Interactive Fiction, 2009

Craig Smith, author of the free Frotz Z-machine inter­preter for iPhone and iPod Touch, is inter­viewed by Cult of Mac.

These games were primar­ily text-based, with you solv­ing puzzles via verb-noun pars­ers. As time went on, adven­tures gradu­ally became increas­ingly com­plex and elab­or­ate, with Infocom argu­ably lead­ing the genre to its height.

► Craig Smith Interview: How Frotz Brings Interactive Fiction to iPhone and iPod touch | Cult of Mac

NetNewsWire Locations for iPhone and iPod Touch

If you’re any­thing like me, you’ve got a large num­ber of RSS feeds. Viewing updates is hard enough on a desktop com­puter and some­times impossible on a hand­held device like the iPod Touch. A couple of days back, I came across a tip (via Daring Fireball) that can help with hand­ling that volume of RSS.
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