Linked List: February 17, 2009

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Aragom Space War 

New iPhone game from Peter N Lewis:

Aragom is a fast paced space war game, reminiscent of the old TRS-80 Star Trek game.

It’s not going to win any awards for the graphics, but, for such an old concept, it’s surprisingly well suited to touchscreen play. And it’s not just nostalgia on my part — my five-year-old son digs it too. $3 at the App Store.

Twitter Groups 

Loren Brichter on the problems faced by Twitter client developers tempted to add “group” features.

Why Lucius Kwok Writes Software 

Lucius Kwok, on his path to full-time indie Mac development:

Sound Studio 1.0 had a very basic set of features, bugs that would cause crashes, and not a very good data model. But it worked well enough that the day after I released it, I got my first purchase through Kagi. One sale a day isn’t much, and I only made about $1,888 in shareware sales in 1999, including sales from my other shareware products.

In Defense of Readers 

Mandy Brown, writing at A List Apart:

The web is still a noisy, crowded place — but it’s also limitless, and surely we can find space enough for reading — a space where the text speaks to the reader and the reader does not strain to hear.

Яolcats 

“English translations of Eastern Bloc LOLcats.”

Palm Developer Network: Overview of WebOS 

Palm is hosting HTML and PDF versions of the first chapter of Mitch Allen’s upcoming book on developing apps for WebOS. Allen is vice president and software chief technology officer at Palm. (Thanks to DF reader Adam Black.)

Android Not Dead 

Ian Betteridge reports that there is a new Android phone debuting at Mobile World Congress — the HTC Magic, a.k.a. the G2.