Category : Apple

27 Aug

Cult of Mac says: Bring back Marble Madness!

by Christian Nelson

What it was: A trackball-controlled arcade classic, released by Atari in 1984. You had to guide your marble through six perilous courses. Think Super Monkey Ball’s granddad, with a penchant for Escher and isometric projection, minus the monkeys. What we’d like to see: Although there were, at the last count, 46 billion iPhone ‘marble rolling’ [...]

Filed Under: Apple, Games

Tags: ,

26 Aug

SendStation PocketDock charges iPod with any USB cable

by Christian Nelson

SendStation PocketDock charges iPod with any USB cable One of the things that I never liked about my iPod and the iPhone was that you always had to carry that Apple charge and sync cable with you. I would like to be able to take a plain USB cable with me that would allow me [...]

Filed Under: Apple

Tags: , , ,

21 Aug

iPhone 3GS secretly capable of 1080p video?

by Christian Nelson

“Despite Apple’s claims to the contrary, a test by a forum member at Weiphone suggests the iPhone 3GS may already have enough performance to smoothly play full HD video. By manually copying over videos using file transfer apps on a computer and the iPhone, the community member says he could play up to a 1080p [...]

Filed Under: Apple, Dev, Movies

Tags: , ,

14 Aug

E3: ‘Marble Madness’ Coming Soon to iPhone

by Christian Nelson

Yes, Marble Madness is coming to the iPhone. Marble Madness was first published by Atari Games in 1984 and is the original ball rolling game that has always seemed to be a natural fit for the iPhone. The original game included 6 maze-like levels that you must complete before time runs out. Various objects and [...]

Filed Under: Apple, Games

Tags: ,

29 Oct

PowerMate

by Christian Nelson

Brian Eno is a genius and unparalleled figure of all time! Listening to Ambient 2, the Plateaux of Mirror, this is the good stuff, music for your body mind and soul. “Do you know what I hate about computers? The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.”?- Brian Eno, May 1995 This quotation is [...]