Mar

18

iTunes $.99 Movie of the Week

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March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week’s iTunes $.99 movie of the week is an oldie, but a goodie. Your movie this week is Escape from Alcatraz (warning - iTunes link). This week’s movie will be on sale until 25 March, 2008. Here is the official movie description:
Based on the true story of the only escape from […]

Mar

18

iPhone Ad - Does it Stretch the Truth a Bit?

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March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments

Here is an iPhone add featuring a devoted iPhone user. In the ad, the user states that she can update her blog in real time to keep the world updated on her dance studio. She makes the iPhone sound like a wonderful tool for mobile blogging and freelance writing.


I […]

Mar

17

How Accurate is your iPhone “Locate Me” Feature?

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March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Google Maps app works very well, make no mistake, but the “locate me” feature, which is part of firmware 1.1.4, has mixed results. For me, when I am in my hometown, it is accurate to about 1 city block. In a large city like Denver, it is accurate to a few feet. […]

Mar

15

Google Takes a Jab at Apple and the iPhone

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March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Google is ramping up its impressive media engine to start touting its new phone and phone operating system Android. For those of you who hadn’t heard, Google is developing a mobile phone operating system that will run on a variety of different hardware pieces from a variety of manufactures.
So far, HTC, Motorolla, and Samsung […]

Mar

14

iPhone SDK and iPhone Development

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March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Apple is reporting that in the first four days of availability, there were over 100,000 downloads of the iPhone Software Development Kit. Think about that, it is staggering.
That means that well over 100,000 people will be developing software and […]

Mar

12

Web App Wednesday

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March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment

Everyone likes games right?  If not, then the overwhelming support of games on the iPhone platform is a bit misguided.  Well, if you cannot wait until the aplications start flowing and iPhone 2.0 hits, then here is a little jewel to help pass your time.
Game producer and publisher PopCap games has created a version of […]

Mar

12

iTunes $.99 Movie of the Week

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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week’s iTunes $.99 movie of the week is the sci-fi classic Dead Zone (warning - iTunes link). This week’s movie will be on sale until 17 March, 2008.  Here is the official iTunes description:
Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the […]

Mar

11

iPhone Games Are-A-Comin’

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March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

For those of you who voted for games as the number one requested iPhone application, there is good news. 
Michael Guillemot, CEO of Gameloft, has  promised that his company will produce no less than 15 titles for the iPhone this year.  Sounds great you say.  15 games is a lot you say.  Well, Gameloft happens to […]

Mar

10

Will Search Come to iPhone 2.0?

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March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

Chalk this one up to rampant speculation and eagle-eyed observation.  The iPhone obsessed folks over at blargKaboom did some close-inspection of the recent SDK Roadmap press release.
While the new features of firmware 2.0 were being discussed, there was the following screen shot.  It seems that one of the great features tucked away for our summer […]

Mar

9

Weekend Distraction

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March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week’s weekend distraction is my own.  This weekend I took my son to a Colorado Avalanche Hockey Game.  I snapped this picture, and sent it directly to iphone[at]contentquake.com from my iPhone.  That is what I would love you to do.  If you see an interesting or amazing site, take a picture and send it […]

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