Macworld.com – One of the long-time limitations of Apple’s iOS devices has been their inability to deal with media files in formats beyond those few that Apple prescribes. But a new app, NXP Software’s CineXPlayer, now lets iPad users play video files encoded in the popular Xvid format.
Macworld.com – Apple Developer Connection members have long had access to the company’s compatibility labs, which allow them to test their software on a variety of Apple hardware configurations. But on Monday, Apple added a new option: a $99 Single Lab Day Pass for members of its Mac Developer Program.
Macworld.com – There’s yet another contender if you’re looking for an online backup solution. Haystack Software has released Arq, a backup application that uses Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Arq offers encrypted backups, flexible scheduling, and the ability to select and exclude files as you see fit.
Macworld.com – Taking text notes or recording the audio of a lecture or meeting is old news. Pear Note from Useful Fruit Software unites both tasks in a single document that pairs the audio and text, and a major 2.0 upgrade to the previously reviewed version brings new sharing and playback features, topped off with a redesigned interface.
PC Magazine – One of the architects of the DNS, the naming system for the Internet, is building into the server software for the Internet a system to allow cooperating servers to share reputation data in order to block malicious domains.
PC Magazine – The latest app from Comex combines two of Apple’s least favorite terms—”Flash” and „Jailbreaking”—into one iPhone-friendly package. Frash, the new app from the folks behind JailbreakMe brings Adobe’s embattled Web publishing software jailbroken iPads, iPhone 4s, and third-generation iPod touches. Comex’s aforementioned JailbreakMe tool will let you do that via your device’s browser.
Newsarama.com – At last year’s SpikeTV Video Game Awards, gaming fans, critics and journalists were wowed by a teaser trailer for a sequel to the popular „Batman:
Arkham Asylum” game that itself wowed the industry after its 2009 release.
PC World – Net neutrality advocates claim Google and Verizon’s joint policy proposal for an „open Internet” will do more harm than good when it comes to keeping networks as open to all data. Critics claim the proposal is „worse than feared” and if adopted will result in users paying premium rates to access content such as critical health care services and access to online gaming platfoms.
AP – This is going to sound like blasphemy — especially to the film’s target audience — but here goes: „Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” is way more involving when it focuses on actual people and the palpable angst of young love rather than the video game-style duels to the death in which the title character finds himself.
PC World – I don’t know about you, but when a publisher like LucasArts kills a version of a game whose predecessor sold some 7 million copies total, I’d say things are looking pretty bleak for the platform getting scrubbed.