iFunia Releases PDF2SWF for Mac

post from prMac on 04 April 2011 11:51:00 PM. © prMac

iFunia, a professional developer of Mac multimedia software, today released iFunia PDF2SWF for Mac, a new PDF Conversion software designed to help Mac users convert PDF documents to SWF formats for viewing with flash players, or uploading to internet for sharing with friends. The obvious feature of the program is that it can fulfill the converting task perfectly on Mac while preserving the original layout, image graphics and formatting.

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Google Bids to Buy Nortel Patent Portfolio for
$900 Million

post from Daring Fireball on 04 April 2011 09:04:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

Not a bad first day on the job for Google CEO Larry Page.

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Barry Lyndon Coming to Blu-Ray May 31

post from Daring Fireball on 04 April 2011 08:04:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

One of my favorites, finally available on Blu-ray. Just $14 at Amazon.

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Toyota Advertising on Jailbroken iPhones

post from Daring Fireball on 04 April 2011 07:04:27 PM. © Daring Fireball

Curious:

Car manufacturer Toyota is reportedly running adverts in the Cydiastore to promote their iPhone user interface theme, alsodistributed through the store. The adverts and the theme are partof Toyota?s advertising campaign for the 2011 Scion tC vehicle.

Jailbreaking goes mainstream?

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Playroom Racer Is Out For iOS and the New Update
is Coming Soon

post from prMac on 04 April 2011 06:18:00 PM. © prMac

Intuitive Computers is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Playroom Racer, and Playroom Racer HD 1.0, a new unique micro racer game in top-down racing style for iOS. Children love toy cars, now you can play on your iOS device in top-down racer style. Playroom Racer provides challenging gameplay with excellent HD graphics, fast cars, beautiful and creative racing environments with three different game modes and various control methods.

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MyBraces Allows Users to Share Their Braces
Experience

post from prMac on 04 April 2011 05:52:00 PM. © prMac

Icy Plaines Studios announced the release of MyBraces 1.0 for iOS. The main focus of the app is to give users the ability to create and share their own unique thoughts and stories about the experiences they have encountered with braces. Other users can then read and comment on those stories. MyBraces also supports publishing to Facebook. Users can upload their stories and ligature colors directly to their wall and share with their friends.

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Week Timer a Simple Time Tracking Now with
QuickEdit Support

post from prMac on 04 April 2011 05:25:00 PM. © prMac

Week Timer 1.2.2 simple time tracking and time reporting has been released with the new Quick Edit feature. The app simplifies the process of tracking your worked hours and keeping your timesheet up to date. Thoughtful features include predicting what time you should leave work, as well as automatic deduction of your lunchtime. The main use case of Week Timer is to simply check in when arriving at work, and to check out when leaving.

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[Sponsor] Midnight Martian

post from Daring Fireball on 04 April 2011 05:05:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

Midnight Martian creates apps that combine virtual reality 3D with multitouch on iOS. Our popular game Moonlight Mahjong reinvents Mahjong Solitaire for a new generation of devices, featuring simple yet addictive gameplay. Moon Globe and Mars Globe let you hold the Moon in your hands and explore the mysterious Red Planet, combining astronomy with geology, history and mythology. Our goal is to create beautiful apps; you can try them at no cost and see for yourself.

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Reuters: FT Wont Give Up Subscriber Relationship
to Apple

Georgina Prodhan, reporting for Reuters:

The Financial Times wants to keep selling subscriptions for itsdigital news directly to readers rather than surrender control ofnew customers who sign up via Apple’s iPad, the managing directorof FT.com said.

Not a word of complaint about the 70/30 revenue split. Their complaint is solely about access to customer information, which they profit by selling. And remember: it’s not Apple that controls that information with App Store subscriptions: it’s us, the users. What the FT is arguing here is that they don’t want their subscribers to have any control over their customer privacy.

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On the Argument That Android Is Taking Over

Nice piece by Jon-Erik Storm on Henry Blodget’s and Fred Wilson’s arguments that Android is the new Windows:

Really? I can come up with three counterexamples. One, gamingconsoles. There are three: XBox, Playstation, and Wii. There hasalmost always been more than one important gaming console. Two,there are several web browsers that people use. If IE were stillthe only one, standards like HTML5 and CSS wouldn?t matter.Three, is Facebook really the only social platform? What isTwitter then? Maybe iTunes would have been a better example, eh?And as for PCs, Apple seems content with it being the #1 laptopand #2 PC maker with its approximately 8% marketshare, but yetreaping more profits. But the point is these examples areunscientific and don?t explain why technology platformsstabilize that way (if they do) and why that will apply tosmartphones.

That’s the question of the decade. Is mobile going to work out like the console market, with a handful of competing and roughly equal major platforms? Or is it going to work out like the PC, where a lower-cost inferior licensed OS grows to an overwhelmingly dominant monopoly position? (And, as Storm points out, Apple’s penalty for “losing” the PC war is that it is now the world’s most profitable PC maker.)

(Also worth noting about the console market: the lead has changed hands several times: Atari, Nintendo, Sony, Nintendo. And second-place has changed numerous times as well. It’s long been a healthy competitive market.)

Update: Another WordPress blog fireballed. Google has it cached.

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