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The iPhone 3G drives Crackberry Kevin nuts, no doubt about it. Sure, he likes a few aspects of it, including the inimitable App Store, but the push buzz when he’s talking, the lack of a back (button, that is), and a million other things add up to make him officially re-dub the device the Ah-[Redacted] phone.
While WMExpert Dieter kept hammering away about the openess of the platform, Crackberry Kevin focuses more on BlackBerry-type productivity. But that’s the beauty of the Round Robin — we get so many looks at so many different devices/platforms from so many different points of view.
Coming from a turbo tactile typing, push email addiction like the BlackBerry Bold, does Kevin have some legitimate gripes? Or is this just a case of post-Storm-FAIL sour grapes?
Confession: many of the things he picks on, we’ve complained about numerous times on TiPb already. But we’re allowed to offer constructive criticism about our beloved device. Can CrackBerry get away with it?
NOT. Head on over to CrackBerry.com and let him know what you think before El Jobso himself decides to call Public Frenemy #1 up and give him a little Apple-powered “Skidoosh!” You could even win a BlackBerry Bold for your trouble!
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Filed under: Video, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage
Behold, what is claimed to be the
world's first music video shot entirely on an iPhone.This gem comes to us from
GOSHone, A self-described "mad scientist with computers, gadgets, and musical equipment and stuff," G1 used his jailbroken iPhone and a copy of
Cycorder to produce what I can only describe as a little slice of wonderful. I can't verify with any certainty that this is, in fact, the "world's first," but I'm going to go with it.
GOSHone says that, while making the video was fun and relatively pain-free, he did struggle with the lack of a preview screen, and "tried to rely on the shiny black back and the chrome Apple logo for reflection." That's a simple, clever trick I hadn't thought of, mostly because I always have a case on my iPhone.
Have a look at his video, then download his
free album. It's good stuff.
Thanks to Valerie for sending this in.Music video shot entirely on an iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Music video shot entirely on an iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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My time with the FUZE is just about over, my review almost finished, and with it both HTC and Windows Mobile will leave me, a little poorer, a lot less frustrated.
I’ve read the comments on my video preview. WinMo users think I’m a “moran”. Fair enough. But I’m supposed to be looking at these devices from an iPhone users point of view, and that means the usability bar is set almost as high as the configurability bar is low. WMExperts will give you every little tweak, CrackBerry, TreoCentral, and AndroidCentral will give you the keyboard comparisons, TiPb is focusing on the touch experience and the overall user experience out of the box (since that’s all you get with a non-Jailbroken iPhone!)
But here’s the thing: TiPb’s main purpose is to service you, our readers. So what if any questions you might you have about the FUZE. What would you like to see better explored? Compared more directly with the iPhone?
Let me know in the comments and you’ll also get another chance to win our iPhone 3G prize pack.
(And remember to head on over to our sibling sites for more chances to win a Blackberry Bold, Palm Treo Pro, WinMo HTC FUZE, and Android G1!)
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Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Developer, Found Footage, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, First Look
I spend a lot of my time with a dry erase marker and whiteboard sketching diagrams for clients. I draw use case diagrams, flow charts, mind maps, you name it. On my Macs, I use the shape tools in Pages to draw my diagrams, but I often wish for a tool that would let me sketch charts on my iPhone.
Instaviz (click opens iTunes), from Pixelglow Software, is exactly what the doctor ordered. You can sketch out a rough shape (circle, rectangle, square, diamond, or triangle) with your finger, and Instaviz "cleans up" your sketch by turning it into a clean, symmetrical shape. Links between shapes are done by just dragging a finger between the shapes, and Instaviz automatically enters a straight or curved line to connect the shapes.
You can choose colors for the different shapes and lines through a color picker, zoom in or out using the familiar iPhone two-finger pinch/reverse-pinch gestures, add or edit labels, and scroll around your diagram. To erase objects, you tap on them and then shake the iPhone "Etch-A-Sketch" style.
The US$9.99 app can export graphs to a MobileMe iDisk or any WebDAV server in DOT/GV or PDF format. Here's a video showing the app in action:
Found Footage: Instaviz, graph sketching app for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Found Footage: Instaviz, graph sketching app for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Forgive the meta posting, but huge thanks to G4tv and Attack of the Show for featuring TiPb so prominently in their Best Smartphone Blogs segment. We don’t like to toot our own horn (since it toots in Marimba, naturally), but speaking for all of us, we love working on this site, love interacting with everyone in the comments and the forums, and love the amazing technology Apple keeps bringing us, update after update (missing features and all!)
Now, does this mean Kevin has a jailbroken iPhone courtesy of Jeremy’s how-to guides? Did Olivia finally get drawn to the light side? And now that the DieterMeter has hit prime time, will he become totally impossible?!
Check out the video above, and thanks again, AotS!
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Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.
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Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.
The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the ...
Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.
The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the ...
Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.
The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the ...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPhone, iPod touch
Pop is a new game coming soon to the iPhone by a company called Nnooo, and TUAW got an exclusive look at the new app before the official announcement of the release later today. As you can see from the video preview above, it's a very simple, very casual game, but nevertheless offers some fun and quick touchscreen gameplay.
Pop was originally released on WiiWare, the Nintendo Wii's downloadable content service, and I was wrong in the video -- there are no PC or Mac versions out currently, so the App Store is the second platform the game will appear on. I also show off a similar "game" called Bubbles, put together by Jesse Grosjean (maker of Taskpaper and Writeroom) for his three-year old daughter (I said six in the video, but she's younger than that). Pop runs with that idea of popping bubbles and turns it into a timed and scored game that turns out to be pretty fun.
Click the link below to read more about Pop, including some features that aren't shown off in the video above.
Continue reading TUAW Exclusive: Nnooo's Pop for iPhone
TUAW Exclusive: Nnooo's Pop for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
TUAW Exclusive: Nnooo's Pop for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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