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ParkingLot.app - Get That Damn Beetle Outta There
2008-04-07 17:00:00 (image by Apple iPhone School) The objective of this game, is to try and get that yellow VW Beetle out of the parking lot. To do this, you must move the other cars out of the way. The cars can be moved forward or backward but not sideways, which makes most sense, seeing as these are cars, ... More About: Parking , Damn
NES.App v2.10 - Very First App to Support Firmware 1.2/2.0; Updates
2008-04-07 16:50:00 Zdziarski’s NES.app is the very first application to support firmware 1.2/2.0, so congratulations to him for that. Also, Zdzarksi has released a new version of this very app, fixing many bugs, and adding some nice features. Have a look below for the full list of additions/fixes. Here is a list of the new: Many bugfixes, added build ... More About: Firmware , Updates , Support
PSX4iPhone v0.2.0 - Performance Increase, Support for 1.1.3/4
2008-04-07 16:39:00 ZodTTD has also released a new version of his Play Station 1 emulator; PSX4iPhone . This release also brings a 50% performance increase (such as the SNES4iPhone update), along with support for firmwares 1.1.3/4. New in v.0.2.0: Added support to firmwares such as 1.1.3 and 1.1.4. Compiled with saurik?s new toolchain. Landscape support (Thanks Edwards) Fixed the detection of whether frameskipping can be used ... More About: Performance , Support
SNES4iPhone v1.5.0 Beta Available - Brings Performance Increase
2008-04-07 16:29:00 ZodTTD informs us that the new SNES4iPhone version (v1.5.0) brings an average of a 50% increase! EmulationCenter also states the following: ZodTTD has also been working on getting sound introduced into snes4iphone though it?s been an uphill battle. He can emulate and mix the sound, but for some reason it just outputs silence. More work is needed, ... More About: Performance , Beta
Snapture: What the Camera App Should Have Been
2008-04-07 03:33:00 Last December, a new camera app was released for the iPhone. It was called Camera Pro, and it featured many of the features that the built-in iPhone camera app should have had, such as digital zoom, burst mode, self-timer, and so on. It was an excellent upgrade to the built-in camera app — ...
We?re Experiencing the Digg Effect - We Apologize!
2008-04-07 01:10:00 Whoopsie. It looks like we got our first taste of the Digg Effect when the Quake article got Dugg all over the place. Sadly, BlueHost, whom we use for our hosting, has an automatic throttle whenever a site uses more than 10% CPU time on the server we’re occupying, and Touch Podium’s SQL ... More About: Apologize , Digg Effect
JavaScript Performing 35% Faster on iPhone OS 2.0
2008-04-06 00:33:00 Albeit the iPhone OS 2.0 is still rather slow and buggy, it has been noticed that Java Script is running quite a bit quicker than it was on older versions of the iPhone OS (the version that most of us are using now). According to a test done using Celtic Kane?s benchmarks, JavaScript is running up to ... More About: Iphone , Javascript , Benchmarks
Apple Inc. is Now the #1 Music Retailer in the US
2008-04-06 00:12:00 Overtaking the previous #1 music retailer; Wal-Mart, Apple Inc. is now the top seller of music in America. The iTunes Store leads the pack with 19 percent, Wal-Mart (which includes the brick-and-mortar stores as well as its online properties) is second with 15 percent, and Best Buy is third with 13 percent. Amazon is a distant fourth ... More About: Music , Apple Inc , Music Sales , Retailer
iPhone OS 2.0 Includes GPS-Like Live Location Tracking
2008-04-05 23:38:00 Here’s a nifty addition! According to current beta testing developers of the SDK software, there is a new live location tracking feature that will automatically track the user?s current location in the MobileMaps.app on a persistently updating basis available on iPhone OS 2.0. Here’s an example. Say you were driving down Broadway in New York, NY and ... More About: Iphone , Live , Location , Tracking
iPhone Doubles Smartphone Sales in Less Than a Year
2008-04-05 20:28:00 Since the release of the Apple iPhone, sales of all smartphones has doubled, bringing the total number of smartphone owners up to 14.6 million. In fact, smartphone sales are growing much faster than the overall rate for mobile phones, but that’s to be expected. The iPhone is an amazing little device. Not only can you use ... More About: Smartphone , Iphone , Sales , Year
Quake III + 2(iPod Touch) = Pure Win
2008-04-05 18:44:00 April Fools is over, so stop looking at your calendar. This is the real deal, people. Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said ... More About: Ipod , Pure
The Great Mobile Market Shift
2008-04-05 10:02:00 In 1958, an MIT physicist named Willy Higginbotham, by all accounts a pretty dry fellow who worked on radar displays during World War II, brought something to the world that would ultimately change the way it amused itself. He invented the video game. It wasn’t much, really. A simple tennis game he ... More About: Mobile , Market , Great , Shift
FiTotW - Week of March 30th
2008-04-05 05:35:00 (FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week ) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here. Keep ... More About: March
OpenRepo Goes Live, Needs Input
2008-04-05 05:06:00 OpenRepo, a collaboration between iPod Touch Fans members H3X, xxDriveNxx and GRMrGecko, is what you might call an open source repository. The idea is that anyone can add apps, games, themes, or whatever to the repository. The crew will review submissions and, if they pass muster, they will be added to the repository, ... More About: Live , Input
iFuntastic: Theme Editor - A How-To Video
2008-04-05 04:19:00 The video below demonstrates how to use one of the new features now available within iFuntastic v5.0.0. For more videos, click here. Here’s a full list of new features in iFuntastic 5.0.0. Here are a couple screens (one image): Download iFuntastic (Intel Mac or PowerPC required) (84MB) (Source: iPhone Alley) More About: Video , Theme , Editor
iControl - Making Your House a Safer Place / Raises $15.5M for Home Securit
2008-04-05 03:45:00 Palo Alto-based iControl Networks is a venture-backed software and services company providing award-winning, residential and SME solutions for the home security market. iControl Networks partners with home security companies, Internet service providers and telecommunication companies to deliver Home Security 2.0, the next generation of home protection and connectivity. Investors in iControl include Kleiner Perkins Caufield ... More About: House , Place
iTunes 7.6.2 - Simply Bug Fixes
2008-04-05 03:27:00 On April 2nd, Apple released a new version of their iTunes software. There are no visible visual changes, thus, it must simply be bug fixes in this update. The update can be downloaded by going to iTunes’ Apple menu, then selecting Software Update. A notice of the past. iTunes updates have been usually bringing new iPhone/Touch updates. ... More About: Itunes , Simply
Is This the 2G iPhone? Probably Not
2008-04-05 01:04:00 It seems a rogue image claiming to be the back of the iPhone 2 has wafted across the pages of iPod Observer. It sports a plastic, piano black finish, which is quite a departure from Apple’s brushed chrome look of the iPhone or mirrored chrome of other iPods. On the other hand, plastic ... More About: Iphone
WWDC ?08 Sessions Have Been Posted
2008-04-05 00:54:00 Apple posted their listing of session for this years World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) taking place in San Francisco, found here. Apple has three tracks this year; Mac, IT, and new this year - the iPhone. The iPhone track has 2/3rd’s the amount of sessions that the Mac does, leaving IT in last place with approximately one third of the amount ... More About: Sessions
Custom Firmware to be Released, Apparently
2008-03-10 21:06:00 killerjak7 of the iPodTouchFans community tells us he’s got a completely customized firmware release on the way. He calls it “1.1.1 kj”. Kj standing for KillerJak; the firmware creators alias. Here is what the creator himself had to say about the upcoming customized firmware release: I am currently working on a custom firmware for the ipod touch. it ... More About: Firmware , Released , Custom
MooCowMusic?s Guitarist: A Pre-Release Video Preview
2008-03-10 20:40:00 MooTheCow of the iPodTouchFans community, posted earlier this morning, a video preview of his in-the-works application; Guitarist . Here are a couple newly-released screen captures of the Guitarist application: Without further ado, here is a preview of what we can expect to own within the next “day or two” (said from the big guy himself, here). Can’t wait ... More About: Video , Preview , Video Preview , Release
An Incredibly Modified Version of Customize
2008-03-10 20:21:00 Danimator of the iPodTouchFans community further modified SpicyChicken’s Customize application using SkylarEC’s already modified version of Customize. Here are the newly added settings: -Boot Logo (Only when logo minimizes after booting) -Customize Loading Screens -BossPrefs Loading Screens -Mobile Music Player Themes -Top and Bottom iPod Bars -Movie HUDS -Media Buttons -Media HUD Buttons -Volume Left and Right Fills -Added a few more graphic options to Installer ... More About: Version
Play/nyc Wants a Million Bricks in Your Pocket
2008-03-10 16:07:00 Carrying around several dozen huge sets of Lego? blocks around wherever you go just so you can play with them at any given time is a little cumbersome at the best of times. Plus, people give you weird looks. Not that I’d know or anything. Fortunately, Nicholas G. Panas of play/nyc has a ... More About: Play , Million , Pocket , Bricks
CrazyKart 2: Possible Upcoming Racing Game
2008-03-10 03:15:00 CrazyKart 2 is a 3D clone of Mario Kart produced by Int13 Productions for PDA and mobile phones. Recently a video was found on YouTube, depicting an iPhone featuring this game. The video demonstrating a virtual touch steering wheel for controls. After seeing the demos of Spore and Super Monkey Ball at the SDK release ... More About: Racing , Game , Upcoming
Apple Says No Multitasking With SDK
2008-03-10 02:26:00 So it’s been a few days since the SDK’s debut and that has given devs enough time to nose around and see what’s what. As a result, the findings are coming in thick. This time around it is the discovery from various sources, including Jon Zdziarski and John Gruber, who quotes from the ... More About: Apple , Multitasking
Pocket Informant is Coming to the iPhone & iPod Touch
2008-03-10 02:11:00 WebIS is in the works on two new applications. One being PI (Pocket Informant) which provides a better calendar, contacts, and tasks, the other being Note2self, a voice recording application for iPhone users. Here’s Patrick’s explanation of what Pocket Informant really is: Pocket Informant - the leading PIM (personal information management) application for Windows Mobile for years ... More About: Iphone , Ipod , Touch
Gameloft to Release 15 Games This Year Alone
2008-03-09 23:34:00 On Friday, Gameloft ; whom call themselves “The #1 Mobile Games Publisher!” stated that they will be working on 15 game titles for the iPod Touch / iPhone for release sometime later this year. Yes, you read that correctly. Fifteen! Gameloft is the company that brought you the hits: Guitar Rock Tour, Xtreme Dirt Bike, Assassin’s ... More About: Release , Year
Pocket Touch 0.3a Released - Volume Fix & Self Dimming
2008-03-09 22:29:00 Before I get started with explaining the differences in Pocket Touch version 0.3a, I thought I’d first mention that since the last time we at Touch Podium wrote about Pocket Touch, version 0.2b had been released, which provided users with an easy way to turn down / up / off the volume by swiping upward ... More About: Released , Volume
Zdziarski Pans SDK, Begins Working On a Solution
2008-03-09 17:51:00 We’ve all heard various takes on the SDK from various sources, including my own rather rose-coloured painting, but the real bottom line is much better drawn by the experts who know the ins and outs of development for the iPhone and iPod touch — specifically, those entrenched in the jailbreak scene and who have no ... More About: Working , Solution
Sun to Bring Java to iPhone ? Sort Of
More articles from this author:2008-03-09 16:04:00 Now that they’ve had a chance to get their hands into the SDK, Sun Microsystems have announced that they plan to bring Java to the iPhone. Wait — make that Java Micro Edition. JME is a subset of Java Virtual Machine aimed at limited resource mobile devices — like most non-smartphones. You ... More About: Iphone , Sort 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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