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Thus spake Jobs, in joking response to a totally benign question today about the lack of widgets on the iPad. The full exchange went like this: Q: Why have you veered away from widgets on the iPad? A: We just shipped it on Saturday. And then we rested on Sunday. Q: So widgets are possible?…
We all know that you can’t run Flash on Apple’s mobile devices. But now Apple is trying to make it impossible to develop for iPhones in any other development environment but Apple’s own. Oh boy. There’s one primary target this interferes with: Adobe, whose upcoming Packager for iPhone in CS5 lets you develop applications in…
Make no mistake, iAds are the iPhone user’s worst enemy. If Buzz Lightyear were at the unveiling, he’d have rocket punched Apple right in the face. With today’s announcement of iAd, a turnkey solution for developers to add advertisements to their applications, Apple has empowered the small developer to be rewarded (assumably) every single time…
Snooping around the new iPhone OS 4 software, some have already spotted something interesting: Three new functions called AVCaptureDevice.hasFlash, AVCaptureDevice.flashMode, and AVCaptureDevice.hasTorch. Do these functions mean the next iPhone’s camera will get a flash? Possibly. [AppleInsider]
This is supposedly the world’s most remote restaurant; if you make it there you get to eat lunch for free. On the one hand, what a deal! On the other, HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS PATH: Unless this place is serving the best food in the entire world, there’s no way you could get me…
Jason Chen: And it’s over! Thanks for reading. Check the main Gizmodo site for more coverage throughout the day. 11:40 AM ON APR 8 2010 Jason Chen: Q: How do you close applications? And can people use stuff other than iAd and Game Center? A: If you want to kill an app…you don’t have to. We…
Here’s what multitasking looks like on iPhone 4.0. For full details on iPhone OS 4, and multitasking specifically, check out our definitive guides. [YouTube]
It’s the future part 2 with today’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement, but there are still great deal in the present including Supermonkey Ball on iPad in our new Apps section and play MW2 free for the weekend on Steam. Top Deals: • Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side [Blu-ray] (2009) for $15 with…
Ken Solomon is an artist who paints watercolors of Google Images search results. Here we see his/Google’s version of Lichtenstein’s Brush Stroke as a work in progress. [Ken Solomon via MediaMemo]
If you’re an iPhone developer, the iPhone 4.0 SDK (beta version) is ready for download. [iPhone Dev Center]
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Remember these words as you accept that your first-gen iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touches will not get the full Touch OS4 upgrade. Apple’s iPhone OS4 looks fantastic—but you’re SOL if you are running an original iPhone or even…
Apple’s taking aim at the Xbox integration coming to Windows Phone 7 with its new Game Center. This new service will allow online play on your iPhone, complete with leaderboards and achievements. Basically, this service will take control of online game play from app makers. Rather than pairing you up with someone to play with…
Apple’s been eying mobile advertising ever since as early as January. Today, as part of their iPhone OS 4.0 announcement, comes iAd: Apple’s plans for in-app ads that are about to get a lot more interactive—possibly even fun. What that means is that we’re going to start seeing a lot more ads inside of apps.…
The curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is massive: There’s multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here’s the rundown. The new OS will ship in June (Fall for iPad, and a developer preview is available today, so we…
At last, multitasking is coming to the iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (3rd Gen) and iPad, allowing you to quickly switch between applications, using one while others keep doing other tasks in the background. This is how it works. How Does It Work? For the user, multitasking seems to work transparently and very quickly. According to…
The fourth iPhone OS comes today. iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will be getting new features. Multitasking? Tethering? The cloud? Our live coverage is already under way, but the official event starts at 10PT (1ET). [Gizmodo Live]
This is a brilliant idea for an iPhone app, but Nooka should actually get it made—it wouldn’t take too much extra elbow grease to make custom watches based on people’s iPhone snaps. Though really, if I were getting a watch designed based on a photo I took, I’d want something taken on a camera with…
How do you make sniper target practice more helpful and more fun? By shooting at Segway robots, of course. For the Australian Defense Force’s snipers, they enlisted the help of Marahon Robotics to set up a course populated by Segways with dummies on board. The Segways are programmed to wander around a small village aimlessly,…
“This watch? Oh, it just warns me when I’ll turn into a berserk beast capable to ripping off your head, chomping you entrails, surfing on vans, hooking up with Willow, hooking up with Bella, you know, normal werewolf stuff.” The Moonwatch, a new (not for sale) project by The Emotion Lab, can show you the…
You know, 3D makes sense for some burritos when eaten in a restaurant, but if the industry thinks I’m going to pay for glasses to eat them at home, they’ve got another thing coming. [Landline TV]
