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Wacky Puzzle Action Game From Konami Jumps Onto an All-New Portable Platform
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced that WireWay is now available on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Initially introduced to gamers on the Nintendo DS, players will now be able to use the innovative touch controls to safely guide the lovable alien named Wiley on ...White Birds Productions and Bulkypix are proud to announce the release of SocCars on iPhone & iPod Touch
A unique and rich gameplay Ten incredible cars, all different and with unique features. Many types are available to suit your style, from the extremely agile racing car, ideal to overtake opponents, to the heavy armored vehicle, the championship’s best defense. Expect clever, tenacious opponents with evolving tactics! Be the first to collect ...Plants vs Zombies a perfect app for the iPhone
Casual gaming has taken over the industry, and particularly the App Store, by force. Popcap Games is at the top of that segment, with several chart topper games--Bejeweled 2, Peggle, and now Plants vs Zombies. We won't lie: we were eagerly awaiting the release date of this long-promised iPhone and ...Opera to show off Mini for iPhone at MWC
It took six months, but finally the App Store has approved the first batch of third-party browsers for the iPhone and iPod touch. It was a pretty exciting event because it was the kind of app everyone was used to being rejected because it replicates native features of the iPhone ...Zombie Wonderland coming to iPhone
Get ready! Grab your weapons because they are coming! When the pesky undead come out at night to haunt Niceville, there is only one person who knows how to clean up the mess: You! Hold the fort until dawn and you’re good to cash in on the fame and fortune ...I-play Launches Artist Colony for the iPhone™ and iPod® Touch Combining a Gripping Plot and Stunning Graphics with Connected Social Features
Oberon Media’s publishing division and the world’s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today announced the launch of Artist Colony for the iPhone™ and iPod® touch. Based on the successful PC franchise already downloaded by millions of players, this highly acclaimed story of love and betrayal will keep friends all over ...Adobe Executive Kevin Lynch Discusses Flash on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
BoomToom today sat down with Adobe Chief Technical Officer Kevin Lynch to discuss the relationship between Apple and Adobe and the deployment of Flash on Mac as well as the iPhone and iPad. Apple's decision not to include Flash Player capabilities o...iPhone battery dead? In a squeeze you can charge it with Jaffa oranges
Filed under: Video, How-tos, Cult of Mac, iPhone
This may be strange -- in fact very strange -- but Imperial Leisure, a marketing and social media firm, has created an advertisement using an iPhone, to promote the sale of Jaffa oranges. They found that with a lot of rods and cable you can use orange power, or rather the power of 2380 Jaffa oranges, to power an iPhone. Talk about thinking outside of the box, or in this case, the crate.
[via Engadget and Macenstein]
Click on the Read More link to view the ad.
[via Engadget and Macenstein]
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iPhone battery dead? In a squeeze you can charge it with Jaffa oranges originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
iPhone battery dead? In a squeeze you can charge it with Jaffa oranges originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Review: Mental Case Flashcards for iPhone
This flashcard app provides an extensive set of features with a nice interface. The learning curve is a bit steep, though, and users just looking for an app to help them study for a simple test may find those features to border on the verge of overkill.SpotLight GPS Pet Locator now available for the iPhone
Positioning Animals Worldwide, Inc. (PAW) today announced the generalavailability of the SpotLight GPS Pet Locator mobile iPhone application. Developed by PAW, SpotLight GPS Pet Locatoris the only product that combines GPS tracking technology with the 24/7 AKC CAR (American Kennel Club CompanionAnimal Recovery) recovery services, paving the way home for ...Opera Mini for iPhone — SPE at Mobile World Congress 2010
We had the opportunity at Mobile World Congress to sit down with Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Jon S. von Tetzchner and talk Opera Mini browser for iPhone. Now the good news: We’ve seen the Opera Mini browser on the iPhone, and it is wonderful. The bad news: While we can talk about it till the cows come home, we weren’t allowed to take video or even a still picture of it. Them’s the breaks.
Assuming Apple allows it in the App Store — and Opera is pretty confident that it will be — what iPhone owners would get is for all intents and purposes the same Opera experience we know from Windows Mobile and Nokia phones.
The iPhone’s lack of multitasking — erm, one-app -at-a-time feature – also isn’t a problem. You can duck out of Opera Mobile and then hop right back in without losing where you were browsing or the app having to completely reload itself.
All in all, it looked and felt like a really good browsing experience, and is a choice that iPhone owners should have. So write your congressman. Write your senator. And cross your fingers that the App Store gods give Opera Mini their blessing.
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The Wait for New MacBook Pros Continues, More Best Buy SKUs Found
Earlier this week, we noted that an image had been posted to our forums purportedly showing Best Buy's internal inventory system listing three unknown Apple products described only as "Dummy SKUs" and serving as placeholders for expected future produ...Fix iPhone EXIF rotation from the command line
Filed under: UNIX / BSD, iPhone
My iPhone is the camera that i use more than any other, but there's one thing that has consistently annoyed me about it. Apple uses an EXIF tag to rotate images. This can be a problem when you share images with others. Safari will rotate the image correctly, but no other browser will.Adding to the trouble is that Mail.app and the Finder will also "auto-correct" the rotation, so it can be hard to tell which images need to be "fixed" and which don't.
You could use the '/usr/bin/sips' program (sips --rotate 90 picture.jpg) if you knew which pictures need to be corrected, and which direction they need to be rotated (clockwise or counter-clockwise). But I wanted something that would, as they say, "just work."
(I also wanted something I could use on my webserver, which runs Linux, but that's really a side issue.)
My attempts to find a solution on Google were fruitless, so I asked on Twitter. Michael Baltaks pointed me to jhead, which describes itself as a "Exif Jpeg header manipulation tool" which includes the source code as well as pre-built binaries for OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and even Windows.
To fix a picture named "image.jpg" just type "jhead -autorot image.jpg" and you will see "Modified: image.jpg". You can fix all JPGs in the current folder using "jhead -autorot *.jpg" and it will only change the images which have the EXIF tag.
Note: You might be tempted to use the "-norot" argument, which will "zero out" the rotation tag, but it will not have the desired effect, and (even worse) once you have used the "-norot" you can't use "-autorot" -- trust me, I learned that one the hard way.
Fix iPhone EXIF rotation from the command line originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Fix iPhone EXIF rotation from the command line originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPad SDK’s surprise: There are no surprises
Developers say that beyond support of UI elements for the iPad's larger screen, there's nothing too surprising in the version of the iPhone SDK that lets them build apps for the forthcoming tablet.Quick App: Meebo IM for iPhone and iPod touch
It’s been a long time coming, but instant messaging client, Meebo, [iTunes Link - Free] has finally made it into the App Store. The last time TiPb mentioned Meebo was back in 2008 when Chad reviewed their web app. Since then, several other IM apps have become popular. What does Meembo have to offer?
- Push notifications even when the app is closed
- Stay connected as you move from Edge to 3G to WiFi
- Meebo’s proven multi-network access protocols
- Automatically reconnect if you lose coverage so you don’t miss a message
- Swipe to switch between multiple conversations
- Rotate for landscape mode and a wider keyboard.
- Message preview from the Chats List
- Full Meebo emoticon support
- Searchable Chat History
- Sort chats by most recent or full view
- Support for all the major IM networks, and many more
We’ve been using Meebo for about a week now and it is a very good effort for a 1.0 release. You can really tell the app was optimized for speed, simplicity, and performance as claimed. While the UI could use a little work, it does have all of the bells and whistles you can imagine to compete with with the current crop of IM client top contenders.
Screenshots after the break!
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Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone
Filed under: Gaming, iPod Family, iPhone
Last week we noted the impending arrival PopCap's ridiculously addictive Plants vs. Zombies onto the iPhone / iPod Touch and now this marvelous time-waster has landed. A variant of the the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies requires you to defend your house from mobs of raging zombies by placing various sorts of projectile emitting, exploding, and zombie-eating plants between them and your front door.Much like previous hits Peggle and Bejeweled, the PopCap team has produced a first-class iPhone port. On my 3GS it runs smoothly and the core gameplay is substantially unchanged from the desktop version, despite the smaller screen (you can get a free gameplay taste with the online version). Minor tweaks include placing your plant "catalog" along the left side of the screen and adding handy highlights which show you exactly into which row and column you're placing your plants.
Plants vs. Zombies (iTunes link) is available now for iPhone and iPod touch for a bargain price of $2.99. Go get it; you won't be disappointed.
Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Textfree SMS for iPhone, iPod touch hits 1 Billion Messages Served in 10 Months
Pinger sent us word that their Textfree [$5.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch, which lets US users send and reply to SMS, has hit 1 billion messages delivered in just 10 months.
Now, we don’t usually run metrics announcements here at TiPb, but I don’t usually come back from CES with $45 in SMS charges either (billed at $0.80 each since I was roaming). Would that they would internationalize it!
If you’ve used Textfree or another SMS-alternative, how did it work for you?
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How Much Are You Willing to Pay for Magazines, Newspapers Subscriptions on the iPad
How much are you willing to pay for magazine and newspaper subscriptions on the iPad? That’s a question publishers like the New York Times are literally fighting over, according to Valley Wag.
In their specific case, the old guard in “print” want to charge $20-$30 a month to access the paper online via the New York Times app shown off during last month’s iPad announcement. Seems they’re afraid it will cut into the traditional print-it, fold-it, put-it-on-a-truck-and-ship-it business. The folks in “digital”, however, want to charge $10 since, you know, you don’t have to print, fold, or drive it around to get it to the readers (cost for paper and fuel is zero).
That’s just the NYT, mind you. While Apple is releasing a standardized, iTunes-based iBooks Store for the iPad, they haven’t offered anything similar for newspapers or magazines (yet), meaning even if the Times settles on one model, the Washington Post (or whomever) could settle on something completely different. Atypically confusing for an Apple platform, isn’t it?
And either way, there’s really no precedent as to whether or not people will pay $10 a month for a digital newspaper, let alone $20 or $30. They certainly will for real world newspapers they can hold in their hand and share around the house and office, but for digital?
Some magazines, like Wired, are showing off and discussing concepts of what their digital version will look like (see their non-iPhone friendly video, after the jump), perhaps hoping the richer, multimedia experience will create a greater perception of value.
While people are used to free content on the web (Wall Street Journal aside), convenience and ease of use did get some off the file-sharing and onto iTunes Music. Could the same work for print? And what price point will let them stay in business and let us keep reading their content?
How much are you willing to pay to read the New York Times or Wired from the comfort of your iPad?
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Macworld 2010: Get an education with the DriveSavers Hard Drive Disk-aster Simulator
Filed under: Hardware, Interviews, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review
DriveSavers has been the go-to company for data recovery since 1985, when I used to read about them in Apple ][ magazines. They have saved the bacon (and jobs) of many people over the ensuing years. When all else fails, DriveSavers can be counted on to retrieve your data -- whether it's on a hard drive, memory card, iPod, iPhone, or just about any type of storage media.It seems that their heart is in the right place; although seemingly not great for their business, they created the wonderful free DriveSavers Hard Drive Disk-aster Simulator app for the iPhone or iPod touch. The app teaches, in interactive fashion, how a hard disk works, and all the things that can crash a drive. It shows the inside of a hard disk where you can tap around to read descriptions of all the components.
Next, using interactive animation, sound and vibration, you'll learn all the things that can crash a drive. You'll learn what happens during a clicker failure, seized motor, problems with spinning up and down, solid state drive failures (yes, they can fail too), contamination and head crashes. It's both entertaining and educational. There is also a section relating to protection strategies, which covers best practices, backup strategies, securing your data, and how serious a problem must be before you call DriveSavers. Knowledge is power, and I consider this critical information for any computer user.
Another section shows you pictures of the clean room where all the data recovery gets done. DriveSavers employs the most advanced certified IS 5 (class 100) clean rooms in the industry and is authorized by all hard drive manufacturers to work on hard drives without voiding a warranty. If you don't have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can still learn everything in the app via a web-based Flash video.
We conducted an interview with Chris Bross from DriveSavers from the show floor. Chris talks about the philosophy behind DriveSavers. I found it interesting that there is a suicide prevention professional on staff to take call from clients on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- which is not an uncommon occurrence. Click on the Read More link to see the interview.
Macworld 2010: Get an education with the DriveSavers Hard Drive Disk-aster Simulator originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Macworld 2010: Get an education with the DriveSavers Hard Drive Disk-aster Simulator originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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