At Macworld last week, Square Inc gave a public demo of their iPhone payment system to expo-goers and announced that it would be available to the public by the summer. For those who aren't familiar with the system, Square is an iPhone application which allows anyone to accept payment by credit or debit card using the signature Square Swiper. The big announcement is that, when Square goes live, the iPhone app will only cost $1 and the card swiper will be included for free. There will be a transaction…
Today we have a nice mix of games for you to download for free from three different indie developers. The genres include music/drawing, sports, and tower defense, which hopefully means that you will at least find something to enjoy this evening.
Tune Runner: Appy Entertainment’s spin on the music game featuring a line-drawing mechanic. The game [...]
Tune Runner: Appy Entertainment’s spin on the music game featuring a line-drawing mechanic. The game [...]
Filed under: Macworld , Accessories , Odds and ends , iPhone We stopped by the Armpocket booth at Macworld last week, and while we expected to find just another accessory sales pitch, we found something surprising: a family. The product was actually designed by a couple named Jyette Nielsen and Mark Morgan, and as Mark explained the cases to us (which are made from high-quality, renewable materials like recycled bottle plastic and natural bamboo), we could see that this was a product with real people…
Popular web browser developer Opera had announced last week that it would give a "sneak peak" of Opera Mini for iPhone at the Mobile World Congress 2010. And they've kept their promise. Charlie Sorrel of Wired tried out Opera Mini for iPhone at the Mobile World Congress, which started today....
Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Windows Phone 7 Series Windows CE kernel 5.2 5.2 6.0 Minimum resolution None None WVGA Skinnable Yes Yes No Finger friendly No Barely Yes Multitouch No Basic Yes Capacitive touchscreen No Yes Yes Stylus Required Optional None Touchscreen keyboard Unfriendly Finger-friendly Finger-friendly Required buttons Start Start Start, Back, Search Operating metaphor Apps Apps Task hubs Pane switching Tabs Swipe "Pivot" Browser IE Mobile…
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Apple Financial , Apple , iPhone Apple has expanded its trademark on "iPhone" with the inclusion of the US Patent and Trade Office's (USPTO) "category 28," which reads as "handheld unit for playing electronic games." Other USPTO categories included in the trademark are number 9 (mobile phone and digital audio player) and number 38 (electronic data-transmitting device). Note that Apple filed to include category 28 way back in…
Tag Games’ hip hop rhythm game, B-Boy Beats, was released into the App Store today. It’s the company’s first iPhone title solely as the publisher, teaming up with Oh, My Word developer Mobile Pie.
The game is set in New York City in the 1980’s, and you are the lead member of a new break-dance crew [...]
The game is set in New York City in the 1980’s, and you are the lead member of a new break-dance crew [...]
Microsoft has finally unveiled their next generation mobile operating system - Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress 2010, just as we had reported yesterday. Based on initial impressions, Microsoft seems to have finally released a mobile operating system to compete with Apple’s iPhone OS. Greg Kumparak over at...
This is just a quick update to inform other JotNot users that the app now properly interfaces with Dropbox, the cloud-based folder syncing service for your Mac or PC. The news came directly from someone at Dropbox and I can confirm that I was able to log right into my account. All you need to [...]
Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review When Zooloretto hit the board game scene in 2007, it pretty much became an immediate hit. It won the Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year) that year, after all. Sure, there was a lot of love for the basic game mechanics thanks to the elegant and popular card game Coloretto that came out in 2003, but gamers enjoyed the colorful animal graphics, the new decisions that needed to be made and, as time went on, plenty of expansions (14 small and large ones, plus…
SpinArt offers all the fun of the original childhood art project, but none of the messy paint or frustration of cutting the perfectly sized paper squares to fit on the spinner.
If you’ve had your iPhone jailbroken for any length of time chances are good that you use the wonderful SBSettings app – which lets you easily toggle On and Off some of the iPhone’s key services. This is handy for a number of reasons, not least because it is far, far better to use [...]
Filed under: Gaming , iTS , iPhone , App Store Now that Plants vs. Zombies is out on the App Store , the new hotness to wait for is going to be Square's Final Fantasy. Courtesy of the guys over at Touch Arcade (who I'm disappointed I didn't get to meet at Macworld), here's the first trailer and screenshots of the retro RPG running on the iPhone. The games are definitely updated (the original game ran on the NES, and clearly the graphics above look better than that), but as for exactly what…
Jivo Technology has announced its new Leaf case for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Unlike most plastic iPhone cases, the Leaf is biodegradable in five years once it comes into contact with microbial environments typically found in landfills, thanks to a specially formulated resin that is injected into the case during manufacturing. Other features include open access to all ports, a matte finish, a leaf design cast into the rear of the case, and completely…
Welcome to this week’s first gaming edition of iPhone Gems! In a separate earlier review today, we covered the impressive Plants vs. Zombies from PopCap Games, but we still had four other titles we wanted to share with you in this roundup. One’s an overhead shooter, another’s a puzzler, the third is a cooking game, and the fourth is a snowboarding title. Our top picks of the bunch are Cogs and X2 Snowboarding, but all four of the…
According to IGN, you will soon be able to forget about Blades of Fury (or any other arcade fighter for that matter) on your iPhone and iPod touch because Capcom has revealed that they have been working on a port of Street Fighter IV that should be hitting the App Store this March.
Street Fighter IV [...]
Street Fighter IV [...]
Sherif Hashim and iH8sn0w is banned from the App Store recently. Their Apple ID have been disabled for “security reasons”. Sherif Hashim is involved in finding the exploit of the latest firmware 3.1.3 with 05.12.01 baseband. He may help to unlock the baseband. And iH8sn0w is involved in developing Sn0wbreeze. It’s a great tool which [...]
The first time Microsoft mentioned apps today , it was to mock Apple, and they completely nailed what's wrong with the iPhone app metaphor. But apps define the smartphone experience, so what's the plan for Windows Phone 7 ? It's... coming together. When the iPhone launched without apps, Microsoft countered with the most impressive, humiliating figures it could rake up: We have thousands of developers! Over ten thousand apps! Years of development! A thriving ecosystem! Then the iPhone got apps,…
We'd already caught a glimpse of it on Toshiba's new TG02 handset , but SPB Software has now gotten fully official with SPB Mobile Shell 5.0, which will be available to consumers and OEMs alike. The big news with this one is that SPB has added support for both Android and Symbian in addition to Windows Mobile, all of which will be able to take advantage of a spiffy new 3D engine and a new "natural interaction engine" that apparently has full multitouch support. Other additions include some…
Mobile app development is a huge business. In just over 18 months since the launch of the iPhone App Store, more than 3 billion iPhone apps have been downloaded. According to a study by Gartner, mobile apps worth $6.2 billion will be purchased this year worldwide and this number is...
IGN reports that Capcom is planning a March release of Street Fighter IV on the iPhone and iPod touch. Reportedly still under development, the game is expected to be specifically optimized for the iPhone platform, with Capcom having taken a great deal of time and effort to develop controls suitable for the touchscreen interface. Further, Capcom plans to use artwork assets from the current generation Street Fighter IV code to provide a visual experience…
What’s it been – around eight days since the Saints’ epic Super Bowl win? Far too long to go without the NFL being the center of the world right?
Well here’s one new iPhone app that should help a little with any NFL withdrawal symptoms you’re battling with. The 2010 Draft Database app offers to [...]
Well here’s one new iPhone app that should help a little with any NFL withdrawal symptoms you’re battling with. The 2010 Draft Database app offers to [...]
I'm sorry, Cupertino, but Microsoft has nailed it. Windows Phone 7 feels like an iPhone from the future. The UI has the simplicity and elegance of Apple's industrial design, while the iPhone's UI still feels like a colorized Palm Pilot. That doesn't mean that the Windows Phone 7's user experience would be better than Apple's. The two user interface concepts—data-centric vs function-centric—are very different, and the former is quite a radical departure from what people are used…
AppAdvice has once again teamed up with Revolution in order to offer all of you a chance at winning one of five signed Broken Sword comics. Unlike many of our other giveaways, this one is open to every last one of our readers, even the international ones, so make sure you take advantage of this [...]
Normally I stick to writing about themes that can be installed via Cydia however, there are so many AWESOME themes that can only be installed via SSH… and Sista is one of them.
I found Sista, by SoundForge, on MacThemes and instantly loved it! It is a nicely designed, clean theme. The theme’s package [...]
I found Sista, by SoundForge, on MacThemes and instantly loved it! It is a nicely designed, clean theme. The theme’s package [...]
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