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‘Puzzle Quest 2′ Update Adds Online Multiplayer via Game Center

I can’t think of a better headline than this one. I love Puzzle Quest 2 … and I love seamless online multiplayer via Game Center. I doubt I’m alone in that, so make sure you grab the latest PQ2 update as soon as you can find some fast WiFi today somewhere that you can stick around long enough to download all 576MB worth of goodness. If you’re not into playing online and would...

40 iPads running SyncPad at once

  SyncPad developer Davide Di Cillo of 39 Inc. received a video (see next page) from one of his enterprise clients who put the app to the test. In the video, 40 iPads are shown doing the iOS equivalent of synchronized swimming. Every gesture and action on a host iPad show up on the other iPads immediately. While there is a tiny lag on some of the more dramatic changes (i.e., going back to a full-screen...

PopCap’s 4th & Battery’s ‘Unpleasant Horse’ Rejected by Apple

Remember earlier this week when PopCap revealed they were starting a spinoff studio called 4th & Battery, and that their first game Unpleasant Horse was on the verge of release? Well, according to a Twitter outburst by the new studio, the game has been rejected by Apple. Joystiq was lucky enough to snag some screenshots of the ordeal before the tweets vanished: Weird, right? Either way, 4th &...

Intel’s ultra low voltage Sandy Bridge CPUs bound for MacBook Air?

The MacBook Air, while extremely popular, is one of the last lines of Apple computers not yet sporting a low power consumption Sandy Bridge processor by Intel — the line is still running on the Core 2 Duo CPU, and while that’s certainly a fast model, it’s not quite the latest and greatest out there. But don’t worry — Intel has announced that it will be bringing...

Twitter Removes Unpopular ‘QuickBar’ from Official iOS App

A few weeks ago, Twitter had updated its iOS app adding a new “QuickBar” feature that appeared at the top of the screen to present trending topics, including topics promoted by paying sponsors. At first, the QuickBar actually obscured tweets at the top of the screen though it was later adjusted to avoid blocking tweets from view. Despite this, the new feature met with a lot of resistance, earning...

‘Take Five’ for Mac Debuts

The Iconfactory, developer of the popular free Twitterrific app for Twitter, Ramp Champ, Frenzic and others, has released a version of its music-pausing app, Take Five, for the Mac. Take Five for iOS first debuted in October, bringing a unique utility for music listeners to the App Store. Like its iOS counterpart, Take Five will pause music playing through iTunes and then resume playback after 5 minutes...

iPhone 4 Oppression Kit

Apple is watching your every move. If you have already liberated your phone, reconsider. If your iPhone came with Phillips screws, you’re not out of the woods either. Fact of the matter is, if your iPhone has Phillips screws on the bottom, YOU MIGHT BE IN DANGER. “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever...

How This 20-Year-Old Israeli Entrepreneur Sold an Army General on His App

A few months ago, Shai Magzimof found himself in the pitch meeting of his life. Of course, tech entrepreneurs like Magzimof are pitching venture capitalists all the time on their ideas. Magzimof (center, in the image above, with colleagues) had recently spent several months at Y Combinator, the seed funder for startups, so he knew that as well as anyone. But Magzimof, who was fresh out of high...

Max and the Magic Marker App Review

The platforming genre on the app store has seen a major increase over the past few months with the arrival of many new, decent platformers. Newest to the table, Max and the Magic Marker [$1.99], from publishers, EA and developers, Press Play, is a unique combination of puzzle and platforming elements. Max and the Magic Marker isn’t just one of your regular old platforming titles. Being the subject...

Government Turns to Facebook and Twitter To Get Terror Warnings Out

How will the government get the word out the next time there’s a serious terrorist threat? The same way you tell everyone what you had for lunch and how much you like that video of that baby that did that stupid thing: social networking! In addition to streamlining terror alerts from a soothing color-coded rainbow of fear to simple, two level—essentially “be scared” and “you’re...