FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad, two highly anticipated new apps — now available from the App Store — that let users easily view, edit, and search for information in FileMaker Pro databases on their iPhone or iPad.
“Since it opened 10 months ago,” reports Dow Jones’ Ben Charny (smartmoney.com), ”the App Store has been a runaway hit selling a host of software that turn the smartphone into everything from a carpenter’s level to a virtual change purse.” Showing “no sign of letting up,” the success of the App Store has made Apple “‘the platform of choice‘ in the consumer smartphone area,” according to Gartner analyst Mike McGuire.
Cubes rule in Edge. The red hot videogame — it’s won numerous industry awards, received accolades from gaming sites, and earns rave reviews from rabid iPhone fans — has a simple premise: navigate your Cube around a polygonal universe, collecting prisms, climbing walls, and solving puzzles along the way. Play is infectious. And, with 43 levels and tons of obstacles to overcome, challenging.
Ever drag a number of files into the Trash, only to realize that you actually meant to keep one of them? Everyone has. In the past, finding the file you wanted to keep meant dragging them out of the Trash — one at a time or enmasse — and opening them. But Mac OS X Leopard offers an easy way to review such files without removing them from the Trash. See how in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
“I work almost exclusively with Logic,” asserts A. R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer of the music for Slumdog Millionaire. In fact, he’s “been working with Logic for almost 12 years. I use it as my writing tool because I can have it on a desktop or on a laptop. I can carry it all over.” Rahman has “looked at other programs but never cared to try them because the timing in Logic is the best.”
Starting today, you can purchase box office blockbusters for download from iTunes in HD for $19.99, and films will be available as iTunes Movie Rentals in HD for $4.99 within 30 days after release. Pre-order Twilight or Quantum of Solace today, and you’ll be able to download them when they become available on March 21 and March 24, respectively. Transporter 3, Punisher: War Zone, and other select titles are available in HD today.
Available today, the new iMac line includes a 20-inch model for only $1,199 and the flagship 24-inch iMac which is priced more affordably than ever before. For the same $1,499 price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac, the new 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display, twice the memory and twice the storage. It features the Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at speeds up to 3.06 GHz, 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 memory, a 640GB or 1TB Serial ATA hard drive, and several options for graphics processors.
Through the Living Legacy program, Arizona students interview community members who have lived in the state for many decades and have experienced Arizona’s history first hand. The short documentary films, a small sampling of the educational programming available from Arizona’s eLearning Platform, allow students to tell Arizona’s history via “a quilt of personal Arizona stories.”
From Portales: beginner’s Spanish to the advanced A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish, you’ll find a variety of Spanish course material from the Open University on iTunes U. And once you’re conversant in Spanish, you could sample the German and French language courses, as well. Want to explore still more languages on iTunes U?