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iPhone in Canada This Summer? Maybe. 2008-03-08 14:59:40 Rumours, speculation, and “official” announcements about the iPhone
in Canada
have been rampant as early as last April — before the iPhone was launched. Unfortunately, it just never happened. The primary point of contention responsible for the iPhone’s failure to turn up north of the Canadian side of the 42nd parallel, as I [...] Read more:Summer
, Maybe
Train Your Ears With Karajan 2008-03-08 11:40:51 Any budding musician should appreciate this: A new application has been released for iPod Touch and iPhone that allows you to listen to and quiz yourself on chord, interval and scale recognition. Called Karajan, it features three built-in instruments that will help teach you to recognize musical elements, which will improve your compositions. [...] Read more:Train
SlingPlayer Coming to iPod Touch and iPhone 2008-03-08 11:16:47 Old news for some of you, perhaps, but we’ve just learned that, according to ElectricPig.tv, SlingMedia’s SlingPlayer Mobile may just be coming to iPhone
and iPod
Touch. A high-level suit at Sling said, “iPhone and iPod touch are OS X devices, and we can write OS X apps with our eyes closed. It’s coming.” Their [...]
Caterpillar 1.1 Update Brings Back Reflective and 5-Icon Docks to the Table. Trial Available! 2008-03-08 07:55:00 RipDev have come out with a Caterpillar update. Caterpillar is that beautiful skinning package that has become available for all iPhone / iPod Touch owners - for a price.
Have a look at the new features in version 1.1 of this awesome application below.
Version 1.1. ChangeLog:
All Components:
Ability to request a trial to try out the product [...] Read more:Update
, Table
, Trial
Apple and Microsoft were conversing about ActiveSync prior to the iPhone launch 2008-03-07 22:47:45 Hmmm, looks like Apple
and Microsoft
had ActiveSync planned out very long ago…
Have a look:
Exchange support in the iPhone
has been rumored almost as long as the iPhone itself was rumored to exist. Much as the iPhone turned out to be real, so has ActiveSync on the iPhone. Microsoft released an interview with Terry Myerson, [...]
iPlus All-in-One Hack Tool for 1.1.4 iPhones 2008-03-07 18:44:22 Hackintosh member aviegas has managed to put together a sweet little package for taking your bog standard iPhone and hacking the everliving crap out of it — all fully automatic. He can explain it better than I, so I’ll turn the floor over to him:
A *fully automatic* tool for setting up your iPhone! For [...]
PosiMotion’s G-Fi GPS for iPhone and iPod Touch 2008-03-07 18:25:15 It is apparently a good week to be looking for a GPS
for iPhone
or iPod
Touch. New upstart PosiMotion is gunning for a bit of that iFund, announcing that they have the “world’s first” wireless GPS module for these devices, going so far as to throw together a two-page Flash-laden website as “proof.”
Regardless [...]
Pocket Touch: Testers Wanted 2008-03-07 18:04:54 Prior to getting the Gear4 BluEye, one of my greatest lamentations about the Touch was the lack of tactile controls such as I had on previous iPod generations. I loved the ability to control the iPod while it was still in my pocket by simply feeling for the clickwheel and clicking the buttons. [...] Read more:Pocket
It’s Official. GPS is Coming to the iPhone / iPod Touch 2008-03-07 14:59:31 Nav N Go is working on a GPS
system they call the iGo My Way 8 GPS. This is looking good. Nav N Go will be using Gomite’s adapters to receive the GPS signal.
Here is what Engadget had to say:
Here we go, the first honest to goodness GPS solution for the iPhone
. Having already [...] Read more:iPod
, Official
Town Hall Analysis: Some Thoughts 2008-03-06 22:59:58 I must admit, I was very impressed with today’s event. There was a lot more meat to it than I thought there was going to be; the enterprise features are very welcome and much needed, and the SDK demonstrations were truly impressive to a degree that I was not expecting. Even better were [...] Read more:Analysis
, Town Hall
Apple Town Hall Recap: SDK, Third Party Apps, and More 2008-03-06 13:56:48 It’s March 6th, a day that I’m sure many of you have Sharpied on your calendars with three big, bold, ominous letters. This would be twin to the one you marked off several weeks ago for late February and then had to scratch off angrily. Now, the wait is finally over: SDK Day [...] Read more:Apple
, Recap
, Party
MxTube: Download Videos Straight From Youtube. 2008-03-06 05:40:34 MxTube is a new application compiled by MxWeas. This application allows you to search for your favorite YouTube videos and then download them straight to your iPod. And the best part is you can then play the videos instantly using the same application, MxTube, after you download them. I am not going to stop there, [...] Read more:Download
, Straight
Many Slick 3D Games to Come, Thanks to ‘Freeverse’ 2008-03-06 00:46:04 image credit: Freeverse
Freeverse is in mid-development of four games for release when the SDK becomes available. I am sure that Freeverse is only one of very many other companies that have been working on games, apps and widgets for these amazing devices and have been waiting for the release of said development kit.
Here is what [...] Read more:Slick
, Games
, Thanks
Gemlogic Does the Bejeweled Thing 2008-03-13 01:13:59 Just released on Installer via the Big Boss repository (), this Bejeweled
clone by Spiffyware follows the usual match-three-or-more formula in fairly predictable fashion. The graphics aren’t anything to write home about, and the gems feature a transparency that looks a bit out of place, but otherwise it’s a pretty typical clone. It [...] Read more:Thing
Apple Announces: Already 100,000 SDK Downloads 2008-03-13 01:12:01 Apple, earlier yesterday, announced that over 100,000 developers have downloaded the iPhone SDK off of the Apple website itself.
In the words of Apple themselves:
CUPERTINO, California—March 12, 2008—Apple® today announced that more than 100,000 iPhone™ developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on [...] Read more:Apple
, Downloads
Insomnia Keeps Your iPod Awake At Night 2008-03-13 00:53:25 So your iPod
’s busy chunking away at something over WiFi — say, transferring some large file over SSH — and it’s taking a long time. You ignore it and do other things. The screen shuts off, followed by WiFi, and whatever your iPod was supposed to be doing has choked because the unit’s [...] Read more:Insomnia
, Night
Ability to Store Web Apps Locally on iPhone OS 2.0 2008-03-12 23:01:52 According to iPhone
Atlas, the release of iPhone OS 2.0 will allow for users to store web applications locally on the iPhone / iPod Touch hard drive. This is something I’ve wanted to be able to do for quite some time now.
Here’s the full story:
It appears that Web-apps can be stored locally under the [...] Read more:Store
Miss the Screenshot App? Try Capture 2008-03-12 19:02:07 Firmware 1.1.3’s changes brought about the inability to use the Screenshot
app due to the altered file structure and system permissions. Fortunately, a new program called Capture has just been released, and it’s designed specifically for for firmware versions 1.1.3/1.1.4. It works in much the same way as the old Screenshot app, but [...]
iPhone and Touch to Go Intel? 2008-03-12 18:26:16 Far, far be it from it from me to lend any credence to something printed in the Inquirer, but word is making its rounds that Intel
may be including the iPhone
in its upcoming road map. A picture of a slide purportedly taken at Intel’s CeBit presentation suggests that Intel is including the iPhone [...]
GPS Agogo: locoGPS Coming This Summer 2008-03-12 17:40:21 Announcements of GPS
devices are thick lately. This time around it’s Gomite, who announced a GPS device back in December. The concept has been updated and fleshed out since then. The Gomite locoGPS currently consists of the locoGPS Wi-Fi Mobile Navigation Server module that incorporates a processor, WiFi radio and GPS chip [...] Read more:Summer
Moo-Cow-Music’s: Guitarist. Out Now! 2008-03-12 15:41:49 MooCowMusic
has done it again. Guitarist
has been released sooner than first expected, and is better than ever! Go ahead and try it out today. Installation instructions follow below the features list.
Features
Unique “hammer-on” metaphor simplifies solo playing by removing the need to independently fret and pick a string.
A complete guitar fretboard (including open strings) to [...]
iPhone Dev Team Cracks Firmware 2.0 Before Its Release 2008-03-12 10:26:53 We knew it would happen. We just weren’t expecting it this early. In retrospect though, I suppose it was inevitable that the iPhone
Dev Team would get their hands on the forthcoming firmware and jailbreak the daylights out of it.
The iPhone Dev Team, who rumor has it just last night got ahold [...] Read more:Firmware
, Release
PuzzleManiak Updated to 0.2, Even More Demoniak 2008-03-11 19:58:54 The PuzzleManiak team’s efforts to bring Simon Tatham’s casual puzzle games to the iPhone and Touch just got a whole lot closer to completion. Version 0.2 has just been released and adds another 14 games to the roster, bringing the total to 17 mini puzzle games all contained in one app. In addition [...]
Rogue Amoeba Puts SDK Under Microscope 2008-03-11 18:21:01 Mac developers Rogue
Amoeba have the SDK, and they’ve taken the time to scrutinize the heck out of it for the benefit of all. While they are optimistic overall, they do fear that it sets some bad precedents in the development world and does a a fair bit to stifle creativity and development. [...] Read more:Microscope
Copy and Paste Bookmarklet 2008-03-11 18:09:15 Tired of typing ridiculously long addresses into Safari or having to make a long exaggerated post on a forum using a small keyboard meant for someone with fingers the size of french fries? Well now you don’t have to worry about this hassle any longer. A website titled BioCow, has released a web-based copy [...] Read more:Bookmarklet
Firmware 2.0 To Add Search? 2008-03-11 10:50:59 You just know that whenever some forthcoming new and exciting thing is announced, demonstrated, and/or captured on video for the first time, the hardcore pundits are going to deconstruct it word by word, pixel by pixel to look for clues to things not otherwise revealed in the unveiling. That’s exactly what the microscope-wielding bloggers [...] Read more:Firmware
, Search
iPhone OS 2.0: Full screen Safari, New CSS Effects, Bonjour, SVG Support, and More 2008-03-10 23:08:33 iPhone OS 2.0, due out June of this year, will sport a full-screenSafari
that supports new CSS effects and SVG images. Also, there will be full support for Bonjour (Apple’s zero configuration networking scheme).
Here’s a more in-depth description of the new features, thanks to iPhone Atlas:
Bonjour Full support for bonjour (Apple’s zero configuration networking [...] Read more:iPhone
, Effects
, Support
New Touchmods Headset In the Works 2008-03-10 22:49:11 The clever boys over at Touchmods are at it again. This time they’re working on a stereo canalphone/speaker combo that will let you listen to your favourite tunes and make and receive calls over VoIP using an all-in-one solution that plugs directly into the dock connector.
We just thought: its time to show you the [...] Read more:Headset
, Works