ToyNinja releases PrincessToDo app for the iPhone
- iPod touch

post from prMac on 04 August 2011 11:27:00 PM. © prMac

ToyNinja has announced PrincessToDo 1.1, is now available exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. PrincessToDo is a fun productivity app that allows users to level up their princess avatar and unlock flower badges as they complete more tasks on their to-do list. The user can also stay motivated with over 300 inspirational quotes from business leaders and celebrities. In PrincessToDo, the user creates her own to-do list with custom categories and gains points for checking off their tasks.

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Another Google Innovation

post from Daring Fireball on 04 August 2011 11:03:32 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jordan Kahn for 9 to 5 Google: “Google Adds Tablet-Like Preview Panes to Gmail Inbox”.

Not iPad-like. Tablet-like. Uh-huh.

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The Problem With All-Star Teams

post from Daring Fireball on 04 August 2011 10:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Drance:

Facebook?s moves suggest it wants to succeed here. It?s gobbling up a remarkable amount of talent ? an All-Star Team, if you will. The problem with all-star rosters, of course, is that as a team they often suck. It?s an odd phenomenon, but if you put too much greatness in the same room, things don?t always turn out so? great.

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The One Rule

post from Daring Fireball on 04 August 2011 10:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Michael Lopp:

It might not seem like a lot of change, but after religiously trying Exposé and Spaces for years, Mission Control finally feels like my desktop and not a set of sexy but poorly integrated tools that were fun to demo but hard to use.

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Brosix Releases Version 3.1.3

post from prMac on 04 August 2011 08:37:00 PM. © prMac

Brosix has announced Brosix Instant Messenger 3.1.3, its commitment to providing customers and clients with one of the most well-supported enterprise instant messengers. Some of the new features included in version 3.1.3 of Brosix Instant Messenger include new themes, which include the 'black-blue' and paper themes, in addition to the original Brosix design. It also includes a more improved video engine (plugin) that makes the video chat feature of Brosix compatible with more available webcams.

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Microsoft Further Exposes Googles Patent
Hypocrisy

post from Daring Fireball on 04 August 2011 08:03:43 PM. © Daring Fireball

This is not in dispute: Google could have joined the consortium for the Nortel patents and taken them off the table, but declined, because they wanted those patents all to themselves to use them to negotiate deals for all the other patents Android already violates.

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Crazy Survival Tips now available from New Design
Plus

post from prMac on 04 August 2011 07:50:00 PM. © prMac

Michigan based New Design Plus introduces Crazy Survival Tips 1.0, its new entertainment app for iOS and Android devices. Users can pose any of numerous questions on how to survive in crazy situations. The app then answers the questions with computer graphics and videos. How to survive if a gunman opens fire? How to avoid a shark attack? Test your knowledge or just sit back and watch the videos as they answer some of the craziest survival questions ever.

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Totally Not Bogus

PC World, back in March:

Google has acquired a U.S. patent for its popular cycling logo system, also known as “Google Doodles.” Patent 7,912,915 was granted on Tuesday, nearly 10 years after its initial submission in 2001 by Sergey Brin.
The patent is entitled “Systems and Methods for Enticing Users to a Web Site.”

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iOS Game Memotouch Available

toughtouch has introduced Memotouch 1.0, a game created by independent developers from Berlin, Germany. Keeping in line with their slogan "Games that are not so easy," their first release is a colorful little game that challenges both your memory and the speed of your fingers. Memotouch is best described as a tiny Simon-style-game. Memotouch has two modes: Level-based mode and free mode. Play all 30 levels against the clock and try to reach 3 Stars in all of them.

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Bad Squirrels Pushes the Boundaries with
Kinkwords Puzzle for iPhone

Bad Squirrels has announced KinkWords Puzzle 2.0, the sexually themed crossword puzzle in the App Store. Rebellious new game makes it past Apple's stringent App Store review process with the clever use of sexual innuendos and sounds to produce a uniquely entertaining game. Avoiding the use of sexually explicit images, Bad Squirrels instead developed a dominatrix character, which symbolizes female sexual empowerment that appeals to both men and woman. Creative and edgy than any game of its kind.

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