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January 1st, 2008, 16:54 Posted By: wraggster
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Got an iPod touch? And some audio input hardware? Want to make some VoIP calls? If you answered yes to all of the above, you'll want to check out the Touchmods site later tonight, when they'll supposedly be releasing their full-on SIP client for the touch. Hopefully by now it's a little more prettied up than the last time we saw the thing above. If those last videos are anything to go by, though, it looks like it will be.
http://touchmods.wordpress.com/
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January 1st, 2008, 17:25 Posted By: wraggster
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iPhoneHome is an app available in the Installer.app through the Ste Packaging source. This is an app that allows you to change the double tap feature of your home button. In the Settings on your iPhone under general there is a setting for your home button…you are given three option to change it to on a stock iPhone; Home, Phone Favorites and iPod. iPhoneHome allows you to change the double tap feature to any app on your iPhone or even a phone number or blank email. When you open the app you get a screen that has two options Change App and Save & Quit. Just tap Change App and it will bring up a scroll wheel of all the apps on your iPhone. Just tap on the app your would like to set as your double tap and tap Save & Quit. Your iPhone will reset and now when you double tap the home button it will take you to the app you selected.
http://appleiphoneschool.com/iphonehome/
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January 1st, 2008, 17:26 Posted By: wraggster
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iNewsGroup is a newsgroup client for the iPhone.
Changes:
"Real Name" option in preferences now in order to post with your name
Dates are now visible in thread and group views
Fixed numerous UI glitches
Actually think that 'message from top' bug is finally gone.
Fixed potential cause of crash on initial installhttp://code.google.com/p/inewsgroup/
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January 1st, 2008, 17:26 Posted By: wraggster
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PhotoBoard is a multitouch photo browser.
Changes:
Settings menu enabled (user can change the wallpaper brightness)
Bring the pictures on top when touched (change layers order)
Allow user to add photos from a list of thumbnails / names (instead of adding them without selection)
Allow jpg and png files
Resize pictures when loading them to improve performance (max bounds are 800x800);
Keep ratio aspect (for example, if you have a square picture, it will not stretch to 4/3 ratio).
Some minor graphics improvementshttp://cedsoft.blogspot.com/search/label/multitouch
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January 1st, 2008, 17:29 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to. http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/
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January 1st, 2008, 17:31 Posted By: wraggster
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Simply put, Jiggy is the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). With just Jiggy and a browser, you'll be able to write an awesome iPhone application in a matter of minutes. JiggyApps run natively on the iPhone, so there is no messing around with HTML and the limitations of Mobile Safari. At the same time, you don't need a compiler or even a Mac, because JiggyApps are written in JavaScript.
Jiggy comes with a browser-based Integrated Development Environment that is both powerful and easy to use. You just run Jiggy on your iPhone and it will URL you. Then, on your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux, C-64) point your browser at the URL and in minutes you will have a shiny new JiggyApp up and running. http://jiggyapp.com/
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January 1st, 2008, 23:36 Posted By: wraggster
The Apple iPhone has been a worldwide success since its release with mountains of Homebrew released for it including impressive Nes, GBA and Playstation Emulators, for all you fans heres a question for you!
What are your Hopes for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch both in Homebrew and the Commercial Arena ?
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January 2nd, 2008, 03:36 Posted By: wraggster
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For the extreme tinkerer and iPod aficionado, we present to you what appears to be the first ever internal-Bluetooth enabled iPod. Using a flash-memory-modded 20GB 4G iPod, a Jabra A120S Bluetooth music adapter, some clever wiring, a little drilling, and some good old-fashioned elbow grease, one modder has taken things inside his DAP to dizzying heights which can only be referred to as "the next level." The mod has its catches of course -- first you'll have to kick the hard drive to the curb in favor of the more space-conscious flash memory, and you'll need to be pretty handy with a soldering iron and voltmeter, but if you've got the mettle (and this how-to guide), you should be rocking the new Mortiis album wirelessly very, very soon. Check the read link for all the step-by-step goodness.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Add-...-To-Your-iPod/
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January 2nd, 2008, 19:30 Posted By: Shrygue
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Phones aren't designed for games, and that's why most mobile phone games are rubbish (apart from the Doom RPG). But the age of truly terrible phone game controls could come to an end soon, as a Nunchuk-like controller for mobile phones has been given the go-ahead.
Peripheral company Zeetoo has created a dedicated gaming controller for mobiles, named the Zeemote, which hopes to make playing on your phone far better.
Using Bluetooth to connect to your phone, the device has an analogue stick, buttons on the reverse, all in a body that's shaped uncannily like the Wii Nunchuk controller.
Zeetoo even has a motion sensing version of the controller in the prototype phases, and another with a tracker ball. Motion-controlled tennis on a packed central London train should be interesting.
Zeetwo's analogue device already has the support of phone manufacturers Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, and game developers Sega Mobile, Fishlabs and Reaxion (and others), and has secured $6.9 million funding (around Ł3.5m) to put the Zeemote into production, according to Pocket Gamer.
It sounds cool, but surely people who care enough about videogames to want a dedicated analogue controller will buy a DS (or five).
Photographs here
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January 2nd, 2008, 19:33 Posted By: wraggster
Now that the startling mystery of VoIP has been cracked wide open on the iPod touch, it was only a matter of time before other, related mysteries were broken apart and inspected. One such case involves the process of getting the sound of your voice into the formerly-audio-out-only device, which must be accomplished via the use of some type of audio-in microphone dongle, which now -- thanks to one clever man -- has been hacked for VoIP-on-touch purposes. Using the hideous, yet cheap, Macally iVoiceIII audio recorder add-on for 5G iPods, and the simple soldering of a jumper to the board, you can be chatting away like a madman (provided you've got some WiFi) on your touch.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/02/i...modded-dongle/
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January 2nd, 2008, 21:19 Posted By: wraggster
After playing the game for the past few days I fell upon a few bugs, so I just went on and fixed them...
The line crossing routine had a bug, a vertical and a horizontal line would often be detected as crossing even if they didn't... FIXED !
Also fixed a stupid bug : when selecting a level from the menu, it would always return to level 1 :/...
On a minor note, I put the same font for the timer, looks better (or not)...
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=22.0
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January 3rd, 2008, 18:57 Posted By: wraggster
So far, OpenMoko's Linux-based open source phones have amounted to little more than a twinkle in the eye of Joe Consumer, instead getting fast-tracked into the hands of developers who hope to make the whole package stable and functional enough for the average buyer to give a flip by the time they're widely available. We'd say that's a solid policy -- especially if these guys hope to fight the oncoming Android steamroller -- and the next volley is about to get fired in the form of the "Neo FreeRunner." The spiritual successor to the original Neo1973 (pictured), the FreeRunner is being billed as a "compelling mass market device" thanks to some key additions: WiFi, motion sensors, a faster 500MHz processor, and 3D graphics acceleration. OpenMoko's previewing the phone at CES next week with shipments following on to developers in the spring in two triband GSM versions, one with North America-friendly 850MHz and the other with 900MHz. Consumer sales are expected to happen after that (shortly after that, hopefully) once the dev community blesses it with solid code.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/o...eo-freerunner/
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January 3rd, 2008, 19:14 Posted By: wraggster
foft has ported his great Atari 800 emulator to the Gizmondo, heres the release info:
I know the Wince version "works", kind of. I also know TheReaperUK did a rainy day port, but... Well you can't have too many Atari800 ports can you? This one is a port of my GP2X one, which is a port of the GP32 one which is a port of the core Atari800... I don't plan to maintain this port, but will fix any obvious bugs people find in the short term (if I care about them, ask me here...).
Its for download as usual from: http://www.scrameta.net/a800.html.
Features (some are just flags, but highlight differences from other ports):
i) Automatic frame skip.
ii) Fairly flexible remappable inputs, with a little pain (text config...)
iii) Hifi Pokey works (but slower, with a few quirks... call it MidFi)
iv) Volume only sound - i.e. samples.
v) Onscreen keyboard (hold L+R shoulders)
vi) Fast forward (hold L shoulder)
vii) Paged attrib ram access - including XE bank switching. So Megablast works...
viii) Startup like this...
ix) Zip support (inc atz in zip.)
x) Png screenshots
xi) Cycle accurate color changes
Controls (default):
i) Dpad: Joystick 1
ii) Rewind : Fire
iii) Fast forward: Simple keyboard
iv) L shoulder : fast forward
vi) Play: Some 5200 options (It needs analog stick so sucks on digital stick, but can tweak some stuff here...)
vii) Home: UI
viii) Volume+Up: Volume up...
ix) Volume+Down: Volume down
x) L+R shoulder: onscreen keyboard
xi) Asterisk: Start
xii) Triangle: Select
xiii) Power: Option
xiv) Hold power+L+R: Reboot (easier in ui or fastfwd menu)
xv) Hold power+(L or R): Reset (easier in ui or fastfwd menu)
All these can be remapped in the Inputs/default.men and Inputs/ui.men files for use in emulator and in the menu...
To get it running extract and copy over the Atari800 dir. Then run Atari800.exe with whatever autorun you use... You need to put in atarixl.rom etc in the Atari800 dir. Also put some games in the ATR folder. Of course all this can be changed in the emulator configuration setting or editing atari800.cfg directly.
Thanks for this version go to:
i) Atari800 development team for a great emulator
ii) PocketAtari for the Wince code I ripped to shreds...
iii) Reesy for his nice sound ringbuffer idea.
iv) Wincesoft for their GAPI for Gizmondo.
v) TheReaperUK for help with the above GAPI and his port... Buy another Gizmondo!
Thanks,
Mark
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January 3rd, 2008, 19:16 Posted By: wraggster
This release is all about fixes to the NES code. I've made some structural changes to the 6502 which corrected a bunch of problems (e.g. Battletoads) and added a few mappers. A bunch of the fixes are due to removing some unsafe speed optimizations. The overall speed is still plenty fast, so it was worth doing. The new code now supports the following mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 19, 33, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 87, 93, 160, 180. Mappers 64, 65, 66, 232, and 116 appear to be supported as well. I've also fixed the NES load/save code, but the fix required that I change the SAV files. Please delete all of your old SAV files (the BAK files haven't changed, you can still use the old ones).
http://www.bitbanksoftware.com/SmartGear.html
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January 3rd, 2008, 19:21 Posted By: wraggster
Hello from ZodTTD!
As I had said in the beginning of the psx4iphone project, I would be working on another Sony Playstation 1 emulator alongside it. This upcoming emulator should increase performance quite a lot over the current psx4iphone. This upcoming emulator is being lead by Hlide, a very talented programmer. He even contributed some of the generator of the psx4all project’s dynamic recompiler!
Now it’s time for me to return the favor and help him bring his project to ARM platforms such as the iPhone. Hlide’s project is titled yapse4all (YAPSE- Yet Another PlayStation Emulator) and though in it’s early stages, it shows so much promise that I would like to bring some of his framework and dynarec over to psx4all. Since yapse4all currently lacks important device emulation such as the Graphics Processing Unit, Sound Processing Unit, and etc., I am able to extend yapse4all into psx4iphone. It would help Hlide by getting the ARM implementation completed, and help me by improving the core of psx4iphone. Eventually yapse4all will be in a more complete state, and could then maintain his own, more advanced, ARM arch which could take advantage of things currently not possible in psx4all such as threaded devices.
So basically if Hlide doesn’t mind this being done, soon psx4iphone could get a very large update due to his excellent work and my extension of it.
Lots of work to be done, but piece by piece it’s getting there!
http://zodttd.com/wp/
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January 3rd, 2008, 19:27 Posted By: wraggster
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Caissa is a native chess game for iPhone.
Changes:
proper handling of draws
the app doesn't hang anymore when one side wins
if game is finished, the app blocks chessboard view, until button "new" pressedhttp://byteeasy.com/projects/wiki/Caissa
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January 3rd, 2008, 19:28 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to. http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/
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January 4th, 2008, 00:25 Posted By: wraggster
A small but interesting morsel from the folks at Projectnext.eu: If you have the latest version of Nokia PC Suite installed, and rename any file using the extension .n-gage it will automatically adopt a Nokia application icon, and right-clicking on it will bring up an option to install it. This option doesn't work of course, but the fact that it appears implies that PC Suite has already been designed with the Next Gen N-Gage platform in mind.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...dy_has_som.php
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January 4th, 2008, 14:45 Posted By: wraggster
Hi all today i got my hands on the JXD301 a games console/Media player thats buzzing in the homebrew scene at the moment. Heres my review of the JXD301.
Foreword
I am not an expert on anything even though i webmaster one of the biggest homebrew sites, i am infact a fan just like most others and more of a noobie than an expert, if i dont know i ask, so from me youll get a review in a way that as long as it works then im happy, i am no expert so you wont get a massively technical explanation youll get a straight yes or no.
What is the JXD301 ?
Heres the description:
The JXD 301 boasts a 3.0" LTPS TFT display making it a premier portable media player. It supports many audio files such as MP3, WMA, FLAC and video files such as RMVB, FLV and AVI files. The JXD 301 has the ability to play NES, SNES, SMD, GBC, GBA and Neo Geo games. Being about the same size as the GBA Micro, The JXD 301 is a great little device to bring around for your entertainment needs.
Dimensions: 115x60x12.5mm
Weight: 150g
ADI Blackfin 500mhz processor
2GB Built in memory
3 inch LTPS-TFT display
16 mega color high density display screen
Supports RM/RMVB/AVI/DAT/FLV/MPG/MPEG video format
Support MP3/WMA/APE/FLAC audio format
Uses a seperate audio coding chipset
Plays NES, MD, SFC, GB, GBC, GBA, NEO GEO
Built in E-book reader with pronounciation
USB 2.0 high speed
Features 10 types of surround stereo EQ modes
Support JPG/BMP/GIF/GIF cartoon picture browse;
Built in microphone, Sampling Rate: 8kHz-320kHz
Uses SD cards
Heres Some Photos of the JXD301
The Box
Inside the Box
All the accessories
The Jxd301
Sideview
Ordering and Delivery
I ordered my JXD301 from USA retailer GP2XStore.com (who sell a lot more than just GP2X). The order was dealt with within the hour and was shipped the same day which was very impressive, nothing worse than ordering and waiting weeks for the console. Shipping and the console were at a good price too, even more so with the weak dollar  .
My parcel was delivered by EMS and i had no Customs Charges something which pleases me no end and even though it was the festive season it arrived within 4 days, yet another plus.
Opening the Packaging
The console comes in a box which tells you what it does etc but no mention of emulators most likely to avoid customs etc. The console itself is a similiar size to a GBA Micro although thinner. In the box was a soft case for the console, Headphones, USB Lead, USB Adapter, Driver Disc, Manual and Worldwide Compatible Power Lead (you just need a shaver plug in the UK).
The Review Itself
Turning on the JXD301 reveals what must be the best GUI on any handheld system ive ever played, its so user friendly and easy to use, plenty of options to change, bright and cheery. A major thumbs up so far.
Connecting the system to my laptop via USB cable was an horrid experiance it just wouldnt work at all, i then went to my PC and it connected straight away, godknows why this happened, but i wasnt happy with it.
I then tried some roms and movies on the console and to my surprise the movies played quite well infact i enjoyed watching heroes on the jxd301 so much that ive got 6 episodes on now
On the rom side of things GBA Emulation was a waste of time, sure it booted up but was as slow as hell.
Nes emulation was much better infact quite decent.
Snes emulation was amazing with sound on its crap but the speed was very very nice. I did find the controls a tad strange without L and R buttons.
GB/GBC emulation seemed to be crappy, whatever emulator they ported over didnt work well at all, low compatability and no sound.
Megadrive emulation was also nice enough but sound is rubbish luckily the games play reasoably well.
NeoGeo emulation is also a plus for the console, roms need to be with a .neo extension
The Ebook reader also seemed pretty decent and because i love my harry potter ebooks its great to read when i feel like it
Battery time for me lasted about 4 hours ive heard its supposed to be a lot more but thats what i got out of the system.
Conclusion
The JXD301 is a nice console/media player for the price, it has a nice built in battery and 2GB hard drive and the build quality and display on the screen are very good. The GUI is simply the nicest on any console in my opinion, For movies your going to have to try and see what works best for you in terms of encoded quality, the tv shows i tried ran decent although an adult film i tried was a fraction slow but in some ways that was a benefit 
On the emulation side of things Snes and Nes with Neogeo trailing were passable but not awesome. GBA was a waste of space and GB/GBC and Megadrive need a lot of work.
But for the price and with some excellent coders already working on the console this could be the budget emulation console of the year. The lack of buttons even though its a fairly powerful machine mean for purists this wont do but for people who play now and again and for collectors of retro consoles then its well worth a try.
Ill give the console a score of 6.8 out of 10 - Lets pray that the homebrew scene can support this console
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January 4th, 2008, 16:50 Posted By: wraggster
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SMSD is an iPhone SMS management application.
Changes:
New Feature : Search (Names as well as text)
New Feature : Conversations.
New Feature : Localization. (Only English and Germal supported as of now)
New Feature : Delete messages from list.* New Feature : Delete All messages from (inbox, sent, search) list.
* Fix : Sync with MobileSMS icon.
* Fix : Adding lots of contacts to To: field used to crash.
* Fix : Keyboard vanishes after resuming.
* Fix : Keyboard placement on compose screen.
* Fix : Fast opening.
* Fix : Startup crash incase of large number of SMS.
* Fix : Long Unicode messages were garbled.http://amrut.joshi.googlepages.com/smsd
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January 4th, 2008, 23:36 Posted By: wraggster
Apple's been hit with antitrust lawsuits over the dominance of the iPod / iTunes system before, but there's a new case brewing down California way that argues not that Apple has illegally tied the iPod to iTunes, but that Apple has abused its dominant market position by not supporting WMA. That's right, we've come full circle -- Apple is now being accused of locking Microsoft out of the market. The case, brought by San Diego attorney Stacie Somers, claims that since Apple disables the WMA functionality of the PortalPlayer chip inside many iPods, it's shipping "crippleware," and that it's doing so deliberately to abuse its position as the market leader. Of course, unprotected WMA files import into iTunes on Windows just fine, so this is really a DRM compatibility issue -- and given Apple's official position on DRM and the fact that Microsoft's own Zunes don't exactly play nice with all the flavors of WMA DRM, this suit could be over sooner than expected.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/a...n-to-microsof/
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January 5th, 2008, 10:28 Posted By: wraggster
Chris Howard has an interesting commentary at Apple Matters on recent trends in OS market share that says that while OS X has seen continual growth, from 4.21% in Jan 2006 to 7.31% in December 2007 at the same time, Linux's percentage has risen from only 0.29% to 0.63%. The reasons? 'Apple has Microsoft Office, Linux doesn't; Apple has Adobe Creative Suite, Linux doesn't; Apple has easily accessed and easy to use service and support, Linux doesn't; Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not,' says Howard. 'Early in the decade it seemed that if you wanted a Windows alternative, Linux was it. Nowadays, an Apple Mac is undoubtedly the alternative and, with its resurgence and its Intel base, a very viable one
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../01/04/1730254
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January 5th, 2008, 16:16 Posted By: wraggster
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SyncJe for iPhone wirelessly synchronizes your iPhone Calendar, Contacts, and Notes with SyncML servers.
This is commercial software, but you can obtain a free license till 8th January 2008.
What will SyncJe do for me?
- Keep your information in sync between your iPhone and your desktop.
- Keep an up to date backup of your information in case your iPhone is lost. http://www.nexthaus.com/syncForm/syncForm.php
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January 5th, 2008, 16:18 Posted By: wraggster
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iDemocracy is the very first iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak and third-party app installation solution for the Windows platform, written by Drakenza which is (at least partially) automated, and has a GUI interface. It is currently supported on Windows XP/Vista and requires only iTunes, an iPhone, and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
iDemocracy 2 brings all kinds of new features like free ringtones on firmwares 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, as well as File Browsing (using Manzana) and all kinds of other wonderful things.
iDemocracy NOW SUPPORTS FW 1.1.2. However, it cannot unlock OTB 1.1.2 iPhones running bootloader 4.06 (yet). There will be a release 2.1 shortly after the release on the 16th which will add this functionality as soon as possible.
Features:
User-friendly GUI interface and instructions that will guide you through every step.
No need for computer knowledge--it does all the command-line scripting for you.
Jailbreaks (gives access to the file system), installs AppTapp Installer.app for third-party apps.
Now supporting unlocking for any SIM card using the aptly named anySIM.app
You can have a jailbroken 1.1.1 iPhone in 3 minutes and 47 seconds.http://code.google.com/p/idemocracy/
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January 5th, 2008, 16:21 Posted By: wraggster
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MNPlight aims at getting rid of the need for a computer with iTunes. It runs on your iPhone, and is able to modify the iPhone calendar, address book and iPod databases.
MNPlight can be of particular interest for Linux users who don't have iTunes, but it can also be used by other users when they want to update their iPhone data when they are away from their iTunes computer.
If you keep using iTunes, you may experiment problems with the Calendar and the Address Book since modifications done on your iPhone won't be seen by iTunes.
Changes:
Mails:
Save big mail attachments on iPhone
Options:
Bug concerning deletion of imported mime types fixed http://movenplay.gforge.inria.fr/
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January 6th, 2008, 01:57 Posted By: wraggster
Nothing like a good round of crappy mockups and likely-fuax leaked Jobs to get the old rumor juices flowing. Check out a few of these pre-Macworld photoshops circulating the internets, and the MacRumors um, rumor, which has the full leaked "scoop" on what Jobs is going to be announcing on the 15th (MacBook Nano 13-inch ultraportable with SSD, MacTouch dual-screen multi-touch folding / sliding SSD tablet, Mac mini redesigned with solid state, half the height and named the Mac Nano, Penryn Mac Pro with Blu-ray option, Penryn MacBook Pro with black aluminum option, iSight-enabled Cinema Displays, blah blah blah). Here's a hint: we have no reason to believe any of this anything but positively fake and pure speculation. Enjoy!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/m...king-imac-and/
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January 6th, 2008, 02:02 Posted By: wraggster
The Treo 680 and 750 are getting a little long in the tooth, are they not? The 680 has a spiritual successor in the Centro -- the 750, though, not so much (come on, the 500v does not count). That might just be where this "Drucker" comes into play, a phone listed on Vodafone's 2008 roadmap that alleges Windows Mobile 6.1, a 320 x 320 (!) display, 2 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, and triband 3.6Mbps HSDPA when it comes down the pike this July. In fact, we can pretty much guarantee it'll be replacing the 750v, seeing how it says so right on the slide. Sadly we don't have any visuals on this one (something tells us this ominous gray box isn't the actual phone), but it looks like Voda's targeting a price of Ł270 (about $534) and we'd be pretty shocked if we didn't see an AT&T launch in roughly the same time frame.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/p...lin-among-pal/
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January 6th, 2008, 02:07 Posted By: wraggster
If you're ready to drop 45 bones on a tricksy SIM from a back-alley internet joint called One-Stop-China.com in the hopes of unlocking an iPhone, then behold the X-SIM II. While not hardly the first SIM-based unlocking effort, this "Turbo SIM" (or so they call it) won't work in Germany, UK, Australia, but it will supposedly free up an iPhone running v1.1.2, and bootloader 4.6. Caveat emptor (as if we really had to tell you).
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/x...s-way-sketchy/
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January 6th, 2008, 02:25 Posted By: wraggster
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SMSD is an iPhone SMS management application.
Changes:
Localization : Italian by Bruno
Localization : Chinese by jackielo
Localization : Spanish by Jose Maria Calvo
Localization : Polish by Mariusz Ostrowski
Localization : French by Simon Vandaele
Localization : Norwegian by Geir Lund
Localization : Swedish by Sebastian Mattsson
Localization : Finnish by Sebastian Mattsson
UI Enhancement : Confirmation while deleting all messages in the list.
Fix : Localization support had broken Backup implementation.
Fix : Phone freezes!
Fix : Delete All used to crash.
Fix : Sent message was not shown in sent box if it is empty.
http://amrut.joshi.googlepages.com/smsd
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January 6th, 2008, 02:26 Posted By: wraggster
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This application might be interesting for muslims: Get prayer (salat/salah/namaz) timings for your local city along with Qibla direction, distance and athan (azaan/azan) now on iPhone and iPod Touch!
Changes:
Athan Selection fixed for Medina
Hijri date correction fixed
iAthan now launches at prayer times automatically (however for now it still does not support waking the phone up from sleep)
City deletion problem fixed for the default city, 'London'
Vibration alerts added
http://www.guidedways.com/mobile/iat...oad_iathan.php
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January 6th, 2008, 03:50 Posted By: wraggster
Reports are coming in that the JXD301 has been discontinued by the makers who say its too expensive to produce, a sad day for everyone, does that mean that JXD301 homebrew is finished, heck no, lets hope someone else takes over the making of them.
Buy your JXD301 while you can.
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January 6th, 2008, 23:09 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.
http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/
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January 6th, 2008, 23:11 Posted By: wraggster
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This program functions similar to the typical guitar tuners you buy in stores, and anyone familiar with these shouldn't need to read these instructions. Basically, you play a single string on the guitar, and the program listens to the note and tells you if the note is sharp, flat, or just right.
Funiculus can only be run on an iPhone (and not an iPod Touch) because the iTouch lacks an internal microphone. http://sourceforge.net/projects/funiculus/
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January 6th, 2008, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
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We have found this interesting report from Ste, about a malicious repo for the iPhone. The issues are already solved, but by posting these lines here, we want to open your eyes, that even the iPhone can be affected by kiddies and so called hackers.
Read on:
The repository "Silver Repo", with a maintainer of "Mikey", a category of "Cool" and a URL of "jmwiki.com/repo" is malicious. Remove this Source from Installer as fast as you can.
Note: the problem app was originally found by an IRC user named "DeathHobbit". Another IRC user, named "Francis", figured out what Source that app came from and the original warning to the public was posted on the "ModMyiFone" forums. My thanks to all involved!
He has several malicious apps:
One is called "Important UPDATE", with a description of "An important system update.". It's not clear, from looking at the plist file, if it will show up in the "System" category or the "UPDATES" category.
Another is called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep", with a description of "An important system update. Install this before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware." As with the other, it's not clear, from looking at the plist file, if it will show up in the "System" category or the "UPDATES" category.
Both of these packages are BOGUS. What they do is download the zip file of Erica's Utilities, version 0.53, from one of *my* mirrors. It then installs it. If you uninstall his package, it will uninstall the files it installed. What this means is that if you had Erica's Utilities installed already, it will overwrite them, during installation and uninstall them during uninstallation, but Installer will think the Erica's Utilites are still installed - but it's files will have been ripped out from under it. Any other app that uses any of the files in her package will break too. If you didn't have Erica's Utilites installed, then installing and removing either of these packages will do no harm.
He has a third package called "Jo Mama", with a description of "Potatoes are burning to the ground", in the "JMCO Apps" category, that installs/uninstalls an old version of my OpenSSH app. This will conflict with any other ssh app you have installed. The zip file, in this case, comes from Nullriver’s site, where they once briefly hosted it for me.
The plist files for all three of these apps are lifted directly from me, with the name, description and category changed.
I've looked up the owner of the domain and called and left a message for him.
More, as I get it.
UPDATE: New information suggests this might be the prank of an 11 year old boy, heh.
UPDATE: Yes, it was a kid, I've spoken to his dad and the site will be coming down. End of story.
-stehttp://blog.psmxy.org/2008/01/05/warning-malicious-repo/
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January 6th, 2008, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
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Converter is a units converter for iPhone.
Changes:
05 Jan: (0.14 release)
Fixed Celsius<->Kelvin, kg<->pound conversions
Moved Accuracy slider under the actual numbers (I thought it is a better place...)
Now when you change a measurement, the application will automatically bring you From and To screens (to save redundant clicks)
Added a few units to existing measures, and two new measurements: Power and Torque
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-converter/
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January 6th, 2008, 23:59 Posted By: wraggster
News from Mollusk:
Skinz Sudoku is a Sudoku game which combines good looks and ease of use...
It offers beautiful graphs by Daydream, with 4 different skins depending on the difficulty level.
The game's particularity is that it offers 4 different input methods for you to select from, to fit everyone's needs...
- Wheel : Select a number from the number wheel around the tile you touched. You can also set a hint by touching one of the corners...
- Square : Same thing, but in a simplier/more compact layout...
- Bar : Select first which number to plot, and then touch the grid to put it anywhere...
- Writing : In this mode, touch a tile to have it zoom, and just write down the number you want !
You can also add small number hints at anytime, with every input method, using the top right button, or undo if you make an error...
All the levels are randomly generated, so don't expect to finish the game soon ^^
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic...;topicseen#new
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January 8th, 2008, 23:06 Posted By: wraggster
Crash, Spyro, Leisure Suit Larry among first offerings
Vivendi Games Mobile, a division of Vivendi Games, announced an agreement to bring a line-up of its mobile games to Nokia handsets via Download! and Nokia Catalogues.
Download! is a client-based mobile shop constantly refreshed over the air with the latest hit titles. Customers will be able to download titles from franchises including Crash, Leisure Suit Larry and Spyro as well as related content like wallpapers and ring tones.
"The challenge in the mobile games value chain is not only to make great games and attract customers, but also in the effective merchandising of games and the ease with which consumers can find, purchase, and download games," said Paul Maglione, president of Vivendi Games Mobile.
"Nokia has met this challenge by providing visibility and easy access to great content via Download!. The end result is a new and promising distribution channel that creates further 'impulse buy' opportunities for our titles and also allows customers to enjoy the best mobile games on demand."
Vivendi Games Mobile’s branded Catalogues recently launched in local-language versions in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine and the US. It will soon be available in 25 other countries.
Download! is shipping on more than 50 devices globally on Nokia mobile phones, Nokia N-series and Nokia E-series devices.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=31958
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January 8th, 2008, 23:35 Posted By: wraggster
ZodTTD has ported Open Transport Tycoon over the the Apple iPhone:
OpenTTD.app is a ZodTTD project bringing the classic game of Transport Tycoon Deluxe to the iPhone and iPod Touch via an OpenTTD port.
OpenTTD.app v0.6.0 is the initial public release and is available at the ZodTTD.com Project Installer.app repo source: zodttd.com/repo/
1. On the iPhone or iPod Touch's Safari goto this URL (with trailing / )
http://zodttd.com/repo/
2. If Installer.app doesn't launch it's because that feature wont work for people without an Installer.app Safari plugin. Instead, add the repo source to the sources list. You will need to launch Installer.app and goto Sources, then Edit, then Add. Add the URL above.
3. You should now see the latest ZodTTD.com projects listed in Games and Recently Added.
Thanks!
Feature’s include:
- Classic tycoon simulation gameplay!
- 38 different languages supported!
- Internet Multiplayer games on the iPhone and iPod Touch!
- A nearly 100% accurate port. Only things missing from the PC version are text input, sound, and music which will be implemented into my adaptation of the SDL port in coming releases.
- Multi-touch support for right clicking and positioning/clicking the cursor.
Play OpenTTD.app, the first fully featured game on the iPhone and iPod Touch that even includes internet multiplayer!
Screenshots:
Thanks for the support everyone! If you enjoy this title, please leave feedback in the forums.
Extented Installer.app Installation instructions:
After installing OpenTTD.app via Installer.app, place the following files from the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe for
Windows PC game (filenames are case sensitive!) in /var/root/Media/openttd.app/data/
sample.cat
TRG1R.GRF
TRGCR.GRF
TRGHR.GRF
TRGIR.GRF
TRGTR.GRF
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January 9th, 2008, 00:08 Posted By: wraggster
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Release notes from Erica Sadun:
First of all, this was not my idea. The inspiration was from GeeZuzz (I hope I got that nick right!) who figured out the big idea but it took several weeks of hacking to get the iPhone details working so I take a little credit too.
Download a copy of the Listen beta. It’s still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt to contact the id server. If it succeeds, great, you'll see the song, artist and album. If it fails, nothing happens. You just wait 30 seconds and if you haven't gotten an ID, quit and restart the program.
Let me know how it goes.
http://ericasadun.com/?p=126
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January 9th, 2008, 00:13 Posted By: wraggster
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iSlots is a 3 reel slot machine game for the iPhone coded by Chris Miles.
Changes:
tweaked payout algorithm
top 5 winners ticker. The top 5 highest credits winners (that have submitted) will have their name and winnings displayed on every player’s ticker. Get your name up in lights.
top 50 winners web page. Web page lists the top 50 highest credit winners
http://iphone.rustyredwagon.com/
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January 9th, 2008, 00:16 Posted By: wraggster
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Converter is a units converter for iPhone.
Changes:
07 Jan: (0.16 release)
Thanks to Predator (cdonadei at hotmail.com) Converter.app has a new icon!
Fixed the "Back" button issue.
Added switch button: so you can easily switch between From and To units (I got a lot of requests for this feature).
Added Kitchen measures category.
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-converter/
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January 9th, 2008, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster
Perhaps it was unfair of Ewan to review a beta - but maybe his feedback will help the development team avoid wasting their (and other people's) time? Nokia Channels is a newspaper-like, closed content consumption system and here's the detailed review .
"Out of Nokia’s Beta labs comes another application that could well make the grade and get bumped up to a ‘full’ (firmware) Nokia application in the future. Nokia Channels is promoted as a ‘media service’, giving you access to newspapers and content from around the world. How strong is it, and can it stand up to the full might of the open internet and the power of RSS readers?
Okay, this is going to be painful, because the answer is “not very well in most cases”.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...eady_for_t.php
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January 9th, 2008, 16:58 Posted By: wraggster
Just as we heard yesterday, Apple has reached an agreement to standardize pricing across Europe. This in response to EU (and UK) concerns over Apple (and the record labels) engaging in anti-competitive pricing for music offered over iTiunes. The move brings UK prices down to match the already standardized pricing found in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain. A savings of about 10%. The rub? We'll have to wait up to 6 months for the change to go into effect.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/a...ughout-europe/
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January 9th, 2008, 17:01 Posted By: wraggster
Well if you've been telling your buds your iPhone is totally virus free and safe, 'tis time to eat your words. Seems some incompetent 11-year old kid added an app to Installer sources that lists itself as "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep" -- we're calling it fail.trojan -- an update to Erica's Utilities. Though not too troublesome -- apparently only says "shoes" once installed -- it may well be the start of a whole new bag of fun for the inspired yet bored amongst us. Removing the app damages a pile of programs in the iPhone's bin folder like Erica's Utilities, OpenSSH, Doom, and Launcher, though you can sort it by simply re-installing. Apparently his father's been notified and he's been given a harsh talking to and the site with the malicious source is now offline.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/f...s-point-laugh/
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January 9th, 2008, 17:03 Posted By: wraggster
Look, we're all about making fun of a nanny state trying to get us to drop our earbuds for street crossing, but we're also against stupidity and what Australian police call a problem of "epidemic proportions": teenagers dying from crossing the street while listening to an iPod. NSW Police commissioned these ads that we'd say make their point quite nicely -- and remind us of a contest submission from a while back. Obviously it's not the iPods doing these kids in, rather fast-moving hunks of metal and a near-idiotic lack of attentiveness, but if you're the absent minded type, perhaps unplugging your ears for street crossings would be a good habit to get into. Or you could, you know, look before you leap.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/c...oth-ways-kids/
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January 9th, 2008, 19:38 Posted By: wraggster
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Categories allows you to create categories on your desktop. These are icons that are like folders that can contain other icons to launch. This allows you to organize your desktop rather than having it be a huge mess. The app comes with a GUI configurator so that you do not have to edit text files. When you add an app to a category, it is removed from the springboard list so that it no longer shows up on the main desktop. When you remove the app from the category it is returned back to the springboard.
Install via Ste's repository. http://blog.psmxy.org/
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January 9th, 2008, 19:39 Posted By: wraggster
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Waves is a small toy for your apple iPhone or iPod touch. You can select a predefined image or your own wallpaper and you can touch the screen to generate some wave effect over the image.
Changes:
Adition of the floating button allowing to play with the different screens of the device (i.e. the picture app).
Adition of the Double-Tap allowing to quit the wave play screen.
Screens Transitions.
'About' and 'Help' buttons added.
Slug.jpg image removed.
Better image borders handling.
Slightly improved performances.
http://gnese.free.fr/iPhone/Waves/
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January 9th, 2008, 19:40 Posted By: wraggster
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EvolutionRGB is a senseless and beautiful iPhone game of fire, plants and water.
It allows the player to draw on the touch screen using different elements, like fire, water and plants. These elements interact with each other, so that the screen evolves over time. The iPhone's builtin accelerometer is used for the gravity direction so that water always falls down and fire burns upwards. http://code.google.com/p/evolutionrgb/
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January 9th, 2008, 19:59 Posted By: wraggster
Here comes the first update ! I made a quick little changelog for this 1.1 version...
If you don't want to read it, I basically optimised CPU and Ram usage, and the exe is smaller
- Reduced file size
- Faster game loading
- Much lower CPU usage (and thus saves the battery too)
- Requires 25% less ram (around 3.5MB should be perfect)
- New useless difficulty menu transition
- Fixed a bug when clicking on a number overlapping another button
- Stylus should be more reactive now
- Wheel Number doesn't move partially off the screen anymore
- Saves undo/redo and input method on game save !
update : version 1.11 already, found a quick and minor speed optimisation to do, should be 10-15% faster
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic...;topicseen#new
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January 9th, 2008, 20:04 Posted By: wraggster
Noda has released a Media Encoder for the Ipod, heres the release details:
A converter videos for the iPod Touch / iPhone (and other iPods ...)
Version 1.0
Presentation:
Well, first thing: why the umpteenth video converter for iPod?
All iPod owners who are trying to convert videos ca know, they were all tested converisseurs existing (Vidéora, VLC, Quicktime, Xvid4PSP, GOM encoder, etc. ..), despite their numbers, there are always recurring defects:
-- It is slow
-- Ca lot of videos not beautiful
-- Ca lot of videos too big
-- Ca bug with certain formats
-- It is boring to use
-- It's too complicated
-- You can not easily convert videos full of a sudden
-- Etc.
(Happily, it's never all these defects at a time when meme)
Et comme ca do some time now that I am the happy owner of an iPod Touch, bah I started to get tired of all these converters that the c ** t'installent 5000 codecs and that you never leave the result that you want.
So before yesterday myself caught by a motive, and iPodME is born!
For my needs (and those of other people I think the coup) ca aims to be the perfect converter:
-- Small (- 3 MB), no install, no need for codecs (it is based on ffmpeg)
-- Super easy to use (no room for improvement)
-- Easily handles batches of files to be converted, with the possibility of dragging (you can even add files while ca encode)
-- Can be forgotten in background (possibility of changing the priority)
-- 6 profiles suited to the majority of needs:
* 3-speed encoding (plus c'est slow and the better the quality), and each is chosen to optimize the file for a small size or better quality. I spent the aprem tweaker to these profiles, you tell me news
So now, I ca do in 2 days y'a therefore means that bugs can trainer in the corner, I count on you to test it and let me know your suggestions
I will see in the future to add support for subtitles (embedded in the videos), I wait for the moment your return on the quality and performance of different profiles.
History:
-- Public version 1e
How to use:
Droppez few video files in the list, and click "Convert"
The converted files are created in the same directory as the converter.
Other information:
Requires. NET framework 2.0 minimum.
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January 9th, 2008, 20:32 Posted By: wraggster
Rumors have been swirling that Apple will be offering movie rentals over iTunes for weeks now. Now it would appear that Warner Bros have joined Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Lions Gate and Paramount in the initial launch. This, according to sources speaking anonymously to Bloomberg. The announcement is expected to be made on January 15th according to the report, presumably during Jobs' MacWorld keynote. Both new releases and older titles will rent for $3.99 for 24 hours. Bloomberg's sources also indicate that Fox may join as a supplier of movie downloads. While the details may change, an iTunes rental service announcement on Tuesday seems a near certainty given the recent multi-source, confluence of data.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/i...e-warner-bros/
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January 10th, 2008, 21:58 Posted By: wraggster
Google told us that we wouldn't see any Android devices until the end of the year, but a funny thing happens when you put up the entire SDK and an emulator for a platform -- all them crazy hackers start hacking. Apparently Android was natively booted on a Freescale-based dev board called the Armadillo 500 back in November, but the floodgates were really opened when a Hungarian group called Eu.Edge discovered that basically any device with an ARMv5TE chip could run Google's baby. Armed (heh!) with that information, tinkerers around the world have gotten a variety of Sharp devices running Android: the SL-C760, C3000M, SL-C3000 series, and the SL-6000 have all been confirmed running the OS. Hopefully that means we'll be seeing a lot more unofficial Android devices soon
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/a...real-hardware/
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January 10th, 2008, 22:26 Posted By: wraggster
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APlogger is a native iPhone/iPod Touch application that scans and logs visible WiFi Access Points (APs).
NOTE: APlogger is not an application to crack WiFi WEP or WPA passwords, does not retain or inject any WiFi packets, and will not be extended to support this.
Changes:
v1.0.5, 10th Jan - the auto-scanning setting is now retained between invocations.
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~chris/iphone/APlogger/
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January 10th, 2008, 22:27 Posted By: wraggster
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Categories allows you to create categories on your desktop. These are icons that are like folders that can contain other icons to launch. This allows you to organize your desktop rather than having it be a huge mess. The app comes with a GUI configurator so that you do not have to edit text files. When you add an app to a category, it is removed from the springboard list so that it no longer shows up on the main desktop. When you remove the app from the category it is returned back to the springboard.
Changes:
fixed a bug on 1.0.2 firmware - the "Show Assigned Apps" toggle didn't work
Install via Ste's repository. http://blog.psmxy.org/
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January 10th, 2008, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster
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With just Jiggy and a browser, you'll be able to write an awesome iPhone application in a matter of minutes. JiggyApps run natively on the iPhone, so there is no messing around with HTML and the limitations of Mobile Safari. At the same time, you don't need a compiler or even a Mac, because JiggyApps are written in JavaScript.
Thanks to Ste's repository ( http://blog.psmxy.org/ ) for the news. http://www.jiggyapp.com/
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January 11th, 2008, 21:11 Posted By: wraggster
Freeware application ourTunes downloads music from any shared iTunes library on your network to any folder on your computer. There's a good chance you've heard of ourTunes (or a similar app, myTunes) before, as it used to be the go-to app for sharing music with your peers using your iTunes library, but every time Apple updated iTunes, ourTunes would die another death. Well, it's back, and it works with iTunes 7. I hadn't used ourTunes in a while, and things seemed to be working differently, so to get you up and running, here's how it works.
First you'll want to download the ourTunes.jar file from the Save OurTunes web site. If it's not already installed, you'll also need to download and install Java on your computer.
Now fire up iTunes and ourTunes on your computer. Before you go any further, I'd recommend choosing a download folder for all that music you're about to download. Done? Then let's move ahead.
If there are other computers on your network, you'll see them start popping up in the ourTunes (and iTunes, for that matter) sidebar. In ourTunes, click on the name of the library you want to download music from. ourTunes will work a little magic, creating a duplicate entry for this shared library in your iTunes sidebar. Click on the duplicate library in iTunes, let it load the library, and then you're ready to go.
So how do you download songs? Easy—just play the song in iTunes and ourTunes will start sucking down the file to the folder you chose above. It downloads quickly, so you don't have to listen to the entire song before moving to the next. Generally songs just take a few seconds to land on your desktop.
Problems?
I only ran into one problem testing ourTunes, and it only appeared on my Mac (Windows tests went without a hitch). When you choose the download folder, for some reason ourTunes was incorrectly saving the folder with a weird sort of duplication. That is, if I chose ~/Documents as my download folder, ourTunes tried saving to ~/Documents/Documents. The way I got around this was to create a second Documents folder inside the original Documents folder, then choose ~\Documents as my download directory. I'd assume this bug will be addressed eventually, but in the meantime that workaround should do the trick.
If you're sick of the restrictions Apple places on iTunes music sharing on your local network, ourTunes will do the trick. ourTunes is freeware, Windows and Mac only, requires Java.
http://saveourtunes.com/
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January 11th, 2008, 21:13 Posted By: wraggster
The chaps at Delphi were just showing us a cool concept; they were using a web app on an iPhone to control a GMC Acadia vehicle. The prototype on display was able to check the automobiles vital stats, open and close windows, retain user configurations for seating options and even start the ignition. Check out the video of it in action after the jump.
The iPhone takes control of these options remotely, which could be dangerous, but as it is only at concept stage, we are sure Delphi will work out the nooks in the system. Either way, we imagine this will give rise to a whole new motor sport; racing real cars with Wi-Fi connected iPhones—sweet. Make it happen, Delphi.
http://gizmodo.com/343478/iphone-con...oncept-web-app
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January 11th, 2008, 21:41 Posted By: wraggster
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This application might be interesting for muslims: Get prayer (salat/salah/namaz) timings for your local city along with Qibla direction, distance and athan (azaan/azan) now on iPhone and iPod Touch!
Changes:
New: Qibla Compass with direction from True North and the current position of the Sun, as well as distance from selected city to Mecca
Athan file previews in the management screen and selection screens
Volume settings for individual prayer time alerts. Useful when Fajr athan, for example, needs to be set high while Asr can be set low.
More Athan files (Bosnia, Hussain rajab, Al-Aqsa etc) added and installed athan files can now be removed
Background screen color changed
Gregorian date added
Thanks to Ste for the news - http://blog.psmxy.org/ http://www.guidedways.com/mobile/iat...oad_iathan.php
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January 12th, 2008, 18:18 Posted By: wraggster
News/release from Mollusk:
Here's a quick update ^^
Skinz Sudoku 1.13 :
- Switch back from erase mode when clicking number bar
- Number highlighting (if you plot a 2 or select 2 in the number bar, it highlights all of them...)
- Added shade behind congrats screen, and shows if you have a new speed record
- Erase and Menu buttons now have a normal touch area...
Please take note that I just released a new commercial version of Skinz Sudoku. To clarify things, the freeware is and always will be. 3 versions of Skinz Sudoku will be updated regularly :
1. Freeware version (the current version)
2. Commercial version (same features, plus an added stats page and a sudoku solver)
3. Demo version of the commercial game, with the features added and 2 difficulty levels removed.
If you want to give it a try, check it out on handango.
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=28.0
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January 12th, 2008, 18:30 Posted By: wraggster
News from Zodttd:
So I wake up to a slew of requests to port the SimCity source code released, to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is, quite frankly, a dream come true. I’ve always been a huge fan of SimCity, and here’s my chance to do what would become my favorite port of all time.
This project will be somewhat tough since even though it was well written, the source is for X Window for Linux.
So should I begin work on yet another project, or should I focus all my attention on updates to gpSPhone, for instance?
What is sure to be my favorite project, may not be your favorite. Let me know here:
http://zodttd.com/forum/index.php?topic=644.0
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January 12th, 2008, 18:31 Posted By: wraggster
News from Zoddtd:
When asking about my work on the SimCity port for the iPhone and iPod Touch, many users of gpSPhone simply wanted a bit of a performance boost. This brought me back to thinking about an issue I have seen with Springboard and all applications running on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It seems whenever setNeedsDisplay is called, Springboard lands up taking up to 5% to 20% CPU time! A quick example of this would be to run the Apple Calendar application and run ‘top’ through SSH. In Calendar rub your finger across the screen to highlight a bunch of days in the month. This causes a screen refresh, and also about 15% CPU utilization within the Springboard process shown by top! It seems across the board on any application
Now you may say, why even call setNeedsDisplay then? It’s pretty much required to update the screen and therefor see new things being displayed. So I have been working out ways to reduce the need to call setNeedsDisplay as often. I have been able to reduce Springboard’s CPU usage by half what it use to be by just calling it less often. I also have seen a good performance boost in my applications such as my Gameboy Advance emulator gpSPhone.
Beta Tester Club members of ZodTTD.com may now test this performance enhanced version of gpSPhone v1.3.0. ZodTTD.com forum members who donate are instantly upgraded to Beta Tester Club status.
This will be a short beta depending on the results and what other features may be absolutely required.
I hope to see Springboard no longer take so much CPU time for such an odd reason, in future firmwares.
Thanks for the support everyone.
http://zodttd.com/wp/
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January 12th, 2008, 18:33 Posted By: wraggster
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EvolutionRGB is a senseless and beautiful iPhone game of fire, plants and water.
It allows the player to draw on the touch screen using different elements, like fire, water and plants. These elements interact with each other, so that the screen evolves over time. The iPhone's builtin accelerometer is used for the gravity direction so that water always falls down and fire burns upwards.
Changes:
moved evolution states directory to main directory of zip file (for Installer.app distribution)
Installer.app will now install 3 default evolution states: "Title", "Waterfall" and "YinYang" http://code.google.com/p/evolutionrgb/
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January 13th, 2008, 02:25 Posted By: wraggster
The GBA Emulator for Nokia Series 60v3 Phones has been updated:
Updates from vBagX 1.20 S60v3
1. fix some emulation bugs (some unaligned ldm/jump, thumb blh jump)
2. fix some compatibility problem. provide an option for user selection speed/compatibility. mode 3 is very slow and is not recommended.
3. Sound is more smooth when speed is enough. Make sure speed option is normal (not fast) to let sound smooth
4. media key support (on s60v3, app can only capture volume up/down now)
5. simple cheat file support. for ABC.gba, write a cheat file named ABC.gba.cht. Its content format is as follows:
2002A46=0A
3006FA2=006C
2004250=000063
that means it lockes [0x2002A46] to byte 0x0A, locks [0x3006FA2] to halfword 0x6C, locks [0x2004250] to word 0x63
http://www.vampent.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8905
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January 13th, 2008, 17:00 Posted By: wraggster
Hi all today i got my hands on the JXD301 a games console/Media player thats buzzing in the homebrew scene at the moment. Heres my review of the JXD301.
Foreword
I am not an expert on anything even though i webmaster one of the biggest homebrew sites, i am infact a fan just like most others and more of a noobie than an expert, if i dont know i ask, so from me youll get a review in a way that as long as it works then im happy, i am no expert so you wont get a massively technical explanation youll get a straight yes or no.
What is the JXD301 ?
Heres the description:
The JXD 301 boasts a 3.0" LTPS TFT display making it a premier portable media player. It supports many audio files such as MP3, WMA, FLAC and video files such as RMVB, FLV and AVI files. The JXD 301 has the ability to play NES, SNES, SMD, GBC, GBA and Neo Geo games. Being about the same size as the GBA Micro, The JXD 301 is a great little device to bring around for your entertainment needs.
Dimensions: 115x60x12.5mm
Weight: 150g
ADI Blackfin 500mhz processor
2GB Built in memory
3 inch LTPS-TFT display
16 mega color high density display screen
Supports RM/RMVB/AVI/DAT/FLV/MPG/MPEG video format
Support MP3/WMA/APE/FLAC audio format
Uses a seperate audio coding chipset
Plays NES, MD, SFC, GB, GBC, GBA, NEO GEO
Built in E-book reader with pronounciation
USB 2.0 high speed
Features 10 types of surround stereo EQ modes
Support JPG/BMP/GIF/GIF cartoon picture browse;
Built in microphone, Sampling Rate: 8kHz-320kHz
Uses SD cards
Heres Some Photos of the JXD301
The Box
Inside the Box
All the accessories
The Jxd301
Sideview
Ordering and Delivery
I ordered my JXD301 from USA retailer GP2XStore.com (who sell a lot more than just GP2X). The order was dealt with within the hour and was shipped the same day which was very impressive, nothing worse than ordering and waiting weeks for the console. Shipping and the console were at a good price too, even more so with the weak dollar .
My parcel was delivered by EMS and i had no Customs Charges something which pleases me no end and even though it was the festive season it arrived within 4 days, yet another plus.
Opening the Packaging
The console comes in a box which tells you what it does etc but no mention of emulators most likely to avoid customs etc. The console itself is a similiar size to a GBA Micro although thinner. In the box was a soft case for the console, Headphones, USB Lead, USB Adapter, Driver Disc, Manual and Worldwide Compatible Power Lead (you just need a shaver plug in the UK).
The Review Itself
Turning on the JXD301 reveals what must be the best GUI on any handheld system ive ever played, its so user friendly and easy to use, plenty of options to change, bright and cheery. A major thumbs up so far.
Connecting the system to my laptop via USB cable was an horrid experiance it just wouldnt work at all, i then went to my PC and it connected straight away, godknows why this happened, but i wasnt happy with it.
I then tried some roms and movies on the console and to my surprise the movies played quite well infact i enjoyed watching heroes on the jxd301 so much that ive got 6 episodes on now
On the rom side of things GBA Emulation was a waste of time, sure it booted up but was as slow as hell.
Nes emulation was much better infact quite decent.
Snes emulation was amazing with sound on its crap but the speed was very very nice. I did find the controls a tad strange without L and R buttons.
GB/GBC emulation seemed to be crappy, whatever emulator they ported over didnt work well at all, low compatability and no sound.
Megadrive emulation was also nice enough but sound is rubbish luckily the games play reasoably well.
NeoGeo emulation is also a plus for the console, roms need to be with a .neo extension
The Ebook reader also seemed pretty decent and because i love my harry potter ebooks its great to read when i feel like it
Battery time for me lasted about 4 hours ive heard its supposed to be a lot more but thats what i got out of the system.
Conclusion
The JXD301 is a nice console/media player for the price, it has a nice built in battery and 2GB hard drive and the build quality and display on the screen are very good. The GUI is simply the nicest on any console in my opinion, For movies your going to have to try and see what works best for you in terms of encoded quality, the tv shows i tried ran decent although an adult film i tried was a fraction slow but in some ways that was a benefit
On the emulation side of things Snes and Nes with Neogeo trailing were passable but not awesome. GBA was a waste of space and GB/GBC and Megadrive need a lot of work.
But for the price and with some excellent coders already working on the console this could be the budget emulation console of the year. The lack of buttons even though its a fairly powerful machine mean for purists this wont do but for people who play now and again and for collectors of retro consoles then its well worth a try.
Ill give the console a score of 6.8 out of 10 - Lets pray that the homebrew scene can support this console
For those of you who have brought a JXD301, please share your reviews via comments
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January 13th, 2008, 23:26 Posted By: wraggster
A fancy mirror contraption not quite what you had in mind for video conferencing on your iPhone? Fret not, friends; Ecamm Network is back at it, this time devising a way to stream video from the camera -- at 30fps, no less -- to the Mac of your choice over WiFi. Even better, the clever cats hooked it up with Bonjour, so the Mac just sorta sees it as a camera without any configuration needed. The possibilities are pretty endless (or limited, depending on your point of view), but we suppose it's nice for iPhone owners to instantly have a free, remote cam for iChatting, if nothing else. The download isn't available yet, but Ecamm is teasing that they just might be willing to demo it at their Macworld booth this week.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/13/i...one-over-wifi/
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January 14th, 2008, 17:03 Posted By: Shrygue
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Splendid news on the Canadian front -- it seems as if that proposed tax on digital recorders and storage devices (you know, like Apple's iPod for instance) will actually not come to pass. According to Judge Karen Sharlow, the board "had no legal authority to certify a tariff on digital audio recorders or on the memory permanently embedded in digital audio recorders." The ruling enables all music lovin' Canucks to breath a sigh of relief, as it makes tacking on fees ranging from C$5 ($4.95) to C$75 ($74) in order to "compensate the recording industry for music that was copied" illegal . From here, a decision still needs to be made to clarify the legality (or illegality) of copying music from discs to DAPs, but at least we're seeing a touch of levelheadedness in the music biz, regardless.
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January 14th, 2008, 23:29 Posted By: wraggster
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Erica Sadun has updated his/her(?) collection of utilities for the iPhone.
Following utilities are with this pack:
Individual Utilities
alert
Alert is pretty much your one-utility source for all command-line alerts. It lets you customize text, buttons, and images and offers special features like timed alerts (no human intervention necessary) and progress indicators. Run at the command line for the full documentation and feature set. An early version of alert is documented here
autosnap
Like snapngo, autosnap grabs the contents of the screen and serves it via bonjour. Unlike snapngo, autosnap automatically names and serves files and can be triggered from your Mac using FileCatcher. Tap on the "File Throw Auto Snap" server and your iPhone snaps a picture and shares it to your Mac. The file appears on your desktop.
catch and throw
Command-line bonjour file sharing. Throw a file to another iPhone or iPod touch, where you catch it. Each takes one argument. Throw requires the file to send. Catch uses the path to save to, e.g. throw foo.amr and catch newsound.amr.
doAlert
You supply a string and doAlert opens an alert window with that string.
doPrompt
doPrompt opens an alert window with a string you supply and prompts the user to enter a text reply. The utility prints the result to stdout. (For Greg Hartstein by request)
doQuery
You supply a string and doQuery opens an alert window with that string asking "Yes" or "No". After running, you can get the result in $? (For Benanzo by request)
doSafari
Takes one argument, the URL to open in Mobile Safari.
ip-print
Scrapes the current ip-address used by your iPhone or iPod touch.
playaudio
Play an audio or video file from the command line on either iPod touch or iPhone.
phoneCheck
When run, determines whether the host is or is not an iPhone. If so, the environmental variable $? gets set to 1. If not, to 0. This lets you run an if statement in your shell script immediately after.
phonetime
Phonetime converts iPhone times into understandable dates, and will return the current time and the epoch time on request.
plutil
Property List utility modeled on OS X's plutil.
restart
Restart issues a launchctl command that restarts SpringBoard. Use this utility whenever you add or remove Applications to update the display and SpringBoard to recognize new items.
sendFileByMail
For iPhone or iPod touch with mail configured. SendFileByMail takes, at this time, one argument, a file to send by mail. It opens the mail program, creates a new message with that attachment.
showPic
Sometimes you just want to peek at a picture without having to bring it back to your development platform. showPic lets you do exactly that, with some crude resizing ability (double-tap is not supported yet but pinching is). Just give it one argument, the name of the picture to display.
snap
Snap grabs the contents of the screen and saves it to a snapshot in png format. Snap takes one argument, the name of the file to snap to.
snap2album
Thoroughly updated with better fidelity, this utility snaps a picture of your screen and adds it to your Photos library on the iPhone and (possibly) the iPod touch--even though that doesn't have a camera. It's unclear whether the iPod touch will sync to its album.
snapngo
Snapngo grabs the contents of the screen and then serves it via bonjour, using the file name you specify, e.g. snapngo fileshot will send fileshot.png to whatever device is listening for it. This is meant to be used with FileCatcher, so you can snap on your iPod touch or iPhone and the file instantly appears on your Mac Desktop.
sound
Sound takes one argument (y or n) and enables or disables system sound.
timedAlert
Takes two arguments, a number (in seconds) and a string. This displays the string as an alert for that number of seconds and then auto dismisses. (by request for Benanzo)
toggle
Very basic command-line app hiding toggle. It adds or removes application identifiers from the Special category.
toJPEG
Convert a file to JPEG. Meant for use with PNG. Be aware however, that the iPhone will read a png file that you just rename to jpg. This is meant more for files that must be in JPEG when sent back to your personal computer.
xwidg
Xwidg supports transferring your non-standard Applications into /var/root/Applications. It links to them via the undocumented /Widgets folder. Xwidg creates or deletes the folder and restarts SpringBoard. This lets you easily hide all third party apps (good for Genius Bar visits) or link them back. Xwidg takes no arguments. It looks for /Widgets and remove the symbolic link if present or adds it when absent.
http://ericasadun.com/ftp/EricaUtilities/
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January 14th, 2008, 23:31 Posted By: wraggster
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DressUp is some kind of fun application. It let you load a picture and modify it with putting different kind of textiles etc on it.
Changes:
Multi-wardrobe support. After stopping a frame, you can now go back to the wardrobe and add more costumes.
“Dismiss Mode”. You can now switch from move mode (where you move around the costume elements) to dismiss mode (a tap removes costumes). Use this to clean up your picture before snapping it.
Clean picture taking. I now hide the status bar and the navigation bars before snapping pictures.
Snap to Album. By request, you can now snap photos to your album rather than just sending them by email.
http://ericasadun.com/?p=142
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January 14th, 2008, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster
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MNPlight aims at getting rid of the need for a computer with iTunes. It runs on your iPhone, and is able to modify the iPhone calendar, address book and iPod databases.
MNPlight can be of particular interest for Linux users who don't have iTunes, but it can also be used by other users when they want to update their iPhone data when they are away from their iTunes computer.
If you keep using iTunes, you may experiment problems with the Calendar and the Address Book since modifications done on your iPhone won't be seen by iTunes.
Changes:
Fixed the fact that the function to use FireWireGUID was not called :-(
http://movenplay.gforge.inria.fr/
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January 14th, 2008, 23:34 Posted By: wraggster
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MNPlight aims at getting rid of the need for a computer with iTunes. It runs on your iPhone, and is able to modify the iPhone calendar, address book and iPod databases.
MNPlight can be of particular interest for Linux users who don't have iTunes, but it can also be used by other users when they want to update their iPhone data when they are away from their iTunes computer.
If you keep using iTunes, you may experiment problems with the Calendar and the Address Book since modifications done on your iPhone won't be seen by iTunes.
Changes:
File Browser:
Send any file by e-mail
Icon for directories
http://movenplay.gforge.inria.fr/
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January 14th, 2008, 23:36 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.
http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/
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January 14th, 2008, 23:37 Posted By: wraggster
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Francis released an update ot his application Waves.
Waves is a small toy for your apple iPhone or iPod touch. You can select a predefined image or your own wallpaper and you can touch the screen to generate some wave effect over the image. A floating button can also be added in order to generate the effect in the different screens of the device (i.e. the picture app).
Release notes:
Hi, There is a sporadic problem with the 1.1 version of Waves causing sometimes some troubles during the device reboot when the floating button is enabled.
That's why a 1.1-1 version has been put on the installer in order to remove it from your device before I can make a fix.
The download is currently removed from this page too.
Sorry for the troubles.
Francis.
http://gnese.free.fr/iPhone/Waves/
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January 14th, 2008, 23:37 Posted By: wraggster
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Bad news from Erica Sadun. The application "Listen.app" is cancelled, due to various problems. Listen.app gave you the possibility to send a piece of music to a database, which tried to identify it and give you appropriate information on it.
Here are what Erica Sadun said:
After talking to Gracenote, I have discovered several things. First, that their Track ID service is not available for noncommercial licensing. Second, that the costs for commercial licensing is beyond the amount to which I can possibly be committed to.
If you don’t mind spending $1 a shot, you can use your iPhone for music ID. Dial #43 (that is #ID). You won’t be charged for songs that the service fails to identify.
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January 15th, 2008, 18:50 Posted By: Shrygue
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The iPhone got its expected firmware upgrade, delivering version 1.1.3 that we've seen and debated about before. It delivers new features like the ability to send SMS messages to multiple recipients at once, faux-GPS on Google Maps via triangulation, Google Maps showing the hybrid map view, drag and drop icons on the home screen and bookmarks on the home screen (i.e. Webclips). There are also some new features, such as videos with chapters, the ability to display lyrics on music.
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January 15th, 2008, 20:05 Posted By: wraggster
It's not all love for the iPhone today -- Apple just announced that Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather are all coming to the iPod touch. New touch owners get 'em all for free, but all of you early adopters will have to cough up: the bundle is going to set you back a whopping $20. The new Maps app can't use cell-based location-finding like on the iPhone, but it can still figure out where it is using SkyHook's WiFi hotspot database. The touch also supports webclips and the reconfigurable home screen now, but we're a little unsure why all this has to cost $20 -- why no love, Apple?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/a...he-ipod-touch/
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January 15th, 2008, 20:06 Posted By: wraggster
Today Apple announced that it's sold 4 million iPhones in the 200 days since launch, at a rate of roughly 20,000 a day. The phone apparently attained a 19% share in the smartphone market in the first quarter of its existence, and Steve Jobs says the phone bested Palm, Motorola and Nokia put together in the space in the first 90 days. It sounds like a pretty impressive pace, especially given the fact that only 1 million had sold by September of last year, but Apple still has a ways to go to compete with the likes of RIM.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/a...-since-launch/
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January 15th, 2008, 21:04 Posted By: wraggster
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The worldwide casino favorite Blackjack aka 21 developed in Apple's UIKit framework, it runs natively on your iPhone/iPod Touch.
Changes:
Fixed dealer card show timing after double down (Bug #39)
Fixed card counts with Insurance/Surrender Prompts (Bug #39)
Added Back Button to Themes Menu (Bug #38)http://code.google.com/p/iphoneblackjack/
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January 15th, 2008, 21:57 Posted By: wraggster
News/release from Sweetlimre:
Hi,
GizMenu is a launcher for the Gizmondo, it allows you to place links to all of your games / apps in a nice looking, skinable menu system.
Latest Release: 2
Previous versions of GizMenu were an attempt at a shell replacement, this new version is an "Autorun Launcher".
This is how the change came about :
After looking at the new gmenu2x and porting it to the Giz, I was struck with an idea.
Instead of making GizMenu a full shell, why not have it as an Autorun launcher, then you get the best of both worlds: All standard capabilities and shell, plus a really kick-ass launcher.
So.. what I did was make a small Autorun program that does the following:
1. Checks an ini file for a menu to launch.
2. Creates eCursor (hidden) through eCursorLib
3. Creates the menu process
4. Waits for the menu process to exit
5. Checks some shared memory to see what the menu wanted to launch
6. Launches the process, conditionally enabling eCursor
7. Wait for the process to exit.
8. Relaunches the menu.
Special a "Bang" command "!EXIT" can be sent to the Autorun, which will cause it to exit and return to the standard GUI.
So without too much further ado, I present:
GizMenu 0.9, based on gmenu2x 0.9
and
Autorun for GizMenu.
Unrar the archive to the ROOT of your SD card (backing up any other autorun you may have as it will overwrite it).
Launch the Autorun in the standard manner.
Keys in GizMenu:
PLAY: Launch selected link / Confirm action.
FORWARD: Cancel action.
FORWARD: Clear Link text item
FORWARD: Goes up one directory in file browser.
L, R: Switch between sections - PageUp/PageDown on lists.
STOP: Bring up the manual/readme.
REWIND+L: Decrease volume for the selected link
REWIND+R: Increase volume for the selected link
BRIGHT: Bring up the contextual menu.
HOME: GMenu2X options.
REWIND: Help
The rest is pretty self explanitory.
Look in the Sections\System folder under GizMenu for "Exit" which is an example of the !EXIT bang command and in the Sections\Applicatios folder for "tre" which launches Tascal Registry Editor with eCursor enabled.
As eCursor is running under the Autorun process, you can enable it using the hot key (modify eCursor.ini in the root to change the hot key as per usual).
Suggestions, bug report etc. welcome.
I've been using this now for a while and its really useful.
-(e)
http://www.gizmondoforums.com/forums...howtopic=12440
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January 15th, 2008, 22:05 Posted By: wraggster
Jonz has released a new version of his Nes Emulator for the iPhone:
NES.app lets you play Nintendo games on your iPhone. It is a fully functional, feature-rich Nintendo emulator.
NES.app uses an emulator core we call NESCore, which we've forked from pNESx and InfoNES and re-engineered as a highly-portable and high-performance Nintendo emulator core.
In order to use NES.app, you will need ROM images of Nintendo games. ROM images are files containing the dumped instruction code from a physical cartridge. In many cases, you are legally entitled to posess a ROM imageof any game that you presently own. ROM images for NES are widely available online, or with the appropriate hardware, you can dump them yourself directly from the cartridge.
Features
Multitouch: Use the directional pad + A + B, or other combinations
Landscape Mode: Turn the iPhone counter-clockwise to play in landscape mode
Zapper Tap: Tap objects on the screen to shoot them
Full Screen: Enlarge your NES picture to the max possible
Save State: Save an instant snapshot of your game and come back to it later
Game Genie: Use Game Genie cheat codes
... and many more
NES.app is not iPhoneNES!
NES.app started as a fork of iPhoneNES v0.01, but has been completely rewritten to run very fast, and with many additional features including sound, multitouch support, full-screen, landscape mode, game genie codes, saved games and much more. It now contains zero code from the original iPhoneNES project.
2.0.3 [jonz] Cleaned up controller images
Documentation updates
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January 15th, 2008, 22:34 Posted By: wraggster
So let's just boil down the newly-available firmware 1.1.3 to the nitty gritty, shall we? Here's what Apple's latest juicy morsel is going to do to your iPhone (or iPod touch, if that's how you roll and you have $19.99 to spare) once you can finally reliably get it from iTunes:
Maps: New hybrid view, same as Google Maps. Satellite imagery and street mapping available on a single view.
Maps: Location triangulation. Uses nearby WiFi access points and GSM towers (on the iPhone, anyway) to roughly guesstimate your current location.
Web Clips: Web bookmarks can now be saved as home screen icons, including zoom and location information.
Home screen: Icons on the home screen can now be rearranged.
Home screen: Up to 9 home screens can now be created and "flicked" between.
SMS: A single text message can now be sent to multiple recipients; groups can be recalled for future use.
iTunes: Movie rentals are now supported.
iTunes: Support for lyrics.
Additionally, the iPod touch now features Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes, all of which were previously exclusive to the iPhone. Cheers!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/t...irmware-1-1-3/
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January 15th, 2008, 23:51 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
Enjoy this special moment that can only occur between one happy iPhone user and their consenting device. You'll get to witness the miracle of icon rearranging, the joy of Google Maps location finding, and the unending pleasure of homescreen Safari bookmarks. We didn't grab the multiple SMS recipient function on film, but we assure you it's exactly like it should have been to begin with.
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January 16th, 2008, 17:33 Posted By: wraggster
Today has seen a new release of ScummVM for many systems, heres a description first followed by the news for this release:
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.
Todays release news:
ScummVM. Do you hear it? Do you smell a new version? It's now here. And as usual and regularly, it is packed with tons of new features. Hold on, and take a look at the list:
Support for the FREEWARE adventure Lure of the Temptress (available for download here)
Seven other new supported games: I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream, Elvira 1 and 2, Waxworks (Amiga version only) and 3 Sierra pre-AGI games for children
Two newly available ports: iPhone and Maemo
Support for the Mac version of The Legend of Kyrandia and the Amiga version of Nippon Safes
Better support for Sierra AGI games
Improved support for modern 64-bit systems
Support for FLAC encoded music in Broken Sword 1 for the purists among you
Better support for non-English versions of games, including eastern languages
Sound compression for SAGA games
Heres the release notes:
New Games:
- Added support for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
- Added support for Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus.
- Added support for I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream (demo and full game).
- Added support for preAGI game Mickey's Space Adventure.
- Added support for preAGI game Troll's Tale.
- Added support for preAGI game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- Added support for Amiga version of Waxworks.
- Added support for Lure of the Temptress.
New Ports:
- Added iPhone port.
- Added Maemo port for Nokia Internet tablets.
General:
- Added ARM assembly routines for code in the sound mixer and SCUMM video playback, resulting in some nice speedups on several ports.
- Improved the way keyboard input is handled internally, resolving some odd quirks in some game / port combinations.
- Added optional 'confirm exit' dialog to the SDL backend.
- Added support for TiMidity++ MIDI server.
- Added DMedia MIDI driver for IRIX.
- Improved detection of new game variants and localized versions.
- Completely reworked internal access to files. (GSoC Task)
- Added option to delete games from the list with Del key.
- Added support for "~/" prefix being substituted by $HOME in paths on POSIX systems (Linux, Mac OS X etc.).
AGI:
- Added support for AGI256 and AGI256-2 hacks (GSoC Task)
- Added support for Amiga menus and palettes (GSoC Task)
- Better support for early Sierra AGI titles
AGOS:
- Fixed crashes related to OmniTV playback in The Feeble Files.
- Improved work on 64-bit systems.
Broken Sword 1:
- Added support for FLAC encoded music.
Kyrandia:
- Added support for Macintosh version.
Parallaction:
- Added support for Amiga version of Nippon Safes, Inc.
- Many bugfixes
Queen:
- Added support for Adlib music.
- Added missing music patterns playback in Amiga version.
SCUMM:
- Added subtitle skipping (via '.' key) in older games which didn't have this feature so far (e.g. Zak, MM, Indy3, Loom).
- Added support for Chinese COMI.
- Better support for eastern versions of games.
- Various fixes for COMI and other games.
- Added support for original save menus (browse only). Use Alt-F5 to activate.
- Added support for Spanish version of NES Maniac Mansion.
- Better support for German version of C64 Maniac Mansion.
- Fixed bug with cursors in Windows versions of Humongous Entertainment games.
SAGA:
- Added support for compressed sound effects, voices and music.
Touche:
- Added workarounds for some glitches/issues present in the original game.
WinCE Port:
- Switched compilers again. Now using cegcc ( http://cegcc.sourceforge.net/).
- Plugins now supported for WinCE (but not used in this release).
- Redesigned 'Free Look' action, mainly for the lure engine's requirements.
- Smaller optimization setting to counteract the growth of the executable.
- Various bug fixes.
GP2X Port:
- Support F200 Touchscreen
- Various fixes to input code
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January 16th, 2008, 21:01 Posted By: wraggster
By night i work on the DCEmu Website its a great hobby because of my love of homebrew and emulation and if im honest i get a buzz from the search for news and the excitement of every release and breakthrough.
By day i work as a gardener (although a bloody great one winning many prizes as part of a small team, ie Local National and once even a Euro Award part of my job is spotting those who are ding crime or about to, Flashers, Murderers, Stab Victims, Muggers, Rapists ive seen a lot over the years in my job but living in Nottingham and originating from Stanns its something im used to.
Which Brings me to tonight, after picking the wife up i had to go to our local Carphone Warehouse in Daybrook Nottingham and on the way there i spotted 3 youths with hoods up, i commented to the wife with something like look at those muppets.
As we turned into the carpark of the shop the same 3 youths were looking very shiftily into the Shop and usually i let the wife go in whilst i sit out side but not liking the way that they were looking around and i just knew they were gonna try something i walked in with the wife.
On entering the shop i spoke to the lone woman at the till that theres 3 youths to the right of the door, bear in mind that it was dark at this time she got her manager to come to the till too, a minute or so later the 3 black youths walked in with hoods down, at that moment a few more people walked in and they seemed to hover then walk out.
a few minutes later the shop was empty apart from me my wife and the 2 shop workers, it was then they rushed in with scissors and cut the alarm cables to the stand with the Apple Iphones on demonstration and rushed to head out the door, the shop manager blocked the door and one threatened to stab him so he wisely back away. The youths ran off, i did try to give chase but they had disapeared into the park next to the shop.
So in the space of 10 Seconds they had stolen 4 brand new Apple Iphones, no chargers but i would assume they would have sim cards of some type in as demo models, lets hope that one they get caught and 2 that the phones are totally blocked.
The police will be arriving soon to take a statement off us, do you know the funny thing, the gits are only sending me a refurnished phone for the phone of mine that was knackered.
That was my night, fun eh :P, but at least no one was hurt so should be thankful.
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January 17th, 2008, 00:37 Posted By: wraggster
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You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects.
Changes:
New rendering engine using OpenGL, a lot more faster than the previous one and with texture support!
Support for images and animations for objects, as can be seen on the first level of the Crayon Physics pack (I'll update the others in the next update)
Sound effects, and an option on the main menu to turn them off. The sound is currently playing as a system sound, so you have to turn them on to hear anything.
Multi-touch support! Up to 5 simultaneous touches are registered and processed. For now it's only useful for triggers, but I may add something extra for them in the future.
Basic scoring added, online scoring soon to come.
Some new flags and trigger actions, see the iPhysics_Levelpack_Format page.
http://iphysics.r4m0n.net/index.php?...Latest_Updates
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January 17th, 2008, 00:39 Posted By: wraggster
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Backgammon for iPhone is native application to run on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
Changes:
-Added Landscape view
-Settings. Currently you can set board view (Portrait or Landscape) and Match length
-New icon
-New background image
-Fixed bugs found in previous version http://www.adikus.com/
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January 17th, 2008, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster
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Waves is a small toy for your apple iPhone or iPod touch. You can select a predefined image or your own wallpaper and you can touch the screen to generate some wave effect over the image.
Changes:
Automatic start of the floating button display at device startup removed: fixes the bug in v1.1.
Display of a popup when pressing the floating button.
Quicker display of the floating button.
http://gnese.free.fr/iPhone/Waves/
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January 17th, 2008, 00:47 Posted By: wraggster
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MNPlight aims at getting rid of the need for a computer with iTunes. It runs on your iPhone, and is able to modify the iPhone calendar, address book and iPod databases.
MNPlight can be of particular interest for Linux users who don't have iTunes, but it can also be used by other users when they want to update their iPhone data when they are away from their iTunes computer.
If you keep using iTunes, you may experiment problems with the Calendar and the Address Book since modifications done on your iPhone won't be seen by iTunes.
Changes:
iTunes:
FireWire GUID is now automatically computed (thanks to Zoltan Kuscsik)
Photos:
Choose pics to send by e-mail
Upload:
Bug with saving files fixed
File Browser:
More actions directly available
http://movenplay.gforge.inria.fr/
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January 17th, 2008, 00:53 Posted By: wraggster
Apparently, a lot of iPhone users are experiencing issues related to out of order SMS conversations.
What's the deal, have you seen this? Shout it out in comments.
This post intentionally out of order.
A lot of people were pretty damned stoked about the SMS improvements Apple unleashed upon iPhone owners yesterday with firmware v1.1.3, but it's not all turning up roses.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/i...message-order/
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January 17th, 2008, 21:50 Posted By: wraggster
So apparently, that whole "plan to shut down a Bochum Nokia plant" didn't exactly sail over everyone's heads, particularly not in Germany. Reports are now flowing out that unions in the nation are taking it upon themselves to urge consumers not to purchase wares from the firm, with Dietmar Muscheid, regional head of the Confederation of German Unions (DGB), being one of the most vocal. Muscheid went on to state that "whoever buys a cellphone today should think about the choice they are making and what catastrophic consequences the company's actions in Bochum will have for thousands of workers." 'Course, the EU has already proclaimed that Nokia won't be getting a dime in relocation (to Romania, supposedly) aid, but unspecified government officials are reportedly lined up to speak with suits from the handset maker later this week to "discuss the plant's future." Whether or not all this commotion will actually change any minds, however, remains to be seen.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/n...german-unions/
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January 17th, 2008, 21:52 Posted By: wraggster
If you're looking to gain respect for your gear as a serious business-class tool, there's no better way than to infiltrate those Big Four accounting firms still using Lotus Notes. According to a piece carried by the Associated Press, Lotus Notes eMail is coming to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. We kid you not. The announcement is expected as early as Sunday the 20th, the day IBM's annual Lotusphere conference kicks off in Orlando. The software is free for those with existing licenses which means IT is going to have a hell of a time keeping it out of users' hands. If true, the application would presumably be the first official, third-party app developed with Apple's new iPhone SDK. IBM is also expected to announce their free Lotus Symphony flavor of OpenOffice for the Mac at the same time. An IBM spokesman seemingly confirmed the announcements by saying that Apple and IBM have, "a lot in common. We're going to cross-pollinate." Let's just hope they manage to untangle that jumbled Notes UI for finger-friendly navigation during the mating ritual, eh?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/i...us-notes-suit/
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January 18th, 2008, 18:29 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
If you're like us, you feel more than a little annoyed with iPhone's speaker volume. Yes, whether you're waiting for a call, trying to have a speakerphone conversation, or just listening for sweet DTMF tones -- the thing kind of stinks.
Perhaps it's time to take extreme measures, as some owners have resorted to... like sticking a needle through the holes in the speaker enclosure. Yes, according to daring "modders," it's possible to get a 40-percent increase in volume via this simple-yet-destructive trick of perforating the thin plastic which covers the speaker.
Apparently, the phone gets so loud post-surgery that the volume is actually startling to some users. Feeling like you're brave enough to really void that warranty? Let us know the results!
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January 18th, 2008, 22:58 Posted By: wraggster
Teenager George Hotz, aka GeoHot, the original iPhone unlocker is back. In a post to his personal blog he states that he has successfully unlocked a 1.1.2 firmware and bootloader 4.6 iPhone. Better yet, he posts the not-for-dummies version of the instructions to downgrade the bootloader to version 3.9 in preparation for running AnySim. We haven't tried this ourselves so remember, as GeoHot himself states, this hardware method "could brick your iPhone." You haven't upgraded to 1.1.3 already have you? If so, you're stuck with AT&T.
Update: We're now hearing that a software unlock for 1.1.2 / 4.6 iPhones is right around the corner. So don't crack that case just yet kids.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/1...days-too-late/
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January 18th, 2008, 23:17 Posted By: wraggster
In this week of Apple craziness, a hand-crafted 18K gold and carbon-fiber iPhone case studded with 3.5 carats-worth of diamonds definitely takes the biscuit. "Quantities are extremely limited" according to its manufacturer, and we say thank goodness—as we do wonder how many utter tools there are out there who'd want to wrap up a gorgeous iPhone in such an butt-ugly case. They'll have to be rich tools too: it's on sale for $20,000. [Case-mate]
http://gizmodo.com/346410/gold-and-d...with-fugliness
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January 18th, 2008, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster
For all those unlocked iPhones out there that were bricked after attempting firmware upgrades, we have some great news. It appears that Apple's new 1.1.3 iPhone firmware rewrites either most or all of the phone's firmware, allowing for bricked iPhones to be brought back to life. If this sounds too good to be true, watch the video above. We tested it on our own dead iPhone that was originally unlocked with AnySIM and later bricked by an attempted upgrade. This phone had just been gathering dust in one of Brian Lam's many gadget drawers, so we were surprised when we finally had success with bringing it back to life. Getting the iPhone working again wasn't as easy as we expected, and at times it didn't seem like the firmware upgrade had worked, so here's what happened.
To upgrade, we put the phone in recovery mode, then connected to iTunes and restored/ upgraded. After the phone had finished upgrading, it would not work with our already valid ATT sim, so we had to activate the phone using iTunes. This is where we ran into some trouble, because after activating the iPhone under our existing account, the phone still did not show any signal and would not activate to our account. We restarted the phone and just like magic, were taken directly to the home screen. The phone now had signal and was clearly activated to our account. We made a few test calls, and tested the data connection, both with complete success.
For all of you out there that will state the video could be fake because it has been edited, let us direct your attention to the plastic-film that is still on the glass of the iPhone. In every shot you will see that the phone still has it's plastic-film on, confirming we are using the same phone before and after.
http://gizmodo.com/346239/confirmed-...h-firmware-113
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January 18th, 2008, 23:27 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileMoney allows you to manage your financial accounts on your iPhone.
Changes:
UPDATE: The issue with using old accounts has been fixed in version 0.91. In case you started over with a fresh file and would like to import your old file, you may use the "Import" feature to do so. Place your old mms file in ~/Library/Money.
http://code.google.com/p/mobilemoney/
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January 18th, 2008, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster
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Treasuremytext for iPhone lets you archive selected messages from your iPhone to Treasuremytext, an SMS archive service (currently in beta). It works over your data connection so archiving messages is free. The application also allows you to delete individual messages from the iPhone (a feature missing from the built in SMS application).
Many thanks to Mike Lewis on iPhone dev, Flickr for API inspiration and the iFlickr team for sharing their code.
Release notes:
Features:
Delete Individual SMS
Archive SMS messages to your Treasuremytext account
Archives SMS messages and deletes from iPhone in one action
No message charges (works over EDGE and Wifi)
Added benefits for use with Treasuremytext:
Messages appear in TMT with the original date sent
Contact information is automatically stored with the message
A new contact is created if the from address is not yet in your Treasuremytext contacts
To use Treasuremytext for iPhone you need two things:
A Jailbroken iPhone with ‘Installer App’
A Treasuremytext account http://blog.treasuremytext.com/?p=119
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January 18th, 2008, 23:33 Posted By: wraggster
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This is a modified version of mColloquy, the IRC client inspired by Colloquy for MacOS.
mColloquy bugs that are FIXED in colloQ:
Channel and PM views are corrupted and go all red/orange after some time. Fixed However, each channel or PM view is limited to approximately 5700 characters. Oldest messages start scrolling off once it fills up.
Input bar is black on iPod Touch. Fixed
When channel and PM views are first created, the very first message is lost. Fixed
Tapping on URLs in channel and PM views causes app to crash/disconnect. Fixed
Along with that there are plenty of new features, check it's official release page for more details.
Release thread: http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25749 http://code.google.com/p/colloq/
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January 18th, 2008, 23:53 Posted By: wraggster
Alex has released his excellent Puzzle Game Collection on the Pocket PC:
Finally, a version 0.1 alpha is now available.
This is really an alpha version.
That means that a lot of things are not working.
For instance, Sudoku is not working at all!
Because I didn't implement keyboard's input...
You can play all other games, but after a game you've to close the game and to restart it...
Game lost (like in Mines) is not detected yet.
I released this alpha version to get a maximum of feedbacks.
So, you know what you've to do now...
The .exe is attached to this post or here is the direct download link: http://www.puzzlemaniak.com/blog/ppc/pzmk.rar.
;-)
Thanks a lot Mollusk for your support !!!
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic...;topicseen#new
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January 19th, 2008, 20:34 Posted By: wraggster
Mollusk has updated his SkinzSudoku game for pocket PC:
Skinz Sudoku Update !!
Here are the changes...
- Speed optimisations
- Save improvements (now saves the time I had forgotten to add... shame on me...)
- Improved grid coloring (should react better in all situations)
- Faster boot time
- Fixed Write mode mini-number bug
- Screen light should stay on now
The actual changes concerned mostly the commercial version, now available on clickgamer.com, with an improved Sudoku Solver, new hint system, and a new award system !
You can get a demo version of it on clickgamer.com
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=28.0
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January 20th, 2008, 13:02 Posted By: wraggster
The Financial Times reports that UK sales of the Apple iPhone weren't quite up to par, selling 190,000 phones against a target of 200,000 in the first two months. Some analysts even projected sales in the range of 350,000-400,000. Many cite the high price of the phone, saying the average phone is free and the average plan is under Ł30. In the UK the iPhone goes for Ł269 and the plan is Ł899 over 18 months. In U.S. Dollars thats $529 for the phone and $98/month for the plan. Ouch
http://gizmodo.com/346878/iphone-sal...ions-in-the-uk
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January 20th, 2008, 13:08 Posted By: wraggster
Well, that was quick. It appears firmware 1.1.3 has already been Jailbroken. The solution is not available to the mainstream yet, as both teams are holding back until the iPhone SDK launches in April. Nevertheless, there is video proof; jump to catch some shaky evidence of installer.app playing nice with 1.1.3.
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January 20th, 2008, 13:30 Posted By: wraggster
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Backgammon for the iPhone is native version of the classic game to run on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
Standard features:
- Play vs.iPhone (iPod Touch) and vs. Human
- Portrait and Landscape board view
- Undo movements
- Play match
Advanced features are available to donators.
Thanks to Ste's repo for the news - http://blog.psmxy.org/ http://www.adikus.com/
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January 20th, 2008, 13:31 Posted By: wraggster
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iQuran - the Mobile Quran (Koran/Coran) Recitation software for iPhones and iPod Touch.
iQuran offers its users the Complete Quran in Arabic along with its various translations. Specially designed to allow easy reading with easy scrolling, iPhone style. With excellent built-in audio capabilities, iQuran utilizes these to provide a very satisfying recitation playback experience, with verse for verse recitation along with auto-scrolling and verse highlighting. http://www.guidedways.com/mobile/iqu...oad_iquran.php
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January 21st, 2008, 02:09 Posted By: wraggster
Just when you think you've reached the apex of your iPhone's capability, there comes another accessory-maker, modder, or developer to prove you wrong. One new feature comes in the form of a piece of software for Jailbroken iPhones (or touches) called PocketGuitar. The premise of this software is simple -- it allows you to "play" the phone like an actual instrument, as well as strum along to your stored music -- thus fulfilling a number of twisted, rock-nerd fantasies. When you're done perfecting a version of "Frankenstein," you can use your phone to stalk your estranged lover... provided you're using Conice's 6 x 18 zoom attachment for the phone, a hideous plastic beast that snaps onto your normally trim device. Hey, no one ever said stalking was going to be easy.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/i...ing-with-ease/
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January 21st, 2008, 21:36 Posted By: wraggster
So the rising discontent with Apple's new habit of selective feature enabling got us thinking -- while we're not experts on the subject, the generally accepted reasoning for the $20 iPod touch upgrade fee is the accounting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: iPhone and Apple TV updates are free since revenue from those products is realized as a subscription over a period of time, but iPod touch updates can't be free since Apple just records that revenue directly. That certainly makes sense to us when applied to things like the 802.11n Enabler, which was trivially cheap and turned on unadvertised hardware features, but it strikes us as being a pretty big stretch when applied to a $20 package of new software applications. iPod name or no, the iPod touch is essentially a little computer, and the whole purpose of software is to enable "significant unadvertised new features" on a computer. For Apple (or anyone) to say that a mail app is a "significant new feature" for a computer is pushing the line just a bit far, and it makes us wonder how the company accounts for new versions of iTunes, QuickTime, and Safari, each of which add new features to already-sold Macs -- and how things are going to play out when the iPhone / iPod touch SDK is released next month. We've got a call into Apple to get to the bottom of it all, we'll let you know what (if anything) we find out.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/t...easons-or-not/
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January 21st, 2008, 21:37 Posted By: wraggster
Without a 3G iPhone announcement at MacWorld, Apple remains focused on increasing the penetration of their generation-one handset. True to the rumors circulating the intertubes last week, AT&T is now offering the iPhone to business customers. Plans break down as follows:
2 year commitment, voice service, and data plan required
$45 per month for unlimited data, visual voicemail, and 200 SMSes; $55 ups the SMS limit to 1,500; $65 for unlimited everything
An extra $25 per month nabs a 20MB montly data plan good for 29 countries, $60 per month ups the limit to 50MB
Activate by 31 March and qualified accounts will receive a service credit of $25 per month good through 31 December, 2008 -- yeah, that's a sweet deal
We have a funny feeling that the timing of this has something to do with IBM's imminent announcement of Lotus Notes mail for the iPhone. Now get on the horn to IT, they'll be dreading your call.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/i...business-plan/
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January 22nd, 2008, 20:35 Posted By: wraggster
Just as expected, the former Gizmondo Europe director is free at last -- well, almost. Barely a year after Stefan Eriksson was sentenced to "three years" in the slammer, he's now been let loose from behind bars and is currently "awaiting expulsion." Purportedly, everything was nearly in place to ship him back to Europe prior to Christmas, but apparently, the Swedish consulate has taken its sweet time in preparing a new passport. What's still unclear, however, is whether the Ferrari Swede will be flown back to Sweden or Germany, but if all goes to plan, we'll be liveblogging the whole ordeal as soon as that news breaks (we jest, we jest).
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/s...ing-expulsion/
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January 22nd, 2008, 20:37 Posted By: wraggster
There it is, just as we thought. The 8GB iPod nano now in pink anodized aluminum. A fitting new member to bear the third-generation nano's pastel palette. The perfect color to celebrate Valentines Day or uh, cancer. Two hours of downtime for this? Check the business-side, front, after the break while waiting for the official announcement.
Update: It's official. Still $199 with free engraving and 24 hours shipping. Yes, starting from right now.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/i...o-in-the-pink/
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January 22nd, 2008, 21:46 Posted By: wraggster
-Secure is reporting that a new worm, Beselo, is in the wild. The worm, similar to the Commwarrior worm, targets only S60 2nd Edition handsets such as the Nokia 6600. The worm is notable for its use of social engineering; when spreading it appears as a JPEG or MP3 file which is more likely to be opened by a user. However simple common sense can readily protect you against infection.
Although the file appears to be a JPEG or MP3 file when you try to open the file it will start an instance of the application installer. At this point the sensible user would cancel the install process.
Phones can not be infected unless the install process is completed. This requires you to go through several dialogs confirming that you want to install and unknown application.
We would advise you that you never install an application of unknown origin, especially one you receive unexpectedly via Bluetooth or MMS.
All recent S60 handsets (S60 3rd Edition) are unaffected, the virus is not compatible with he new version of the software platform. Changes in the platform's security model mean worms of this type are no longer possible. There are no known virus of worms targetting S60 3rd Edition phones.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/..._2nd_Editi.php
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January 22nd, 2008, 21:47 Posted By: wraggster
News from Mollusk:
Here's a new release of Shift ! It doesn't change anything to the gameplay, but makes it overall better to use :
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- Cleaned the code
- Start game animation (blocks slide in, useless)
- Uses less CPU power
- Optimized battery use
- Requires less memory
- Quitting ingame returns to menu
- Scores entry in the menu
- Scores for normal and hard now shown
- The blocks move faster
- Faster booting
- Added XFlib logo and version number on title screen
- Added possibility to hide/show next coming blocks !
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=31.0
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January 23rd, 2008, 23:26 Posted By: wraggster
Ah yes. Ogg Vorbis music files and the freeware OggPlay. I've still got a soft spot for them, even if the rest of the world seems to have largely ignored the format. But never mind, because, better late than never, OggPlay for S60 3rd Edition is now fully available. Do make sure you read the notes about skins, and note that installation is a two stage process.
http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/S60V3.html
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January 23rd, 2008, 23:46 Posted By: wraggster
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Converter is an unit converter for iPhone.
Changes:
Fixed 1.0.2 compatibility issue.
Fixed fuel consumption conversion issues.
Finally I've managed to merge results from two different currency rate providers, and now missing currencies (Fiji dollars, Bulgaria Leva, etc.) are back. Make sure to refresh your rates (from Settings screen) to get the updated data.
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-converter/
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January 23rd, 2008, 23:49 Posted By: wraggster
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The guys at cre.ations.net posted an interesting article about the recent 1.1.3 Firmware for iPhone's.
Read on:
So I've had the chance to examine the 1.1.3 firmware on a deeper level (using a technique not developed by me and which I can't release so don't ask) and have noticed some interesting changes behind the scenes that are quite blogworthy:
- SpringBoard no longer needs to be modified (via SummerBoard) in order to show extra applications in the /Applications folder.
- All applications now run as the user 'mobile' instead of as root.
- Preferences are now stored in /var/mobile rather than in /var/root.
What does this all mean? I'll tell you what it means.
The iPhone 1.1.3 firmware is ready for official installable applications.
[Read the rest of the article at it's origin page]http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/iphone-113-firmware-behind-the-scenes-changes
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January 23rd, 2008, 23:51 Posted By: wraggster
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Robota Softwarehouse updated their version/port of "Go".
Release notes:
We had a lot of email from people claiming they have ‘fatty’ fingers and cannot play the 19 x 19 board. Many suggestions have been given to improve the placing of the pieces on the tiny board (thanks!). After experimenting we have chosen to implement the zoom/scroll function and a quick way to undo the last move (including the opponents move). Last but not least the game supports stepping through a loaded game.
About 2% of application is paid so please don’t forget to donate if you like the game!
http://www.robota.nl/products/iPhone%20iGo.html
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January 24th, 2008, 00:45 Posted By: wraggster
The well known and respected iPhone hacker Nate True has discovered some very, very interesting information concerning Apple's latest update, 1.1.3. According to Mr. True, the boys and girls in Cupertino have all but prepped the device's OS for native applications, altering the functionality of SpringBoard to display additional apps, changing the ownership of applications to a unified "mobile" user, and moving the location of preferences to the accompanying non-root directory. Additionally, SpringBoard now boasts widget support via a class called SBWidgetApplication. All of these technical and seemingly minor details will apparently make it easier for developers to create new applications for the phone, though Nate says they'll also break existing native apps in the process. All we ask is that developers get those NES and SNES emulators ported quickly and safely to the new system.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/23/i...-applications/
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January 24th, 2008, 00:46 Posted By: wraggster
Oh cruel, cruel word... is it true? A teaser site for Gizmondo just appeared in the fetid bowels of the Internets boasting that the "legend is reborn." A cruel hoax or has Stefan Eriksson, freshly sprung from the clink, really teamed up with former accomplice Carl Freer in a bid to resurrect Gizmondo as the Swedish press claims? If true, the service is set for a Christmas 2008 launch with the promise of a "Gizmondo Live Marketplace" presumably chock-full of open source games running on a supposed $100 device. Will it really "democratize gaming?" Hardly. No worries though, we'll be too busy checking out the "exciting psychic worlds" to notice.
Update: Ha, Gizmondo spared no expense with the teaser -- it's all yours for just $66 bucks over at TemplateMonster.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/23/g...again-in-2008/
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January 24th, 2008, 00:48 Posted By: wraggster
Remember that formal announcement of Lotus Notes Mail on the iPhone? Right, Apple's first big corporate iPhone push which the AP said would happen at LotusSphere? Not going to happen, at least not yet. An IBM spokesperson told ZDNet Australia, "It's not something that (is) ready to go out and market or launch." In other words, Jobs heard about IBM's plan to steal his February SDK-launch thunder and shut down the announcement right quick. The most absurd part of all this has to be an enterprise adoption comment made by the so-called analyst, Kevin McIsaac, at IBRS (I be arse?). He said, "I can't really imagine someone who's really hip and cool -- like an iPhone user -- wanting to use Lotus Notes." Since when do the personal desires of users and corporate IT policy have anything in common Kev?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/23/i...-hip-and-cool/
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January 24th, 2008, 00:50 Posted By: wraggster
During the Apple earnings call today, the company suggested that WiFi-enabled iPods were "one" of the future directions in which Cupertino sees the media player market heading. While sticking to vague characterizations, a spokesperson intimated that wireless communication would play a role in upcoming devices (as demonstrated in the iPod touch), saying, "The iPod market is bigger than just for simple music players, one of the iPod's future direction is to be one of the first WiFi mobile platforms." Of course, Apple wasn't ready to put all its eggs in one basket, nor did it mention emerging wireless technologies such as WiMAX, but they're probably confident that customers will take it where they can get it.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/a...he-future-may/
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January 24th, 2008, 00:53 Posted By: wraggster
Gizmondo, a handheld gaming system released by Tiger Telematics in 2005, is returning this year according to a new website.
The original handheld wasn't widely available in either the UK or the US and was discontinued within a year. The company received more attention for an executive's ties to organised crime than for the system itself.
A video on the new website touts an "open source environment" as well as a "Gizmondo live marketplace" and "exciting psychic worlds." The promise that players will be able to create their own games suggests that the focus will be on user-created content.
No further details were provided, only that Gizmondo will be rising again in 2008 and will "democratise gaming."
The original Gizmondo had two separate price points depending upon whether or not smart ads were enabled on the handheld. It was sold primarily through Gizmondo's own website.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=32377
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January 24th, 2008, 18:41 Posted By: Shrygue
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In a presentation at the Mobile Games Forum, the latest statistics revealed by research company M:Metrics points towards a continued slow growth for mobile phone game downloads.
While 87.7 per cent of the UK population owns a handset – around 46.5 million people – only 4.8 per cent of them download games, and that figure drops to 3.3 per cent in the US.
However, while almost a quarter of people do play mobile games on a monthly basis, the vast majority are pre-loaded titles.
The presentation, by the company's senior analyst Paul Goode, also noted that there was steady growth in 3G service take up across Europe, and also in the penetration into the market of Symbian or Windows-based smartphones.
Additionally Sony Ericsson handsets were the most popular game-playing devices, something that he noted could be down to the demographic that chooses that brand – although only 20 per cent of mobile phone gamers are under 24 years old.
The research, taken from a sample size of around 15,000 in the three months to November 2007, also found that female customers were narrowly more likely to purchase games while male users were more likely to download, and far more likely to trial games.
Action and sports titles accounted for 70 per cent of mobile games represented on carrier decks, despite only taking 30 per cent of actual consumption.
Goode pointed out that this indicated more needed to be done on researching which titles should be placed prominently on the decks, although he did concede that it may be partly due to some other genre titles that significantly over perform, as well as franchise and promotional activity.
The most popular titles for female gamers included quiz games, arcade puzzles and strategy games, while males were more drawn towards sports and shooter titles.
The trend for consolidation in the industry has continued in the past twelve months, with key publishers taking a higher proportion of industry revenues then previously, with EA Mobile, I-Play, Gameloft and Glu Mobile among the top companies by market share.
The Mobile Games Forum 2008, organised by Osney Media, is taking place from January 23-24 at the Sofitel St James hotel in London.
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January 24th, 2008, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Ah, never mind the official Java YouTube streamer, emTube is still streets ahead, and pulling further away all the time. The author has quietly sneaked a big update, v1.0.10, online in the last couple of days. This includes lots of tweaks and fixes, plus a new 'Sort by' option and way of scanning your disks for flash video files. See below for the link and the changelog.
emTube is here, at http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl/
Changelog:
Fixed the infamous 404 error.
New: emTube searches now include restricted content.
New: added Spanish, Bulgarian and Hebrew translations.
New: added "sort by" option to the search view, also available as an settings option.
Fixed problems with playback of FLV files generated by SUPER conversion program.
Fixed: download percentage on the navigation pane wasn't updated in some circumstances.
New: Saved clips view now includes an option to scan your phone memory / memory card for flash video files.
Fixed: A lot of bug fixes and small changes suggested by users to improve usability.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/..._to_follow.php
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January 24th, 2008, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
YouTube has announced an official mobile client application for a number of handsets including several S60 phones. The application allows you to watch any YouTube video and offers browsing by popular videos (most viewed, top rated, featured), related videos or keyword search. You are able to sign into your YouTube account and access your own videos, subscriptions and favourites. The application also allows you to upload video from your phone to YouTube directly.
The application allows you to browse through the massive number of videos on YouTube. Browsing is via video lists which are accessed via keyword search or by the popular video lists (as found on the mobile and PC sites). Video lists are shown in a carousel list similar to that used in S60's Gallery application. Each video is presented with a small thumbnail and related descriptive information.
The client application provides an impressively rich experience and a good effort has been made to retain the look and feel of the website version - the same terminology, and graphics are used. If you use YouTube.com regularly you should feel right at home. The client application is written in Java which may not give the same performance as a native application (I noticed a few slow downs in my initial tests) and has a non-standard UI (like Google's GMail client application) which is not ideal in terms of providing a consistent experience across the phone.
Because the application is obviously heavily reliant on a data connection you should be wary of using it unless you are on a flat rate data tariff (video streaming can add up to a lot of data very quickly). You will also get the best performance in areas with 3G coverage.
The client uses RealPlayer internals to do the video streaming (you may need to set up your access point settings in RealPlayer to get streaming to work). The video is in .3gp format and is lower quality that the video you get through the website. You'll get a better video quality if you use one of the third party YouTube clients such as emTube.
The client application may also work on other phones, but there are no guarantees. Stefan an IntoMobile notes you can use this link for a direct download (N95 version, should work with most recent S60 phones). Officially supported phones are Nokia's N73, N95, E65, 6110, 6120 and Sony Ericsson's K800 and W880.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...ile_Client.php
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January 24th, 2008, 22:49 Posted By: wraggster
Jonz has released a new version of his Nes Emulator for the iPhone:
NES.app lets you play Nintendo games on your iPhone. It is a fully functional, feature-rich Nintendo emulator.
NES.app uses an emulator core we call NESCore, which we've forked from pNESx and InfoNES and re-engineered as a highly-portable and high-performance Nintendo emulator core.
In order to use NES.app, you will need ROM images of Nintendo games. ROM images are files containing the dumped instruction code from a physical cartridge. In many cases, you are legally entitled to posess a ROM imageof any game that you presently own. ROM images for NES are widely available online, or with the appropriate hardware, you can dump them yourself directly from the cartridge.
Features
Multitouch: Use the directional pad + A + B, or other combinations
Landscape Mode: Turn the iPhone counter-clockwise to play in landscape mode
Zapper Tap: Tap objects on the screen to shoot them
Full Screen: Enlarge your NES picture to the max possible
Save State: Save an instant snapshot of your game and come back to it later
Game Genie: Use Game Genie cheat codes
... and many more
NES.app is not iPhoneNES!
NES.app started as a fork of iPhoneNES v0.01, but has been completely rewritten to run very fast, and with many additional features including sound, multitouch support, full-screen, landscape mode, game genie codes, saved games and much more. It now contains zero code from the original iPhoneNES project.
2.0.4 [jonz] Updated for 1.1.3 (runs under 'mobile' user)
Everything is now under /var/mobile
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January 24th, 2008, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
News Updates from ZodTTD
snes4iphone is already a huge success, even before its public release!
Here’s a video of snes4iphone beta v0.4.1 submitted by atticus of the ZodTTD.com forums:
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January 24th, 2008, 23:34 Posted By: wraggster
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Chris Miles released his awaited game iCrosswords for the iPhone community out there.
Release notes:
iCrossword is a native crossword puzzle client for the iPhone
- loads the puz file format popular with online crossword puzzles such as New York Times newspaper
- double tap navigation bar to get to options screen. There you can get info about current puzzle and perform operations on it
- add new .puz files into /var/root/Library/iCrossword/puz
- thanks armadillo for the icon
Notes:
- this has only been personally tested on 1.1.2
- I've tried a number of puz files and they seem to work. Cannot guarantee that you'll be able to read EVERY one
- Only tested using English language
- use at your own risk http://iphone.rustyredwagon.com/
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January 24th, 2008, 23:35 Posted By: wraggster
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Caissa is a native chess game for Apple's iPhone. The author is already about to work on the next release. Please donate him if you like his work.
Changes:
Board/pieces preview in the preference window #79
Chessboard coordinate letters added #100
bug fixes #101http://byteeasy.com/projects/wiki/Caissa
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January 24th, 2008, 23:36 Posted By: wraggster
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Backgammon for the iPhone is a native version of the classic game to run on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
Changes:
- Added: If checker can't go, selecting of the column is not allowed.
- Bug fix: In vs.Human mode for Landscape view bearoff area for black checkers was in wrong place.
- Bug fix: In some circumstances control of the checker positions might be lost.
http://www.adikus.com/
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January 24th, 2008, 23:45 Posted By: wraggster
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Those of you torn between having an SNES emulator and vibrating icons need worry no more -- a team of iPhone hackers led by the illustrious Nate True has just posted an iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak. There are some hacker politics between the iPhone Dev Team and Nate involved, and the jailbreak is currently only for Windows users with previously-jailbroken 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 iPhones, but it's still sweet, sweet freedom.
http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/ipho...break-released
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January 25th, 2008, 00:03 Posted By: wraggster
After giggling off yesterday's Gizmondo teaser site for all its "the legend is reborn" and "exciting psychic worlds" posturing, we've now discovered that the spectacularly unsuccessful gadget will get to enjoy the last laugh. The menacing, synthesized cackling you hear originates from the halls of UK electronics design firm Plextek, which has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Gizmondo is indeed coming back.
Though "it will be a while" before the handheld system returns in some form, Plextek technical director Ian Murphy insists that "the product has been recovered from the liquidators and [Plextek is] bringing it back to market." Former Gizmondo exec and Ferrari killer Stefan Eriksson won't be along for the ride this time, but company founder Carl Freer is reportedly on board. He was recently quoted by a Swedish journalist as saying, "I'm going to resurrect Gizmondo." In the same interview, Freer saw the device's second coming happening as soon as May 2008.
Perhaps consumer applause will be a bit more rapturous this time.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/gi...-to-stay-dead/
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January 25th, 2008, 17:52 Posted By: Shrygue
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All of you who have been waiting patiently for Sony to upgrade its mylo Personal Communicator should be pleased to learn that the revised internet tablet has finally gone on sale at SonyStyle.
With its high-res 3.5-inch touchscreen, 1GB of storage, and improved Flash support, the $299 [Ł151.50] mylo 2 does indeed offer a number of attractive feature bumps over its predecessor -- however, we're still a little wary of how Sony's positioned this product in the market.
But hey, what do we know: apparently they pushed enough first-gen units out the door to give this restyled number a shot. Starts shipping on the 28th, in either white or black, says Sony.
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January 25th, 2008, 23:38 Posted By: wraggster
While it likely won't come as much of a surprise to those reading this, it seems that Apple's recently released iPhone sales numbers and AT&T's customer number don't exactly match up, leading those ever so insightful analysts to conclude that many of the phones are being sold with the sole intention of being unlocked. What is somewhat surprising, however, is exactly how many phones that might be. As MacWorld reports, Apple says it sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007, while AT&T says it signed up about two million or so iPhone customers during the same time period. While those aforementioned analysts point out that Apple's numbers were boosted by 300,000-400,000 sales in Europe, and likely a few sold over the holidays that were yet to be activated, that still leaves over a million iPhones running free out there. If you do the math, that seems to suggest that roughly one in three iPhones sold are being unlocked although, obviously, we're not about to get a confirmation on that number from anyone.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/a...eing-unlocked/
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January 27th, 2008, 00:09 Posted By: wraggster
PocketCM is a finger friendly contact application for PDA phone, it will allow you to scroll to you list of contacts, call them and edit them.
Actually it's the rewrite in native of ContactManager, a .NET version of a finger friendly contact.
What's different from other contact application:
It can be used with fingers, no need to get your stylus. Finding contact with your finger is really easy, it's different than other software: if you press you finger on the left or right border of the screen it will allow you to select the letter you're searching for, release the finger, it will show you the contact starting with this letter. Why does it work? Human being cannot point directly to the right letter on a small screen, however human are very precise while moving their finger. So you press the screen, see the feedback, adjust the position to the right letter... and you're done!
It's animated: the list scroll with your finger in a natural movement, the transition between contact detail and contact list are animated.
You can set contact as favorites, they will appear in the favorite list, perfect to get a quicklist of contacts under the finger.
You can edit your contact picture from the software, simply tap on the contact picture.
You can customize about everything by changing the setting.ini: color, font, background image, etc...
http://www.pocketcm.com/index.php
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January 27th, 2008, 22:17 Posted By: wraggster
If you've got a certain brand loyalty to the official iPhone Dev Team then take note, they just released their own special flavor of the 1.1.3 jailbreak for iPhone / iPod touch. We guess that with the splitter version already outed (and its secrets revealed to Apple) there was no sense in keeping it under wraps any longer. The hack requires a v1.1.2 jailbroken device with the BSD Subsystem v1.5 or greater installed -- it does NOT upgrade your baseband. All the usual cautions apply hacker-boy so be careful out there, we haven't tested... yet.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/27/d...now-available/
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January 27th, 2008, 23:00 Posted By: wraggster
Mollusk has updated his PocketPC Game:
Here's a nice release !
1.25 changes :
- Added Sudden Death (arcade) mode for even more fun !
- Core CPU/ram optimisations
- Pause button !
- Added version number to title screen
Sudden Death mode is an arcade mode wgere you only have 20 seconds per level ! Thankfully, you can cumulate time over several levels. The higher the level, the more time left when you finish it, and the higher you score. In this mode, only 2 bugs are added per level.
Great news : TangledBugs is now available on clickgamer in an enhanced version (2 new game modes, instructions, and hiscore from the menu) !! Only available on clickgamer.com
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=38.0
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January 29th, 2008, 01:21 Posted By: wraggster
News from Mollusk:
Here's a release that doesn't change much for the people already using TangledBugs (no need to update) but gives support for 240x240 screens ! (YAY, finally ^^)
Please note that when tested on a 320x240 PDA screen, it was outputted as a 240x240 square on the left part of the screen and should thus be fully playable (though ugly) !
Great news : TangledBugs is now available on clickgamer in an enhanced version (2 new game modes, instructions, and hiscore from the menu) !! Only available on clickgamer.com
http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=39.0
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January 29th, 2008, 01:45 Posted By: wraggster
We're not exactly sure how this all went down, but we trust Erica Sadun over at TUAW when she says that it appears that the iPhone's SDK key -- which will probably be required by all "official" third-party apps -- has been leaked. Two different sites currently have the key posted, but it's all just for show until next month, when the SDK hits for real -- and the code is undoubtedly changed.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/i...dk-key-leaked/
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January 29th, 2008, 01:48 Posted By: wraggster
The Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content. Sure, there are ways to get Youtube and other mobile video content through proxy sites that convert on the go or with other 3rd-party applications, but this puppy does it all in one sweet and free package. Facebook and Myspace pages load up in no time, video plays in the browser, and all of this is accomplished with some server side magic on the part of the Skyfire server but is completely transparent to the user. All flavors of Windows Mobile -- 5 and 6 for both touchscreen and not -- are supported with the roadmap hinting at Symbian support in the near future. Sounds too good to be true? It is, and you don't have to just take our word for it, follow the read link to get signed up for the beta, this is something that just cannot be missed.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/s...ng-does-flash/
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January 29th, 2008, 23:52 Posted By: wraggster
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Locations - a native iPhone application to watch webcam images whenever you want and wherever you are.
Changes:
[new] Assign username and password to a location (supports basic HTTP authentication)
[new] Search for locations on [the dev’s] database (about 200 mostly German locations available, and growing …)
[new] Random search will show a random list of locations out of the database
[new] Upload your own location to the database (only possible if the username and password are empty). These will be accessible via the search function once they are approved (by [the dev])
[fix] Keyboard issues (wrong auto correction mode, etc.)
[fix] Scaling issues (wrong image proportions in some cases)
[fix] Huge memory leak fixed which caused crashes (some similar ones still left)
[fix] Fixes for 1.1.3 compatibility (not tested)
[fix] Lots of minor fixes
Thanks to Ste's repo for the news. The program itself might be available for there only, right now. - http://blog.psmxy.org/ http://www.andreaslinde.com/projects/locations/
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January 29th, 2008, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
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SMSD is a simple application for iPhone to delete and forward individual SMS.
Features:
Delete individual Messages
Different views for incoming and outgoing messages
Templates
Backup all message through mail.
Compose new messages. (Apple got this right.)
Reply to messages. (Well, Apple did not miss this one.)
Forward messages.
Support for concatenated SMS (long SMS).
Send/Forward messages to multiple contacts.
Character counter.
Send Contact Information through message.
Search (Contacts and Text)
Localization (10 languages and counting..)
Conversation View
Changes:
New Feature : Make URLS, Mail Ids, Phone numbers 'click'able.
New Feature : Send Confirmation preference.
New Feature : Ability to insert multiple contacts.
New Feature : Ability to make SMSD default SMS App using preferences.
New Feature : Ability to insert email address.
New Feature : Ability to insert templates.
New Feature : Option to send typed message as mail.
New Feature : In message view, click name to call the sender.
UI Enhancement : New and shiny send button.
UI Enhancement : Change of location for character counter.
Performance improvement : Conversations should open faster now.
Fix : Delete from sms list used to freeze.
Fix : Down arrow in message screen was not working.
Fix : Mark message read when read using UP/DOWN button in message screen.
Fix : Delete from search list was crashing sometimes. http://amrut.joshi.googlepages.com/
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January 29th, 2008, 23:57 Posted By: wraggster
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SMS and call filter and cleaner app for phone. To install this (early) release on your iphone, you need ssh or installer with http://s.imov.eu source.
Changes:
- change PyslNotifier binary location (now in sub dir of Pysl)
- blacklist modification (add or delete) used without restarting daemon
- ordering message by date
- ordering phone by number
- checking daemon status after launching
- fix: history deletion crashing Pysl
- fix: daemon launching http://code.google.com/p/pysl/
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January 30th, 2008, 00:02 Posted By: wraggster
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iPhysics is a physics engine and comes with a bunch of levels/examples to play with.
Release notes:
This is mostly an update to help those with the flicker problems... There is now an "Compatibility mode" in the options screen, that make the engine slower, uglier and behave nicer with other apps... The flicker problem is a compatibility problem with other apps, so if you disable the other apps which may be interfering with iPhysics, you don't need the compatibility mode... If you can't disable it, or can't find the app which is causing problems, now at least you can play...
http://iphysics.r4m0n.net/index.php?...Latest_Updates
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January 30th, 2008, 00:07 Posted By: wraggster
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MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to. http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/
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January 30th, 2008, 00:10 Posted By: wraggster
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This game is a tribute to the Zoo Keeper/Bejewelled style games that are great fun. The Apple iPod Touch and iPhone are particularly suited to this game through use of the touchscreen.
If you have enjoyed this game and would like to show your support for this and future versions, please feel free to make a small donation. Any donation is much appreciated. http://www.casey.org.uk/ipod_izoo/index.html
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January 30th, 2008, 00:12 Posted By: wraggster
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Funiculus is a guitar tuner for the iPhone...similar to those you might by in a guitar store. It listens to you play a note, and it analyzes the pitch of the note and tells you whether you are sharp or flat. Because it uses the internal microphone, it cannot be used on an iPod Touch.
Release notes:
Don't let the new opening screen fool you. Not too much has changed, except for the new "Nearest Pitch" mode.
The nearest pitch mode allows "hand free" operation of Funiculus. It doesn't require to know what note you are trying to play...it merely tries to match it to the closest standard note. Of course, this requires you to be somewhat close to your desired note.
There is also a display which shows the note being tuned against. In some cases, the note may be WAY off...don't worry...it's trying to tune against an overtone. This is more likely to happen on the lower strings.
The new version (0.22) can be downloaded via the SourceForge page. It will probably soon be released on the ModMyIfone Installer repository as well. (See link in margin.)http://mauvilasoftware.com/funiculus/
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January 30th, 2008, 00:14 Posted By: wraggster
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The point of the game is to spell all the words you can for points, but make sure to get a six-letter word or the game is over. The game is fully playable-- tap letters to put them in and out of the word grid, double tap to submit the word. The famous 'twist' is performed by tilting the device clockwise or counterclockwise, and then tilting it back again. Once the round is over, words you missed are displayed in caps. By the way, if there's too many potential words to fit on the screen, the text area up there is scrollable.
http://groups.google.com/group/jiggy...web/text-twist
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January 30th, 2008, 00:38 Posted By: wraggster
We'd heard that the iPhone 1.1.3 update was causing major problems with SMS message order, but a new support doc up on Apple's site points to a relatively simple fix: turning on automatic date / time updates. Apparently the problem is caused when the internal clock doesn't match up to the carrier clock -- which seems like it'll be a continuing annoyance for frequent travelers, so hopefully a better solution is in the works.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/a...ering-problem/
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January 30th, 2008, 21:56 Posted By: wraggster
News from Keripo:
I did a simple cross-compile with a few modifications See below for the wiki page and a pre-compiled pz2 module. Select a supported file (see xmp's official page) via file browser and xmp will be launched as an external application (requires a nightly pz2 build from the Downloads page). The command-line xmp binary can also be launched via loader2 or a script file.
During playback, use the iPod's forward/rewind buttons to skip patterns. Press the play/pause button to pause/resume playback and the menu button to exit xmp. Playlist support has not yet been added here and neither has volume control (5/5.5g owners, beware and Protect Your Ears), though it should not be hard to implement that (will just make scroll-wheel change volume). I'll probably be doing a proper port (i.e. porting it into an actual pz2 module, most likely using a mpdc and mikmod borrowed interface/code) later (after which I'll add a pz2 module page).
Try the module with various different supported files. It should be able to play just about all of mikmod's supported formats and much more (no APUN, DSM or UNI, but almost 70 more formats), though I've only tested it with a few. You can find hundreds of free files at The Mod Archive; download some and test them with the above archive. Also try testing different formats (you'll need to find other sites) that the official site has listed. Please post your results and feedback here. Thanks!
Wiki page: http://ipodlinux.org/xmp (needs cleaning up)
PZ2 module: http://ipodlinux.org/Image:Xmp-1.0.tar.gz
(need a nightly pz2 build and file browser module)
Formats confirmed to work (to be updated):
xm, s3m, it, mod
~Keripo
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January 30th, 2008, 22:00 Posted By: wraggster
The phone games website ProjectNeXt has posted an unconfirmed video of what seems to be Worms for Next Gen N-Gage. Again, this is totally unconfirmed, but ProjectNeXt were the first to unofficially reveal the Star Wars N-Gage trailer video so they have something of a track record in this field.
THQ have already declared that they will release games for Next Gen N-Gage, and though they hadn't mentioned Worms so far it would make a lot of sense as the game was one of the most successful on the original gen N-Gage.
Worms was incidentally also the most voted-for third party game in AAS's poll to find out which original gen games should come back for the Next Gen.
http://www.allaboutngage.com/news/it..._Gen_N-Gag.php
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January 30th, 2008, 22:01 Posted By: wraggster
Google has launched a revamped version of its mobile search for select markets. The service is available in the UK, USA, France, Germany and Canada. The new system offers blended results and has a stronger location-based element. Blended results mix in local and news search results with web search results. In practice this means that Google shows the result type that it thinks is most relevant first. Read on for more and lots of screenshot examples.
The new version also features a redesign which gives the service a cleaner look and feel and closer association with the PC version.
A single search box replaces the previous search box with radio option (for search type).
The results that appear depend on the keywords used. Many results will be pure search results, as shown in the N82 example above. However other results will blend in other information. For example a search for arsenal will bring up information about the last match that Arsenal Football Club played, then some related news (second screenshot below) and finally some pure web search results. Similarly a search for darling news will feature recent news stories about the UK Chancellor Alistair Darling first and then present general search results.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...ile_search.php
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January 30th, 2008, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster
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MACalc is a native RPN/Algebraic calculator for iPhone.
Changes:
0.1.5 - fixed a change sign problem
0.1.4 - complete rewrite
added more functions
added conversions
added algebraic input mode support
added scientific and engineering notation
added multi skin supporthttp://web.newsguy.com/marcio/iphone/macalc/
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January 31st, 2008, 23:26 Posted By: wraggster
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LUA is a scripting language, which is now available for the iPhone.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. http://web.newsguy.com/marcio/iphone/lua/
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January 31st, 2008, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
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Search adds some of the most requested features to the iPhone:
1. Searching of contacts based on first name, last name, organisation, job title, department or notes.
2. Searching of calendar events based on summary, location, or notes. (Currently does not include some recurring events, and does not use the special calendar time zone support. All events are displayed relative to the main phone time zone setting)
3. Search allows you to dial up a date, and then jump straight to it in the iPhone Calendar application.
Changes:
- Added support for firmware version 1.1.3
- Calendar event results are now sorted starting from most recent
- Improved unicode support in calendar event info
http://www.polarbearfarm.com/installerabout.php
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January 31st, 2008, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
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Backgammon for the iPhone is a native version of the classic game to run on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
Changes:
- Added: One-tap checker movement.
- Bug fix: In the devices with firmware 1.1.3 settings might not be saved.
- Bug fix: When all checkers were at home and the first die couldn't be played the game did not check the second die.
The game itself is free, but donators will be able to access extra features. Please consider donating if you like this game. http://www.adikus.com/
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January 31st, 2008, 23:46 Posted By: wraggster
SymbianGuru (no, not that Symbian Guru) has released a handy freeware solution for one-way-syncing your Google Finance stock data down to your smartphone. My Portfolio runs under Java and works on all S60 3rd Edition devices. for Series 60-3 mobile phones.
"My Portfolio's key features:
- Easy setup and login
- Detail view of all stocks
- Auto-refresh function
- History for a certain stock can be requested
- Help feature implemented
- Totally freeware!"
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...our_Google.php
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January 31st, 2008, 23:47 Posted By: wraggster
Yes, the 3rd party app that started tongues wagging months ago, Mobitubia, is now out, rivalling newcomer emTube, of course. It seems to be freeware, too, and has a sumptuous interface. Link, comments and screenshots below.
Here's Mobitubia's home page. The app seems very swish, I love the interface and the polish. Performance seems on a par with emTube, perhaps not surprisingly. On slower devices like the E61 it's almost essential to pause each clip and only play when it's fully downloaded.
There are some interesting settings to play with too, experimentation needed ("Max frame skip") Searching by YouTube ID is there on the rotating menu and you can also open Flash video clips from other Internet video sites (though see the restrictions mentioned on the Mobitubia blog/home page).
So - how many completely different ways can we access the full YouTube on a smartphone now? Err... I'm up to 4 on my Nokia N95 8GB 8-)
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...is_now_out.php
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