If you were ever thinking to yourself that the iPhone lacked some quality classic ?gaming titles – and why wouldn’t you be thinking that? It’s completely true and has ?kept me awake at night before now – then Apple’s latest announcement will floor you. ?They’ve finally released the long-awaited iPhone SDK with download.?
The iPhone SDK is designed for programmers who want to create apps for the device ?without having to delve too far into its innards. This is great news for those wanting to ?code the iPhone download apps and those that want to use them – no doubt they will start to appear in ?the iPhone Apple Store and download soon enough.?
The release generated plenty of interest in the community as over 100,000 fans ?hungry to get a look at the iPhone SDK flocked to Apple’s download area. ?Unfortunately Apple’s iPhone download area wasn’t designed to handle so many ?simultaneous downloads of an iPhone SDK and promptly crashed. Whoops.?

We7 – the brainchild of Peter Gabriel and provider of free music downloads
– has received a huge boost with the support of Sony. What does this mean for us? Superficially it means that all of Sony’s back catalogue will be available for streaming from the We7 site. For free. Wow.

What this support also means is a tacit agreement by Sony BMG – previously one of free music sharing’s most staunch enemies – that there is some mileage for the big players in free music downloads
. This is important.

This agreement and backing could mean that the industry’s main players are planning on aiding rather than preventing downloads of their music. Looking at agreements for free music downloads between 24-7 Entertainment
and a Nordic
provider, 02 and Napster (and Vodafone and Napster) it is quickly obvious that there are going to be some important deals struck imminently. Where all these deals will eventually go is unclear – they may simply go full circle and end with pay-per-play deals, for instance – but it’s undoubtedly a positive step in the right direction for the world of music downloads.

Watch this space.

Another one bit the dust recently as AllPeers, Firefox’s filesharing extension, shut down and ceased operations. The extension was popular for allowing users to create filesharing networks to share files with friends.

Although it was at one time considered an essential Firefox addon, the filesharing app was apparently not used very much. While it had something of a cult following, AllPeers failed to attract wider attention. It’s a bit of a sad loss for filesharing.

AllPeers didn’t achieve the kind of growth that its developers had hoped for and so they pulled the plug. They basically ran out of money and decided to call it a day, which is fair enough.

The good news is that the filesharing app was open source and will be available on a host in the near future. There is a slim chance then that another party may pick up the addon and bring it back to life. The AllPeers blog will carry on as usual.

The advocates who suggest that investing in new technology to quench our thirst for energy is the correct and efficient option to offset the imbalance we set off. The notion that planting trees is only a temporary fix is the same kind of rational that led us down this path of where we are in this predicament. Global warming id the direct result of burning fuel and deforestation’s at the same time. Planting trees is one of the long term solutions instead of a short term fix. Trees are here to stay for a 50-200 years time period which is enough time for mother earth to heal the wound that we have inflicted upon her in the last 40-50 years. They have the natural healing power to undo this process, planting trees is not a rational path but a moral duty on human kind to perform. Global Warming or not its only a moral responsibility to replace the trees lost because of our need and greed. The carbon credit that one gets from planting trees is much more a long term fix then an instant gratification. The tree sustains it self after a certain period of time so its not like a constant keeping up or anything.