You may have noticed a couple of new features on the site. Courtesy of a cool new service for bloggers, we have subscribed to the Odiogo podcast service, which uses a surprisingly good text-to-speech engine to automatically convert blog entries into audio podcasts and the ability to read each blog entry aloud from within [...]

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I write for you all this evening, wondering what Apple has in stock for us in firmware release 1.1.4 (or whatever the next iPod Touch / iPhone firmware will be called). I truly do hope it comes with a couple newly-found features, this time not making iPod Touch users pay for any of the updates..
As [...]

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It’s been a tick since we had a brouhaha over the commercialization of apps for use on jailbroken devices (if you recall the Labyrinth fiasco), and it appears that the folks over at the unfortunately-named RiP Dev are going to resurrect the debate with the release of Caterpillar. Sporting a modular design and chiefly [...]

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If you’re like me, you’ve probably run the gamut of PalmOS devices and eventually moved on to Windows Mobile, or even the iPhone, after Palm sunk into near-irrelevance from sitting on their success too long and making some blunders in the last few years. Windows Mobile users can enjoy StyleTap if they really need [...]

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It rather figures, doesn’t it? Here we are, all waiting with bated breath for the release of the SDK, and Business Week goes and tells us that they have it on good authority that Apple is pushing its release date back a week or three. Apple is being perfectly stum about the [...]

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TUAW’s resident developer Erica Sadun has just released her latest creation. Appflow 0.01 is an application launcher that does for your apps what Coverflow does for your music. Once you load the apps you are presented with a familiar Coverflow interface, except it is your app icons, and not album art, that you can [...]

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Just in case you ever wanted to leave someone a short note on your iPod Touch or iPhone — a really short note — here comes Picomemo to allow you to do just that. Picomemo uses the notification icon flags normally seen in the mail and Installer apps to set custom memos. The [...]

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So you’re there, right? At your computer, doing whatever it is you do when your wireless mouse dies. Should have charged it, shouldn’t you? Well, too late now, isn’t it? You’re dead in the water, right? Not a spare mouse in the house. But you have an iPod Touch, [...]

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For those of you who haven’t checked up on Matt’s Blawg of Dewm lately, I thought I’d provide a bit of an update on the progress of his port of the classic Bungee game Marathon to the iPod Touch.
Marathon Touch Status:
Engine: Not so Stable, but crashes during music.
Controls: Tap radar around to move. Tap an [...]

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The recent Game Developer’s Conference has been interesting for gamers the world over. In and amongst the various GDC keynotes was that of Michel Guillemot, CEO of big-time mobile gaming outfit Gameloft, whose keynote presentation shed some light on their future plans to support the iPhone (and by extension, the iPod Touch) as a [...]

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A trio of guys got together and felt the urge to show of their skills by forming a band… They are known today as the iBand. The band consists of a pianist, a guitarist, and an electroplanktonist(?).
 
Ladies and Gentlemen! Without further ado!…
iBand!

 
I must admit, they’ve done a fantastic job. I cannot wait to see [...]

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If you reside a little higher up north - the colder parts of the world - like I do, you’ll know by now that we usually need to wait for products to arrive here days, sometimes even weeks, months, and at times years after they’ve arrived in the United States. Just think iPhone…
Well, at [...]

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