Archive for September, 2009

Trials HD

In: Picks| games

14 Sep 2009

With the dirth of good games appearing on the Xbox platform for many months now, it’s great to see some people developing pick up and play titles for release as Arcade titles. These aren’t the usual run of the mill conversion of pap 8-bit games that should long have been dead and buried, they are games that have had love, attention and oodles of technical skill applied to them. Trials HD is a great example.

Free To Party

In: Picks

13 Sep 2009

While exploring the newest updates in iTunes 9, I stumbled across a feature which although I was aware of, I’d never really paid much attention to: Free on iTunes.
Every week Apple release a single of the week which can be downloaded for the princely sum of £0.00, free, nada, nothing. From the few times I’ve [...]

Snow Leopard Icons

In: Technology

13 Sep 2009

Snow Leopard makes it really easy to view large icons, all the way up to 512 x 512. It’s at this size you realise how much effort the icon designers go to in their icon’s. This isn’t just for the default Apple applications but third party too. Inspired by this post at Cult of Mac [...]

DigitalOutbox Episode 15. Extra long, Apple keynote edition. We’re more awake this week – if you get to the end though you deserve a medal. And a kip!
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Today was the day that Spotify finally landed on the iPhone. Many thought that when Spotify announced they had submitted an app to Apple that they had no chance of getting it approved. The many were wrong. I fired up the Appstore this morning, saw the app and thought I need to try this. So [...]

We Are Hunted is an online music chart based on the internet buzz around tracks and artists. It’s a great way to find new and emerging talent and it now has a Spotify playlist so you can stream the whole chart straight to your desktop / iPhone.

DigitalOutbox Episode 14 – The Tired Edition. Chris is hungover, Shakeel is tired and emotional and Ian – who knows! Enjoy.
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