Monday, April 13, 2009

iPhone Dev News of The Week [04/7/09-04/13/09]

  • As if you couldn’t already tell by the sheer number of white earbuds you see slouching youths with backpacks and baby mustaches wearing, iPods are popular with the teen crowd. Very popular, according to a recent survey of teen consumer spending by investment banking firm Piper Jaffray. The survey, the results of which were reported [...] Related Posts GigaOM: iPod Touch Helps Mobile Internet Grow & Grow &….. GigaOM: For Some App Developers Palm & Nokia Are No-Gos TheAppleBlog: With iPod…
  • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:Vodafone Portugal iPhone 3G users as first in the world can benefit from the LIVE TV application made by a local software developer. WIT software in cooperation with Vodafone Portugal has developed a software enabling its users to watch a Live TV coverage on their 3G iPhones. As we red in [...] Related posts: Pro Football Live on iPhone iPhone AppStore digital application signing explained Weather Channel comes to iPhone, iPod Touch Microsoft Live Maps for iPhone VH1…
    • Since there won’t be much happening on the site today, I figured why not make sure everyone takes advantage of some of the App Store sales? Developers have listed quite a few applications on sale just for the holidays, so I have taken a moment to list a bunch I had found by doing a [...]
      • Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , First Look Do you travel a lot for business or pleasure? If you do, then you'll find the new free iPhone app (click opens iTunes) from Tripit.com to be a great way to organize your trip plans. Tripit.com imports and interprets your itineraries from airlines, hotel chains, ticket outlets, and other travel companies. When you receive an itinerary from one of these providers, you forward it to a special Tripit email address to have it translated…
        • The all-too-easy-to-crack iTunes gift code has led to a flooded market, making the codes essentially unprofitable. So they've now turned their attention to the App Store to find new, underhanded ways to screw Apple. Because iTunes' gift codes are so easy to crack, hackers can often only get 1% of the supposed value of their codes (so a $200 gift code could only sell for $2). In an effort to increase that percentage, some pirates have started contacting iPhone app developers, offering to…
          • A wave of gift card code crackers have begun barraging iPhone developers asking them to participate in a scam to defraud Apple of thousands of dollars. A glut of iTunes gift code counterfeiters have forced the price of an illegitimate $200 iTunes gift card down to $2. Unable to turn a profit, they have started turning to developers, offering to buy their app a potentially limitless number of times using the counterfeited codes in exchange for 50% of the sale profits.
            • Yesterday the Dev Team released an official beta of Redsn0w to jailbreak the iPod Touch 2G. Today at exactly 2 minutes past Beta O’Clock we are releasing a beta version of redsn0w. The release hopes to simplify the jailbreaking of your iPod touch 2G.
              redsn0w is currently in beta as it relies on the user running it [...]
              • In an email sent out earlier today, Apple is inviting all registered iPhone app developers to test their apps with the Apple Push Notification service for the first time. Prior to this, the service was available for testing by just a select few developers. Now Apple has invited all registered developers to the program.
                • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-news/iphone-push-notification-service-now-available-for-testing/ . Here’s something to keep iPhone devs busy over a holiday weekend (in the US at least).  And a very good something indeed.  Apple has let developers know that the iPhone Push Notification Service is now available for testing.
                  This should lead to lots of good [...]
                  • Copyright © 2009 Ragart. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/qsms-updated-qbirthdays-added/ .I’m not jailbroken any more but when I was there was only one jailbreak app on my iPhone: qSMS. This lovely little SMS app replacement was updated a little while ago with some awesome new features — chief among them for me:
                    -a call [...]
                    • In a post earlier today on their blog , the Dev Team announced that they are releasing a public beta version of redsn0w, their simplified jailbreak for the iPod touch 2G. It currently runs in the command line only, but is being added to their GUI applications and will be released "sometime soon". You can download the redsn0w beta from Redsn0w.com .
                      • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Gaming , Hardware , Software , Odds and ends , Developer , iPhone , SDK , iPod touch This is interesting -- Alex Winston, Ltd. has come up with what they call the Wolfenstick , a little iPhone app that can control Wolfenstein 3D Classic with a second iPhone through the audio port. Obviously this isn't a very practical setup, as buying a second iPhone just to control games on the first one probably isn't in anyone's interest. But it does open up a whole slew of…
                        • If you are a fan of Coldplay as well as Tap Tap Revenge game, this new iPhone game is defenitely for you. International best-selling recording artists Coldplay recently joined an iPhone game developer, Tapulous Inc, to release a new music-game called Tap Tap Revenge: Coldplay Edition.
                          You can tap and shake along to the top 10 [...]
                          • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Steve Jobs , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch As my colleague Aron Trimble has pointed out today, Apple has launched a new series of iPhone ads. As they have done recently, these 3 new commercials talk about all the added functionality the iPhone gets from having many thousands of apps available. There are some ironies that cross my mind as I look at and enjoy the usual creativity from Apple. One of the apps highlighted is a point of sale system that runs on an iPhone. Most…
                            • The free Mediamote app turns your iPhone or Touch into a Windows Media Center remote! Mediamote is a free app that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a remote control for Windows Media Center. That's awesome news for anyone who runs WMC on, say, a laptop or den PC, and wants a way to control it from the couch. Mediamote sets up a simple ad-hoc Wi-Fi network between Windows and the iPhone. I'm not sure I've ever seen an App Store listing with less information than the one for Mediamote, which…
                              • For this tutorial we’re going to build a simple clock that is orientation-aware, meaning that when you rotate your iPhone, the time rotates with it. I’m assuming you have a basic knowledge of the iPhone SDK.
                                To get started, you will need a label for the time and a background image. You will also need a [...]
                              • Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store Pano, a fun iPhone app for taking panoramic photos, has been around since last fall and the developers at Debacle Software have been hard at work improving the app ever since. While the first iteration stitched together a maximum of 4 photos, the 2.0 version of the app upped the limit to 6 photos. Now Pano 3 (click opens iTunes) rewrites the rules for taking panoramas with your iPhone. The new version can automatically meld up to 16 photos,…
                                • According to Kotaku, the secret to creating a successful game for the iPhone is producing a product so simple it can be described quickly to someone else. The comment came to an audience at the Game Developers Conference 09. "I think quality is largely irrelevant," Adam Saltsman, creator of Wurdle, told the crowd during a discussion [...]
                                  • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/google-voice-app-coming-to-iphone-soon/ . An independent developer – Sean Kovacs – is set to bring a new Google Voice app to the iPhone soon.  The app is called GV Mobile, and the demo video for it is impressive – showing that it includes many of the features of [...]
                                    • Learning a language can be difficult, by MyWords from Innovative Language Learning attempts to make the process fun and effective. This Chinese app -- one of 37 languages offered by the developer -- is a particularly helpful learning tool.
                                      • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Gaming , Developer , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch This is only slightly Mac-related but it is really cool. We've posted about two of Illusion Labs ' popular iPhone games here on the site: Touchgrind is a 3D simulation of a touchboard, and Sway is a really fun little platformer-esque swingathon that has you swinging from side-to-side using the touchscreen. Both games are pretty original in how they use multitouch controls, and so when Illusion Labs got their…
                                        • The Russian hacker Vortex has recently announced an unofficial QuickPwn to jailbreak the iPhone 3.0 Beta 2. The process of jailbreaking is just the same as other QuickPwns. Unfortunately, this only installs Icy, not Cydia. Once you’ve finished the jailbreak and have gotten OpenSSH on it through Icy, you could manually install Cydia on it [...]
                                          • Stanford’s School of Engineering recently launched a 10-week course on iPhone programming, available gratis on iTunes.
                                            The video podcasts of about an hour each that teach programming for the iPhone and iPod Touch are the same ones offered on the Palo Alto campus, minus the tuition, with a few days lag time.
                                            “There’s a lot of interest [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
                                            • New iPhone themes have always generated interest amongst iPhones enthusiasts. The iNav theme is a breakthrough development for the iPhone world, as it promises to go beyond what any other theme has ever offered. iNav will also be the first ever paid theme. The iNav theme is available as of now; however, installing it to get the desired feel, can eventually be a little risky proposition. Given below is a step-by-step guide on how to efficiently configure and install the iNav themes via Winterboard. Install…
                                              • Someone has released a jailbreak for one of the betas of the iPhone 3.0 firmware. The iPhone dev team, who are responsible for the 3G unlock released a few months ago, hurried to get a post up explaining why they weren’t the ones to release this latest exploit. They offer proof that they had a jailbreak [...]
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