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A Look at the iPhone Games Made with Mono Touch

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We took some time to talk with the developers at Mono Touch to discuss their software that allows developers to create iPhone native apps from C# and .NET based apps. The app helps independent and big time developers deliver games and applications to the mobile device by offering the tools to code apps that utilize the iPhone’s operating system. Recently, Mono Touch also released support for the iPad SDK. This sofware is available for the average coding consumer and is free to try . Check out our video below to see three apps developed using Mono Touch.

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Mar

Which iPad To Buy? Get the 32GB iPad With Wi-Fi + 3G. Here’s Why.

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If you’re in the market for an iPad — and you know you are, because it’s killer — you’re probably wondering which model to buy. Naturally, you’re looking at the cheapest $499 iPad, which has Wi-Fi only, but you’re thinking you might also want 3G. After all, you can pay-as-you-go for data, and who knows when you

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Mar

Screaming Fast New MacBook Pros and Mac Pro Desktops Next Week? [UPDATE: Maybe No MacBooks]

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UPDATE: Seth at 9to5Mac is now backtracking. While he says he’s received multiple tips that Mac Pros will be updated, he thinks the MacBook Pros tip might have been fake. “Shame on us,” he says. Our friend Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac thinks MacBooks and Mac Pros will be updated within a week. Seth received a tip

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Mar

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Mini

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Curvy iPod speaker also makes desks more stylish The Zeppelin Mini from Bowers & Wilkins is certainly a sight to behold. This elliptical iPod speaker dock slickly incorporates a pair of three-inch drivers with a swiveling dock connector that allows you to rotate your device 90 degrees, which makes it easy to take advantage of Cover Flow navigation. It’s beautiful and well designed, and though the sound performs equally well, the bass on this $400 dock is a bit underwhelming. While its larger sibling is intended to fill rooms with music (Apr/08, 4 out of 5 stars), the more compact Zeppelin Mini is better suited to your desktop. At 12.6 inches wide by 4 inches deep, it’ll fit nicely next to your Mac, and it can also serve as both a syncing cradle for your iPod or iPhone (when connected via an optional USB cable) and an external speaker for your computer’s audio. There’s even an audio input on the back that’s handy for using the Mini to pipe out audio from other external sources. Bowers & Wilkins includes a small seven-button remote that controls playback, adjusts volume, and switches input between the dock connector and the auxiliary input. Disappointingly, it doesn’t let you navigate menus or playlists, which is an odd oversight. When it’s not in use, the rounded remote sits snugly on the Zeppelin Mini’s concave top. That’s a good thing–the main unit only features Power and Volume Up and Down buttons, so if you lose the remote, you’re out of luck (which is also a good argument for keeping a spare battery on hand). To our ears, the Zeppelin Mini sounds great for its size. It gets plenty loud (especially since most people will probably use it on a desk near their workstation), and the tone is even and clear. Zeppelin Mini avoids the common problem that many small speakers have in overemphasizing the treble, although after extended testing, we still wish the Mini’s bass was a bit stronger, especially given its relatively high price and ported design. We were also bummed that spending four bills on a Zeppelin Mini doesn’t get you a printed manual or a USB cable for connecting with your Mac.

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Mar

Apple Touching Up The App Store Prior To iPad Launch

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A new report from AppleInsider via Forbes has Apple making some last minute tweaking to the App Store and iBookstore prior to the forthcoming April 3 launch of the iPad. The report has Apple having designated 20 categories for books on its iBookstore, and they will be available for download on the iPad. That number had previously been listed at 35 back in February. The categories of literary goodies include "Fiction & Literature," "Comics & Graphic Novels," "Reference," "Romance," and "Cookbooks." Top-tier categories include a litany of more than 150 sub-categories, such as "Manga" under the comics category. At the same time, Apple has also allegedly went through and classified some apps as compatible with the iPad as developers continue to retool and refine their existing products on the App Store. Developers were given the option to take their apps for a test drive for iPad compatibility when they updated their apps, and after that, only about 16,700 of the more than 140,000 seemed to be compatible. Since the Wi-Fi iPad lacks a GPS receiver, Apple also went through and termed certain apps as "iPad Wi-Fi" and "iPad 3G." About 40 of the 16,700 certified apps were 3G only according to the report. Image courtesy of hothardware.com

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Mar

Future Gas Powered Games, DICE titles will be available on OS X

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As a Mac gamer, I thought the recent announcement of the Steam digital games delivery service coming to Mac was very exciting. Even if Steam never becomes as popular on the Mac as it is on the PC, it will bring us, at the very least, some great Valve titles like Team Fortress 2, Left

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Mar

Birdfeed becomes Brizzly, goes free on the App Store

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Birdfeed has long been one of the best Twitter clients available on the App Store, but it was expensive for a Twitter app ($5), which limited the number of people using it. So while existing customers might be sad at first to note that Birdfeed has been pulled from the App Store, it’s actually good

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Mar

iPhone OS 3.2 Beta 4 SDK contains references to new triple tap gesture

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Apple’s done such a great job with multitouch that every time a new iPhone OS update adds a fresh polydigital shortcut to the mix, my only real surprise is that it wasn’t there already. It looks like the iPhone OS 3.2 update will be no different. According to Beta 4 SDK spelunkers over at 9

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Mar

Steve Jobs #136 on Forbes World Billionaire List

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Steve Jobs may be one of the most admired CEOs in the tech industry even if he’s not the richest. Jobs ranked 136 — down from up 43 spots since last year — in the annual Forbes list of billionaires, far behind Bill Gates (no. 2), Larry Ellison (6), Google founder Sergey Brin (24), Steve

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Mar

Director Eschews Film, Shoots Music Video Entirely With iPhones

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It’s not like director Tom De Nolf doesn’t have 35mm film cameras and a bunch of other video-making tech at his disposal; no, De Nolf was so surprised by the video capability of his recently purchased 3GS that he chose to shoot the above music video using just three iPhones. “Wow, this takes a really great

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