Call of Duty for the iPhone will track your World at War kills

Filed under: Gaming, Freeware, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Activision has released Call of Duty for the iPhone... but don't get too excited, it's not exactly what you think. The first-person shooter hasn't quite been ported yet. Instead, they've released a "Call of Duty: World at War companion," which instead lets you track the activity on the popular World War II shooter game. You can track all of your ingame stats, and even follow your friends in the game and what they've done with their characters as well. And the app also comes with a news browser, to keep you up to date on the latest map releases and updates with the game. It's completely free, though you of course need a Call of Duty: World of War game for Xbox 360 or Playstation to actually get anything out of it.

In that sense, this app isn't quite so notable for what it is (World at War wasn't nearly as popular as Call of Duty 4, and this app is specifically about Treyarch's game), as what it portends: with Blizzard releasing their Armory app and a few other game companies releasing "companion" apps like this, we could be in for a very interesting holiday videogame season this year. Ports or translations of games don't do much to sell copies of the real games (as they tend to be either too similar or too different to the parent games), but "companions" like this can represent added functionality, and thus can do a lot to help and promote games on other platforms (imagine a Halo ODST app that sent you a push notification when your friend was playing or got a higher XP score than you did). This is far from the last we'll see of "companion" apps like this.

Call of Duty for the iPhone will track your World at War kills originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Call of Duty for the iPhone will track your World at War kills originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New iPhone “App for That” Ads: Share and Travel

After a brief respite showing off iPhone 3GS features, Apple has returned to their now familiar “App for That” playbook with two new TV spots, one focusing on Share and the other on Travel.

Share shows off photo transfer with Mover [Free - iTunes link], contact transfer with Billionth App Downloaded Bump [Free - iTunes link], and multi-player gaming with Scrabble [$4.99 - iTunes link]

Travel promenades with Rick Steves’ Historic Paris Walk [$4.99 - iTunes link], goes underground with Paris Metro 09 [$4.99 - iTunes link], and sends back the fun with Postman [$1.99 - iTunes link]

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New iPhone “App for That” Ads: Share and Travel

iCam brings video from home to the iPhone

Filed under: Accessories, Software, Internet Tools, iPhone

I was intrigued by Lauren's post the other day where she briefly talked about using the iCam phone app [App Store] to do some baby monitoring. I wondered what else I could do with this US$4.99 app, so I gave it a try with great results.

One nice thing about iCam is it can integrate up to 4 live video streams on your iPhone, even if the cameras are stand alone webcams or cams attached to different computers. In my case, I had a D-link webcam, a desktop mac with a Logitech webcam, and my MacBook Pro with a built in iSight camera.

I was able to bring all 3 onto a single screen on my iPhone and keep an eye on my house and parrot while I was out for dinner.

Here is the setup. You have to download an app called iCamSource to run on each computer that hosts a camera. It's free. If your computer is hosting 2 cameras, you make a duplicate of the app and run it in a second instance. In my case, my desktop machine had the attached USB webcam, and I was also linking to the D-Link camera that has a built in web-server and a device specific IP address.

With the USB webcam, it was easy to find in the software by name. You enter a unique user name and password. For the second webcam, the D-link, I had to specify an IP address, followed by the required code to bring that camera up. Each webcam does it a bit differently. I asked the iCam support people, and after a few tries we found the right combo for that particular camera. Support responses were very quick, by the way.

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iCam brings video from home to the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

iCam brings video from home to the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nice new TV Ad of the iPhone 3GS

Focus on the iPhone to iPhone communication with 3 nice apps…

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iPhone Live! Tonight 8pm ET/5pm PT - Got Questions?

iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, August 5) at 8pm ET/5pm PT.

If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to address, let us know in the comments below or tweet them to @theiphoneblog.

As always, pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early and reserve a space in our chat room. See you then!

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!

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iPhone Live! Tonight 8pm ET/5pm PT - Got Questions?

iPhone and Wiimote brought together by Bluetooth

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Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Peripherals

iPhone and Wiimote brought together by Bluetooth originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8

Apple has released Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, the latest updates and security patches for it’s desktop operating system, big brother to the iPhone’s OS.

While some previous updates have contained new iPhone-specific features, we haven’t seen any yet for 10.5.8, although some fixes will be of benefit to iPhone users on Mac. According to Apple Knowledge Base, these include:

• Improves overall Bluetooth reliability with external devices, USB webcams and printers.
• Improves iCal reliability with MobileMe Sync and CalDav.
• Addresses data reliability issues with iDisk and MobileMe.

If anyone notices anything else, let us know in the comments!

[via MacRumors]

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Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8

iPhone 3GS video vs. Flip Mino HD

Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone

It was an inevitable face off. The iPhone 3GS and the Flip Mino HD. One of our readers, Adrienne, did just such a test at the Dayton airshow July 18-19, and held the two cameras together to see how they compared.

Turns out both do well, with the Mino having higher resolution, of course, and the iPhone getting smoother video with less pixels to push around.

I've had similar results in comparing both cameras. The video from both is a bit shaky, and neither camera hosts an image stabilizer, but iMovie can fix that if you want to take the extra time.

I think the 3GS video is quite good, and for someone who wants to carry one device, it fills the bill. There's no question that the Mino will give you more detail, and it is wrapped up in a seductively small and easy to use package.

Follow this link to an explanation of how the test was run, and the video.

Thanks Adrienne.

iPhone 3GS video vs. Flip Mino HD originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

iPhone 3GS video vs. Flip Mino HD originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Tiger Security Update 2009-003

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.8 for both consumer and server versions of Leopard via Software Update.

The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhanc...

Apple to Replace 8GB iPhone 3G with new 8GB iPhone 3GS?

TomTom for iPhone pricing leaked

Filed under: Accessories, Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

TomTom's co-founder and CTO Peter-Frans Pauwels first demonstrated his company's turn-by-turn solution for the iPhone at WWDC in June of '09. You can watch a teaser video above. Since then, many customers have anticipated this app's release and pricing.

Handtec may have let the cat out of the bag. Daniweb linked to a page listing "TomTom for iPhone including mount" for £113.85 ($193.89US as of this writing) via preorder. That's a bit steeper that we were expecting here at TUAW, but not astronomical. TomTom's stand-alone units range in price from $119 to nearly $400. I hope to use my 3GS as a turn-by-turn device and avoid adding one more "thing" from the car.

How about you? Are you interested in an iPhone-based solution or do you want a stand-alone?

TomTom for iPhone pricing leaked originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TomTom for iPhone pricing leaked originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple phasing out iPhone 3G in favor of 8GB 3GS?

As brilliant as the $99 subsidized iPhone 3G strategy might seem on paper, the fact remains that the 3G now is a 13 month-old device -- the better part of a lifetime by smartphone standards -- and it stands to reason that Apple wouldn't be interested in consuming manufacturing capacity indefinitely with outdated equipment, especially since that game plan cuts into economies of scale on the 3GS' chipset and superior camera hardware. The solution? Let iPhone 3G inventory cool down for a few months -- $99 is a nice, round number after all that's plenty low enough to move units -- and when the carnage is over, phase it out in favor of a new lower-cost 3GS. That's sure to leave new 3G owners fuming, but newly leaked screens out of Rogers seem to indicate that's exactly how this is likely going to go down: add a black 8GB 3GS into the mix that can serve as the company's new entry-level device below the 3GS in two colors, likely for $100 less than the 16GB model. There's no word on when this might happen, but Apple's likely to host its usual Fall event to roll out new iPods (and more?), so this could serve as an interesting -- if not ultimately predictable -- footnote.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Apple phasing out iPhone 3G in favor of 8GB 3GS? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Five parent-proof reasons you need an iPhone

Looking to get your hands on an iPhone before starting classes? We list five persuasive arguments college students can use to get their folks to buy them an iPhone

Apple’s new low: censoring a dictionary

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_s_new_low_censoring_a_dictionary'; You know guys, you're not really doing yourself any favors at this point. We've seen plenty of stories thus far detailing the company's absurd, reactionary, and typically confusing application rejections or changes for its App Store, but the treatment given to dictionary app Ninjawords seems particularly telling. In essence, the program, a simple and fast reference tool -- a straight-up dictionary -- has omitted a handful of common words seen as objectionable by the Star Chamber of application reviewers at Apple HQ. What kind of words, you ask? Well, namely the same kind of words which you can find in any standard dictionary in just about any classroom in this country. John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame succinctly calls out what is patently obvious:

Apple censored an English dictionary.

A dictionary. A reference book. For words contained in all reasonable dictionaries. For words contained in dictionaries that are used every day in elementary school libraries and classrooms.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Software

Apple's new low: censoring a dictionary originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone vacuuming up 32% of worldwide phone profits?

Apple’s iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry’s handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi. The numbers, published by All Things Digital blogger John Paczkowski, aren’t limited just to the smartphone segment market, but look at all mobile phones sold in [...]

T-Mobile UK supplying unlocked iPhones - to big-spending angry customers only?

A new report alleges that T-Mobile U.K. is secretly supplying the iPhone 3G unlocked, but only to its highest spending customers who threaten to transfer to another wireless carrier. According to The Register, T-Mobile U.K. has authorized only 150 phones per week to be issued to certain customers. The phones, which are last year’s model, are [...]