It has been reported over at MobileCrunch that Rock Band will soon be getting its own iPhone and iPod Touch version.
While wandering the halls of CTIA convention in San Diego today, we spotted a small kiosk dedicated to Rock Band Mobile. Sure enough, no iPhones in sight – just a couple of Verizon handsets. Above the kiosk, however, was an LCD screen endlessly looping through a demo reel of EA Mobile’s portfolio – and therein lied the gold. Right at the end of the reel, it pops up clear as day: Rock Band for iPhone and iPod Touch.
The screen only pops up for about half a second (we actually had to watch the reel loop through three times to get a good shot of it), so we didn’t see much in person that you aren’t in a photo. They’re obviously rolling with the same kinda-grungy, kinda-cartoony look and feel as they have on all of the other platforms. You can see just a smidgen of the game mechanics on the right; the notes flow down the fretboard in the same manner as all of the other games, with 4 guitar pick shaped buttons that I presume are pressed to trigger a note.
The first issue that pops into our head, here: Where does this leave Tapulous, with their Tap Tap Revenge series? Tap Tap Revenge already has a massive following on the platform, but it’s very similar to Rock Band. They’ve just launched Tap Tap Revenge 3, which banks heavily on premium content through In-App Purchase. After the success of the console series, the Rock Band name would likely carry a bit more weight with content/license owners than that of Tapulous/Tap Tap Revenge; are we about to see a content war, or will the two games roll together harmoniously?
Back in 1999 Yahoo purchased GeoCities for $3.65 billion, but today it has sent out a “final notice” warning GeoCities users that they are pulling the plug on the 26th October.
Yahoo currently is shutting down a lot of services which it seems as though previous CEO’s purchased for no real reason. Current Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz seems to have her head switch on and is focusing on Yahoo’s key business areas:
- Homepage
- Mail
- Messenger
- Everything “mobile”
- Search
- Media experiences across sports, news, finance, entertainment
“Yahoo’s goal is to be at the center of people’s online lives, and these efforts all support that,” says a source.
What is Yahoo wanting to sell:
- Yahoo Games!
- Yahoo Hot Jobs
- Yahoo Small Business
- Zimbra
- Yahoo Shopping
- Delicious
Here’s the farewell letter:
Mozilla team it’s working really hard on another release, the 3.6. And they are expecting to make public the first Beta on October 13, according to The Register. But the date it is just an estimative, so don’t be surprised if they postpone it for a few days more.
We’ve been talking about the incoming versions of Firefox, especially Firefox 3.7. And using some official statements from Mozilla, the main idea of that version is to remove the menu bar and introduce a very similar look-n-feel of the Office 2007/2010 ribbon (but later, other statements tried to dismiss this article by saying that they are not considering a ribbon, just hiding the menu bar).
Glassy look for Mozilla Firefox 3.7 (no preview of that on 3.6, too bad)
On the other hand Firefox 3.6 seems that is only going to take minor tweaks, here are some of them:
- Lightweight themes
- Improvements in TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
- Optimized session restore feature.
- Enhanced page rendering.
- New additions for CSS.
Radiation from cell phones is known to cause cancer and other ailments. After the Millennium when the average person walking down the street had a mobile phone the tabloids carried reports of how radiation from mobile phones will be seriously damaging people’s health. As of now, the problem has existed for such a short period of time that it is difficult to precisely say how dangerous it is – one thing’s for sure; new cell phones are producing as much radiation as ever with GPRS and 3G thrown into the mix.
Now, there is a new silicon case for the iPhone that will eliminate much of the radiation coming from the device without diminishing the signal strength. Scott Estro from Dig Communications, the company who make the ‘Pong iPhone Case’ talked to Crenk.
“The Pong iPhone Case is a sleek silicone skin containing a proprietary technology module that redirects cell phone radiation away from the user’s head. The case reduces the specific absorption rate (SAR, a mobile industry standard of measurement) by 60% and reduces intense ‘hotspot’ cell phone radiation (Electric Field Intensity) by 85%.”
As you can see from the screenshot, it doesn’t look bad at all but at almost $60, it may be priced a little high. But then I suppose you cant put a price on your well-being.
See www.pongresearch.com to get a Pong iPhone Case.
If you’ve been surfing the web (do people still say that?) for a while today you may have noticed that Google’s doodle today is odd, in fact it’s not really a doodle – but a barcode. Oh, and in spite of the recent debacle when Google announced that it would no longer be paying artists to create their doodles, rather the publicity alone would act as payment, this isn’t the beginning of a decline in Google’s doodles as a result.
They are simply celebrating the anniversary of that little invention we all take for granted at the supermarket; the barcode. By clicking on the doodle you get search results for ‘Barcode’. I can only imagine what the image results would be.
Before I sign off for today, a few facts about the barcode.
v It was originally circular so it could be scanned from all angles. Often called a bull’s-eye.
v The first product ever to be scanned in a real life situation was a packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum in a supermarket in Ohio in June of 1974.
v Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver (the inventors) never made much money from their invention as they sold the patent before it was commercialised. Silver never even lived to see its success as he died in a car crash before it was released to the public.
Using Category and Page Icons WordPress plugin, you can add icons (images) to sidebar of your site or blog into section of categories and pages.
Icons automatically appears at the sidebar, after assigning them to the pages or categories at icons admin menu. You do not need to insert some special code for inserting icons. Icons automatic inserting also during using these functions: wp_list_pages, wp_list_categories.
I cant really see this product getting much use, mainly because it is a hard drive that is targeted at people who need to backup their laptop while on a whitewater rafting trip.
Anyways, if you are someone who needs a complete waterproof external hard drive, then your in luck. Introducing the A-DATA SH93. This rubberized HDD is fully waterproof and shockproof. According to A-DATA, it can be left underwater (one meter) for 30 full minutes without any causing any problems to your data (though we don’t suggest you put that time to the test).
On the tech end, the SH93 provides 250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB or 640 GB worth of storage space. It also features a wraparound USB cord stored within a slit in the exterior, keeping your cord in place where and when you need it.
As for the price it is still yet to be confirmed, but on the up side will come in yellow and red. [A-DATA via Wired]
Coordinating with the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, HTC has made the next flagship of its phone line–the HD2–official. This new phone from HTC has multi-touch interface and it allows for iPhone-like functionality such as support of pinches, flicks and other commands.
Features include:
- 4.3 inch screen
- 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
- 448 MB of RAM
- 7.2 Mbps HSPA for 3G
- LCD display with resolution of 800×480
- GPS
- Wifi
- 5MP camera
The phone is expected in Europe by month’s end on a variety of carriers including O2 UK and T-Mobile UK. The current version of the phone won’t run on North American 3G and there’s no word yet if a North American version will be offered. We sure hope so, though. [via Electronista]
For those concerned about their Twitter home page layout, you should know that having a free and customizable Twitter background creator it is not the easiest thing to find. And here’s a great choice: Twitlay.
On this site you will be able to upload your images, customize and create your own Twitter background. I know what you are about to say, you don’t have time nor the creativity (that’s me) to design your own backgrounds, well it gets simpler, you can just use some others already designed and uploaded to Twitlay previously.
Oh and in case you haven’t read the title, it’s completely free. So, instead of still using the same background layout when you created your Twitter account, give this one a try!
If you were thinking that you’ve seen it all in the Twitter globe, think again: A Palestinian street was named with a Twitter account name “@arjanelfassed tweetstreet”.
And who is this guy and why does he have a street named by his twitter name? Well it is much simpler that you may think, he bought it by u$s140 in this website. The owner of the Twitter account, Arjan El Fassed, also works as a humanitarian in a Holland development agency.
The website was looking for supporters for children in this refugee camp and to give these children some possibilities for cultural after-school activities. One of the co-founders said about the initiative: “We provide the opportunity for anyone to have a street named after them or one of their loved-ones — normally you’re required to have done something incredibly heroic and be dead before you get that sort of privilege”.
If these kinds of advertisements are helping some really needy people, then cheers to that. And common! Don’t tell me that you are not thinking the idea to do the same with your twitter account, blog or website?
(Ok, put me down with two: “@augustoalvarez” street and “http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/” avenue)
Previously here on Crenk we wrote about Yahoo Meme and we were even offering invites to our readers. It has been announced on the site only that Yahoo Meme is now open to the public. There is still no official word from Yahoo about the launch, but make sure you head over to Yahoo Meme and check it out.
Additionally, make sure you follow Crenk on Yahoo Meme.
Reading the Bible, for those who are interested can be difficult in some regards. The most obvious being that the thing is huge with thousands of years worth of literature crammed in one binding, not exactly making it a pocket-sized reader.
iBible is a web app which makes reading and referencing the Bible easy.
Basically, because it’s all so simple and plain; consisting mostly of buttons for each chapter and the rest being text, loading it on any device connected to the internet is quick and easy. This makes it suitable for PC users as well as when you’re on the go such as on a mobile phone using GPRS Internet, a PSP or iPhone.
It’s available in several languages including English, French, German and Polish. The home screen is where you select you language and the screens after this whittle your choice down from Testament, to books, to chapters such as the one I read; Genesis 6.
It has been reported over at MobileCrunch that Rock Band will soon be getting its own iPhone and iPod Touch version.
