Apple Starts to Wind Down the “iPod” Brand
Apple’s new iOS 5 software for iPhones, shipping this fall, has many additions, but appears to have one notable subtraction: The music app is no longer called “iPod” — it’s just called “Music.” There’s a separate app for “Video,” as on the iPad and iPod touch. Apple is probably mostly trying to unify the experience…
This Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: HDR Video, ported to the iPhone; iWork, shrunkified; Coca Cola, documented; Sports pictures, sent to your phone; 3G and Wi-Fi connection, checked; videos, time machined; ideas, connected; puzzles, hardest ever and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Flare: It’s a video recorder app that records in High Dynamic…
Knight Defense is Chess with a Pac-Man Championship Edition Overhaul
Almost four years ago today, the people who made Pac-Man tried to make Pac-Man better, by giving the game a techno aesthetic and altering—intensifying—its rules of play. Game developer Milan Nikolic’s Knight Defensenow does that for chess.… [Kotaku]