Angry Birds Space Now Available for Download
by Stan Schroeder Fans of the Angry Birds franchise, take notice: the disgruntled feathery creatures have conquered space, and they’re out to show those dastardly pigs a lesson. The latest installment of this megapopular game, Angry Birds Space, is now available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as the Mac and PC. [...]
Adobe Strikes Back at Steve Jobs’ Flash Attack
By Patricia Resende Adobe Systems has fired back at Apple CEO Steve Jobs, denying that Flash causes Mac crashes and battery draining. Apple’s Mac OS X is to blame, Adobe’s Holly Campbell charged, calling the claims “another attempt to control developers and consumers.” Given Apple’s Flash restrictions, Adobe has moved on to help other mobile-device [...]
Photo Booth Grotesques Make Freaky Rubber Masks
By Scott Thill Many faces of Mark Pernice: Undistorted (lower left), Photo-Boothed (lower right) and masked (top). Some Mac users have a blast distorting faces using Photo Booth software, but what happens when those grotesque images get imported into the real world? Freaky rubber mask sculptures like the one made by New York artist Mark [...]
Apple bans hackers from App Store
by Dong Ngo After a long battle with hackers who have been successful at jailbreaking the iPhone from one version of the OS to another, Apple is now taking a more personal approach to locking down the device. It’s been reported that known iPhone jailbreaking/unlocking hackers have had their Apple IDs banned from Apple’s App [...]
‘Why Firefox?’ and ‘Why Windows?’–same answer?
by Matt Asay Is Mozilla becoming too much like Microsoft? In a strange bit of irony, Mozilla, the foundation behind the popular open-source Firefox browser, increasingly relies on Microsoft’s playbook to promote Firefox adoption. No, Mozilla executives aren’t secretly plotting an open-source monopoly to replace Microsoft’s, and, indeed, are focusing precisely on doing the opposite. [...]
Adobe promises faster Flash on Macs
Adobe Systems, evidently stung by recent criticisms of its widely used Flash Player browser plug-in, has promised better performance on Mac systems. “Given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system,” said Adobe [...]