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Archive for January, 2010

Many people will remember Catan. One of the classic traditional board games which first released in 1995. During the next 15 years, the game has developed into a huge world with lots of scenario additions, expansion packs, maps etc. It then appeared as an online browser game. Now, it is available for iPhone (no need to mention much that it is available for brother iPod touch every time surely). Settlers of Catan. It is a well-thought version of the traditional board game, actually we can think the iPhone game version as a small sized tabletop game. The iPhone game version allows playing up to four people (or surely bots).

Catan for iPhone, essentially follows the traditional game playing rules of most classic settlement games. You collect resources, build settlements, cities. Every thing you build makes your stronger & stronger and you compete to reach to achieve a pre-defined point total (default is 10) before other players. If you ever have played Settlers of Catan, iPhone Catan game rules will be the thing you will ignore. Just start playing. Otherwise, a digital tutorial section will help you to learn the rules and basic strategies: building, trading, collection resources.

The gameplaying screen is well-thought to fit on iPhone & iPod touch. Every move was clearly shown with different colors and animations. Overall there is much to explore in Catan iPhone version. I would suggest buying it. Link at iTunes.

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Below is today’s roundup
of news and blogs that haven’t yet hit top story status by our community. Visit
Apple iPhone news and blogs for even more
news and blogs converage.

  •   Apple vs. Amazon vs. Macmillian — Begun These e-Book Wars Have? –
by Rene Ritchie from The iPhone Blog
  •   Apple vs. Amazon: The Great Ebook War Has Already Begun –
by Ben Parr from Mashable!
  •   Trillian chat client gets a Mac version, now in alpha –
by Jay Hathaway from Download Squad
  •   Trillian chat client gets a Mac version, now in alpha –
by Jay Hathaway from Download Squad
  •   Apple excises the false Flash in its iPad promo video –
by Paul Miller from Engadget
  •   auの電波は他国のcdmaと違って上下が逆らしいから有り得ないんだって。 RT @yanatake iPadのSIMがdocomoが出るってことは次世代iPhoneはdocomo確定かな… auも出そうだな、と。http://j.mp/9GSJ9t –
by naotokiriyama (Naoto) from wwdc OR apple OR iphone OR "steve jobs" – Twitter Search
  •   Hulu Coming To iPad? –
from I4U News
  •   The Week in Gizmodo –
by Kyle VanHemert from Gizmodo: roundup
  •   Cost of Making an iPad is $270.50? –
by Brian from Mobile Whack
  •   Monster outs Diddy-designed iPhone, iPod in-ears –
from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

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Written by Ross Rubin
When Apple introduced the iPod in 2001 — some 250 million units ago, as Steve Jobs noted — it began with a laser-like focus on digital music. Swap out a hard drive and FireWire port for a cassette collection, and the product was clearly the reinvention of the Walkman. The first Switched On in…

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Apple’s town hall meeting reportedly happened yesterday, and Jobs had some choice words to say about the competition. Wired is reporting that the two major topics of conversation were Google and Adobe. According to Wired’s anonymous sources:

On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”

About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

MacRumors also had an anonymous tipster, who offered them some additional information.

• Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won’t be able to keep up with
• iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of
• Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team
• Next iPhone coming is an A+ update
• New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
• Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

As always anonymous sources, take this information as rumor only, as we have no confirmation of its truth.

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After news spread around yesterday of Apple’s iPad video showing Flash content, Apple have since edited their iPad shots so that the Flash missing plugin shows instead.

I guess that means no Flash at launch, after all.

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Written by Mel Martin
originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Written by Brian
Google is taking its search engine act to the Android and iPhone with the announcement of the Google Popular Image Search. With this new feature from Google, users can see images on top of their search queries, returning the top searched images and then sorted according to category.

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Written by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
Do we even need to summarize what this week's top Apple news was all about? Aside from iPad mania, Apple also announced a record fiscal quarter and the Ars staff opined on what we want out of iPhone OS 4.0 and more. Read on for the good stuff.

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Here are two interesting but conflicting opinions on the iPad, pro and con.
Con: Tech author Rafe Colburn says the iPad is a scary harbringer of the closed future of consumer computing.
“General purpose computing is too complicated for most people anyway, and the iPad’s descendants along with similar competing products from other companies will offer an [...]

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Why is there no Adobe Flash on the iPad? Adobe says it’s not because it’s buggy, as an Apple source claimed this afternoon to CultofMac.com.
It’s because Apple is protecting revenue streams derived from content like movies and games. If users could watch free TV shows on Hulu, they wouldn’t buy them through iTunes.
“It’s pretty clear [...]

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