Doremisoft SWF to MOV Converter Mac 2.1.1
Released

post from prMac on 10 August 2011 10:46:00 PM. © prMac

Doremisoft has announced Doremisoft SWF to MOV Converter for Mac 2.1.1, the powerful flash converter and editor for Mac OS X. This SWF to MOV Converter is designed for converting flash SWF videos to a wide range of video formats like MOV, MPEG4, FLV, AVI, MKV, as well as HD videos, etc. This converter enables you convert SWF online to QuickTime and turn SWF to YouTube. With SWF to MOV Converter, you can share to YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. You can Sync to portable devices.

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FTC Focuses Google Probe on Android, Web Search

post from Daring Fireball on 10 August 2011 09:03:44 PM. © Daring Fireball

The WSJ:

Six weeks after serving Google with broad subpoenas, Federal Trade Commission lawyers, in conjunction with several state attorneys general, have been asking whether Google prevents smartphone manufacturers that use its Android operating system from using competitors’ services, these people said.
They also have inquired whether Google grants preferential placement on its website to its own products, such as Google’s “Places” business listings, its “Shopping results” and Google Finance services above most other results.
And they’re looking into allegations that Google unfairly takes information collected by rivals, such as reviews of local businesses, to use on its own specialized site and then demotes the rivals’ services in its search results, the people said.

But it’s open!

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French Cookie Match is out!

post from prMac on 10 August 2011 03:58:00 PM. © prMac

JoVe Apps has announced French Cookie Match 1.1, for all iOS devices. The gameplay - the user is in Paris. The user must help a baker to match his cookies. The user touches the cookies to get points. Mix the cookies, as you don't have groups. There are five different cookies and a really nice high score system. The object of the game is to set the highest score. The game is made in French style with amazing French music. This app is a fun puzzle game for everyone.

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Nokia Exec: Android and iPhone Focus on Apps Is
Outdated

post from Daring Fireball on 10 August 2011 03:04:05 PM. © Daring Fireball

VentureBeat talks to Chris Weber, Nokia’s U.S. president:

Weber called Android and the iOS phone platforms ?outdated.? WhileApple?s iPhone, and its underlying iOS operating system, set thestandard for a modern user interface with ?pinch and zoom,? Weberconceded, it also forces people to download multiple applicationswhich they then have to navigate between. There?s a lot of touchinginvolved as you press icons or buttons to activate applicationfeatures. Android essentially ?commoditized? this approach, Webersaid.

Translation: We have no third-party developer support.

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KissOnTheFly 1.7 and Kik Messenger together to
delivery Virtual Kisses

post from prMac on 10 August 2011 01:00:00 PM. © prMac

Simiula has announced KissOnTheFly 1.7, your "messenger of love". KissOnTheFly is the iPhone app to delivery animated love postcards. This important update allow users to delivery their virtual kisses in real-time thanks to the usage within the free App Kik Messenger. This sky-rocket the emotion with many kisses sent among lovers! The KissOnTheFly app sends animated virtual kisses (postcards), but to actually send the message you have to blow over the iPhone.

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Presentation Link 1.0 - App for interactive
presentations on the iPad

post from prMac on 10 August 2011 12:30:00 PM. © prMac

Today Zuhanden is pleased to have released Presentation Link 1.0, a powerful tool to create and show interactive presentations on the iPad. Presentation Link is like a hypercard for presentations, where you can seamlessly mash pdfs, images, videos and web content into engaging mobile slideshows. Whether you use your iPad for one-to-one presentations or in front of a large audience, Presentation Link will always be a reliable companion in bringing your point across.

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How to Count

post from Daring Fireball on 10 August 2011 12:04:35 PM. © Daring Fireball

Steven Frank of Panic fame:

Programming for Mere Mortals is a series of books designed tointroduce the concepts of programming from the ground up to areader who has never written a line of code.
Unlike most programming books which aim to teach you a particularlanguage or operating system, this series focuses on the corefundamentals that are common to programming any computer.

Great conversational tone. $2.99 for the Kindle edition or for a PDF.

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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader

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Amazon:

Today, Amazon.com announced Kindle Cloud Reader, its latest Kindlereading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers toread Kindle books instantly using only their web browser - onlineor offline - with no downloading or installation required. As withall Kindle apps, Kindle Cloud Reader automatically synchronizesyour Kindle library, as well as your last page read, bookmarks,notes, and highlights for all of your Kindle books, no matter howyou choose to read them. Kindle Cloud Reader with its integratedtouch optimized Kindle Store is available starting today forSafari on iPad, Safari on desktop and Chrome atwww.amazon.com/cloudreader.

Conspicuously absent: Firefox and the iPhone. (What is Mozilla’s excuse for Firefox being so far behind Webkit in HTML5 offline web app support?)

Immediate consensus seems to be that this is Amazon’s response to Apple’s new rules, preventing them from linking to the Kindle store within the native iOS app.

I think Amazon had this in the works for a long time — a web-based Kindle reader has been around for a while, and it makes sense to improve it in these ways. But surely Apple’s new App Store rules for paid content have motivated Amazon to push harder in this direction.

MG Siegler writes:

The iPad version is especially good because the store is fullyoptimized for the device. And you can easily switch back and forthbetween the store and your own library. It feels like a nativeapp, but it?s not. You can even swipe back and forth to movebetween pages (though it is a bit slow).

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it feels like a native app. Cloud Reader works great on the iPad by the standards of web apps, but the native Kindle iPad app is far more responsive, and has a far less cluttered interface simply because it isn’t surrounded by an extra layer of Safari UI chrome. The native app is more immersive.

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Thank You For Saving a Tree Smarty!

SmartyShortz LLC has announced a new app for the iPad to add to their ever popular Smarty series of apps in the App Store. Smarty Thank You is geared toward children understanding the importance of saying thank you. As customary with Smarty Apps there are a variety of bright templates and fun options for parents and kids to enjoy sending a "thank you." A child/parent can either print out and mail, type and email or even record a smaller child's voice saying thank you to email to nana and papa!

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Popular iPhone Math Game Comes to the iPad

The popular math number-sequencing game, NxtApp 4 Kids 1.0, originally released for iPhone and iPod touch is re-designed to run natively on the iPad. The iPhone and iPod touch version of NxtApp 4 kids was released two months ago, almost to the day, to much praise. Now with a single purchase, players of this popular app can experience it natively on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The universal update is free for those players who previously downloaded the app.

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