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Entries from September 2008

New Rogers/Fido iPhone Plans “Confirmed” for October

Date September 24, 2008


Look, this comes from an alleged Fido employee, but knowing as I do how little information retail drones are usually given in advance, I would still take this with a grain of salt and chalk it up to rumour.
According to ehPhone member WorldIRC, the new Rogers/Fido inclusive plans will read something like this:
$60 iPhone Plan1GB [...]

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White Noise Updated to 1.1

Date September 24, 2008


I’ve said before that I don’t usually do App Store updates, but occasionally there are some that have undergone significant changes that make it worth a second look. I’ve also mentioned before that I’m a geek when it comes to certain things, and White Noise (the app and the concept) is one of those [...]

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Atari Forces the Removal of Breakout / Arknoid Clones | Days Later, Releases ‘Super Breakout’

Date September 23, 2008


The developers of BreakClassic and BreakTouch 3D posted on the TouchArcade forums on September 17th that Atari insisted they remove their game from the App Store.
Usually when this happens, the company asking for the removal has plans to release a port of their licensed game to the iPhone App Store in the coming weeks. So [...]

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Web Browsing: Android-based T-Mobile G1 vs. iPhone 3G – FIGHT!

Date September 23, 2008


The comparison will be inevitable. It could be said that aside from the Blackberry Bold and Thunder, the iPhone’s main potential competition is coming directly from Google’s Android, I’ll be the first to admit that Android has heaps of potential. It’s Linux-based, like Mobile OS X, uses Objective C for its SDK, [...]

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iPhysics Full / Lite Submitted to the App Store for Approval

Date September 23, 2008


You read that right ladies and gents. iPhysics is finally making its way to the iPhone App Store, after over 5 months of not being updated. r4m0n informs that he submited iPhysics Lite to Apple on September 16th, which means you should be seeing iPhysics within the App Store in no more than a weeks [...]

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Harvey Smith (a.k.a. ‘Witchboy’); Lead Designer / Project Director of Deus Ex & Theif, Developing iPhone Game

Date September 23, 2008


According to Gamasutra, Harvey Smith; independent videogame designer, writer and creative director, is working on an iPhone game to be released sometime in the future. There is no additional information in regards to the game — just the fact that there is a game coming from the Witchboy himself.
It has been mentioned that this game [...]

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Note2Self App Makes it Possible to Record Audio with 2G iPod Touch

Date September 23, 2008


There it is. The second-generation iPod touch has the official ability to record audio using a newly released application named Note2Self. (iTunes Link)
We all knew the new iPod touch had the ability to record, but we hadn’t had a recording application until now. You can record audio using Apple’s new headphones announced at their Let’s [...]

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Press Release: Tilt Me v1.2 Available Immediately

Date September 23, 2008


Ian of oeFun, Inc. has it that an update of their Tilt Me game has been published to the App Store, and is available immediately. Along side the update, those who haven’t purchased the game yet, the price has been dropped.
Have a read at the full press release below:
oeFun, Inc. Announces a new version of [...]

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10 Things That May Make Google’s Android Better Than Apple’s iPhone

Date September 23, 2008


The iPhone is one phenomenal piece of hardware. You can do almost anything with this cellphone that you could with a computer. In fact, you could do more, and it’s portable. It’s a darn computer the size of your hand. Apple did a marvelous job with their iPhone, and has made the product even better [...]

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Possiblity of Apple Selling 10 Million iPhones and Macs in 2008

Date September 23, 2008


Analysts are predicting that Apple just may sell 10 million iPhone’s in 2008 alone, and quite frankly, the same goes for their Mac line-up of computers.
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has recently upped his estimates of how many iPhone’s, iPod’s, and Mac’s he thinks Apple will sell Q4 of 2008. He went from a previous [...]

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Apple Launches iPhone Developer University Program

Date September 22, 2008


It has just made the rounds of the internet this afternoon that Apple has started an iPhone Developer University Program, teaching those whom are interested in learning more about the iPhone and how to create applications for the device. In fact, Apple started this program last week sometime, but I only first heard about it [...]

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iYo Makes Your Duncan Jealous, iPhone Happy

Date September 21, 2008


Yeah, we’ve all seen induction-powered electronic devices before — y’know, the ones with a hand crank you whiz round for a couple of minutes to charge up a capacitor that powers a flashlight or radio for five or ten minutes?  Nice idea, no batteries or solar charger required, which is cool, but hand cranking gets [...]

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Delivery Status Touch Application Helps Track Packages

Date September 21, 2008


Delivery Status Touch is available via the App Store, or through iTunes immediately (see bottom of story for purchase link). This application allows for any and all people to track their packages being shipped from other states/provices/countries, through several different delivery companies.
For Windows users, you can conveniently convert your deliveries into individual bookmarks for syncing, [...]

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Cambridge Audio’s Sonata / Fusion Audio Systems with iPhone Support

Date September 21, 2008


Cambridge Audio has just recently revealed two new HiFi systems in Milan.
The Sonata, aimed directly at audiophiles, consists of a 2.1-channel
DAB receiver ($547), which offers 40-watts of amplification per
channel and your choice of an up-scaling 1080p DVD player or a
Wolfson-DAC-loaded CD unit for another ($327). The all-in-one
Fusion ($549) includes 30-watts per channel, an integrated CD
player, [...]

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