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For the ones back to work, it's finally Friday tomorrow. If you feel you need it, here you have a stress release game that you know from 2009 - Face Fighter from Appy Entertainment.
For some reason I used my face to try this app, not a good idea. You are meant to use with your boss or father in law. Fun game with fun references. Don't miss it (they have a lite)
Since the launch of the original 1G iPhone I have been taking pictures, and later on videos with it. After two years and more than 4.000 photos, I needed a way to backup those precious pictures. I sync them with iPhoto, so the contents are pretty much the same, plus everything is copied to a Time Machine drive automatically. Where is the need to save them somewhere else?
Time Machine would delete older copies to save the latest information from my Macbook. I can stand not having a picture in physical format, but I need a hard copy, something I can store in a safe place and won't get corrupted or deleted as easily as an external hard drive. The day after Christmas I decided I would save them on DVD.
I found out that backing up your iPhoto library burning it to a CD or DVD is dead easy. I have chosen a Sony AccuCore DVD-R 16x compatible, which sound very impressive but was the cheapest I found at the local Fnac during my holiday in Spain. One DVD won't be enough, so I'm going to try different brands, including the fancy double layer ones, that I hope my laptop can handle.
Saving your pictures with this method will ensure that iPhoto can recognize the library, but Windows PCs won't be able to read them. If you need to take a CD to print your pictures in a shop, for example, iPhoto recommends to export the pictures and burn using the Finder. I found much more convenient to burn it the DVD as an iPhoto library, since it's richer and contains original and modified versions as well, just like your Mac.
A lot has been written about two of the last Apple job postings. Apple looking for an app developer with experience in games and weeks later asking for a top engineer with passion for maps. I really liked the comments from the Keith Andrew interview with Rob Fahey and his approach. The hiring is more likely to be oriented to prepare Apple to grow and to have internal knowhow to give a useful SDK to third party developers.
As an engineer on the Maps team, your responsibilities will range from implementing low-level client/server code to implementing high-level user interfaces. You'll be responsible for implementing new and innovative features, fixing problems and enhancing the performance of Maps. You will work closely with the other engineers on the Maps team, other iPhone and iPod touch teams as well our partners in other companies.
"iPhone3,1" was first spotted in Pandav's usage logs in November. This "iPhone3,1" identifier does not match up with any shipping iPhones. The last iPhone released to the public was the iPhone 3GS which carries the identification string "iPhone2,1". References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.
Sky, the British subscription television channel is now in the iPhone, and oh boy, it works. First ones to get the treat where Xbox 360. From last week, O2 customers can install the service in form of an app that runs in your iDevice and allows you to stream your Sky content via WiFi. That's it: Tele in your pocket! The app has the not so creative name of "Sky Mobile TV News and Sports" and it is available only in the UK store
UPDATE I have included a massive picture gallery and a demo video for everyone to see loading times and how smooth it runs.
Hands on Cookmate. Can this be the biggest innovation in modern cooking? Have a look yourself.
Libra balance, the physics game by Naroly Nyisztor is yet another great example about the use of accelerometer in the iPhone. Used both in apps and games, we have experienced already driving a car in a game steering our iDevice. Here the developed has managed to recreate a physics in a remarkable way with the use of the internal accelerometer.
