Apple to offer limited 3rd party iPhone app support?

Paul

Look, there’s simply no way Apple isn’t eventually going to open up the iPhone to 3rd party support — it’s really a matter of when and how, if you ask us. Of course, the possibility we’ve been most anxious about is Apple eschewing the open platform philosophy and starting to vend only “certified’ apps via iTunes — which is what 9to5Mac is now rumoring to be the case, reporting that Cupertino has brought some former Sidekick platform developers into the fold in order to whip up a mobile app sales infrastructure for iTunes. What’s more, the rumor has it things are already progressing along with EA porting games to the iPod touch and iPhone that very same closed-platform model which would leave Apple conveniently in control of app approval, distribution, and presumably pricing. It’s anyone’s guess as to whether Apple will pull the trigger in just that way, but something tells us the enterprising open source community won’t be so easily deterred.

That’s the reason why they must of disable 3rd party apps when they did the firmware update and I wonder when they will announce it?

Ten shooters that will make you forget about Master Chief

Paul

Look, we liked Halo 3. No wait, that’s understatement. We loved Halo 3 and gave it a ten out of ten. But that doesn’t mean Master Chief’s latest adventure has everything we want in a first-person shooter. In fact, whether you’re talking about single player, multiplayer, premise, or plot, we think there are a ton of games that have – and will – best Halo 3. No, we’re not joking. Here are ten games that should make you forget about Master Chief.

Talking about Half-Life 2, Portal, team fortress 2, Bioshock, Crysis, Left 4 Dead, Quakewars, Haze, COD 4, and UT3. All nice and all but all of thee you have to buy how about some free shooters.

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Itunes makes a Major Mistake!!

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The mistake was has not been made public by Apple but caused quite a bit of uproar among hardcore fans of the show. In an attempt to set things straight, Apple offered the actual season premiere and $2 iTunes credit to all the Stargate Atlantis fans who accidentally downloaded episode 4.

Oh my gosh I wonder how many people have downloaded it and why they didn’t want to admit to this. Too Funny. Go check out the full article and decide for yourself.

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser

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The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel’s new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! Within five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be using Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn’t even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment.

I wonder if they will ever make a Laptop version of this. It would be useful trips not to have to boot up the system to do some of the minor things