Bingo Machine

My thanks to Bingo Machine for for sponsoring this week’s Nuclear Bits RSS feed. Bingo Machine is a nifty app for your iOS device that is super helpful in a game of Bingo or Housie. The app wonderfully automates the process of randomly picking numbers, calling them out and displaying them on screen via a beautifully designed UI, thereby replacing the person calling out the numbers in a regular game. The app lets you manually control when to call out numbers or you can automate this process at specific intervals. Bingo Machine will show you all the numbers that have been called out and the ones that remain on a neat grid. Missed a number? It’ll recap through the recent numbers as well.

The app has built-in support for AirPlay or TV Out so you can display the numbers on a giant screen at a party or function. It’s just $0.99 on the iOS App Store and is a universal app.

November 14, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Google India Slammed with a Rs. 76 Crore Penalty by the IT Dept

Apurva Chaudhary for MediaNama:

[…] the tax office has refused to back down on the penalty after listening to the company’s explanation and interacting with its auditor, SR Batliboi & Associates. The authorities have said that Google India misled the authorities, deflated its income, violated accounting rules laid down by the chartered accountants’ institute and also reported incorrect revenues in order to avoid being subjected to transfer pricing adjustments with respect to its international transactions.

November 14, 2012 ✚ Permalink

App.net Introduces Stream Marker in the API

From their Dev Blog:

Today we’re adding support for Stream Markers to the API. This will allows clients to sync where you are in your stream, global, and even in individual threads between clients.

How successful App.net is or will be is an argument best left alone, but I do love that fact that the core team is implementing ideas and features after actively taking feedback from its users and that these very features more or less originated because users felt there was something lacking in the experience Twitter was offering.

November 13, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Windows Head Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft

Sources have said the move came amid growing tension between Sinofsky and other top executives. Sinofsky, though seen as highly talented, was viewed at the top levels as not the kind of team player that the company was looking for. The move is likened by some to the recent ouster at Apple of OS X head Scott Forstall.

Damn!

November 13, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Twitter’s Special Page for #Diwali

Twitter has put a very nice and special page up for Diwali, also known as the festival of lights around here.

Also, the frequency of posts here will be low due to Diwali. Happy festivities to you all.

November 13, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Rockmate for iPad is FREE for a Few Hours

From the makers of the DM1 — The Drum Machine app, Rockmate is a brilliant iPad app that turns the screen into a complete music studio, letting you produce your own albums. It comes with a drumset, two guitars and a keyboard along with a host of other features.

It’s free for the next 48 hours, so there’s no reason NOT to grab this one.

November 8, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Evernote 5.0 for iOS

Completely revamped User Interface, easier access to Notes and Notebooks and a whole lot of other lovely changes. This, along with the upcoming changes to the Mac app, are turning Evernote into a truly solid app suite. If you aren’t already using it, you should.

November 8, 2012 ✚ Permalink

Fantastical for iPhone is Coming Soon

Fantastical for Mac is already one of my favorite apps, so it’d be great to have it on the iPhone as well. I almost never ever launch the Calendar app on my Mac thanks to Fantastical.

And look at that icon. I’d get it just for that gorgeous icon.

November 8, 2012 ✚ Permalink