Filed under: Productivity, Apple, iPhone
Location-specific home screens coming to the iPhone?
According to a patent filing back in February, Apple may be working on a new location-specific home screen for the iPhone. In the patent, Apple outlines how a user could set a persistent default location in the weather app, and set location-based arrangements of app icons on the home screen. The patent drawings show icons for local contacts, local weather, local time and local maps. Instead of having to manually enter your location, you'd have a "here" button within the weather app (and possibly others?) that would use your current location to configure everything for you. The patent also suggests that apps could get location-specific icons, featuring landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge or the New York City skyline. These features obviously aren't of much interest for those who don't travel, but for all you bicoastal, iPhone-toting gadabouts, this is good news.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
