MobileMe Mail is Getting a Facelift
Apple announced that it is going to be giving the MobileMe Mail web-app a makeover and it is personally giving users of the MobileMe service an invitation to use the new design of the web software while it is in beta.
MobileMe members can log onto me.com and opt-in to receive an invite for the beta. When you sign-in to MobileMe, you will be taken by default to the Mail app. Take a gander at the bottom right corner and you are going to see a message from Apple that looks like this¦
The Adobe Flash Incident
Since Steve Jobs gave his view on the Adobe Flash software for public viewing on the Apple website, many people and organizations have expressed their own views on the technology, Google, Mozilla, Opera and even Microsoft have all stated that HTML5 is indeed the future. All the companies have expressed basically the same issue with the technology that Steve touched on in his open letter.
Despite all of that, Google, along with Adobe, did confirm to the press that Android will be fully supporting Flash on its platform with Flash 10.1. People have been eager to see the technology working flawlessly on a mobile device as Adobe has said that the technology is capable of doing. However, during a public demo of the software recently, the tech was anything but flawless.
MobileMe Going Free?
I am an avid user of MobileMe. I love the push calendar, contacts and email, iDisk, Find My iPad, iPhone and iPod, putting up photos and documents and presentations to be shared with my friends, family and colleagues. I just completely love it. Whats the only thing that bites? The $99 subscription fee, which in itself isnt too bad and doest really bother me given that it is applied annually. Speaking of which, we here at MacApper have been hearing a little rumor that has been beginning to make its way around the Internet. Word has it that the MobileMe web software is anticipated to become free of charge.
Gigaputt Review
Out of all the applications in the App Store, this one has to be amongst one of the most creative! Gigaputt makes the world your personal golf course. Object of the game is like any other golfing exhibition: Trying to get the ball into the hole. However, you arent competing at your local country club, that is, unless you want to. You can make the Art Deco District of Miami Beach, Chicagos Magnificent Mile, Los Angeless Rodeo Drive, Times Square in New York City, Londons Buckingham Palace, the Taj Mahal in India, the Ginza district of Tokyo and you can even tee off on the Eiffel Tower in Paris making the designated place for golfing for yourself or with a bunch of people just about anywhere.
The iTunes Syncing Issue…and the Fix
First and foremost, I love iTunes. It has to be one of the (if not the) most used apps on my 27-inch iMac and my 17-inch MacBook Pro. I mean, come on, damn near everyone uses iTunes. In the recent update, however, I have been experiencing issues when enabling the conversion of songs to 128kbps AAC format, which I might add saved over 4GB on my 32GB iPhone, 64GB iPad and 64GB iPod touch. Sacrificing a teeny tiny bit of sound quality saved me all that space on all my iDevices. However, seems like the iTunes software keeps converting the songs after the have already been converted every time I sync my iPhone, iPod or iPad, making the syncing progress rather long when a typical sync is usually snappy. I thought that I was the only one having this problem until a friend of mind heard me talking to myself asking “I wonder why iTunes keeps doing this?” while I was enjoying my Caramel Macchiato in Starbucks. He mentioned to me that he was experiencing the same issue. On top of that, I recently have been getting a few emails from my friends mentioning the issue.
Opera Joins the HTML5 Movement
First Apple, then Google, followed by Microsoft and now Opera is the latest group to clearly state that HTML5, not Adobe Flash, is the future of the web and all of it’s glory. TechRadar reported that Opera, the same folks who create the self-entitled web browser for numerous platforms including the iPhone OS, has chimed in that the group sees HTML5 playing a major role in the Internet very sooner than later. Product Anaylist for Opera, Phillip Grønvold, states that while Flash is the basis for most video and visual content on the Net, they see the software taking a backseat while HTML5 spreads its magic through the World Wide Web. They will continue to develop for Flash because of its current status, but will inevitably transfer to the HMTL5 standard.
Square Goes Live!
Many people, individuals and groups alike, have been waiting for the Square payment system to be available for download on the App Store. Well, the wait I finally over. Square is now live. It seems they were taking the time out to make the application universal for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad as well as writing an Android version of the software.
Crash Course
Crash Course Review
Here at MacApper, we review a lot of new games that come out on the ever rapidly expanding App Store. Our latest addition to our collection of review would be a new game that has been recently published on The Store: Crash Course. The developers of the game have stated that this is the first of 3D games on the AP, so we decided to take a gander at it and see what they are really talking about.
Steam on Mac
A lot of gamers have been waiting for this. It has definitely become one of the most talked about things of the Mac since the debut of the iPhone back in 07 and the only thing talked about the Mac nowadays. A software that has gotten plenty of praise from the press, users of the software and hard-nosed critics. Finally, on May 12th, 2010, Valve Corporations venture onto the Mac platform will take another step forward with the Steam for Mac public release.
Android Updates Nowhere As Obtained As iPhone Updates
A while back, Steve Jobs made a statement in a meeting at the Town Hall section of the Apple Campus in Cupertino that Apple will provide updates that Googles Android cant keep up with. Seems like the iPhone OS has already been doing that. A new observation made by AdMob, who was acquired by Google a while back, shows that users of Android dont and even cant upgrade to the new software like Apples iPhone does so cohesively.
