Thursday, May 28, 2009

iPhone Dev News of The Week

  • We’re now less than two weeks away from the keynote of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where Apple is widely expected to demonstrate a next-generation iPhone for the first time. I won’t run down all the anticipated features here, but suffice it to say that we’re looking at largely incremental updates on the hardware side: [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
    • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:Developers of Lucky Gambling Days 2009 app for the iPhone write:“We’ve just launched a new iPhone / iPod Touch application, which is already available on the iPhone App Store. The Application represents a daily Luck Forecast for the year 2009. Gamblers can find their lucky gambling days by entering their birthday [...] Related posts: iPhone Gambling Enabled How your iPhone can help you remember your woman’s “critical days” New Jersey gamblers get NJAW mWager…
      • (Credit: Apple, Inc.) Ipodnn.com is reporting an iTunes App Store problem that could directly impact iPhone application developer income. According to ipodnn.com: The international distribution of iPhone applications is not being handled properly at the App Store, one developer tells MacNN. Having launched a title called CameraUFO, Magno Urbano says he recently visited the US App Store to verify if his software was on sale. Although not at its main intended venue, the app could be found at a number…
        • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:Rake in Grass, developers of iPhone games Archibald’s Adventures and Westbang, have announced that they are currently working on a new RPG game for the iPhone.Undecroft is a vast epic adventure from a fantasy world that brings together the atmospheres of constituent games of the RPG genre (like Dungeon Master) with [...] Related posts: Fake Text iPhone app fakes incoming text messages iPhone Game: iFifteen puzzle game Free iPhone game: Bejeweled for iPhone iPhone…
          • Haptic technology has the possibility to make touchscreens so much better, improving accuracy and adding a whole new range of sensory feedback. Immersion, primary developers of haptic technology, presented both a refined onscreen keyboard and an incredibly cheesy " Immersive Messaging " protocol at this year's All Things D conference. The new soft keyboard improvement, called TouchSense, is designed to mimic both the feel and sound of a real, mechanical keyboard, to enable easier transitioning…
            • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:We would like to welcome another Canadian games developer into the iPhone games scene: Cyanide Studios has announced that its first iPhone game called iSurf is now available in the AppStore.Historically a Windows PC developer, Cyanide’s Canadian team say that they were very excited by the prospect of working on iPhone [...] Related posts: The Boxer iPhone game iPhone game: Tapalution (Bubble Breaker remake) Flick Bowling iPhone game released iPhone Game Technology…
              • The 2009 GDC Austin's iPhone Games Summit has announced and is now accepting submissions, following a similar call for the Indie Games Summit earlier this week. The inaugural iPhone Games Summit (September 15-16) at the 2009 GDC Austin will bring together top game developers from around the world to share ideas, best practices and discuss the [...]
                • I come from a PC world. I can't seem to find an overstrike mode on the mac keyboard or Xcode. Sometimes I want to overtype a letter and not...
                  • Filed under: Humor , Odds and ends , Freeware , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Adutainment, the art of mixing advertising and entertainment, has been popular in the iPhone app space since the App Store first opened. Grooming product giant Gillette has teamed with developer AIM Proximity on a fun little free app called uArt (click opens iTunes). uArt is the iPhone app equivalent of drawing mustaches and beards on pictures of people in magazines...not that I've ever done that... You provide the photo,…
                    • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-os-software/what-percentage-of-iphones-are-jailbroken-less-than-10-percent/ .  I got an email newsletter yesterday from the excellent Pinch Media site, which provides a range of tracking and analytical services for iPhone developers, as well as some great RSS feeds for keeping up with new and updated iPhone apps. One thing that caught [...]
                      • In case you needed yet another reason to nerd out with Android developers for a couple days in scenic San Francisco, here's a doozy: every attendee is getting hooked up with an unlocked HTC Magic in black plus 30 days of voice and 3G data service. While the carrier isn't specified, we certainly wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being T-Mobile, which would make this an AWS version of the phone -- and a probable precursor to the presumed myTouch 3G release (or whatever they end up calling it)…
                      • At a time when Morgan Stanley has predicted that the iPhone app sales would reach $1 billion in 2009, the apps market is considered to signify a profitable and fast-growing business. This prediction has led to several business entities enter the iPhone app market and try their luck. Warner Bros. Digital Entertainment, the pioneers in the world of media entertainment has announced its plan to launch the release of 40 iPhone applications by the end of the year. Industry analyst consider this a vital strategic…
                        • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:An interesting app for anyone that’s into music is the recently released VFXWarrior drums simulator app.The basic idea is that you can program and play up to 10 sounds at the same time using the iPhone’s touchscreen. But things get more interesting too, since VFXWarrior also allows you to activate additional [...] Related posts: Frog Guitar: funny iPhone guitar simulator app Possibly an iPhone developers simulator coming with iPhone SDK? iPhone drums …
                          • CrossLoop, the Monterey, CA-based developer of a popular screen-sharing application for PCs announced this month a version compatible with Intel Macs, extending the company’s innovative on-line technical support model to the Apple community.
                            Having racked up over 100 million minutes of tech-support served by nearly 5 million downloads of its PC client since 2006, CrossLoop is [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
                            • During a summit for shareholders today, Sirius XM displayed a slide revealing a screenshot of its forthcoming iPhone app. From the presentation, it appears that users will be able to browse audio programming by categories, channels and favorites. The app also appears to include a “shopping” feature which may integrate with the iTunes Store. While the app itself is expected to be available as a free download from the App Store, a Sirius…
                              • The ZuneHD looks like a lovely catchup to the original iPod touch—you know, before apps allowed it to be so much more—except for one thing. That damn browser. It's not just they're basing it off hellacious and reviled IE—it's that it's not WebKit-based. There simply isn't a better mobile browser than WebKit right now. It powers the internet in the iPhone, Android, Symbian S60 and Palm Pre, and destroyed all comers in our Battlemodo . It's fast , it's competent and most…
                                • Chillingo has partnered with developer Tetraedge to bring you a new adventure game based on Jules Verne’s novel, The Mysterious Island. Return to Mysterious Island for the iPhone and iPod touch puts you in the shoes of Mina, a sailor who is stranded on the shores of an island somewhere in the south Pacific. The game allows [...]
                                  • At All Things D, my friends at Fullpower did a demo of a accelerometer-equipped headset that can pick up a call by tapping it in a different way than you tap a regular headset. That's not so new in concept, but the trick is, they use math to filter out the background noise—in this case, motion from walking, jumping, etc—so it doesn't hang up on you when you move around while doing it. The headset, a modified also knows when you place it on a table and powers down. All by using math and a…
                                    • Filed under: Developer , iPhone , iPod touch If you're packing a little JavaScript-fu but not much Objective-C knowledge, and itching to jump on the App Store bandwagon, NimbleKit may be the answer you're looking for. By providing its own API on top of Cocoa Touch, NimbleKit allows would-be developers to access core iPhone functionality with Javascript functions. You can build an entire application using an HTML template with embedded Javascript, compile it and run it on your iPhone/iPod touch.…
                                    • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:FreeBit, the developer of ServersMan@iPhone, an app that allows users to turn their iPhone into a web server, has announced the availability of ServersMan@iPhone 2.0. This new version of the app now allows you to also use your iPhone as a Network File Storage device, with 5 minutes installation and both WiFi [...] Related posts: ServersMan@iPhone turns your iPhone into a web server iPhoneWorld.ca - new server online New iPhone World server 1GB of free online files…
                                      • App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:Rake in Grass, the developers of Archibald’s Adventures for the iPhone, have announced that their latest project, Westbang, an Old West themed action game, is now available in the AppStore.In Westbang, the player - as a sheriff - must protect city banks from bandits and raiders. Classic shooter game mechanics are [...] Related posts: Undecroft: iPhone RPG game incoming Independent Game Conference West 2009 to focus on iPhone games Radio Flare Lite: free musical…
                                        • It’s always good to found iUnreleased products in Apple’s beta software. Here is another attempt. Some people found the 3rd gen iPhone in the current iPhone 3.0 beta 5 SDK. Well. There are no major physical changes at all. You may even don’t notice it’s the new iPhone without looking at the filename. (Note: iPhone [...]
                                          • Filed under: Freeware , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review Your iPhone/iPod touch listening options just got a lot larger. Audiobooks , [App Store] a free app, gives you a large catalog of public domain classic works from Dickens to Verne for your listening pleasure. The books come from the LibriVox library, a non-profit project that has volunteers read the books and then releases the free recordings. The app is ad-supported, but the ads are not obtrusive in my view. The books I listened to were…
                                            • iPhone Developers had discovered code references in iPhone OS 3.0 which had indicated that Apple might be working on multiple iPhone models. That speculation might turn out to be true as folks at iLounge are reporting that they’ve also been told that Apple’s next generation iPhone will come in two...
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