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Apple Kicks Out Copycat Apps From App Store

Deadlock.it — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:06 +0000

Few developers, aiming to make some quick bucks out of the App Store, blatantly copied a bunch of popular apps like Tiny Wings, Temple Run and Words with Friends and put it for sale on the store. A section of users, unsurprisingly, … Continue reading →

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How to Get Banner Notifications/Lock Screen Alerts For Track Changes With MusicBanners [Jailbreak Tweak]

Deadlock.it — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:04 +0000

Ryan Petrich has released a new jailbreak tweak called MusicBanners, which displays notifications for track changes in Notification Center and lock screen. Ryan Petrich has released popular jailbreak apps and tweaks such as ProSwitcher, Rotation Inhibitor, DeepEnd, Clippy, DisplayOut etc and had also worked with chpwn to legally bring … Continue reading →

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Motorola Demanding 2.25% of Apple’s iPhone Sales Revenue For Standard-Essential Wireless Patents

Deadlock.it — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:01 +0000

Yesterday, we were quite surprised when Apple had to briefly remove their 3G iOS devices from their online store in Germany. The removal was related to the enforcement of the injunction that Motorola had won back in December that prevented … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8

Deadlock.it — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:17:02 +0000

By Paul Thurrott
While everyone is understandably excited about the recent Windows Phone 8 leak, this revelation also tells us some things we didn’t know about Windows 8. So let’s look at what we’ve learned and speculate a bit about other features that could be coming to Windows 8 as well.
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iRandomizer Numbers App Includes Hidden Tethering Feature

Deadlock.it — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:17:01 +0000

Earlier in the week, we reported about a hidden feature in QuasiDisk – a simple file manager app that allowed users to use iPhone’s 3G data connection to surf the web on their computer. Not surprisingly, the app was quickly … Continue reading →

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StackHack, Ducks, Remote-Tilt, Simplify.js

Deadlock.it — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:12 +0000

StackHack

StackHack by Philip Deschaine and from PubNub is a WebGL demo that uses PubNub to create a massively multiplayer interactive block stacking game. The technical details are discussed in StackHack: A Massively-Multiplayer Mashup of PubNub and Three.js.

Let’s start with the server. I used Node.js with express to serve up our HTML, CSS, JavaScript. When a client connects, we generate a UUID, append some stuff and listen on that channel. Why do it this way? Why not just use a generic PubNub channel? Excellent question I wanted what’s known as an authoritative server.

The article includes more details behind both the client-side and server-side code.

Ducks, a WebGL Demo

Ducks (GitHub: statico / webgl-demos / ducks) by Ian Langworth is a simple game demo that uses WebGL and sound, complete with animated models and reflections. The GLGE WebGL framework has been used, along with models from the COLLADA Basic Samples collection.

The game logic, in ducks / logic.js, is relatively clear and easy to follow, so it works as a great example of a small, manageable example of a WebGL game.

Remote-Tilt

Remote-Tilt (License: MIT, GitHub: remy / remote-tilt) by Remy Sharp can help test motion events without fooling around with a mobile device:

Testing motion events was never going to be easy task. You have two options, both of which suck. That’s where Remote-Tilt comes in. By including a single line of JavaScript you can emulate device motion events in your test page which can either be a regular browser or even a mobile emulator.

By including the Remote-Tilt polyfill on a page a popup will appear that allows motion events to be simulated:

Simplify.js

Simplify.js (License: BSD, GitHub: mourner / simplify-js, npm: simplify-js) by Vladimir Agafonkin is a library for fast 2D/3D polyline simplification:

It is very useful when you deal with lines consisting of many tens of thousands of points, e.g. when you need to quickly render a 50k-points line on the browser (for charts, map routes, etc.).

The demo on the Simplify.js homepage shows how impressive the performance is, easily throwing around 50,000 points like it’s child’s play! The source for this project has been extracted from another of Vladimir’s interesting libraries, Leaflet, which is also worth checking out.

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Apple Working On iTunes Match Bug That “Cleans Up” Explicit Songs

Deadlock.it — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:08 +0000

Earlier this week, Cult of Mac wrote about an iTunes Match bug that matches explicit songs to clean ones. The bug effectively filters out all profanities from an explicit song, which many people might not like. Apple has, according to an … Continue reading →

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Next Gen iPhone to Get Liquipel’s Waterproof Coating?

Deadlock.it — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:04 +0000

Last month, HzO demonstrated their “WaterBlock” technology at CES 2012, which could make smartphones like the iPhone waterproof. HzO claimed that it was in talks with companies like Apple to use their technology in future iPhones. HzO was not the only … Continue reading →

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All iPad And iPhone Models Will be Available on Apple’s Online Store in Germany Shortly as Injunction Temporarily Suspended

Deadlock.it — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:01 +0000

Apple was forced to remove 3G iOS devices except for iPhone 4S from the German online store. The removal was related to the enforcement of the injunction that Motorola had won back in December that prevented the sale of 3G iOS … Continue reading →

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WinInfo Short Takes, February 3, 2012

Deadlock.it — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:17:10 +0000

By Paul Thurrott
An often irreverent look at this week’s other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook’s IPO numbers, an uproar over Google’s privacy policy changes, Apple’s two patent-related legal defeats this week, Android’s domination of the iPhone continued in Q4 2011, and Nokia is struggling but still sells far more handsets than any other company.
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