Category: I-phone

Disney released an update to its TRON app, fans can play an updated version of the classic Tanks game from the TRON Arcade, which includes both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. TRON is a classic so I had to include this little tidbit.

In other app news Dropbox has updated their popular app with a couple of new features which includes support for HD video and high-resolution photo captures and a few other things.

AppleInsider is reporting that analysts claim Apple will build the first batch of CDMA iPhones in December, which will be just in time for that January release that was being talked about. So is Verizon actually getting the iPhone this time?

AT&T CEO said there are 500,000 iPads in use on their network. He also says he is not worried about losing exclusive rights to the iPhone.

A patent infringement suit has been filed against Apple concerning the sale and enabling of downloaded video content and HDTV programming on iTunes to all of Apple’s hardware.

The Wall Street Journal has a story on what your choice of smartphone says about you. Seems pretty accurate to me, what do you all think?

Finally, an app has been released that adds noise cancellation to any headphones, this one is complete with video.

That is it for today.

The good news for New Yorkers who ride the G train, you can now pay the fair with your iPhone, though you will need to have your phone in a special case from Visa to do so.

To no one’s surprise the iPhone has come out on top yet again in the JD Power and Associates Smartphone Rankings.

Are you missing the enjoyment of tapping out text messages? Then you are in luck! Check out this new iPhone case complete with QWERTY keyboard.

Apple is now allowing it biggest distributors to provide all six models of the iPad to authorized resellers in the United States. Online sales by retailers are still not allowed but we could be seeing iPads in Target stores soon.

Check out John Slater’s post about developing apps for the iPhone. Very interesting read.

Check back tomorrow for more Apple mobile related news, and hopefully much more development related news.

Lately Android has been on my radar. It’s gone from easy to ignore to something impossible to ignore.

I’ve tried to ignore it because I don’t care for Java. It’s a fine language, but it’s not for me. So, I’ve been quietly learning Scala to use instead.

Then this came across my inbox today: Corona, the Flash-like way of creating iPhone apps in Lua, is releasing an Android version.

The Ansca Mobile team has done a good job creating a viable alternative to Flash on the iPhone; interesting that they’re broadening to make their stuff run on Android.

Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App Take a look at some of the interesting features in a new Wikipedia app for the iPhone.

iPad Developers Code Their Apps in the Dark While Apple says that iPad applications can be submitted next week to coincide with opening of the iPad App Store, most iPad developers only have the iPad simulator to work with until then, except a select few who actually received the device early.

Valgrind Phil Hassey, the author of Galcon for the iPhone, mentioned this memory management and debugging tool at GDC 2010 and it’s definitely worth a look.

Corona Now Supports iPad Busy week for these guys.

Apple Stores Now Able to Sell Unlocked iPhones [update] While the original article mentioned that the phones were unlocked, it turns out that they are just contract free.

Flurry: iPhone Games Are A $500 Million Industry In The U.S. And Taking Share Insightful data from Flurry about the state of the game industry and the impact the iPhone has had.

App Store Approvals Slow As The iPad Land Rush Begins Some iPhone developers have noticed that their approval times have increased just as the date for the iPad launch nears.

Better Late Than Never, Justin.tv Comes To The iPhone The popular video streaming service Justin.tv now has an iPhone application that has some innovative features.

You Can Now Gift iPhone Apps A feature has been added to the App Store that allows you to gift an iPhone application. One interesting side-effect to this is that some developers are noticing that others are gifting large numbers of their application and shooting up the rankings where they would normally need to sell a certain number.

iPad Launch Looks to be Dominated by Gaming Apps Flurry has data on applications being tested on the iPad and they’ve broken it down by category. It turns out the majority of them are games (surprised?).

Urban Airship: Developer Preview Release for AirMail “AirMail is the next generation of push notification for mobile apps. It’s media-rich (think video and HTML), has the ability to do return-receipt, an in-app inbox and all sorts of cool features.”

Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Buzz Aldrin has created a Portal to Science & Space Exploration to unite people and technology for the purpose of educating and entertaining the world on this interesting and critically important subject.

iPhone Is Eating Sony PSP and Nintendo DS’ Lunch Another perspective on Flurry’s recent stats regarding the iPhone’s impact on the game industry.

Digg’s iPhone App Is Now Available The much anticipated Digg iPhone app is now available, with a new Digg site redesigning coming soon.

Further Tests Confirm iPhone Touchscreen Superiority An interesting study on the accuracy of the touchscreens on various mobile devices shows that the iPhone is superior.

AdMob Registers 50% Market Share For iPhone OS Based On Smartphone Traffic Admob recently announced that smartphones accounted for 48% of its worldwide traffic last month, with the iPhone still being the dominant device.

3 Useful iPhone Apps to Help File Your Taxes

Natalia Luckyanova, half of iPhone Gaming’s cutest couple, wrote to share their experience giving away 1000 copies of Harbor Master using the new Gift-This capability of the App Store.

Here’s what she had to say, emphasis added by me:

We decided to try a mass giveaway to see how gifting really works. We gave away 1,000 copies of Harbor Master to promote the upcoming Harbor Master HD for iPad. This got a lot of very heated reactions from other developers (mostly worrying that gifted apps affect rank and this would allow anyone to buy their way into the top 100 apps).

Interestingly, we found that gifts do NOT count towards an app’s rank at all. Also, awarding that many gifts definitely took a lot of time. However, it was a great experience for us nonetheless. We got some publicity for Harbor Master HD and got a lot of love from the player community. If nothing else, app gifting will help not to be limited to 50 promo codes when trying to share an app with media and the community.

Full details available on their blog.

There are many different reasons why you would want to share app data through E-mail with users, for one thing it could be used as a way to import data collected in other applications, another could simply be because you want to include a system for users to safely backup data used within your app.

There are several steps involved in the process, for one you need to modify the info.plist file to allow the file type used for storing your app’s data, and you will also need to know how to import data from the E-mails, and create that data used for sending the E-mails.

Ray Wenderlich has put together a great step-by-step tutorial on doing exactly this, check out:
How To Import And Export Data Via Email In Your iOS App

Looks like some very useful, and not too difficult (at least with Ray’s tutorial!) functionality to add into your apps.

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The iPad has been notoriously labeled an oversized iPod Touch by countless skeptics, reviewers and even owners since its first day on the market. Despite its high success rate, I still encounter people daily who don’t even understand why the iPad exists or who it’s targeted toward.

Today we’ll discuss why the iPad is flying off shelves, who should consider getting one and why it beats a MacBook for many consumers.

For Apple Fanboys Only?

The first snide remark posited by skeptics is that the iPad only exists for the hopeless Apple fanboy types with too much money on their hands. These legendary and resourceful individuals own every iPod ever made and couldn’t wait to add a shiny new iPad to their collection of MacBooks and Mac Pros.

To be fair, this category does exist. I’m admittedly a complete Apple addict who drools over every new product launch even though I can’t actually afford to run out and grab it all on launch day (I’m still using a 2007 MacBook and a first generation iPod Touch!).

However, if you actually know a few typical Mac “power users” that already have a Mac Pro for home and a MacBook Pro for the road, you’ll notice that many of these people don’t even plan on buying an iPad in the near future.

The reason is that many professionals, such as graphic designers who live and breathe Photoshop, simply can’t use the iPad for much work activity and therefore are keen on sticking with the more powerful Apple products.

So if the primary target isn’t the professional who already owns ten grand in Apple equipment, who is the iPad for and how is this market different than the laptop market?

Why Not Just Get a MacBook?

Take a look at the specs on the latests MacBooks and MacBook Pros. 2-4GBs of RAM, hard drives with hundreds of gigs of storage, super fast processors; these are impressive machines.

This kind of power is absolutely necessary to run many of today’s popular Mac applications. The speed and versatility of Apple’s line of notebooks makes them perfect for college students and working professionals that spend a great deal of their day in front of a screen.

But what about everyone else? How many users out there do little more than browse the web (primarily Facebook) and check their email? Why does the typical person need Photoshop or even Microsoft Office? Your average soccer mom or manual labor worker isn’t exactly spending their Friday nights throwing PowerPoint parties.

The truth is, many people are drawn to the style and quality associated with Macs but really don’t need the $1,000+ machine that they end up with. This is especially true for people that already own a desktop computer and just want something to take with them on the road.

What Can the iPad Do?

If you’re not convinced, think about your parents or even your grandparents. What do they do on their computers that the iPad can’t accomplish just as well or better?

The iPad can browse the web (Flash excluded) and even provides a richer, more pleasant experience than a desktop computer in this arena. You can use Facebook and Twitter, send and receive email, plan your day, organize your contacts, play games, watch movies, create documents, read books, and do a million other things. In the near future this functionality is likely to extend to include photo/video creation and editing.

The relevant question becomes not what the iPad can do, but what can’t it do? The Internet has become the quintessential piece of our computing lives and when a $499 device provides it in such a beautiful format, I can’t help but wonder how many non-professional computer users need anything more.

For those that do need more, the App Store fills almost every gap imaginable, often without the need to spend a single cent. Want to keep a database of all your random daily information? Try Evernote. Want to access the files on your desktop? Grab Dropbox. Want to create a custom planet and rule over an entire race of beings? Check out GodFinger. All of these are completely free apps that come as a bonus to simply owning the device.

Closing Thoughts

Though I would love to be able to end this post by saying that I can completely function on an iPad alone, it simply isn’t true. Even for structuring simple blog posts I often take web screenshots and then crop/resize/edit them in Photoshop, a task that could probably be done on an iPad but not in the seconds it takes me to do it on my laptop.

Further, as a designer and photographer, there are simply way too many processor and hard drive intensive tasks that I do on a daily basis to work from an iPad. However, Apple isn’t targeting me with the iPad, but rather everyone else. Interestingly enough, while many scratch their heads and wonder what niche of consumers the iPad satisfies, I can’t help but wonder if everything else will one day become the niche.

Designers, photographers, videographers, musicians, these are niches that need powerful workhorse machines. The iPad may not perfectly suit the needs for anyone of these categories, but perhaps it’s the perfect device for everyone else. Maybe the recent history of making computers faster and stronger will give way to an era of devices that are convenient, practical, fun and perhaps even a little “magical.”

Leave a comment below and tell us how many people you can think of in your own life that don’t really do much beyond browsing the web on their computers. Do you think the iPad would be a better solution for these consumers? Why or why not?

There is a huge amount of content on the web. Billions and billions of pages all waiting to be discovered. Millions of pages are being added everyday. The problem is finding the little guys. The guys who don’t have an audience because their voice is swallowed in the sea of information. The guys who turn out pithy one liners and insightful pieces.

Stumbleupon is an online service for discovering content on the web. By hitting “Stumble” you are whisked to photos, videos, comics, articles and more about your favorite topics.

Once you log in, you are taken to the home screen. This is the control panel for all your stumbling. We’ll start at the top and work our way down.

Basic Stumbling

This screen is the meat of the app. In the top navigation bar bar we have our main tools. First, we can go back home. Next, we can give the stumble a thumbs up, or a thumbs down. Finally, we have the Stumble button. This takes us on to another stumble.

The bottom toolbar hosts the buttons for interacting with the stumble. First, we have the standard web view controls. Back, forward, refresh. Next we have the action button. This lets us send the stumble to different social networks and services. There’s the standard stuff, Facebook, Email, Twitter. And then there’s some cooler actions. Instapaper, copy the link to the clipboard, and send to Tumblr. You can turn on and off as many of these services as you want.

The final button reveals an entirely new content view. We can see how many times the page has been viewed by other Stumble Upon users, and what categories it’s in. We can switch into a new view by hitting the “Liked By” button. This shows us a grid of users and their profile pictures. Finally, you can read reviews of the stumble to see what other people thought. You can also write your own with the little pencil button.

Now lets go back to the main control panel and explore some more.

Specific Sites and Content

Just below the “Start Stumbling” button is a quad button complex. Each of these lets us go stumbling for the different content types and sites.

You can choose from:

• Photos This choice takes us only to photos.
• News This stumbles us to various news sites, CNN, BBC, etc.
• Flickr Only flickr pictures.
• Youtube Videos from Youtube

Remember, each of these four choices also factors in your topic choices. This makes them very powerful. I really like using the news category. My topics are all centric around computers. Programming, hardware, and hacking.

Lets head back to the home screen.

Topics

At the bottom of the screen we find a tableview with all of our topics. Touching one of these sends you stumbling through only that topic. At the bottom of the table view is a link for editing your topics. This pulls up a new modal window for adding more topics to your account.

Following and Favorites

When you’re on the home screen, two buttons are added to the toolbar. The first is a little star icon. This takes you to a list of all your favorite finds. Tapping on an individual item takes you to it.

The second button takes you to a list of people you’re following. This produces a stream of your friend’s latest favorites. Again, tapping an item takes you to it in the stumble viewer.

Applause & Criticism

Stumble Upon is great, but there are a few hiccups. The scroll bars can get wonky. The horizontal bar can be present, even if it’s not needed, and it collides with the vertical bar causing issues. Also, and I’m nit picking here, but some of the interfaces can be a bit raw. For example, the stumble detail view.

Unfortunately, the app chooses a web view over a set of native controls many times. This is very frustrating and awkward. For instance, adding more topics to your account. Too many links and check boxes to click. Some of the main features aren’t available in the app either. Like following other users.

The Stumble Upon service is fantastic. I didn’t expect much, just another suggestion network, but I’ve discovered some great stuff. The ability to find interesting pieces based on interests is tremendous. Ever more, Stumble Upon’s library is based on user submissions. The more votes an item has, the more you see it. Stumble Upon is a team of like minded fellows donating their free time to filtering the best content on the web. Seriously, give it a try.

Wrap Up

Overall, Stumble Upon is truly a great app. You can do almost everything you can do in the web interface right in the app. There are a few kinks, but it’s a great way to find things on the topics you are interested in. Things to make you laugh and things to make you think. It’s perfect for your down time. I highly recommend this app.

Hey there sports fans. It’s time to fill your iPhone up with the latest and greatest apps to feed your addiction to the NFL, NHL, MLB and whatever else you’re into!

Below we’ve compiled over eighty of the best sports apps on the app store. Whether you’re a player, a fan, a gamer or all of the above there are plenty of apps to keep you occupied all season.

Football

Fantasy Football Cheatsheet ‘10: $2.99 – The iPhone’s best fantasy football app from 2008 & 2009 is back for the 2010 season. Featuring up to the minute news and injury info. Custom rankings using your league scoring system. Team depth charts. ADP and AAV all included for one low unbeatable price!

ESPN Fantasy Football 2010: $4.99 – With the ESPN Fantasy Football 2010 app, you can manage multiple teams and leagues, follow your matchups in real-time, add/drop/trade players, and make last second line up changes from wherever you are. Spend your Sundays constantly connected to all of your leagues and teams and you won’t miss the chance to grab that backup RB turned fantasy stud. The ESPN Fantasy Football App provides the added advantage you need to dominate your fantasy league.

Yahoo! Fantasy Football ‘10: Free – Stay on top of your team wherever you are with the Yahoo! Fantasy Football ’10 app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. From checking league and player stats to making changes to your roster, the Yahoo! Fantasy Football ’10 app brings this season right to the palm of your hand.

Backbreaker Football: $0.99 – Backbreaker is an intense, arcade football experience. Score touchdowns by sprinting, juking and spinning past waves of oncoming defenders, racking up combos and score multipliers on your way to the endzone!

NCAA Football by EA SPORTS: $4.99 – Pure Passion. True Intensity. Stunning Visual Impact! Designed to deliver the amazing graphic quality of the iPhone 4 Retina Display, see and feel the real college football experience. Represent the school of your choice and play with rules and plays reflecting the actual NCAA Division 1 game. Proudly lead your team to glory in the BCS National Championship!

Pro Football Live Plus!: $1.99 – Download this app now for the most comprehensive coverage of the NFL- from news, to schedules, standings, photos, live play-by-play action and much more! Everything you want to know about pro football is in the palm of your hand with Pro Football Live!

College Football Live Plus!: $1.99 – Download this FREE app now for the most comprehensive coverage of college football games- from news, to schedules, standings, photos, live play-by-play action and much more! Everything you want to know about college football is at your fingertips with College Football Live!

CBS Sports Pro Football: Free – The FREE CBS Sports Pro Football App for the iPhone/iPod Touch delivers live NFL scores, play-by-play, breaking news, standings, videos, and more. Into fantasy football? Log into the CBS Sports Pro Football App for complete control of your CBSSports.com fantasy football teams. Check scores, set lineups, and even add/drop players! Gain a competitive advantage with exclusive commentary and video advice from trusted CBSSports.com experts.

2010 RotoWire Fantasy Football Draft Kit: $3.99 – RotoWire has developed an easy-to-use app to help you be at the top of your game during your fantasy football draft. Simply enter your league’s scoring and roster settings and the app creates rankings from a value-based calculation that uses RotoWire’s 2010 stat projections.

Football Pool ‘10: Free – The easy-to-use interface lets you view game matchups and quickly make your picks for the winning teams. You can e-mail your list of weekly picks to any of your contacts. After games are completed, Football Pool ‘10 automatically updates final game scores and calculates winning picks for the week.

MADDEN NFL 11 by EA SPORTS: $7.99 – Whether taking on rivals via Bluetooth or playing a solo game, you get the experience you want. Play through a 16-game schedule in Season Mode, making trades and tracking stats. Get into Playoffs Mode and play through last season’s historic playoffs – all the way to the Super Bowl. This season, get more gameplay depth with Hot Routes Everywhere. Now draw up Hot Routes for passing, running, and defense. Even save your best (or craziest!) routes as audibles.

College Football Scoreboard: Free – College Football Scoreboard gives you up to the minute college football scores, as well as all the latest news stories, for the following conferences: ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, Pac-10, and Conference USA. Scores and stories are available for other conferences, but scores are not updated every minute- scores are updated periodically throughout the games. Scores and stories displayed by conference. Keep track of your favorite teams and your rivals all at a glance. Real time scores are officially licensed from STATS.

NCAA Football – InGameNow: Free – With the NCAA Football Now App you get live scores, analysis and fan interaction from you – the fan! You can deliver real time banter and analysis to the 1,000s of other sports fan who want to be connected online and with their iPhones and iPod Touches.

NFL Logos: $2.99 – NFL, the largest professional American football league in the world, is now offering the first official – and one and only – football application for iPhone and iTouch users, featuring all 32 teams from both the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. If you’re a pro football fan, you’re guaranteed to go wild for the entire roster of exclusive team logos, branded helmets and true-to-life jerseys on the biggest and boldest wallpapers for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

NFL 2010: $4.99 – Enjoy a 100% authentic NFL game experience with real teams, real players and real action. Whether you’re are a fan of the Steelers, Cardinals or Cowboys, you can lead your favorite team through an entire season and battle for the ultimate prize: The Super Bowl.

Baseball

MLB.com At Bat 2010: $6.99 – Listen LIVE to every Regular Season and Postseason game. Follow every pitch with MLB.com Gameday. View up to the minute box scores and player stats. Watch in-game highlights and Condensed Games. Watch LIVE streaming games. All At Bat 2010 purchasers can access one LIVE game each day of the Regular Season; those with MLB.TV subscriptions can access a complete schedule of LIVE games.

Baseball Stats: $4.99 – Baseball Stats delivers stats for Major League Baseball players in a completely different way. Sure you can find Babe Ruth numbers anywhere, but with Baseball Stats you can see a player’s best years and compare those against another player’s. For example, did you know that Ichiro Suzuki, in his best nine years has batted more Hits than Pete Rose, the lifetime Hits leader, in his best nine years?

ESPN iScore Baseball Scorekeeper: $9.99 – The newly rebranded ESPN iScore Baseball – brought to you through an exciting new collaboration with ESPN – is the easiest and most intuitive way to track a baseball or softball game. With the #1 Baseball Scoring app for the iPhone and iPod touch, you can score youth baseball/softball, high school games, college games, and even professional games just like the pros.

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ‘10: Free – Get real-time fantasy score updates with Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball – the official fantasy game of Major League Baseball. View team, league, and player stats, edit your lineups; plus check your standings and matchups in real-time.

9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011: $4.99 – Play 9 innings with REAL All stars! This is the REAL baseball game you have been waiting for. 9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011, in association with MLB PA, brings you the best full-featured baseball game with all your favorite Major Leaguers!

ESPN Fantasy Baseball 2010: $4.99 – Stay ahead of the count in your fantasy baseball league with the new ESPN Fantasy Baseball 2010 app. Manage multiple teams and leagues, add/drop/trade players, check live scores and standings, and make last second line-up changes from wherever you are. You’ll be one tap away from your teams and leagues, and one step ahead of you friends.

Bloomberg Sports Front Office Baseball 2010: Free – Get unparalleled baseball analysis and charts with Front Office Baseball for iPhone & iPod Touch – the definitive baseball player analysis tool on the go! Filter players for multiple teams, positions, and spotlights such as “Multi-Position Eligible”. Rank players within periods (prior seasons, 2010 Year to Date, etc.) and stats (Batting Power, Pitching Power, etc), or choose any 4 stats to create your own ranking!

Basketball

Arcade Hoops Basketball: $0.99 – From Skyworks, creators of the best quality and most fun games on the iPhone/iPod touch, comes the slickest basketball game on the iPhone, ARCADE HOOPS BASKETBALL. See how many baskets you can sink in a fast moving 45 seconds, using only your finger and, of course, your lightning fast hand-eye coordination.

College Basketball Live Plus!: $1.99 – Plusmo’s College Basketball Live gives you all the latest scores, schedules, standings, news and blogs for your favorite NCAA Basketball teams and players. You can keep track of all the latest scores from live games, and you can even chat with other fans and cheer or boo teams.

Pro Basketball Scores: Free – Plusmo’s Pro Basketball Scores gives you all the latest scores, schedules, standings, and news for your favorite NBA teams and players. You can keep track of all the latest scores from live games, and you can even chat with other fans and cheer or boo teams.

WNBA Center Court: Free – WNBA Center Court is an application that delivers real-time statistics, scores and player information for the WNBA. This is a league-wide application that is designed to supply fans with as much information and statistics about the WNBA during the 2010 Season.

Flick NBA Basketball: $4.99 – Compete in five individual events as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Yao Ming, Nate Robinson, Chris Paul, Allen Iverson, Dwight Howard, Brandon Roy, Baron Davis, Shaquille O’Neal, and many more!

NBA Live by EA Sports: $6.99 – With real NBA rosters, you can dominate the game as Dwight Howard and other NBA ALL-Stars. Or unlock legends from favorite NBA teams like the Lakers, Celtics, Sixers, and more. Match up all 30 NBA teams in the new 82-game Season Mode. Play a casual game in Exhibition Mode, or battle all the way to the Finals in the ultra-intense Playoff Mode.

Basketball Junkie: $0.99 – Basketball fan? Always checking the latest news, trades, scores and everything else great about The National Basketball Association? If so, this app is for you. ALL of your favorite pro basketball sites in one handy place.

Bracket Challenge: Free – Fast, simple and free college basketball scores and bracket challenge! Includes customizable push notifications for all of your favorite men’s college hoops teams.

Hockey

2K Sports NHL 2K11: $6.99 – Experience NHL action on the iPhone like never before with 2K Sports NHL 2K11. Created with the critically acclaimed NHL 2K console game engine, NHL 2K11 on iPhone delivers simulation hockey in all its glory including realistic A.I., incredibly fast hockey action and the depth of gameplay that you’d expect from a 2K Sports product.

NHL: Hockey News: $0.99 – The very latest news from the world of Hockey, for the National Hockey League. With all your favorite teams, you get to choose to read all the news, or just the news pertaining to your heroes.

Hockey Goal Horns & Songs: $0.99 – Show support to your favorite NHL team. This application contains goal horns and songs of your favorite pro hockey teams.

Pro Hockey Live-007: $0.99 – Pro Hockey Live-007 application for iPhone and iPod Touch that let you check live NHL scores, standings by conference, latest photos and news.

HockeyBuzz: Free – Keep up with the latest NHL news and rumors from Eklund and the rest of the HockeyBuzz team.

asapHockey: Free – Hey hockey fans! Meet asapHockey, a hockey news app that was designed to give hockey fans instant access to the real time news being discussed right now. When a team scores, a player is injured, or a trade rumor breaks, asapHockey is there to provide you with quick-and-easy access to what is being discussed in the hockey world.

Hockey Nations 2010: $1.99 – Hockey Nations 2010, the first full arcade simulation of the sport is here. Featuring 14 of the toughest national teams from around the World, Hockey Nations 2010 is an action-packed game with stunning visuals guaranteed not to leave anyone cold. Get your skates on and start scoring!

Hockey Stats: $2.99 – Hockey Stats allows the coach or parent to track player statistics for an entire season.

Soccer

X2 Soccer 2010: $6.99 – X2 Soccer is the number one worldwide, top rated action Soccer experience for the iPhone. Comprehensively updated and enhanced, the 2010 version represents the most complete, realistic and addictive version to date.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (US): $5.99 – You make the moment – The champion of football video games has finally arrived on iPhone and iPod touch! Immerse yourself in unprecedented football atmosphere and the true PES experience with PES 2010.

Kick Flick Soccer 2010 HD: $0.99 – Beat the keeper and defence from seemingly impossible free kick positions. Skill shots such as rebounding the ball into the goal off the woodwork earn extra points, whilst scoring goals in succession raises your score multiplier. Experience complete and instant control over the trajectory of the ball in a single flick. There is no unrealistic “drawing the path of the ball” to curl the kick, just simply flick the ball off-centre as the pros kick it in real life and let the ball aerodynamics do the rest! Direction, power, and curve – instantly under your command.

World Soccer News: $0.99 – World Soccer News is an application with quick access to the latest soccer news, live scores, schedules, photos and more from the top world wide soccer sites! Provides Soccer news world wide. Gives you quick touch access to the top world soccer mobile sites and information from all parts of the world, including UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, US, Russia, South America, Mexico and many more. World Soccer News is a one stop shop app for all your world wide soccer fan needs! Access information quick and easy! Content is professionally designed and optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Live Soccer: $2.99 – Provides live coverage and up-to-minute soccer scores. UEFA Champions League, FIFA South Africa 2010 World Cup.

Euro Football: all the news, live scores and results in Europe: Free – All the news about football in 12 different languages from the best of the web. Direct access to all the live results with LiveScores.com.

Goal.com Mobile: Free – Goal.com offers a truly global perspective on the world’s most popular sport. With a team of 550 reporters based in more than 160 countries, Goal.com represents the largest new media football community.

Nike Football: Free – Want exclusive access to the best players and coaches in the world? How about getting pro drills straight from the training grounds of Brazil, Barcelona and Juventus, direct to your iPhone? If football is everything to you, Nike Football is your essential training tool.

Flick Kick Football: $0.99 – Do you have what it takes to score the winning goal? Can you bend the ball around walls of defenders? Flick Kick Football’s pick and play action is hooking people all over the world. See for yourself why it’s so fun and addictive!

FIFA 10 by EA SPORTS: $6.99 – Real Leagues. Real Teams. Real Players. Match 30 leagues, 570 teams, and 12,620 players from around the world. Play up to 20 licensed tournaments and cup competitions.

Golf

Viewti Golf GPS 2010: $29.99 – Major Update News: Viewti is proud to present its 3D flyover for all the courses for free. Now you can view the course layout in 3D. Enjoy it! Critics and golfers agree Viewti is the ideal app to compliment any golf game. Industry standard in accuracy and statistics tracking, golfers now have access to the most in depth analysis of their game in the palm of their hand. Over 30,000 courses worldwide in 3D and 7,000 driving ranges counting. We dare you to play a round of golf without it.

Golfplan with Paul Azinger: $4.99 – Golfplan provides personalized tips, drills and instruction based on your Golfshot game statistics. If you don’t already use Golfshot for the iPhone and iPod touch, you can download it for free, or choose your own Golfplan categories. Golfplan enables you to “Practice with Purpose.”

Mini Golf Pad: $0.99 – Mini Golf Pad is the app you want with you when you go play mini golf with your friends. Quick to set up and simple to use, Mini Golf Pad saves you the hassle of the pencil and paper.

Golf Shot Fixes – Mitchell Spearman: $4.99 – Golf Shot Fixes was created for you, the everyday golfer, to fix what ails you right on the course, before your round gets out of hand. It brings you Mitchell Spearman’s expert quick fix guide. Well known for his amazing eye and ability to fix golfers fast, it provides immediate analysis and cures for some of the game’s most troubling mis-hits, including the slice, hook, shanks, tops, chunked pitch and many more.

Golf Putt Pro: $0.99 – The most simple and addictive golf putting game on the iPhone. With five compelling game modes, including a 4-player game, you’ll be putting balls time after time.

The Rules of Golf: $3.99 – The Rules of Golf app is for you if you are an avid golfer looking for instant access to the official Rules and Decisions so you can play the game by the Rules and resolve disputes quickly. With this application, you’ll answer pressing golf questions in seconds, such as:

ProCreative Golf 10: $19.99 – Golf 09 was an excellent mobile application designed to give golfers the best tools for the game with the least amount of complication, and it succeeded. Golf 09 had a stellar year, not only being listed under Apple’s New & Noteworthy, but also rising to the #2 top-paid sports app! To build on the success of Golf 09, ProCreative is pleased to announce an exciting new update…Golf 10.

iSwing: Golf: $2.99 – Professionals, avid weekend golfers and PGA Professionals alike have benefited from using video recording and swing analysis for years. Now there’s an app that can bring all of those featured right at your fingertips.

PGA Championship: Free – Live Marquee Group Video, Push Alerts, Live Leaderboard, Player Scorecards and more, will keep you following Glory’s Last Shot, while you are on the go, or as a supplement to broadcast coverage. Par 3 Live video coverage will feature nearly every player in the Championship at Whistling Straits. Plus, watch instruction videos from PGA of America Club Professionals and Instructors. All of this for all four rounds.

PGA Golo Golf Dice: $3.99 – Golfers and non-golfers alike find PGA.com’s GOLO easy to learn, quick to play, and incredibly addicting (you’ve been warned…). And you can play a round of 18 holes in just a couple of minutes! But just like real golf there is pressure, decision-making, and the pure joy of going “LO!”

GolfMoolah: $29.99 – Access over 18,000 courses with no annual fee or subscription. Comprehensive instructions on how to play each game, add your own course or edit current ones and search results logs a list of all courses.

oobgolf: $0.99 – You asked for it and we’ve delivered! For $.99 you get a stand-alone scoring app to track your golf game’s stats with integration to oobgolf.com or you can upgrade through oobgolf.com for the GPS rangefinder with over 25,000 courses mapped worldwide.

Tennis

Tennis!: $0.99 – Consult Tennis Live News on your iphone or ipod touch and also ATP and WTA ranking.

TouchSports Tennis ‘09: $1.99 – From the Award-winning Designers at Handheld Games comes our CASUAL approach to Console Tennis game play for your iPhone & iPod touch.

Tennis Trakker Pro: $12.99 – Tennis Trakker Pro 2.1 is the complete solution for charting tennis matches. Introducing ScoreTrakker, a unique way to allow others to follow live scoring of matches from home or elsewhere with a computer, iPhone or iPad. Track and upload your matches using your iPhone and ScoreTrakker allows you to share the match statistics and score, in real time. ScoreTrakker is the only live tennis tracking mechanism that works with the iPad and iPhone.

Tennis Stats: Free – Tennis Stats for iPhone and iPod Touch allows tennis players, parents and coaches to simply collect, review and share, quality tennis match statistics in one engaging application.

Tennis Finder: $0.99 – Tennis Finder lets you quickly find tennis courts near your current location or any address with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. To be clear: this app features 100% tennis courts, painstakingly researched. There is no “filler” information from the yellow pages. We created Tennis Finder to cut through all the noise of sub-par apps that indeed do that because we’re tennis players.

Tennis 2010: $4.99 – The most complete app of tennis, with information about all tournament, and special for grand slams like Australia Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open; but also with the all others tournaments of WTA and ATP.

All Sports

ScoreMobile iPhone Edition: Free – We provide up-to-the-minute sports scores, boxscores, fantasy player statistics, betting odds, detailed game previews, recaps, top stories, and league standings.

Yahoo! Sportacular: Free – It’s the best of Yahoo! Sports and Sportacular in one great app. Fast, personalized and easy access to live scores and information on your favorite teams, players, and leagues. Includes free game alerts. the latest news from Yahoo! Sports plus much more.

Sports Addict: $0.99 – Sports Addict provides quick access to all of the top sports sites specifically formatted for the iPhone. A unique full screen browsing experience provides 25% more screen real estate than iPhone’s safari. A great way to maximize your reading experience.

Sportsbook: Free – Place bets on upcoming matches and rake in the virtual winnings; compete with other players around the world as well as your own circle of colleagues!

Fleaflicker: Free – Experience the most comprehensive and complete iPhone application for fantasy players. The FREE Fleaflicker iPhone app allows NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL fans to follow their favorite players as well as teams like never before with fantasy enhanced box scores, full play by play, live fantasy leader boards, expert analysis, searchable player news and customizable watch lists. Individuals with a Fleaflicker account have the ability to access all their teams, check scores, standings and manage their rosters.

SportsTap: Free – SportsTap is the ultimate sports iPhone portal. Access all the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA, CFL, NASCAR, Formula One, IndyCar, PGA, LPGA, ATP, WTA, MLS, and top futbol leagues from around the world scores and stats on iPhone or iPod touch wherever you are. SportsTap provides detailed box scores with in-depth team and player statistics as well as season statistics and transactions for many leagues.

NBC Sports Mobile: Free – Get the best info for all your top sports, incl. NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, golf, tennis, college football, college basketball, & more.

ESPN Radio: $2.99 – Listen to over 35 ESPN Radio podcasts right from your iPhone or iPod Touch including The BS Report with Bill Simmons, Pardon The Interruption, Around The Horn and Fantasy Focus.

FOX Sports Mobile: Free – Don’t miss a single play with the free FOX Sports application for the iPhone and iPod Touch! Download it now to get news, scores, video, standings, stats, schedules, team info and much, much more… whenever and wherever you want it!

My Sports Picks: Free – Sports Bettors, we’re back! My Sports Picks is the best iPhone sports betting app on the app store, and we’ve just gotten better. My Sports Picks is now a full service sports bet management tool, great for making, tracking and reporting your sports bets. We want My Sports Picks to be THE app for beginner to hardcore sports bettors. Our product has received rave reviews and our customer service is exceptional.

ESPN ScoreCenter: Free – Never miss another goal, pitch, basket, try, touchdown or wicket. Whether you follow the NFL or the Premier League, the Ashes or MLB, NASCAR or Formula One, ScoreCenter offers the most comprehensive sports coverage available on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Sports Radio: $0.99 – This Sports Radio app is the only one you need to satisfy your sports listening addiction. Whether you prefer national, local, Canadian or international, Sports Radio is your connection to exciting games around the world. You can get your fix 24/7 from the Sports Radio stream directories or add your own station, right from your iPhone or iPod Touch device.

ACC Sports: $1.99 – ACC Sports is the official source for Atlantic Coast Conference sports on the iPhone & iPod Touch. Access news, scores, schedules, standings, polls, videos and select live games for your favorite ACC team.

FanFinder – Sports Bar Locator: Free – FanFinder Mobile locates the US-based Sports Bars where Fans of your favorite teams are watching the games. This application is perfectly suited for fans of the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA Football, and NCAA Basketball who want to watch games with their fellow alumni. No longer will you have to suffer through watching games at a sports bar surrounded by your rival team’s fans!

Ultimate Sports: $0.99 – With Ultimate Sports you will always have the best sports sites available via one-touch access. Use our unique slide-able icons to quickly find the info you need fast!

Sports In Air: $4.99 – Have you ever seen pausing Radio, and resuming from there, rewinding and listening again and again? All these can be done with Sports Radio (Same engine as Time-Shift Radio). Sports Radio is your fun and personalized radio. Now you can get sports news, sports update, debate, etc, just a tap away on your iPhone, listen to live commentary, talk shows and so on…You can pause, listen live, rewind, seek back to any available position with any radio station on your Sports Radio.

What Did We Miss?

The eighty apps above represent our top picks for sporting apps of all kinds. We covered games, score keepers, news publishers, radio apps, how-to guides and more.

Despite all this, there are still plenty of great sports apps that we didn’t have room to mention. Leave a comment below and let us know your favorites!

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Apple has a surprising ally in its campaign of apathy against Sony’s Blu-ray disc format. Microsoft, of all companies, has also stepped out with a passive-aggressive stance against the standard, as UK head of Xbox gaming head Steven McGill says that “Blu-ray is going to be passed by as a format.” He says that Microsoft was right to stick with the older DVD format for its game consoles, and that with the rise of streaming content and the infrastructure to deliver it, there’s no more need for a disc-based format any longer.

Apple would probably agree, given the recent introduction of the Apple TV and its streaming content possibilities. Apple and Jobs alike have never been interested in Blu-ray as a format — originally, the reason was given that they just wanted to see whether HD-DVD or Blu-ray would become the preferred standard, but at this point, with iTunes moving more and more away from physical media entirely, it seems unlikely that Apple will court Sony and its proprietary format at all. So on this issue, at least, Apple and Microsoft appear to have found some common ground.

[via Slashdot]

TUAWMicrosoft joins Apple in stance against Blu-ray originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While taking a look at the Fortune Magazine online tech blog i saw some comments by Canaccord Genuity about Apple profits in the mobile market. They are a head-turner.

Apple mobile profits are stunning, and even better when compared to the rest of the industry. The really interesting item is that Nokia, Samsung and LG combined sold about 400 million handsets worldwide for the first 6 months of the year, and together those 3 firms garnered 32% of the profits in that sector.

Meanwhile, Apple sold 17 million mobile devices over the same period, and snagged 39% of industry profits. Wow — Steve and friends must be doing something right. It’s especially notable because Apple wasn’t even in the cellphone business until 2007. Sure Android is coming up fast, and may pass Apple in smartphone sales, but in terms of profit Apple has everyone else on the run.

TUAWApple raking in the mobile profits originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pocket God is still rolling along — it was one of the first big original iPhone games out there, and more than any other title on the App Store, Bolt Creative has been able to both keep the app popular with constant updates and content additions, and even license the app elsewhere in the form of comics (and presumably other media, if they can swing it).

Here’s another example of that — Bolt posted this video Steve Jobs’ favorite new singer songwriter Jonathan Mann (he of the extremely awkward iPhone Antenna song played at the Apple event a while back) singing a new tune about the game and its fans’ constant requests for updates and new content. The song was commissioned to show off the new Dance Pack content, which lets your little islanders boogie down for 99 cents.

It’s cute. We’ve heard this from the Doodle Jump folks as well — one of the best things that App Store developers can do for their apps is provide a string of content updates, as those both keep current fans interested, and do well to drive new purchases of the app. Of course, it sounds like Bolt is a little stressed out over all the requests, but the app is doing so well that they have to be happy with it.

TUAWThe Pocket God Update Song, by Jonathan Mann originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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