Category: iPhone
ThinkGeek now has a new item in their store which will fit right into those hands of the retro gamers. The new 8-Bitty is a wireless hand controller which has Nintendo Entertainment System style D-Pad controls and multiple buttons for those games requiring more than the usual A or B button. The item was announced yesterday and is already out of stock with no ETA on new stock being delivered. Some of the fesatures of the 8-Bitty include: Classic retro-styled…
Do you have a spare iPhone 3GS sitting around that you have no idea what to do with it? Well there are a number of things that can be done these days including producing your next album with the out of date machine. One Like Son, a power pop band led by one Stephen Poff, has created their entire album on an iPhone 3gs. According to their website, “Start the Show was recorded on the iPhone 3GS using GuitarJack,…
Program: Pinball Arcade Version: 1.0.8 Size: 17.5 MB Language: English Seller: FarSight Studios URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade-free/id497189134?mt=8 After months of being hyped by many in the media, the biggest bust of the year must be Pinball Arcade by Farsight Studios. I was totally looking forward to playing some of the pinball games from over the years that have long left arcades everywhere for pinball graveyards. However, one should have been forewarned by the name of the publisher, which leads right into the…
While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent. Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a page from the MS-Dos 1.0 book and saying that the piracy is actually growing their business more than it is hurting it. According to Rovio…
Jumsoft has released Book Palette, a package which adds 10 book templates to iBooks Author. The package also allows you to change and modify the templates to give the effects that you need in your books. It also allows you to save your modified templates, thus making it easier to create your documents with uniformity across all the documents. This package is an absolute necessity for the user who is creating lots of materials and feels that Apple’s lot of…
Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application. In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.”…
Apple has released an update for iBooks 2. The update, version 2.0.1 is intended to address an issue with Textbooks not opening within the program. The update is now in the iTunes App Store and is a free download. To download the update, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
Reports are saying that that Apple has now landed the number three telecom company in China to distribute the iPhone. China Telecom (CHA) was the latest of the mainland China based carriers to announce that they will have a iPhone 4S for sale as soon as February. On 13 January when apple Incorporated released the iPhone 4S in mainland China most areas went according to plan. However, the main Apple store in Beijing was dated by scalpers trying to scoop…
Byte Squared has updated their Office2 suite to version 5.0.2. The Office2 suite allows users to create and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on their iPhone or iPad. The $#5.99 App is a must for users who just cannot live without their Office suite. Some of the changes in the latest version of Office2 Suite include: ☆ Document saving now preserves 100% existing content fidelity ☆ New page layout based document editor interface option ☆ Ruler bar with ability…
GAMEVIl got this game absolutely right. Old school video game baseball comes to the iPad and iPhone. Everything about this game reminds me of the days of the Nintendo Famicon or NES as it is called in the rest of the world outside of Japan. The style of characters in the game remind you of those old time games and the way that baseball was played. We downloaded the App, and even though there are options for more G-Points,we chose…
Program: Namco Arcade Platform iPad and iPhone URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/namco-arcade/id465606050?mt=8 Price: Free (Somewhat) NamcoBandai Games has released their entry into the realm of vintage gaming on the iPhone and iPad, Namco Arcade. Sadly, this is as far as the excitement went. While many of us who lived in the arcades in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the quarters we plunked into the machines were for real play on real machines. We certainly were not willing then nor now to buy…
In this day and age where iPhones and iPads can be tracked using the Where’s my iPhone App, you would think that thieves would take a bit of a more cautious approach. This time, the perpetrator robbed a woman in a handbag store at gun point. He took the woman’s purse and her iPhone, sticking the later item in his boot. When Police Office Robert Garland got on the job, he simply used the App to track the iPhone using…
According to a report by GigaOm, Apple has overtaken all of the other large hardware manufacturers to become the number one purchaser of semiconductors. The report states that Apple spend a total of $17.3 Billion USD last year on semiconductors. This change in the top rank has been spurred on by the iPhone and iPad’s popularity and demand. Source: GigaOm
Apple has finally created a support website for the iTunes U. Introduced along with Apple’s Education Initiative last week in New York City, iTunes U is intended to give students of all ages materials which are downloadable to their iPads as well as instructurs the tools with which to reach the student easily and interactively. Lack of a real support structure has been hindering usage of the facility so far, however Apple eliminated that issue yesterday. You can check out…
Evi is an app for the iPhone which it’s developers, True Knowledge, as well as several high profile Apple and Mac related websites were claiming was a good replacement for Siri. However, the reality is much cloudier than that. After 516 ratings, the average is 1.5 stars with most people complaining that the app can7t even connect to the Evi servers to perform the required tasks. Apple also had issues that were very similar when they first released Siri, however,…
A report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners states that of all of the buyers who purchased the iPhone 4s from October, 2011 to present, only 21 percent of the buyers chose the 64gb model. Online sales also decreased from 43 percent of total sales to 33 percent by the end of 2011 Source: Appleinsider.com
For those iPhone and iPad users lucky enough to have downloaded iMame prior to its being pulled on the 23rd of December, 2011, there is a nifty new instruction set available on the Internet for adding more ROMs. iMame came with 10 ROMs but none of them were particulaly exciting from the aspect of the average gamer. The one thing that was exciting was the fact that MAME had made it into the Apple App store. This has been rectified…
While Apple has put camera’s in most every device that they produce these days, many in the military or government cannot use the devices due to the sensitive nature of their jobs. That is until now. The M1 Shop in Singapore has the iPhone 4S models with no camera for sale now. While the cameras are a bit priceier than the camera laden models, they are worth the price for those who must have the phone but cant have a…
Push Panic!, the game that brings new meaning to the columns theme is available as a free download. The program which drops multi-colored boxes as you do your best to explode them, is not just a challenge, it is also addicting. Your objective is to explode as many boxes as you can, keeping the boxes below a red line. The more boxes you “link” together in the explosions, the higher the score. Push Panic! works on both the iPhone and…
The Donut Games free game of the week this week is Monkey Flight, a delightfully entertaining game which will keep you going for hours. The game now has 60 levels in the challenge section of the game, making for even more fun. This game is one you must get! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311768443&mt=8
