Jesus Alarm - Are You Ready to Wake up to Jesus
-Top Religious App

post from prMac on 13 May 2011 11:39:00 PM. © prMac

Announcing the launch of the Jesus Alarm 1.0 on the App Store. What a better way to enrich your day than to the sounds of Jesus! The Jesus Alarm is an alarm clock containing more than 40 bible verses that are read aloud whenever an alarm goes off. Start your day off with our Saviour by waking up to Jesus. The Jesus Alarm is sure to be on the top of your religious app downloading list!

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Now Available in Black

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 10:04:03 PM. © Daring Fireball

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VMware Fusion 3

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 09:04:24 PM. © Daring Fireball

My thanks to VMware for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. VMware Fusion 3 is the best way to run Windows on a Mac without rebooting. Highlights of version 3.1 include:

It’s the first virtualization software that supports the full Windows 7 experience, including Windows Aero and Flip 3D.
Launch Windows apps from an applications menu even when VMware isn’t already running.
Run Windows apps alongside your Mac apps.
A PC migration assistant to move stuff from your PC to your Mac.

If you use a Mac but need Windows, you’re nuts if you don’t check out VMWare Fusion.

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Delivereads: Curated Content for Your Kindle

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 08:04:11 PM. © Daring Fireball

New from Internet superhero Dave Pell, Delivereads:

Get great articles delivered to your Kindle without any extra effort.

I’ve been beta-testing the service, and it’s great. Easy to set up, and the pace of delivery is perfect — occasional, but regular.

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The Rise of Apple, RIM, and HTC Among
Phone-Makers

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 07:04:40 PM. © Daring Fireball

Another great piece by Horace Dediu:

If you look at the league table, RIM, HTC and Apple were at thebottom three years ago and now they are either in the top or themiddle. RIM in particular deserves credit for reaching the fourthspot and staying there. HTC also has shown a late surge to fifthpassing LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson in the process.
Combined, these vendors went from taking in about one dollar in 20(6%) in Q2 2007 to nearly half the money (46%) in Q1 2011.

This chart, in particular, I find interesting.

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Marco Arment on the New iMacs Reliance Upon
Apple-Branded Hard Drives

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 06:04:24 PM. © Daring Fireball

I agree with Marco on this. OWC’s reporting on the technical aspects is interesting, and I can see how a company like OWC wants iMacs to have user-replaceable commodity hard drives, and I can see how technical-minded users would want the same thing, but that’s not what the iMac is.

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Rock and a Hard Place

post from Daring Fireball on 13 May 2011 05:03:05 PM. © Daring Fireball

Interesting analysis by Adam Engst regarding Lodsys’s threatened patent litigation against App Store developers:

So what it comes down to is that Thomson, McCarron, and other iOSdevelopers are being threatened by Lodsys for using Appleintellectual property under license from Apple, in such a fashionthat they cannot even settle without violating the iOS DeveloperProgram License Agreement. They can?t legally agree thatApple?s In App Purchase API violates Lodsys?s patents, and nomatter what, there?s no way Apple would give permission for sucha settlement due to the chilling effect it would have on iOSdevelopment in general.

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Mat Honan on Lodsys

Mat Honan:

So what is Lodsys, and what’s its game? It appears to simply bein the business of licensing patents which it purchased fromDan Abelow.
We were unable to reach Lodsys, but reached Abelow by phone. Henoted he had sold his patents years ago, and was unaware of thismorning’s news. But that he isn’t completely surprised. “Thosepatents are from the 1990s,” he said. “It isn’t surprising thatmethods of communicating with a server would become more usefulover time. As a result they have become increasingly valuable.”(Abelow did not know the exact patent off the top of his head, butthe patent in question appears to be number 7222078, based onother reports.)

So it would appear that the object of our scorn is Mark Small (as per the Lodsys website), not Abelow.

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Lodsys, LLC

Love the inspirational quotes from Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein.

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PCalc 2.4 for iOS

Long-time Mac developer James Thomson, developer of DragThing and PCalc, is one of the indies who’s been threatened by this in-app purchasing patent litigation. This patent thing is a shit deal for guys like James. He’s just one guy, designing and programming apps, supporting his customers. Lodsys is a company who’s business is litigating patent lawsuits and extorting licensing fees. No matter what you think of their patent, on its merits, this sort of notice is a frightening and disheartening thing for a small business to receive.

I’ve known James for many years, and he’s a great guy with a ton of friends in the Mac and iOS developer community. And I’ve raved about PCalc many times before — it’s my favorite calculator app for iOS, hands-down. Let’s turn a bad day turn into a good one for him with a lot of sales of PCalc (and downloads of the free PCalc Lite, which also was updated today.)

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