While all eyes have been on the possibility of a Verizon release of an iPhone this year, we've also been hearing whispers that Apple's phone may be spreading to Sprint as well.
The problem is we hear whispers of a lot of thi...
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Recent MIT comp sci grad Chris Varenhorst
found a cheap soda machine on Craigslist a while back, and he decided to do what any self-respecting computer science student would do nowadays:
hook it up to the Internet. He created wiring to make the machine believe it had credits whenever a circuit was connected, and then wired that to an Internet service. He also created an iPhone app that sent messages to the server, so he could press a button from anywhere and make the machine dispense a cold drink.
Unfortunately, he says he would sometimes press the button while out and about, and come back to his apartment to find a warm beer sitting in the machine. He's graduated now and moving out, so Varenhorst and his roommates decided to
sell the machine on eBay, with part of the funds going to charity. It sold for just $76 (not too surprising -- who really needs a soda machine sitting around their house?), but the project itself is very cool.
Soda machine controlled by iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Soda machine controlled by iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Evernote has
announced Seesmic integration over on its blog -- often while reading Twitter on my iPhone, I'll see people tweeting links to videos or long pages that I just don't have the time to check out over my EDGE connection. In the past, I've favorited the tweets, but that's not an ideal solution, especially since anyone on Twitter can see my favorites (and thus see what I've been reading). Enter
Seesmic and
Evernote: now, when you see a tweet on Seesmic, you'll be able to send it directly into Evernote, and save it there along with the rest of your clippings and notes on the service. Then, when I go back to my MacBook, I can pull up those saved tweets, and read whatever I missed.
There are lots of other uses for a connection like this, I'm sure (and a few other ways to solve my problem --
Tweetie and Instapaper is another solution). But if you're a regular Seesmic and/or Evernote user and are looking for a way to more easily integrate Twitter into the "outsourced memory" that is your Evernote database, it's your lucky day.
When Seesmic met Evernote originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
When Seesmic met Evernote originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fairlady Media today announces that their newest game, Spazzle Gold for iPhone and iPod touch, is now free on the App Store. The game was featured on 4/2/10 on Free App A Day and soared to the top of the charts with almost 20,000 downloads. The makers of the smash-hit Spazzle! have taken mole-whacking to [...]
After the big news from Google last week, MacRumors reader Bryan Webster emailed Steve Jobs: "I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow [Google] out of the water".
To this, Steve Jobs reportedly replied "You won't be...
Apple Pro has posted photos of a partially assembled 4th generation white iPhone. As best we can tell, the images are of a white front plate, LCD screen and metal casing put together. All these parts have been circulating in the past, so i...
Android 2.2 Froyo updates started going live yesterday for the unsubsidized, unlocked, once-upon-a-time sold directly by Google Nexus One, and it seems to include not only tethering but mobile hotspot (think MiFi, or mobile Wi-Fi router to share your 3G with multiple other devices), usable right now on AT&T — just about the only carrier in the world that doesn’t allow iPhone tethering.
Sure, AT&T is likely running tens of millions of iPhones and only a relative handful of Nexus Ones, but that’s not the point. Apple introduced seamless, elegant tethering in iPhone OS 3.0 in June 2009, and while it looks like US iPhone users may finally get it in iPhone OS 4 in June 2010, that’s a year after the rest of the world and now — it’s even after Android.
The iPhone is popular, we get it. AT&T’s network probably couldn’t handle that many people trying to use their “unlimited” plans on tethered devices, we have no doubt. The situations are completely different, we grant the point.
But it’s so beyond ridiculous now that it can’t — and shouldn’t — escape mention.
(We’ll also note for the record we don’t know how long this will last, as AT&T may figure out a way to block it on unlocked devices and carrier-branded devices may remove it entirely or just bolt on a surcharge).
Video after the break.
YouTube link
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Bloomies for the iPhone, from Phantoom Entertainment, is a time management or sim-style garden game. Your goal is to advance your garden by gathering more plants, bees and achievements.
Upon starting up the game you are taught how to plant a flower by touching the shovel and adding soil to set up the location. Then you choose your flower and place it in the soil. There is also a bee that gathers nectar, which you will use to purchase other bees and flowers.
Bloomies is a beautiful, easy to understand, open ended sim for casual and younger games who want the fun of building their garden without the responsibility of always having to log in to maintain it. If you go away for a little while and don’t water your plants, they’ll get unhappy but they won’t wither and die, and will be ready and waiting for more when you return.
If you’re looking for something more interactive and immersive, however, then this style and pace of gameplay may not be for you.
Video, pictures, and a give-away after the break!
[$0.99 - iTunes Link]
Pros
- Lots of Achievements
- Easy to play
- Relaxing
- Cute Graphics
Cons
- Repetitive
- Very slow game pace
- Will not satisfy the hard core gamer
Now for the give-away: we have (3) copies of Bloomies for our faithful TiPb readers. Just leave a comment below telling me what you like best about sim-style games and be sure to include a real email address (we won’t make it public but we will use it to notify you if you win!). Get to it!
(Note: Unfortunately, Promo Codes only work in the US App Store, so if you don’t have access, you won’t be able to claim a prize. Apple’s rule, not ours.)
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