[読んだ] Melodica for iPhone Review | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld


Melodica by CandyCane allows anyone to create music in a fun and easy way, with no musical skills or knowledge required. If you can tap the screen of your iPhone or iPod touch, you can make your own tunes. (iPod touch users will need one other thing to get the most out of Melodica—headphones, so that they can hear the music.)

おもしろそうな音楽アプリですね。
でも記事にあるように、アップデートで長く遊べるアプリになった時が買い時かも。

[読んだ] Apple makes finding iPhone apps easier | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

Ever had trouble finding a particular app at the iPhone App Store? Who hasn't? A couple weeks ago I spent like 10 minutes trying to find a game a friend had just shown me. That may have had more to do with me being intoxicated and less about the App Store's search functionality, though.

Still, things may be improving. According to AppleInsider, Apple is now asking iPhone developers to enter 255 comma-separated characters as keywords to iTunes Connect to be used for search in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch.

お、動き始めましたね。

[読んだ] MacTablet Could Run Both Mac OS X and iPhone OS

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The MacTablet should be able to run iPhone OS 3.x. At startup, the user could choose Mac OS X or the iPhone OS. And using virtualization technology, there's no reason it couldn't run the iPhone OS concurrently with Mac OS X, much as virtualizers allow running Linux or Windows on today's Macs (or include an iPhone emulator). The power is there.

かなり突っ込んだ予測ですね。
しかも、従来のMacBookとiPod touchの中間的な位置づけではなく、MacBook AirとiPhoneの間の位置づけで見てるのが興味深いところです。

[読んだ] iPhoneはAppleの正気と理性を奪ったか?

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最近のAppleは頭がオカシクなったのかな? そう思ったのは、Appleのアホな主張*(“Appleはjailbreaking(脱獄, 牢破り)を非合法化したい。なぜならそれは我が国のモバイル網のインフラを危険にさらすおそれがあり、したがって国家の安全にとって脅威となるからである。”)に対して、賛同の声は一つもなく、Appleに対する合理的で正しいと思われる罵倒の言葉ばかりを、随所で目にするからだ。いったい、何がどうなってしまったんだろう。〔*: このリンクはAppleの主張を報ずるWiredの記事に対する–大量の!–コメントの冒頭を指している。〕

iPhone関連で最近Appleを避難する言葉がネットで飛び交ってますね。
やっぱりAppleはiPod touchに注力したほうがいいのでは?そんな気がします。

[読んだ] Pipe Mania - Games,Reviews - 148Apps - iPhone App and Game Reviews and News


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Are you ready to lay some pipe? Pipe Mania is a revamped port of the classic computer game that puts your plumbing skills to the test. Puzzle games are a dime a dozen on the iPhone, but this is in the upper tier and perfect for fans old and new.

パイプつなげてくゲーム、他にもありませんでした?
iPhone/iPod touch向きのパズルゲームだから、この手のものは人気あるんでしょうね。
でもちょっと高いなぁ。115円なら買うんだけど。

[気になるアプリ] Minigore (Games)


Minigore is a 3D survival shooter for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game is all about John Gore, a little square fellow, who finds himself surrounded by the furries – hairy, round creatures with particularly sharp teeth. Your mission is to defend John at all cost from these creatures.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY:

“Minigore is a very impressive looking title with stylized, endearing graphics”
-Touch Arcade

“While MoreGames have left their dual shooter iDracula to concentrate their efforts on Knights Onrush, Mountain Sheep have taken over the mantle with their upcoming dual shooter MiniGore.”
-Mobile Game Faqs

“Think iDracula but with cuter characters and not so gory head shots.”
-The APPera

“It stylistically stands out from the rest of the pack, and it seems as if the crafty folks at Mountain Sheep have single-handedly created a world that seems twisted, yet fun.
-AppGamer.net

“While Minigore is in fact the survival shooter in the purest sense, its clever design elevates the game high above a dumb shootout contest, testing both your arcade skill and concentration.”
-Geek.com

“Killer cuteness!”
-iPhone Games Network

FEATURES:

-You control John with two virtual sticks; the left stick is for moving around and the right stick controls the shooting.

-Three different weapons: the trusty machine gun with unlimited ammo, a double-barreled shotgun to give you an extra boost and an exploding booby trap to catch unsuspecting furries with.

-One level of full 3D world rendered in the beautiful storybook style of Minigore, full with bushes, trees and props. Be sure to avoid the terrain with poor visibility… there may be a summer camp for vicious Furries in there!

-The furries come in four shapes and sizes: the small Minifurry, the Furry, the lamentable Giant Furry and the most dangerous of them, the Firefurry, a fiesty flaming furry that is able to outrun even John Gore himself. Be warned — blasting a Giant Furry will split the creature into several furries that, if destroyed will split into Minifurries. It’s Russian Nesting Dolls with a vengeance.

-Feeling cornered? Turn the tables by collecting enough four-leaf clovers to unleash your inner beast and become the new worst enemy for the furries by running them over to really awesome banjo music! Seriously, not kidding about the banjo! Perform clover combos to maintain the beast for as long as possible.

-Conquer the online leaderboards with your crazy scores and brag about them using the built-in chat. Minigore is fully OpenFeint Enabled.

-Play listening to the fully orchestrated original soundtrack with a taste of Monkey Island atmosphere in there, or if you prefer to blast away to your favorite trance beat, you can access your music collection directly in the game on the iPhone OS 3.0!

-The Egoraptor, Arin Hanson, creator of the insanely popular Metal Gear Awesome and other videos in the Awesome-series, starring as the voice of John Gore is something you don’t want to miss!

-Expert mode: after learning the ropes, switch on the expert mode to unleash the full fury of the furries! Very useful for people who want to focus on improving their score.

-Support for both left and right landscape orientations for the screen.

-Automatic save on exit to never lose a highscore you’ve achieved.

Minigore is developed by Mountain Sheep and published by Chillingo Ltd

絵柄が好きかも。

[読んだ] Android-based Creative gadget aims at iPod Touch crowd

The $200 device has a 3.5-inch touchscreen, HD video capability, two (!) cameras, WiFi, GPS, 3D graphics acceleration and up to 64GB of storage (depending on how you use the SD card slot). Also intriguing is the inclusion of an accelerometer, promising either crash protection or Wii-style games.

後発機だからこそのスペックですね。

[読んだ] An Apple tablet could pit iTunes against Amazon - CNN.com [iTunes Storeで電子書籍を販売?]

This illustration imagines what an Apple tablet device might look like.

Judging from the company's past moves, we're betting that Apple's tablet will be a media-centric device, focused -- at least in part -- on shaking up the publishing industry.

Apple is already prepared to blow Amazon and other e-book makers out of the water with one key weapon: iTunes. Having served more than 6 billion songs to date, the iTunes Store has flipped the music industry on its head.

It also turned mobile software into a lucrative industry, as proven by the booming success of the iPhone's App Store, which recently surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. Apple has yet to enter the e-book market, and making books as easy to download as music and iPhone apps is the logical next step.

What can Apple do better with e-books? For textbooks or anthologies, Apple can give iTunes users the ability to download individual chapters, priced between a few cents to a few bucks each.

It would be similar to how you can currently download individual song tracks from an album. It might even have the same earthshaking potential to transform an entire industry by refocusing it on the content people actually want instead of the bundles that publishers want them to buy. (Of course, Apple would likely offer the à-la-carte purchase model in addition to the option to purchase the entire book as one download -- a more attractive option for shorter works such as novels.)

もしApple tabletの発売と同時にiTunes Storeで電子書籍を売り出したら……。
これは出版業界に大きな衝撃を与えますね。