Marware announces Sportsuit Convertible for iPod
touch 2G

post from prMac on 06 October 2008 10:56:00 AM. © prMac

Marware is pleased to announce its latest 3-in-1 case for the iPod touch 2G, the Sportsuit Convertible. The Sportsuit Convertible is our most versatile sport armband case available for the new iPod touch. The Convertible is actually three cases in one: it transforms into an easily adjustable armband case, a clip-on case for a belt or shoulder strap, or a slim-profile sleeve for an extra layer of protection in a pocket, gym bag, backpack or purse.

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App Store Dollar Deals: Moto Chaser and
Solebon Solitaire

post from The Apple Blog on 06 October 2008 10:54:11 AM. © The Apple Blog

Freeverse’s App Store launch title Wingnuts Moto Chaser and Smallware’s Solebon Solitaire, two games which have received fairly high praise from reviewers, are on on sale for a limited time for only $0.99.Moto Chaser (normally $5.99) is an accelerometer-controlled motorcycle racing game, with a variety of lush environments and Road Rash-style on-bike combat. Players can [...]

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Huge Q4 for iPhone

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 06 October 2008 10:50:00 AM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Apple may have dramatically exceeded predictions for iPhone sales during its fourth financial quarte...

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Marware announces Glide for iPod touch 2G is now
shipping

post from prMac on 06 October 2008 10:45:00 AM. © prMac

Marware is pleased to announce its slimmest-profile textured leather sleeve for iPod touch 2G. The Glide for the new iPod touch strikes a colorful balance between slender profile, great protection, and quick access. Designed to be the ultimate pocket, bag or purse case, this snug and trim case is both original and appealing. The Glide works with both the new iPod touch 2G and the original touch.

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Typography basics for visual learners

post from Manage This on 06 October 2008 10:41:00 AM. © Manage This

For all of you visual learners out there, here’s a video that explains the basics of typography in a short and visually interesting way. Created by Vancouver Film School students Marcos Ceravolo and Ryan Uhrich in the Digital Design program.[...]

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iPhone 3G Tops BBerry

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 06 October 2008 10:25:00 AM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

The iPhone 3G's launch propelled Apple to the top of the US smartphone market in the summer and near...

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[Sponsor] Sketches

post from Daring Fireball on 06 October 2008 09:53:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Sketches is a beautifully designed, feature-rich drawing app for theiPhone. You can use it to take notes, decorate and annotate yourpictures, or simply to have fun with your friends. With extensivedrawing and sharing options, attention to detail, dedicated customersupport and updates as frequent as the App Store allows, it willremain fresh and useful for many months to come. You can get it nowfrom the App Store for just $4.99.

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In the Background

post from Daring Fireball on 06 October 2008 09:50:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

I’ve written before about which apps are allowed to run in the background on the iPhone, but I’ve gotten a few emails about it in response to this footnote in my “The Fear” piece last week:

Even if Apple were to come to its senses and allow third-party developers to write competing email clients, the built-in Mail app would hold one significant technical advantage, which is that it runs in the background. In fact, background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do.

Everyone knows that the iPhone SDK doesn’t yet allow for third-party apps to run in the background. But what’s misleading is that several other of Apple’s built-in iPhone apps seems to run in the background. Calendar event reminders and incoming SMS messages display pop-up alerts system-wide. And the Clock app’s timers and alarms continue running even after you’ve close the Clock app.

But as I wrote back in March, these apps — the Cocoa Touch apps themselves — don’t run in the background. They post and set notifications through other means, system-level OS services that aren’t available (to my knowledge) through the iPhone SDK.

Another example is the App Store app. Its icon badge updates with a count of the number of updates available for the apps you’ve already installed. This icon badge updates automatically, without your having to launch the App Store app. I’m pretty sure Apple is doing this via the push notification system that was announced at WWDC, but which hasn’t yet appeared in the public SDK.

The system does stuff in the background, and some of Apple’s apps take advantage of these features in ways that aren’t available in the SDK, but the only Cocoa Touch applications that run in the background are Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod.

Phone, I believe, runs all the time, for obvious reasons. (I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Phone app that posts incoming SMS message alerts.) Mail runs in the background to allow for periodic new message checking. The iPod app only stays running in the background when it’s playing audio. Safari doesn’t really do anything in the background, but it stays running after you close it so that when you come back, the web pages you’ve already loaded in tabs remain loaded. By staying active, it also takes less time to activate.

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) only have 128 MB of RAM, and WebKit can use a lot of memory. When memory gets tight, the system sends low memory warnings to running applications, telling them to purge what they can. Eventually, the system will start forcing apps to quit in order to free more memory. That’s why sometimes when you relaunch Safari, it remembers the URLs, but has to reload the content for all of your open web pages — that’s what happens when Safari is asked to quit while it’s running in the background.

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Contract-free Mex. iPhone

Telcel is now offering a contract-free version of the iPhone 3G in Mexico. The cost of an iPhone und...

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Russian iTunes Store

At least some Russians could finally have normal access to the iTunes Store in 2009, reports say. W...

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