Tapcloud, Movement Through Real Space in a Casual Game A new and fresh game that Qubop made that makes use of the camera, the gyros, and other hardware in the phone. The clouds are randomly generated around you in 3D space, find them, tap them, and get points. See the world through the camera and play the game layered on top of reality. The… Read More
Mayday Light. Emergency emailer app for iphone I get lots of press releases about how something can saves lives and normally, its a borderline case, but I think this app really could. And as a motorcyclist, I may install this and keep it running in the background 24/7. UPDATE: the app is now $0.99 in the store and there are two new… Read More
Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4.3.1 coming, but not for iPad2 Last week a tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 came out, Mac only. Well hopefully sometime today we will see a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released. However, not for ipad 2. I’ll update this post once I learn more. MuscleNerd, who earlier confirmed his plans of updating Pwnage Tool and Redsn0w with the ion1c iOS… Read More
Peel: The best TV remote for the iphone … Ever! (first post written completely on my iPhone BTW) I stopped by the Peel demo in San Francisco during Web 2.0 expecting a simple iPhone IR remote. Wow, it’s more then that. Peel, the name of the app as well as the company created a very cool app that not only replaces your remote but creates… Read More
Cydia gets a major update. Promise to improve speed and bug fixes Wow, I jailbreak day.. a jailbreak afternoon. Been downloading .greenpois0n.com to jailbreak my 4.2.6 iphone and today just saw QuickPwn Jailbreak for 3.1.1 (for Mac only). And now via that twitterverse, most @TaimurAsad, I heard that Cydia has got a major update going to 1.1. Nice! Its reported that cydia will be faster and fix… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 for iphone ipad2 jailbroken! Get it fast Yup, its out. If you are not still waiting for your ipad2, its now time to jailbreak the iOS 4.3.1! Win. Now this is Mac only so, Windows users will have to wait, however, GreenPois0n RC5 is still good to go for iOS 4.2.6. I will bet 4.3 support will come out soon. BTW if… Read More
Color is hot now, but in 24 hours, I have a bad feeling it will go off-color I downloaded the iPhone android photo sharing app called Color just like 100 thousand other people probably have by the time I hit send. And ok, I get it. I take pics, other people near me take pics. And we see them. Great. Not big thrill to me unless I’m at a party or wedding… Read More
No more tethering through Jailbreak on the iPhone? WTH? According to VentureBeat, seems that AT&T has been sending letters out to subscribers of MiWi, a jailbreak app that allows tethering of multiple machines to you iPhone. I use PDANet and have not seen such a letter yet, but I’m keeping my eyes out. The letter basically states that if you use a non… Read More
iPad2 jailbroken and sold out in the same day Gezz. Things move so bloody fast. I think we all expected the ipad2 to be hacked and jailbroken pretty quick, but it did not even take the weekend to crack this nut. The hacker Comex, who also did the userland jailbreaks Spirit and JailbreakMe, has released tweets and a video showing an ipad2 running cydia.… Read More
Free Smart Recorder for this weekend only I have not used this, just popped up in my email. Looks pretty good. Straight forward voice recorder with image and text annotation. I may download it later and give it try. Smart Recorder is the ultimate time based note taking tool for the iPhone or iPad. It allows the typing of textual notes as… Read More
Why Apple’s Subscription Rules Must Change…Again Apple’s latest changes regarding subscription services are a bad move for the long term health of the App Store. Read why they must change.… Read More
SEGA!!! During GDC I was invited to check out some new titles from SEGA. Given the love I have for SEGA as an old school gamer, I had to go check it out. First up is Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game in the Sega Superstars series produced… Read More
Expanded Voice Commands for iPhone with VoiceActivator through jailbreak VoiceActivator came out last month, but I just now got around to playing with it. Not sure why I waited so long. This jailbreak app basically provides the promise of rich voice control that is already common with Android. This little hack is so good that it make my iphone jailbreak app top 10 list… Read More
Need a high quality audio player for the iphone ipad? Check out McIntosh AP1. It wont sound better, but it will feel like it. I have not been really paying attention to the sound quality on my iphone because really, despite the ipod heritage, its not that great. I have tried it a nice headset, but again, its just ok. So I have resigned myself to lo-fi audio. Then on a whim I tried the McIntosh API player skin.… Read More
Should I develop for Apple iOS or Android? (Note: this post is a living document) As recently as 6 months ago, this would be a silly question. The general rule is that you always build on Apples iOS first then Android second, then other OS’s later. Assuming you have the skills or people to choose what to build for, the common thinking is… Read More
wireless bike monitor computer by IBIKE DASH Another cool option to measure your speed, power, heart rate, wind speed, time, trip, elevation, and calories. Dash has a cool feature called the “HR Pacing Meter,” you can see at a glance whether your heart rate in the right zone. The HR Pacing Meter determines your fitness level with 5 Heart Rate Color Zones… Read More
Unity3D And Microsoft Kinect With the Game Developers Conference (GDC) right around the corner, I am excited to see what the conference will bring this year as last year was a blast. On the list of things is the Unity3D booth. Unity is a tool for video game development that has taken the international gaming industry by storm. This… Read More
Tear down of the Verizon iPhone for part replacement This just popped into my email. I’ll follow up on it in a bit.. From Robby Stanley Just a quick news release. We just completed an extensive Verizon iPhone 4 Teardown and Screen Replacement Video on Youtube. This will show people the step by step directions it will take in order to replace their screen… Read More
Verizon iPhone: First Few Days of Sales In order to have all possible iOS test devices for our small development company, Roving Screens, I went out on the first day the Verizon iPhone was available on February 10, 2011 to buy one. I wasn’t sure if I should expect long lines or being told the phones have sold out. I picked up… Read More
ibiking service strava making strides in the right direction. I’ve always known San Francisco to have a large affinity for bikers. It comes as no surprise, then, that a San Francisco based company called Strava is working on a universal program to keep track of a biker’s exercise for those who opt for the more sophisticated technology. This means bikers with an iPhone, Android… Read More