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?Within days of buying his iPhone, John Furrier discovered that his 13-year-old son, Alec, was sneaking off with the device and downloading games.? Alec?s not the only one. ?Games,? reports Alex Pham (latimes.com), ?have become the fastest-growing and most popular type of application for iPhone and iPod Touch,? inspiring developers to create ?nearly 1,700 games since the online App Store launched in June.
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?After months of reviewing Windows desktops and laptops,? exudes Josh Quittner (time.com), ?I put the new $1,600 MacBook through its paces ? and it was like returning from a backward country where nothing works only to find your homeland is even better than you remembered.?
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They?re back. Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), and the rest of the shipwrecked Central Park crew reprise their roles in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The new Dreamworks animated film opens next week on November 7. Enjoy.
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As Joe Hutsko (greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) reports, a new application on the App Store ? greenMeter ? can help you lower your ?car?s impact on the environment? by tapping ?into the iPhone?s built-in accelerometer to gauge the car?s rate of forward acceleration, which in turn informs a series of real-time vehicle readings like fuel efficiency (miles per gallon) and carbon footprint.?
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Thanks to the Utah Education Network, students at the Utah Electronic High School get to watch weekly science fiction films, many of which would be perfect candidates for Halloween. That includes films like Black Dragons, Curse of the Aztec Mummy, The Devil Bat, or Werewolf in a Girl?s Dormitory. Though iTunes U can?t show you the films, SciFi Friday can bring you the reality behind the fiction in them.
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If you?d like to win a chance to shoot with a pro photographer, learn Aperture from an expert, and take a free photo workshop in majestic Yosemite National Park, you?ll want to participate in the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest. To do so, just submit one of you best photographs. If selected, you?ll learn how to use Aperture 2.1 to process, perfect, and publish the great photographs you take at Yosemite in January.
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Greig McArthur knows for a fact that ?his Ferrari went from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 5.2 seconds and the Q train in Queens reached a maximum speed of 42.4 m.p.h when he rode it about a month ago.? As Peter Wayner (nytimes.com) explains, McArthur knows because his iPhone told him so.
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When you add photos to your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, you probably take a few minutes to assign keywords that will help you find those images faster the next time you need them. Did you know that you can also assign keywords to your presentations, spreadsheets, pdfs, and other files? Keywords allow Spotlight to find your files that much faster. Learn how to use them in the latest Mac OS X Pro Tip.
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Wouldn?t it be great, if during your long commute to or from the office, you could have iPhone automatically dial a list of numbers?hands free?while you concentrate on driving? That?s the premise of iDialUDrive. Using the low-cost ($0.99) application, you can assemble a customized call list before you leave. In the car, iDialUDrive dials each number in succession. It offers other options, too. Take a look.
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Handing out business cards is so last century. Especially if you have beamMe installed on your iPhone. As MG Siegler (nytimes.com) explains, using beamME, you can send your vCard directly to a new contact from your iPhone. Just enter their cell number or email address and beamME does the rest. The free app even lets you add your new acquaintance to your address book on the spot.
