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iPhone Developer Too Cheap to Buy Icons [UPDATED]

Written on December 29, 2008 by Olly Farshi and 23 people have commented

It may be the season of good-will, but one naughty iPhone-developer has decided to play the role of Scrooge in the iTunes App Store.
Movies, created by French developer, Olivier Bernal, went live at the App Store on December 19. The app, retailing at $2.99, allows users to grab essential information on the latest box-office releases.
The [...]

Autodesk Serving Up Sketchbook Express With Axiotron Apple Tablet

Written on November 21, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

It’s likely you’ve heard mention of the Axiotron Modbook, the third party (and only) Apple tablet computing solution, but I like talking about it anyway. Axiotron, a small company operating out of El Segundo, California, won high acclaim for their Modbook, taking best in show at 2007’s Macworld convention.
The Modbook is a converted Macbook, equipped [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Rocks Aqua On Intel

Written on May 12, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 12 people have commented

VMware was not the only pre-release surprise this past week as OpenOffice.org launched a beta of their new 3.0 office productivity suite complete with native OS X GUI support (no need to run X11 anymore!) along with a sizable list of other enhancements and bug fixes. TAB put the suite through a series [...]