If you're anything like us, you've got a serious affinity for the third Super Mario Bros. NES game. However, there's no way you have the same amount of love that GBATemp.net forum user SKJmin does for the decades old game. SKJmin tirelessly remade Super Mario Bros. 3 in the New Super Mario Bros. (DS) engine. Just yesterday, the final, totally bonkers trailer for the patch went up, which we've dropped after the break.
As both properties are wholly owned by Nintendo, the mod is offered for free and the creator doesn't pack the NSMB ROM with the download. Additionally, repeated warnings are given to would-be thieves, such as "Please remember, don't download this if you don't have the original game from Nintendo! You have been warned!!" As of right now, the patch isn't available, but is said to be coming at some point tomorrow, just in time to make your weekend way, way more awesome.Read more at www.joystiq.com |
Flash is on the outs, it may take a few years. But, soon enough it will relegated to the occasional worthy game. Let’s look at just the most recent headlines. Yesterday, Apple released the latest OS X update, 10.6.5. A huge portion of the update was dedicated to security updates. Of those, a full 42 percent were security patches related to Flash. Should anyone be surprised that Apple has decided to no longer bundle it with OS X? |
Meanwhile, Flash is now fully baked into Google’s Chrome browser. If you read the update notes or bug reports on the various channels, you’ll see that a massive number are related to Flash. |
What about Flash on other devices? It’s the killer feature of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab, right? Wrong. Even the most glowing reviews of the new tablet rip its Flash support. |
Meanwhile, on the smartphone side of things, Adobe just released an update for Flash for Android likely ahead of the 2.3 roll-out. Does it fix any of the performance issues? Nope. I’m using it right now. Playback is still jittery as hell. Read more at techcrunch.com |
I think it is safe to say that I've become an iPhoneographer. I love photography and since my iPhone 4 is always on me it is usually the best camera. I'm beginning to submit my iPhone photos to iPhoneography communities out there. Really want to get more eyes on my work.
Republicans are projected to take control of the House. Guess what folks! Things are going to start falling apart again! Republicans are back in charge!
Sadness. Rand Paul won. Let the jokes and laughs at our state of Kentucky continue for many years to come. Pathetic really, I'm disappointed in most of the people in this state.
So, I didn't know where to go to vote tomorrow. Did I use a newspaper, a Louisville Government website or something else local to find out where I go? No. I used The Google Election Center. Put in my address and boom! Got what I needed.
What you're looking at below is a photo of Steve Jobs' business card circa 1979. There are a few things to note here. First, though Jobs helped co-found Apple, he never served as the company's CEO until he returned to Apple in 1997. Previously, Jobs served as Apple's VP of New Product Development (as shown below), and later on as the VP and General Manger of the Mac department before he was ousted by John Sculley in 1985. |
Second, Jobs' business card, on the surface, looks particularly ordinary for a man so focused on creative design and aesthetic appeal. But Mozilla Labs director Pascal Finette, who originally tweeted the photo of Jobs' business card after a co-worker brought it in, explains that there's more to the card than meets the eye. |
"By the way," Finette writes, "the one thing you can’t see on the picture is the fact that the business card has an embossed Apple logo! So they definitely went all way out and spent quite some serious cash on their business cards (which doesn’t surprise me with Steve).” |
Third, the number listed on the card still connects to Apple's main switch board. Seriously. Try giving it a call. |
Fourth, and for all you typeface nerds out there, the font used above for "Apple Computer Inc." is Motter Tektura, which oddly enough, is also heavily used by Reebok. No doubt this card was printed before Jobs starting wearing New Balance. Read more at www.networkworld.com |
If you haven’t already downloaded VLC Media Player for your iPhone and iPad, now’s the time to grab it if you want it, as it may soon be pulled from the App Store. |
One of the contributors to the VLC project, Rémi Denis-Courmont, has filed a formal copyright complaint against the app, which could see it pulled by Apple very soon. |
Denis-Courmont claims that by applying DRM to the application when selling it through the App Store, Apple is violating the GNU public license (GPL) under which VLC is released. |
Even though the app is a free download, each copy is tied to a specific user account when it is downloaded, and like any other iOS app, it’s not possible to copy it from one device to another. However, the GPL requires that any software using that license, and any derivative works, are able to be freely copied and distributed. |
It seems the developers that created the iOS version of VLC made a mistake when they submitted it to the App Store, as Apple’s rules concerning iOS apps are incompatible with the GPL. Therefore, it seems the App Store is an unsuitable form of distribution for any strictly GPLv2 licensed software. |
Despite the complaint, the official VideoLan site supports the VLC app for iOS, and tweets on their Twitter account state, “So far, VLC is not going out of the AppStore,” and, “Maybe the FSF should actually ask us our opinion instead of writing misleading articles about VLC.” |
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