Thanks to the Utah Education Network, students at the Utah Electronic High School get to watch weekly science fiction films, many of which would be perfect candidates for Halloween. That includes films like Black Dragons, Curse of the Aztec Mummy, The Devil Bat, or Werewolf in a Girl’s Dormitory. Though iTunes U can’t show you the films, SciFi Friday can bring you the reality behind the fiction in them.
If you’d like to win a chance to shoot with a pro photographer, learn Aperture from an expert, and take a free photo workshop in majestic Yosemite National Park, you’ll want to participate in the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest. To do so, just submit one of you best photographs. If selected, you’ll learn how to use Aperture 2.1 to process, perfect, and publish the great photographs you take at Yosemite in January.
Mac game developers are thrilled with the graphics capabilities of the new MacBooks, and three of them offer their thoughts. Gaming on the Mac has been in a rut for a while, but iPhone games have taken off.
iCloseBy.com announced Friday iBobble-3D, an iPhone/iPod touch app that allows users to take photos of themselves or their friends (or anyone else — the company emphasized political figures in its press release), and turn them into Bobblehead figures on their iPhones and iPod touches. A tap on the screen will then send the Bobbleheads bobbing away.
Zen Pinball: Inferno is a pinball game/simulation with a rock concert theme for iPhone and iPod touch. I’ve got a love/hate relationship going with it — I love it because I’m a sucker for a pinball game and in many ways this is a very good one, but I hate it because it can be frustrating and I think it could have been even better.
Halloween is the time of year when we get to dress in costumes, eat someone else’s candy, and break out our haunted decorations for trick-or-treaters. I’ve mentioned before ways to spook up your Mac, but this year it’s time to bring Apple’s iPhone in on the fun.
Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu announced the immediate availability of Classics for the iPhone and iPod touch on Friday. The book reader application includes 12 classic novels like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hound of the Baskervilles, Flatland, and Robinson Crusoe, and sports a bookshelf, animated page turns and visual bookmarks. It is priced at US$2.99 and is available for download at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.
Several readers are reporting that they’ve gotten SMS messages from AT&T reminding them of the long-awaited “free wireless at Starbucks” plan. First announced in February with a target launch of ’spring 2008,’ the service has been quietly running on and off since April, including two hours of daily access at any Starbucks store or AT&T hotspot. T-Mobile users who have existing hotspot accounts are supposed to have ongoing access to the network in Starbucks stores.
Although the service has been available on a spotty basis, an official “yes it’s working” announcement has been long in coming. Have you gotten a reminder from AT&T? Is WiFi working at your local Starbucks? Let us know in the comments.
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Here’s a fun tip from Mac | Life that describes how to use the Rock Band drum controller with GarageBand.
In fact, they describe two set-ups; one cheap and one less so. The cheap setup requires GarageBand, the Rock Band USB drum kit and either the GamePad Companion, JunXion (trial) or the Xbox 360 Controller Driver if you’ve got the Xbox kit.
The pricier rig requires a paid version of JunXion ($95). After some simple configuration, you’ll have a fully functional electronic drum kit with virtually no lag. Very cool indeed.
If you set this up, let us know how it goes.
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There are reports that DataViz is working on bringing its Documents To Go software to the iPhone. This would (arguably) improve access to Microsoft Office documents, though from my experience of the software on a Palm device, it’s not amazing. If you really need more access to MS documents while on the go, though, then it could be a solution. Interested? Sign up here to be notified when it’s ready…
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