US Army Meets With Apple To Discuss Tech For Soldiers

March 23, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Earlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple’s Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple’s products and technology in the field. In addition to having the most awesome name ever, Maj. Gen. Justice also heads the US Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He’s reportedly interested in moving the Army away from the custom-built “big green box” electronics that the Army has used over the past decades; instead, Justice wants the Army to investigate existing solutions from the commercial sector, including Apple’s portable lines. Read more…

ProSwitcher : A Free and OpenSource Multitasking App for the iPhone

December 11, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Say What? A Free and OpenSource Multitasking App? What about multifl0w you say? Hope you didn’t think that was going to be the last multitasking app to come to the iPhone. A few days ago we got wind of some screenshots and information for the new app.

Ryan Petrich, developer of OverBoard, has announced ProSwitcher, another Palm Web OS inspired utility to navigate through the applications running in the background on your iPhone, much like MultiFl0w does, only much easier, faster and more intuitive. And to top it all off, it’s FREE andOpenSource! The app is also being developed with the help of chpwn. The project actually started out as PreSwitcher, but the Ryan thought the name may cause some trouble, so now we have ProSwitcher. Read more…