Developer ObjectGraph built iRetroPhone, an iPhone app that lets you dial your iPhone as if it were an old-fashioned rotary dial phone in a day… first day sales at $2.99 each? 15,000 copies.
Google Picasa Adds Fact Recognition
Google launched a new face recognition feature for Picasa Web Albums which will automatically tag faces with names after you train it a bit.
Google Chrome Browser Launches Today
I worked on Mosaic back in the day, so I found this latest entry into the browser market interesting:
Mythbusters Draw The Mona Lisa
iPhone Football
Old enough to remember the old Mattel football game? It’s coming out for the iPhone:
Via bb Gadgets
(Thanks to John)
Flixster Buys iPhone iApp for iUndisclosed iAmount
Techcrunch is reporting that Flixster bought an iPhone application called Movies.app last week, and re-released it last night. It’s basically an app that shows movie times, has maps to local theaters, and lets you watch movie trailers.
I’m a little surprised that Flixster went out and bought the App, when it could have been developed internally. Maybe they learned a thing or two from the Hasbro vs Scrabbulous fight – if you see a great program, buy it. Now Flixster has a popular app under it’s umbrella. Hasbro has a replacement app for Scrabbulous, but I hear it’s not as popular.
Update Techcrunch says that Scrabbulous has been taken down world-wide now…
Google MySQL Tools
Google has a bunch of MySQL tools.
Folding Paper More than 10 Times
When I was a kid, someone told me that I couldn’t fold a piece of paper in half 10 times. I think a lot of kids have tried this over the years. (Everyone failed).
Well, one girl was told she’d get extra credit if she was able to do it, so she figured out the formula and the way to fold paper in half 12 times.
The Story Behind Braid
Indie game developers always hope that the game they’re working will be the “next big thing”, and ‘Braid’ designer Johnathan Blow seems to have done just that.
It’s a platform game in which you manipulate time in various ways, going back and forth to correct mistakes and manipulate your environment to solve puzzles.
Braid is out now through XBox Live Arcade and will be out for the PC in the future.
Read more at MSNBC
Welcome To Future Steve
Why “Future Steve”?
I write down a lot of notes about technology things I should go check out later. When you think about it, writing notes to yourself (which is pretty much what blogging is, at least for the majority of blogs) is really writing to a future version of you.
In my case, I’m writing them to Future Steve.