Last week during the QuakeCon keynote address, John Carmack pulled an iPhone 4 out of his pocket and shocked the audience by showing a demo of id Software's next game, Rage, running on the device. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Rage will have elements of racing games and first person shooters. There's also said to be RPG elements in the game as well, making it sound similar to both the Fallout series and Borderlands. Information is still limited as the game isn't slated to launch until 2011, but either way the following demonstration is beyond impressive:
According to John, id has ...
Name: AppSnapQuick Pitch: AppSnap lets you install any iPhone app by taking a picture of its icon, allowing easy app sharing between iPhone users.Genius Idea: Let’s face it, most of us would prefer to take the path of least resistance whenever possible, especially when it comes to downloading and sharing iPhone apps.Enter AppSnap, a $1.99 app that eliminates the effort required to find or share iPhone applications (iPad/iPod app icons work, too) with IRL or online friends.AppSnap is essentially just a camera app with a lens zoomed into Apple’s App Store. Simply snap a photo of the application icon in ...
You can now browse the App Store directly from within Facebook via Apple’s newest Facebook application. Virtue has partnered with Apple to create this page hot on the heels of their other Facebook page for iTunes.
There are a few tabs to chose from; the proverbial Wall and Info, but then it starts to get interesting. You have a Featured tab that shows you the week’s spotlighted applications. A Games tab lets you filter by any game genre. Search and Share, of course, lets you search for any app. Once you find the application you are looking for, you can launch ...
We’ve seen so many screenshots of the iPad App Store , but what about some video footage? We’ve just been sent a short video that shows the actual store being used, with all the applications we’ve seen so far: the Yahoo Entertainment app, Twitterrific, OmniGraffle and OmniGraph Sketcher, Real Racing.Check it out after the break.
(Via MacStories.)
AppAnnie stumbled across the actual iPad feed for the app store and parsed together what iPad app store more probably will look like.
Screenshots indicates that developers will get more money from iPad as compared to iPhone/iPod Touch. We can see Flight Control HD and OmniGraffle along with other paid and free apps ready for the iPad Launch. Here’s a screenshot of iPad App Store home screen:
More interestingly, There are iPad specific apps listed under top paid, free, and grossing apps charts.
here are some more screenshots from another source:
via [appannie][appadvice]
(Via iPhoneHeat.)
In a bid to stop third parties profiteering from literature which is already in the public domain. Apple has uploaded 30,000 free e-book’s to its iBook store ready for the up and coming release of its new iPad.
When Apple first launched the app store for its iPhone a huge amount of book apps followed. With multiple versions of public domain literature combined in the trivial iPhone applications. All created by third party developers filling the newly created app store with clutter and detracting users from original concept iPhone applications.
The move to include Gatlinburg’s large library of publications will also help ...
When Apple released iTunes 9, they allowed us to share favorite apps with our Facebook and Twitter friends from within the app store. Today they introduced a new feature, and now we can gift any app in the app store, just like we would gift a song. You must use your credit card on the account and cannot use gift cards or any other types of promotional payment to gift apps.In order for the feature to be activated, you must sign into your iTunes account and accept the new terms policy.
The changes we have made to the terms and conditions ...
Did you know you can pause any application download or update on the iPhone and iPod Touch? This is great when you’re in a bandwidth bind or have low bars of reception.
* Pause the download/update by just tapping on the app’s icon while the download is going
* You’ll know the download is paused because the name will change to ‘Paused’ (see screenshot)
* Tap the icon again to resume the download or update
You learn something new everyday! I’ll bet this tip works for the iPad too, but since they aren’t in the wild yet we don’t know for sure.
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Apple shocked developers this week when they went public with their decision to remove all sexual content from the App Store. The news came as a surprise because it demonstrates that Apple is willing to hit developers where it hurts - their livelihood - with little to no notice whatsoever. The decision has left developers and users alike wondering what is allowed on the App Store. And thanks to TechCrunch’s investigative research—we now know that the new policy may even be more limiting than previously thought.
While Apple hasn’t confirmed any definitive rules outlining the new policy, a few guidelines have ...
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