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Forget those Nintendo DSs’, Sony PSPs’ – Make Way for the iPad!

Apple is known for churning out products that make unbreakable benchmarks (iPod, iPhone, iMacs, etc) and this time, they’ve not done anything less. The past week has made the world stand up and applaud for Apple’s latest marvel, the iPad. The first glance will make you think it’s just another E-book reader. But a closer look will make your jaw drop. The iPad is being heralded by top notch analysts and serious developers as the next big gaming platform, kicking aside the gaming on the stay (contrary to the gaming on the go of course). An unexpected, staggering 900 games designed for the iPad were released in less than a week of the amazing device being launched and hitting the shopping shelves.

The unbelievable number of games doesn’t even nearly match the 25,000 iPod touch and iPhone applications available via iTunes. The iPad is backward (iPod and iPhone) compatible and lets all of its applications and games run on its large screen, in native resolution. “The iPad is the fourth step in gaming evolution,” said Gonzague de Vallois, the senior vice president of publishing at one of the most reputed game developers, Gameloft. “The first being the PC, the second being the game console and the third being the smart phones. Each of these platforms revolutionized gaming in its own way.”

Ipad Gaming

With roughly around seven games specifically designed for the iPad available at the launch, ngmoco is going to take the maximum advantage of the large, sensitive multi touch screen, by allowing the players of games such as ‘Godfinger’ and ‘We Rule’ to literally multitask, by sliding the small sized game windows to one side and allowing to concentrate on the larger playing field and then at the same time, read the story progression or even try checking out friends’ castles right in the middle of the game.

Johnny Coghlan, the head of the publishing department at Chillingo, which has well over 13 games for the iPad, claimed that with the iPad’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, it would allow the iPad to incorporate crystal integration. Games such as Super Shock Football HD and Quantz HD, will permit the players to compete against one another and flaunt their high scores. With its large screen, game makers can implement multiplayer possibilities even more easily. Firemint’s Flight Control HD allows two or more players to co-operatively to successfully land a never ending stream of jet planes. The must see game EXO-Planet is making waves across all gamers, with its immersive and high graphics third person shooter game play.

Apple quite clearly observed the amazing possibilities and advantages of having a larger screen, by seeing the success of gaming from the iPhone and iPod touch series. It’s clearly quite impressive how Apple has finally accepted gaming as one of an important field in its industry. Be sure to get wowed as more and more immersive high definition games come out for the gorgeous iPad and its high glossy screen.

The hot, exciting and anticipated 2010 is finally here. Tech geeks all over the world rejoiced with the vast amounts of progress in science and technology, to make gadgets much faster, powerful, smaller and cheaper in the last year. 2009 was quite a mark in the last decade, with loads of new stuff coming out, faster than consumers can actually use. Before we give the final farewell to the past year, let’s have a look at the highlights of the year, what was good, what was bad and what made a mark.

1.    Twitter Makes News – Livens up the Internet

Started as a micro blogging site, Twitter has progressed into a social networking site, which some people swear their lives by. Living without Twitter is absolutely impossible for some people, including extremely busy celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and now, even Bill Gates! When Michael Jackson passed away, most of us did not hear it on the news, rather, we heard it through Twitter. Twitter is quite clearly becoming the hotspot for top news to leak out and spread faster than a wild fire. It has also become a solid medium for social commentary on a massive undeniable scale. So, if you’ve not joined the Twitter bandwagon yet, it’s high time you did so… You don’t want to be a social outcast now, do you? Read more…

A Laptop With No Keyboard? Check out the latest invention from Apple. What do you think? I think it would take time to get used to type an email on this pretty cool laptop…

The best thing about the Ipod touch is that you can use it to get on wireless internet. This would enable you to not only get on the internet, but access all of your favorite sites with the ease of a computer, all in the palm of your hand.  As far as size goes, it is awesome because it is so lightweight. You could literally carry it in your pocket and you wouldn’t even notice it.

Customers have said that another selling point of this gadget is that you can put so much video on it. The quality of the screen, and the fact that you can put so much video on it, really sets it apart from other devices of a hand-held nature. Also, there are a ton of apps you can download, which come from an app store which is basically the place you go to get anything you want for you Ipod. Also, many of the apps are free, so you can literally outfit your Ipod without spending another penny! Read more…

Have you seen the typo Apple made in iPhone update recently?

They managed to make a typo on a menu on the iPhone. Apple has written the Categories menu on the new Podcast download area of the new application as “Catagories”.

What makes this typo even more embarrassing is a comment from Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of Platform Experience, were he said: “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.”

iPhone Typo

Although the controversy of a kill switch started in the days following the launch of the android based phone G1 from Google, it originated from the iPhone. Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent iPhone developer recently came across a secret line of code in the iPhone. Read more…

I just received an email from a friend of mine with a picture that describes the difference between a stone and an Iphone. I just had to share it with you. What do you think?

Steve Jobs was a revolutionary man, who changed the life of computing and made it into a core business. The launch of iMac in the late 90s was a huge, rather phenomenal success. The announcement of iMac was the main cause of the enormous amount of buzz among all Macintosh Fans and Critics alike.

This was the period when Apple decided to make a drastic change in the entire Macintosh Computer’s internal hardware. At that time, Apple was known for making computers that didn’t just perform well, but looked pretty good too! Apple was declared unanimously, as “The Back of Macintosh Computers looks better than anyone else’s”.

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