The Geek Pub » Apple http://www.thegeekpub.com Drink Beer and Geek Out Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:49:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twelve Year Old Girl Creates iPhone App http://www.thegeekpub.com/1127/twelve-year-old-girl-creates-iphone-app/ http://www.thegeekpub.com/1127/twelve-year-old-girl-creates-iphone-app/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:15:33 +0000 The Big Geek http://www.thegeekpub.com/?p=1127

A twelve year old girl, Freddie Anne Hodges lives in Plano, and she created the iPhone application Measure Me.

“I’ve always wanted to know how tall I was because I was growing and I was getting taller than my grandma,” said Freddie Anne Hodges.

“She was kind of standing up from the table and she says dad this thing should measure me,” said Freddie Anne’s father Clark Hodges. “She went over and stood against the wall. It was almost like a light bulb moment. I was like that’s a good idea.”

via DFWReporting.

]]> http://www.thegeekpub.com/1127/twelve-year-old-girl-creates-iphone-app/feed/ 4 iAds coming to OS X? http://www.thegeekpub.com/1088/iads-coming-to-os-x/ http://www.thegeekpub.com/1088/iads-coming-to-os-x/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:04:49 +0000 The Big Geek http://www.thegeekpub.com/?p=1088 Apple Insider is running an article on the update renewal of Apple’s patent on Advertisements in Operating Systems.  The article describes the patent details and operation.  It appears that an iAd would open on the desktop and prohibit other OS functions from working until the iAd was viewed or interacted with in some way.

The patent now appears to cover all Apple devices including Macbooks, iMacs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV.

Apple’s goal of owning 50% of the advertising market in 2010 makes us all wonder if a move to the desktop isn’t next on their roadmap. As many people abandon Microsoft in favor of Apple, this could put a serious hurt on sales of their products in our opinion.  Others assume that it could push people from Microsoft to open source, rather than Apple.

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