http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog Computing at the Edge! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:43:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's happiness in the Blue Mountains today with the arrival of Alphabet Morpher Lite, another fun iPhone™ / iPod touch™ app that introduces the alphabet to preschoolers.  Alphabet Morpher Lite is now available on the App Store. Each colorful upper case alphabet letter from A to F smoothly morphs ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/07/alphabet-morpher-lite-now-on-the-app-store/ Our press release covering Alphabet Morpher went live this morning.   Since I'm a big believer in recycling content, it makes liberal use of the original blog post.  Anyway, here's the text: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Alphabet Morpher, a new Education / Entertainment App from BluMtnWerx, Now Available on Apple's App Store Alphabet ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/07/press-release-announcing-alphabet-morpher-v1-0/ We're thrilled to announce the arrival of Alphabet Morpher, an innovative and extremely engaging iPhone™ / iPod touch™ app that teaches the alphabet while entertaining the preschool set.  Alphabet Morpher is now available on the App Store. Each colorful upper case alphabet letter from A to Z smoothly morphs into ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/07/alphabet-morpher-an-engaging-educational-app/ I should know better than to ever accept anything written, or stated, about pre-launch Apple products.  Unfortunately, I was so excited about the iPad CPU that I ill-advisedly went ahead and talked about it during various conversations and planning sessions.  Thankfully, I didn't write anything about the wonderful ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/03/ipad-cpu-rumors-fail/ Chris O'Brien wrote a provocative column for today's Mercury News, titled "Goodbye PC, hello smartphone" While I absolutely agree with his primary conclusions… "The era of the PC's dominance is officially over.  We have crossed over into the age of mobile computing." and "I'm not saying we won't still have desktop computers.  ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/02/895/ So many bytes have been consumed speculating about the Apple Tablet that I've pretty much given up reading the stories / posts.  I simply don't care. A good portion of my foundational thinking about mobile computing comes from meetings that we had with Jeff Hawkins, back in the Palm Computing ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/01/the-tablet-not-for-me/ First of all, Happy New Year!  I hope that 2010 brings innovation, prosperity and success to us all (and the HTC Dragon/Passion to Verizon). The real reason for this post is that I wanted to call your attention to an incredibly compelling essay by Jaron Lanier.  Apparently, the piece ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2010/01/world-wide-mush/ It sounds like the big guys are realizing what the rest of us figured out a while ago.  The iPhone and iPod Touch are great gaming platforms.  The recent moves by Electronic Arts to bring serious titles to the devices validate their suitability for hardcore play.  My ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2009/12/will-indie-game-devs-be-squeezed-out/ I've been thinking about Android quite a bit lately.  In fact, I'm starting to explore the development environment and lusting after the rumored HTC Passion / Dragon: My thoughts follow along lines similar to the reasoning in John Boyd's recent post: "… the smartphone experience is rapidly becoming mass market and ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2009/12/androidmulti-hdw-vs-iphone/ According to numerous stories (like this one) circulating the past few days, the enterprising people at Molinker have been gaming the App review system.  Apparently, they handed out promo codes to get 5-star reviews. The Wired story linked to above has the money quote: "This scam was so effective that the ... http://www.BluMtnWerx.com/blog/2009/12/staff-favorites-scammed/