After a lengthy process that had previously met with rejection, Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch has finally been accepted by Apple. This marks the first time a multi-purpose emulation title has been approved by the App Store. The $4.99 C64 app comes bundled with five fully-licensed classic games, and additional titles can be purchased and downloaded directly within the application.
App Store policies prohibit software that could run downloadable code, which barred most emulation attempts in the past. A couple of Sega titles worked around this by nature of being single-purpose emulators. The condition by which the…

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This morning I wrote a short tutorial about how to create a fan button from within your Connect-enabled site. According to Facebook however, the code that we posted was technically against their terms and they asked us to remove the post. CSS hacks, while possible, are something that Facebook wants to avoid and having a page which explains how to do a simple hack could set a bad precedent.

As such I’ve gone ahead and removed the post even though any competent developer will know how to isolate the button. Instead they would prefer that you use the fan box…

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