Monthly Archives: December 2008
2008 Best App Ever Awards – Nominees Announced – Voting Now Open
San Francisco, CA – The 2008 Best App Ever Awards nominees have now been announced and the voting is open. Sponsored by 148Apps, the inaugural competition is the first iPhone OS Application achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store in 2008. The goal is to help publicize the very best apps available, not just the best-selling apps.
The nomination process lasted a little over 2 weeks and saw 17,758 nominations for 1,259 different apps submitted to the site. In addition to the public nominations, a committee of industry people and iPhone developers was gathered to help nominate apps. 5 nominees from the public and 5 nominees from the committee were combined to come up with the nominees for each category.
In addition to the individual overall application categories, the top 10 vote-getters overall will be up for the award of Best App Ever.
The iPhone goes to math class: Mathomatic does your homework and more
Blacksburg, VA – Gotow.net, the creator of NetSketch, is pleased to announce the release of Mathomatic for iPhone. Mathomatic is the first full-fledged symbolic math solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. More than just a calculator, Mathomatic solves algebraic problems, from simple middle-school homework to complex polynomial and multivariate systems. It sports an attractive, easy-to-use interface fine tuned for the iPhone. Scroll through recent output, tap expressions to select and re-use them, and “flick” through long inputs. After a few days, you’ll find yourself trying to tap through the output on your graphing calculator!
Mathomatic makes a great companion for anyone who wants to speed through complex equations. It solves systems of equations, showing intermediate steps and all possible solutions. It simplifies and factors expressions, computes derivatives, indefinite integrals, laplace transforms, taylor series expansions, and more! Imaginary numbers are fully supported, and complex expressions are beautifully formatted, much like the output of high-end desktop mathematics applications.
So whether you need to solve a system of equations or just check your homework, look no further! Powered by an open-source desktop solution that has been in development since 1986, Mathomatic for iPhone offers the features of a traditional symbolic math suite on your mobile device.
Ten Apple products Jobs had nothing to do with
This is very interesting — while investors and consumers alike are panicking every time someone says “Jobs” and “sick” in the same sentence, MacLife has decided to take a more optimistic view of the prospect of His Steveness leaving the company, by compiling a nice list of ten Apple products they say Jobs had nothing at all to do with. As you probably already know, Steve left the company once before, from 1985 to 1996, and during that time, while Steve was working on NeXTstep (which would eventually become OS X), Apple didn’t exactly sit on its laurels.
The Newton is first and foremost, and while some may laugh at the handwriting recognition, let’s not forget that it can still do things the iPhone can’t. And while many of Apple’s products were finalized under Jobs’ watch, their beginnings come from before his return: the Powerbook, Macintosh TV (which could definitely be seen as a precursor for the AppleTV), and the Power Macintosh were all released without Jobs. Even among the most faithful Apple fans, you have to agree that Apple is willing to get wacky without Jobs to squelch some really crazy ideas: the Twentieth Anniversary Mac, the eMate, and the adjustable keyboard are all examples of that.
Of course, you could definitely argue that Apple’s most popular products (iPods, the iPhone, the MacBook lines) wouldn’t have happened without Jobs. But there’s something to be said for Apple sans Jobs, too. “The Power to Be Your Best” might not be quite as memorable as “Think Different,” but it’s got its own charm.Ten Apple products Jobs had nothing to do with originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
World’s First Software Method to Unlock iPhone 3G will be Released Today
The iPhone dev team will be releasing their software method to unlock iPhone 3G today.
They had announced that they will be releasing the world’s first software method to unlock iPhone 3G on New Year’s eve and had also broadcasted the live demo of an iPhone 3G being unlocked.
Some of the things to note about their software method to unlock iPhone 3G:
Chilli X seeks the savage wit of TUAW readers
iPhone developers Chilli X are looking for a little help with the App Store promo materials for their new ToDo list app, Done. First, though, a little bit about Done.
You’re probably thinking, “there are too many task lists available for the iPhone, and they all do the same thing.” You’ll get no argument from me there. For me, it’s a matter of how well they do it, and Done has the potential to be very fluid to use, taking a little more advantage of the iPhone platform as a user interface. Not having tried it yet, I’m judging by the features listed on the promo page: multiple lists, priorities, colors, shake to sort, as well some more novel innovations. It looks simple … maybe too simple for some, but potentially ideal for those who shudder at the mention of GTD (sorry, did I say that too loudly?).
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