freeverse game ? one of the all-time top 20 apps on the App Store ? lets you virtually cast and reel in some really big fish using iPhone or iPod touch. You can play against friends and brag about your latest catch. And for a limited time, if you download Flick Fishing ? or any other app on the App Store ? you could reel in a really big catch in the Billion App Countdown Promotion.
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Recommended for all those using Aperture 2, the Aperture 2.1.3 Update ? available as a free download from the Aperture site or the Apple support site ? improves overall stability and provides fixes for issues related to database integrity and compatibility with specific file types.
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To create Back from the Dead, a new album from Spinal Tap scheduled for release in June, music producer CJ Vanston tapped Logic Studio. In fact, he says ?every piece of the album was made using Macs running Apple?s Logic.? PCs, the engineer adds, ?aren?t allowed within 20 feet of me. There?s always a problem with them, whether its a virus, defragging the drive, or something. They just slow you down.?
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iTunes U now lets you sample some of the delightful content ? David Hockney using Twitter to answer questions about his art, tours through the palace and gardens of Versailles, Patti Smith singing about the early life as an artist in Paris ? available at three of the leading European museums: the Tate, Château de Versailles, and Fondation Cartier.
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In his InfoWorld review, Tom Yager explains why he considers the new Mac Pro ?the perfect workstation.? The new Nehalem-based Mac Pro ?is impeccably built, extraordinarily configurable and expandable, owner-serviceable, quiet, green, friendly, fast, and custom-made for Snow Leopard.? The new systems, he says, ?establish a new bar in the price/performance/watt trifecta.?
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Critically-acclaimed newcomer Nicole Beharie joins an all-star cast of Academy Award?nominated (Alfre Woodward, Michael O?Keefe) and Emmy Award?winning (Charles S. Dutton, Xzibit) actors in a film about Dee Roberts (Beharie), an African American single mother accused of being a drug dealer. Together with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson), Roberts struggles to prove her innocence. The film opens April 17.
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For two weeks now, Evan Doll and Alan Cannistraro have enjoyed the rapt attention of their students. Eager to learn how they can write apps for iPhone and iPod touch, they?ve signed up for ?iPhone Application Programming,? a ten-week course offered by Stanford University?s School of Engineering. Like to sit in? No need to matriculate; simply subscribe to the free course on iTunes U.
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Liz McKernan, a journalism student at Arizona State University?s Cronkite School of Journalism, enjoys being at the cutting edge of digital journalism. Armed with her MacBook, Final Cut Pro, and a video camera, McKernan does it all, researching, writing, shooting, and editing stories seen in more than a million households. How did she learn how to do what many veteran journalists cannot?
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Offering proof that you can find ?iPhone apps for nearly every waking minute,? Deborah Yao (mercurynews.com) documents how iPhone gets her through the day. ?My iPhone,? she explains, ?is a pedometer, a voice recorder, a gym coach and a budget tracker. It promises to find my parked car, give me a shoulder massage and even repel mosquitoes.? Now, she laments, ?if only my iPhone can do my taxes. Wait. There?s probably an app for that.?
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Cubes rule in Edge. The red hot videogame ? it?s won numerous industry awards, received accolades from gaming sites, and earns rave reviews from rabid iPhone fans ? has a simple premise: navigate your Cube around a polygonal universe, collecting prisms, climbing walls, and solving puzzles along the way. Play is infectious. And, with 43 levels and tons of obstacles to overcome, challenging.
