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‘Leaked’ 3rd Gen iPod Touch Cases (with Camera Holes) For Sale in U.S.

At this point, it seems obvious that Apple had been working on adding a camera to the newest iPod Touch, but for some reason, the feature was cut at the last minute. Exactly how last minute seems evidenced by the fact that some case manufacturers s...

TUAW Interview: Andrew Lacy of Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3

Filed under: Gaming, Software, Features, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, Music

Tapulous COO Andrew Lacy sat down to talk with us just before the release of the software, both about how he thinks consumers will react to the new business model, and what's next for Tapulous and this series that has come so far already. Tap Tap Revenge 3 should be in the App Store very soon -- it's available for 99 cents, with extra music packs at six songs for $2.99, or two songs for 99 cents.

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TUAW Interview: Andrew Lacy of Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAW Interview: Andrew Lacy of Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TapTap Revenge 3 Cometh with In-App Purchases for Big Name Song Bundles

One of the most popular games in iPhone (and iPod touch) history is about to raise the bar again as Tapulous has just announced Tap Tap Revenge 3. What’s new the third time around?

First, they’ll have 40 song bundles from major artists available to purchase in-app at launch, along with custom themes for each. Next, they’ll have an online mode with bombs, weapons, chat, PMs, and more. Customizable avatars are on tap, with achievements and levels, as well as an overall look refresh and performance enhancements.

There will be over 100 free tracks for download as well, along with new free and paid tracks released weekly.

Pricing is $0.99 for the app (Apple doesn’t allow in-app purchase for free apps), with $2.99 6-track bundle and $0.99 2-track bundle options. Availability, of course, depends on when exactly Apple sees fit to release it into the App Store.

We’re hoping for soon.

More screen shots and complete artist list after the break!

6-track bundles

• BLINK 182 – “Adam’s Song” / “All the Small Things” / “Dammit” / “First Date” / “The Rock Show” / “What’s My Age Again”
• FALL OUT BOY – “Thanks for the Memories” / “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” / “Dance, Dance” / “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” / “I Don’t Care” / “American Suitehearts”
• FOO FIGHTERS – “The Pretender” / “Wheel” / “My Hero” / “Best of You” / “Monkey Wrench” / “All My Life”
• THE KILLERS – “Mr. Brightside” / “Sweet Talk” / “Human” / “When We Were Young” / “All These Things That I’ve Done” / “Read My Mind”
• NO DOUBT – “Ex-Girlfriend” / “Don’t Speak” / “Hella Good” / “Just A Girl” / “Spiderwebs” / “Hey Baby”
• SMASHING PUMPKINS – “Tonight” / “Cherub Rock” / “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” / “Today” / “Tarantulla” / “1979″
• TIËSTO – “Fresh Fruit” / “Ten Seconds to Sunrise” / “Driving To Heaven” / “Knock You Out”(feat. Emily Haines) / “Lethal Industry” / “Carpe Noctum”

2-track Bundles:

• A PERFECT CIRCLE – “Judith” / “Weak and Powerless”
• AFI – “Miss Murder” / “Girls Not Grey”
• AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT – “Sometime Around Midnight” / “Wishing Well”
• THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS – “Gives You Hell” / “Move Along”
• ANGELS AND AIRWAVES – “The Adventure” / “Everything’s Magic”
• ASHER ROTH – “I Love College” / “Lark on My Go-Kart”
• BUSH – “Machinehead” / “Glycerine”
• COLDPLAY – “Lovers in Japan” / “Viva La Vida”
• THE CRYSTAL METHOD – “Busy Child” / “Keep Hope Alive”
• GODSMACK – “I Stand Alone” / “Whatever”
• GWEN STEFANI – “Hollaback Girl” / “Sweet Escape”
• BEN HARPER – “Steal My Kisses” / “Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)”
• HINDER – “Better Than Me” / “Lips of an Angel”
• JANE’S ADDICTION – “Superhero” / “Just Because”
• JET – “She’s a Genius” / “K.I.A.”
• JET – “Blackhearts (On Fire)” / “Start the Show”
• KAISER CHIEFS – “Ruby” / “Never Miss A Beat”(remix)
• KORN – “Coming Undone” / “Twisted Transistor”
• LADY GAGA – “Love Game” / “Poker Face”
• LMFAO – “I’m in Miami Trick” / “Bounce”
• LYNYRD SKYNYRD – “Sweet Home Alabama” / “Freebird”
• MARILYN MANSON – “Beautiful People” / “The Dope Show”
• MAROON 5 – “This Love” / “Makes Me Wonder”
• MEGADEATH – “Peace Sells” / “Wake Up Dead”
• MICHAEL FRANTI / SPEARHEAD – “Say Hey I Love You” / “Bomb The World”
• MORGAN PAGE – “The Longest Road”(Deadmau5 Remix- Radio Edit) / “Fight for You”
• NINE INCH NAILS – “Closer” / “Hurt”
• NINE INCH NAILS – “The Hand That Feeds” / “Only”
• ONE REPUBLIC – “Apologize” / “Stop and Stare”
• PHOENIX – “1901″ / “Lisztomania”
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – “No One Knows” / “Little Sister”
• RISE AGAINST – “Audience of One” / “Ready to Fall”
• SNOW PATROL – “Chasing Cars” / “Shut Your Eyes”
• SOCIAL DISTORTION – “Far Behind” / “Story of My Life”
• SUM 41 – “In Too Deep” / “Fat Lip”
• KEITH URBAN – “Kiss a Girl” / “Sweet Thing”
• WEEZER – “Hash Pipe” / “Beverly Hills”
• WEEZER – “Buddy Holly” / “Troublemaker”
• ROBBIE WILLIAMS – “Let Me Entertain You” / “Angels”

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TapTap Revenge 3 Cometh with In-App Purchases for Big Name Song Bundles

Flash apps heading for the iPhone

Flash developers look forward to developing iPhone apps with the upcoming Flash CS5.

iPhone headed to Telus and Bell’s fancy new HSPA networks next month?

Rogers is losing its iPhone exclusivity in Canada next month, if a new report by The Globe and Mail is to be believed. Telus and Bell -- traditionally CDMA-bound -- have been prepping GSM networks of their own in a joint effort, and it sounds like they'll be getting this off on the right foot with the iPhone 3GS as a launch device. Nothing's official just yet, but those in the know expect an announcement tomorrow or Wednesday. Rogers isn't the best-loved carrier in Canada, and a bit of choice never hurt anybody, so this seems like pretty good news all-round for our friendly northern neighbors

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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iPhone headed to Telus and Bell's fancy new HSPA networks next month? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rejected, ‘politically charged’ iSinglePayer app gets the green light

True to form, Apple has rethought its strategy on an App Store rejection, and has granted the "politically charged" iSinglePayer rights to terrorize potential buyers with its alarming messages. If you'll recall, the Application tackles the hot-button healthcare issue in America by offering spending advice for consumers and a GPS lookup for local Congress members' and their healthcare-related donations. As we mentioned in our original post, it's a pretty tame set of functionality, and certainly nothing that seems outwardly offensive (at least not any more offensive than lots of apps you can purchase). Just as with our previous complaints about Apple's way of doing business, it's not so much the rejections that bother us, but the unclear set of circumstances by which the company arrives at those decisions. Regardless, some firebrand app reviewer has seen fit to allow this townhall-rattling piece of software into the Store, so now you can go see what all the fuss was about for yourself.

[Via Daring Fireball]

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Rejected, 'politically charged' iSinglePayer app gets the green light originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bell and Telus to Launch the iPhone in Canada Next Month?

TiPb, among others, has been hearing rumors for months now that Bell and Telus’ new GSM-based HSPA+ network would be up and running by November, and that the iPhone would follow along immediately there after. Nice to see some confirmation via Canadian stalwart, the Globe and Mail, however:

Bell announced Monday that it will launch national service in November on the $1-billion next-generation wireless network it has been building with Telus, months ahead of schedule. The project extends the two companies’ existing third-generation (3G) networks to include the same technology standard employed by Rogers, the nation’s largest cellphone company.

No comments from any of the carriers or Apple, of course, and it remains to be seen what if any downward pressure competition in Canada — like in the UK — would put on iPhone pricing for consumers.

Our question: Bell and Telus will have HSPA+ but no EDGE (to our knowledge), so if an iPhone on Bell or Telus couldn’t get a 3G signal, what exactly would it fall back on? EVDO/CDMA is not an option…

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Bell and Telus to Launch the iPhone in Canada Next Month?

Vonage releases VOIP app for iPhone

Filed under: iPhone, App Store

Vonage [iTunes link] today posted an app enabling cheap international calls using either Wi-Fi or the cellular network. Vonage Mobile for iPhone is free, but requires you set up an account with Vonage, even if you already have an account for your home or work phones.

Users can use their existing mobile numbers, contacts and device interface to place the calls. Just use your existing contact list and click and dial - no extra steps. Users also receive real-time balance updates to ensure they always make the calls they want. The app utilizes your existing cell phone number so people recognize who is calling.

The app supports:

• Lower international rates than traditional carriers
• Lets you use your existing contact list without taking extra steps
• Uses your existing cell phone number

It's a bit surprising Apple and AT&T let this app through. It seems like it certainly 'duplicates existing iPhone features', but it may also be that Apple and AT&T are being careful while under the watchful eye of the FCC.

There have been a lot of negative comments on this app from people who are already Vonage customers and were looking for integration of this app into their existing accounts, but there is no cross-over between the two.

Vonage releases VOIP app for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers’ iPhone Exclusivity in Canada to End Next Month? [Updated]

The Globe and Mail reports that wireless providers Bell and Telus will begin selling the iPhone in Canada next month, ending the exclusivity arrangement enjoyed by Rogers Wireless since the iPhone's introduction there in July 2008.

Ne...

Rogers’ iPhone Exclusivity in Canada to End Next Month?

The Globe and Mail reports that wireless providers Bell and Telus will begin selling the iPhone in Canada next month, ending the exclusivity arrangement enjoyed by Rogers Wireless since the iPhone's introduction there in July 2008.

Ne...

Adobe lets you use Flash to create… non-Flash apps for the iPhone

Notably (or not so notably) absent from this week's mobile announcements out of Adobe's Flash camp is the iPhone, a platform that many want to see pick up official Flash support for a number of totally valid reasons -- but realistically, the gap between Adobe's stance and Apple's stance on the subject seems no closer than it did in 2007. The solution? Let developers make Flash apps for the iPhone and convert 'em over to native code prior to submission to the App Store. Of course, this effectively means that there's nothing "Flash app" about these Flash apps, but if nothing else, it lets devs apply their existing knowledge and code libraries in a way that'll make Apple happy and get real, native apps out to users without the muss and fuss of a manual port. The apps look pretty cheesy compared to most purpose-suited iPhone apps, but skeptics should note that there are already 8 apps live in the App Store that were compiled this way -- Adobe boasts that it's a 100 percent acceptance rate so far -- and the Flash CS5 dev environment required to make it happen should be available as a public beta "later this year." Pretty cool, but no, seriously... how about real Flash, Apple?

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Adobe lets you use Flash to create... non-Flash apps for the iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Resigns From U.S. Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change Stance

Multiple sources, including the Washington Post, are reporting that Apple has given up its membership in the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's stance on climate change legislation.

In a letter to Thomas J. Donohue, Presid...

Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C514f to Developers

Apple today seeded to developers a new build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (Build 10C514f).

The seed is said to contain dozens of minor bug fixes and performance improvements in these areas: Address Book, AppleScript, AppleScriptObjC...

Adobe Makes it Possible to Create iPhone Apps using Flash Technology

Review: Leaf Bound for iPhone

There's not a lot of replay value to keep you coming back to this vertical jumping game. But Leaf Bound is still entertaining, and a fun way to pass the time when you're standing in line.

Flash is everywhere…but not the iPhone (for now)

Adobe on Monday announced joining up with many handset operating system makers, including RIM, Nokia and Microsoft among others, to bring Flash Player 10.1 to smartphones. You’ll notice the name you don’t see: Apple. By early 2010, the newest mobile version of Flash should be available for many smartphone platforms. Not the iPhone. Here’s more details from [...]

Vonage offers low-cost worldwide and international calling for iPhone

VoIP company Vonage has announced the launch of Vonage Mobile, offering very low-cost international calling for the iPhone and iPod touch (and BlackBerry too). And its free. Interesting move, indeed. The iPhone app permits calls to be made via Wi-Fi or cellular connection, (the iPod touch is obviously limited to Wi-Fi calling). A release excerpt from Vonage: “With [...]

Turn your Flash into iPhone apps with Flash Professional CS5

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

So there's still no Flash in Safari, but once Adobe hatches Flash Professional CS5 you'll be able to port your wacky Flash games or animations out to real, live iPhone/iPod touch apps. Yep, ActionScript 3 nerds rejoice: that tasty App Store pie will soon be yours, never minding the whole plug-in debate.

This is truly quite awesome in one regard, as it lowers the barrier to entry for some app developers, and will ease the port of some cool online games that we've seen floating around the interwebs. Then again, if you've spent a little time at places like Newgrounds.com, you will quickly see the dark side to this announcement from Adobe. All those crummy Flash toys online just got one step closer to coming to life on the App Store (we're guessing most will sell for the low, low price of $.99). At this rate there will be more apps than iPhones!

Still, back when I taught animation and game design, we had a lot of fun playing around in Flash for the powerful prototyping capabilities, if nothing else. It would have been cool to test games on the iPhone so easily. The video on Adobe's site looks pretty cool, with them touting the "responsiveness" of apps. Yeah, unlike the slowpoke performance my kids suffer on our G4 Mac when playing Flash games, eh? I get it -- when Unity 3D for iPhone came out there were problems with performance (it has matured nicely now), and any tool that exports in this way (turning an .fla into an .ipa, essentially) is bound to suffer from performance. Does anyone else find it ironic that a plug-in that was designed to make multimedia on the web lighter has become one of the most bloated? I digress.

No word on what SDK features are supported yet, but you can sign up for the demo when the beta starts. Those SDK features could be a killer, of course. If you can't leverage some of the features on the iPhone (multi-touch, GPS, camera, etc.) these may be relegated to the Entertainment category. One other thing to note about all the CS5 applications: they will be Intel-only, Cocoa and 64-bit native.

Update: Well, lookee there, apparently some games in the store have been using this already. Did you know South Park Avatar Creator was made using Flash? Amazing.

Turn your Flash into iPhone apps with Flash Professional CS5 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe rolls out LiveCycle app for iPhone

Adobe LiveCycle Workspace Mobile ES2 lets users of the company's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite manage tasks while on the go.