Even though it's Good Friday for us, that doesn't mean that our friends in the US have gotten over their April Fools' day jokes just yet. That being said, apologies in advance if I actually post anything that is an April Fool's... With that out of the way, on with the news!I almost filed this one under the "April Fools'" banner - until I noticed that the publish date was March 29. If true, this report that says iPhone apps coming to PC desktops is very intriguing indeed - but after all that, I'm still tempted to ask why you'd port touchscreen apps to mouse-driven computers?
Mac.Appstorm show us "50 inspriring, awesome, and stylish Mac setups". Like our very own "Post your setup" thread right here on MacTalk, only about a thousand and one times cooler.
Gizmodo say that there will be two new iPhones this year - one which will be the next generation of the current iPhone, and another which will be designed exclusively for Verizon in the States. The significance of this is twofold - one, there will be a CDMA version of the iPhone, and two, the iPhone will no longer be bound to the one carrier as has been the case for the past two years.
If you've got kids, and you're considering getting an iPad, you should probably check out these fun and newly-released iPhone and iPad apps for kids.
I bet you've used Finder's Get Info pane at least once before - maybe to find out the size of a file, or maybe even change it's permissions. Mac.Appstorm show you how to make the most of Finder's Get Info pane - providing you with detailed descriptions of all the sections along the way.
The recent iTunes 9.1 update came with a much-welcome feature for the audiophiles among us - the ability to down-convert, on-the-fly, music recorded at a higher bitrate to 128kbps AAC. MacWorld take a look at some of the lesser-known features of the update.
Apparently SpringBoard (the thing that powers your iPhone homescreen) rotation is a highly wanted feature - so highly wanted, in fact, that there's now a jailbreak app that makes rotating your iPhone homescreen so it matches your iPhone's rotation as easy as jailbreaking!
I'm surprised it's taken this long, but Incipio have released the 1337 gaming case for iPhone. Slide to Play take a look, but from what I can tell it just looks like a stylised case with some fancy grips.
Valleywag have compiled an excellent collection of colloquial recollections of Steve Jobs - not as the CEO of one of the most respected companies in recent history, but as a citizen of the city of California.
You know what Android's problem is? Fragmentation - that is, that multiple devices will disadvantage the platform in the long term. As a recent example - the Nexus One shipped with Android 2.1, but it's taken up until a few days ago for 2.1 to be released on the Droid, a device that has been in production for far longer. According to Engadget, all that will change with Froyo - Android 2.2, if you will.
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