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Thursday, 11 March 2010
iPad SDK update released: Apple has released the fourth beta of iPhone SDK 3.2 which is aimed solely at the iPad due for United States release on April 3. The update continues Apple’s trend of bi-weekly updates.
iPhone SDK 3.2 provides support for developing iPad applications. This beta of iPhone SDK 3.2 includes the complete set of Xcode 3.2.2 tools, compilers, and frameworks for creating applications for iPhone OS and Mac OS X. These tools include the Xcode IDE and the Instruments analysis tool among many others. World of Apple has more.
iPad only mag appears: Digital Americana has just popped up, claiming to be “the first literary & culture magazine developed especially for the interactive tablet experience.”
Or to put it another way, it will be “a new interactive magazine made exclusively for the Apple iPad”. And anyone can contribute.
The editors are looking for fiction, artwork and photography in all genres. They’ve already got enough for the first issue, and now they’re looking to fill up May-August, says Cult of Mac.
Street Fighter – as good as you could expect: Street Fighter IV is now available on Apple's App Store; you can pick it up for $13.99 if you'd like to see what Capcom can do with Apple's hardware. . After Ben Kuchara of Ars Technica played it for about 15 minutes, he reckons it's is about as good as you can expect from a fighting game on the iPhone.
Books now outnumber games on the App Store: according to Mobclix, a mobile device advertising agency, the number of eBooks available on the App Store has surpassed the number of games for the first time ever, with 27,000 eBook apps to 25,400 games.
I've bought some great books in iTunes, that's for sure.
Control computers from your iPhone for free: TeamViewer (pic) lets you access a computer over the Internet from your iPhone. The big difference: TeamViewer is completely free.
The new iPhone app from German-based TeamViewer complements their (also free) desktop app, which means now you can help grandma find cool Firefox plugins, or show dad how to open iTunes – while out walking your dog. For free. Just install the iPhone app, install the desktop client and you’re good to go. Oh, it works for PCs, too, up to Windows 7 ...
(TeamViewer Pro is $124!)
Alice in Wonderland gets good review: Inspired by the recently released film from Disney and director Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland ($6.49) is a remarkably clever 2-D adventure game that is more than a mere movie tie-in, writes Macworld's Sarah Jacobsen.
