Developer Discovers Way to Use Gyroscope + Accelerometer Through Web
With the release of iOS 4.2 last month, Cupertino added a number of features to the software. One of the many added was support for the accelerometer and gyroscope of the iPhone for through Safari, among other HTML5 and W3C standards.
As you may know, all iOS devices have accelerometer sensors (plus magnetometer and gyroscope on some devices). However, as web developers, we didnt have access to such sensors until now. Safari now supports the DeviceOrientation API (W3C draft). Looking at the available objects, it seems that all the API is fully supported (including ondeviceorientation and ondevicemotion events). . .
Skype for IOS: Got to Love It!
Skype has had some pretty interesting things going on these past weeks. We, along with some of our friend sites, believed that Skype was going to finally introduce video calling on the iOS platform. This week, Skype has done just that. The British VoIP company has released the latest installment of their software for the iOS. Skype 3.0 will allow users of the software video call anyone over Wi-Fi and 3G.
- Make Skype to Skype video calls on WiFi and 3G*
- Call Skype desktop users (Mac OS X or Windows) and other iPhone users.
Camera+ Is Back in the App Store
Back in August, we reported that Apple gave the application Camera+ the boot from the App Store. Reason being is that the application used the volume buttons as a means to activate the shutter on the iPhone camera. After being absent from the App Store for almost the entire fourth quarter of the year, Apple has given the green light for the software’s return.
iPhoto Gets Updated
If you haven’t already gotten the news, Apple has updated their popular image management software, iPhoto, to iPhoto 9.1.1. Apple has made a number of fixes and updates to the software which they state:
This update adds new email options to iPhoto ’11. It also improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. Specific fixes include:
- Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application
- Adds “Classic” and “Journal” themes to email.
- Photos attached to an email can now be sized to Small, Medium or Large
Apple Download Page < Mac App Store
Apple has notified it’s developers that they will be shutting down the Downloads page of their website and shifting everything to the Mac App Store that is schedule to take off next month. In an email to developers, Cupertino writes:
Thank you for making the Mac OS X Download site a great destination with apps that offer users new ways to work, play, learn, and create on their Mac.
Apple Removes Unofficial WikiLeaks Application from App Store
In the tech world, one particular group has been under fire from everyone from the military to McDonalds. That particular group would be none other than WikiLeaks. Since then, an unofficial application has emerged on the App Store that allows users to retrieve information from the site right on their iOS device. WikiLeaks App, as developer Igor Barinov dubbed it, lasted on the App Store metropolis for about three days before it was ultimately pulled by Apple. Igor shot off a tweet responding to Apple’s decision to take the controversial application off the store front.
App Store to Offer Corresponding Application for Unknown Extensions
Some images have surfaced on the Net, more precisely 9 to 5 Mac, illustrating that Apple may be channeling the App Store on the Mac OS platform to find appropriate applications that can be applied to files that are unknown by Mac OS.
Interpretation of the first image implies that users will be able to log into the App Store with existing Apple IDs and search for software that can read the associated file. It appears as though the App Store on the Mac front will work a lot like its iOS counterpart, using Apple IDs that one has already created using MobileMe or the iOS App Store.
Desktop Version of Google Docs Now Functional for iPad
Desktop Version of Google Docs Now Functional for iPad
A while back, the boys of Mountainview Calif., otherwise known as Google, announced that they have enabled editing of their Google Docs web software on the iPad. Users were waiting with anticipation for the big launch.
The iPad’s mobile version of the free web-based office software provides a fair number of editing possibilities. However, the ability to format and change fonts was not included in the mobile version of the software. The good news is that Google recently announced that its web software is now compatible with the iPad and allows for greatly expanded editing capabilities.
Google TV Hits a Wall
New York Times chimes in this week that Google has asked the list of its manufactures to hold off on introducing and rolling out new Google TV ready products at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The CES event was said to the choice site for a number of new development with Google TV.
But Google has asked the TV makers to delay their introductions, according to people familiar with the companys plans, so that it can refine the software, which has received a lukewarm reception.
iUseMac Announces a Winter Deal on Slideshow for Mac
At MacApper, we want to encourage the many great software developers to contact us when they release a new product or promotion, like this deal from iUseMac which you can read more about below:
iUseMac is going to feature the award winning Slideshow for Mac OS X at 75% off of the regular price; this special offer expires in few days, at the end of the “Twenty Ten” year (Friday December 31th 2010). In comparison to the regular price of the Mac App featured,iUseMac is pleased to offer it to an incredible reduced price, in according with the developer company (Apimac). Slideshow lets you create slideshows on Mac that can be distributed as movie files or freestanding royalty-free presentations for Mac and Windows.
