StockSpy 1.0 Provides Stock News Charts and RSS
Feeds

post from prMac on 21 February 2011 06:39:00 PM. © prMac

The StockSpy Team today announced that StockSpy is now available in the Mac App Store. StockSpy is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, powerful and innovative stock market research & analysis tool for Mac OS X, known for it's NewsChart stock market news visualization technology. With StockSpy 1.0 you can automatically load several top quality RSS news feeds for each of the symbols you're tracking.

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Speak Shan is the First iPhone App for Learning
the Shan Language

post from prMac on 21 February 2011 06:30:00 PM. © prMac

Nagaraja Rivers announces today Speak Shan 1.0, the first ever iPhone app for learning the Shan Language. Speak Shan is a talking phrasebook and vocabulary builder containing over 400 words and phrases with audio playback recorded by a native Shan speaker. Shan is spoken by over three million people in Shan State of Burma, northern Thailand, and southern China. It is very closely related to the Thai and Lao languages.

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Comprehensive Comparison of iPhone Notes Apps

post from Daring Fireball on 21 February 2011 06:03:14 PM. © Daring Fireball

Dr. Drang compares Simplenote, Elements, PlainText, and Nebulous Notes.

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MarzaPower Releases My Own Loan 2.4 an iOS Loan
Calculator

post from prMac on 21 February 2011 05:39:00 PM. © prMac

MarzaPower has released My Own Loan 2.4 a simple new iOS app. This app gives the user the possibility of understanding how much a loan (or a mortgage) will cost, by modifying some simple details. The user selects the duration of the loan, the rate and the capital requested, and the app will give back a detailed list of every single installment. For each month the user can see what is the amount of the capital being repaid and the amount of the interest paid to the bank.

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Readability iOS App Rejected for Violating New
Subscription Content Guidelines

post from Daring Fireball on 21 February 2011 05:04:04 PM. © Daring Fireball

Richard Ziade of Readability, in an “Open Letter to Apple” regarding their app’s rejectiong:

We?re obviously disappointed by this decision, and surprised bythe broad language. By including ?functionality, or services,?it?s clear that you intend to pursue any subscription-basedapps, not merely those of services serving up content.Readability?s model is unique in that 70% of our service fees godirectly to writers and publishers. If we implemented In Apppurchasing, your 30% cut drastically undermines a key premise ofhow Readability works.

I can see how many people, including content providers like Readability, wish that Apple had not instituted these new rules. But, given these rules, how can anyone be surprised by this rejection? Readability’s business model is to charge a subscription fee, keep 30 percent, and pass 70 percent along to the writers/publishers of the articles being read by Readability users. Sound familiar?

Maybe I’m missing something, but these guys claiming to be surprised and disappointed by Apple’s insistence on a 30 percent cut of subscriptions when their own business model is to take a 30 percent cut of subscriptions strikes me as rich. And how can they claim that Readability isn’t “serving up content”? That’s exactly what Readability does. What they’re pissed about is that Apple has the stronger hand. Readability needs Apple to publish an app in the App Store. Apple doesn’t need Readability.

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Motorola Xoom Will Ship Without Flash Support

post from Daring Fireball on 21 February 2011 05:04:04 PM. © Daring Fireball

But they’re advertising it as “Fully Flash-enabled”, with a footnote claiming “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011”. Expected by whom?

My guess: Flash is killing battery life, so they want the initial reviews of the Xoom to be based on a Flash-free experience.

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Yahoo Engineer Calls Out Flickr for Lack of HTML5
Video Support

post from Daring Fireball on 21 February 2011 04:03:56 PM. © Daring Fireball

It’s embarrassing that they still require Flash.

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Magazine Publishers Want Data

David Carr:

Publishers say their objections are less about the steep revenue split than the lack of data. But publishers who sit out Apple subscriptions will be bypassing a huge embedded base of not only iPad users, but also the very people who have already shown a willingness to pay for content. It?s worth pointing out that publishers are already in the business of selling products to consumers they have no data on: it?s called the newsstand. Cosmopolitan and People know nothing about the millions who buy their magazines at retail stores, and that doesn?t stop their respective publishers from making a ton of money there.

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The Day the Movies Died

Mark Harris for GQ on the state of Hollywood. Depressing but unsurprising.

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Outfit7's Talking Gina the Giraffe Struts onto
the App Store

California based Outfit7 today announces Talking Gina the Giraffe 1.0, their latest addition and ninth talking character for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Talking Gina the Giraffe comes equipped with a numerical happiness meter that is solely influenced by a users relationship with the character. Frequent check-ins for play dates, tender interaction with Talking Gina, and sharing the right treat at the right time, all work to maintain and improve the gentle giraffes level of happiness.

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