Archives for December 2009

Gorillacam – Camera Application by Joby

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## Joby has released an iPhone application, Gorillacam. Gorillacam is a camera application that includes features such as; Timer, Time Lapse, 3-Shot Burst, Press Anywhere Shutter and more.

“Gorillacam is FAST, packed with features, and built with the user in mind. It will change the way you take photos on the iPhone. Stop messing with inferior camera apps and get the Gorillacam today.”

Gorillacam is free and requires firmware 3.1 or later. See a complete feature list and screenshots below.

Gorillacam
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Ustream Live Broadcaster App Approved

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

UstreamApple has finally approved the live streaming app by Ustream.com. Previously there was an app for viewing live streams and an app for recording video and uploading it later but not live streaming. This is huge and will most likely lead to the approval of Qik for the iPhone too. Previously these types of apps were only available by jailbreaking your iPhone. With the recent approval of the video streaming app, Knocking Live Video, supposedly directly approved by Steve Jobs himself after initial denial, we will most likely see all of these types of apps approved.

The Ustream application is very nice. It allows you to see live chat from your viewers, create a poll and have viewers vote live on the video and you can see the results, you can automatically have it upload the video to YouTube or Facebook when you’re done, and you can have it tweet when you’re streaming live. I tested it over wifi and here’s the results:

Ustream Broadcaster
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Driver, by Gameloft, Now Available in the App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: $6.99  

##ICON_NAME## Gameloft has been releasing tidbits about it’s new racing game Driver for a little while now with no announcement on the exact date that the app would hit the App Store. It seems that today is the day. You can get Driver in the App Store for $6.99. Check out the screenshots, trailer and description below.

Driver
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25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale – StarTrek $0.99

Available In: App Store       Price: $0.99  

Star Trek Today’s 25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale is Star Trek. It is on sale for $0.99 down from $1.99.

“Soar through galaxies as the captain of the USS Enterprise on a mission to complete your intergalactic obligation to seek and destroy your enemies! Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk make special appearances to assist you on your journey through space and time. Valiantly fight alongside and against familiar ships from the series like the Keldon, Valdore, and K’tinga. Be one of the first to “BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE!””

Star Trek
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Guide: Creating a Web App From Scratch

If you’ve been looking for a complete guide to creating a web app, look no further. The guide is called Creating a Web App From Scratch by CSS-Tricks.com It even comes with the complete source code files and Photoshop documents. The 8 part guide is written by both a coder and a designer so you’ll learn how to fit your site to mobile devices and still use the rich content from a full website. Through the process they show you each step of building their demo site, Colored Lists.

If anyone has used this guide or ends up using it to create a mobile of their own, let us know what you thought in the comments. Or, if you know of other guides, share them too.

Part 1 – Planning the App: Basic Idea and Design
Part 2 – Planning the App: Database Architecture and Development Approach
Part 3 – Designing the App: Workflow Map and Photoshop Design
Part 4 – Designing the App: HTML and CSS
Part 5 – Developing the App: User Interaction
Part 6 – Developing the App: Adding AJAX Interactivity
Part 7 – Developing the App: List Interaction
Part 8 – Security & The Future

Christmas Mods – Themes, Mods and Wallpapers

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## It has been snowing here for the last few days so, I thought it was probably time to break out the Christmas mods! Hopefully they will put you in the Christmas spirit! Below are a few of the better Christmas themes as well as some Christmas mods and links to some Christmas wallpaper packs. Let me know in the comments if there are any Christmas themes that you really like that are not listed below.
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Flickr 1.1 Update Adds Two Major Features

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

FlickrThe official Flickr app has always been a let down for me. It’s missing some major features and made the app useless. There are still some features I’d like to see but I’ll post them at the end of this article. The new update adds two major features that should have always been there but props to the developer for finally getting them in there and for overall great UI design.

One of the new features now lets you upload more than one photo or video at a time. Although it’s a nice feature, the way it’s designed is not intuitive. You tap upload, select 1 picture, then it loads a screen to add info to that picture. To add another, tap “Add Item” and it brings you back to the camera roll. What’s annoying is if you are loading 10 picture from about 20 pictures ago, you have to do this for each one and have to scroll up each time because it loads at the bottom of the camera roll. Once you get them in, you can tap on each picture to edit the individual pictures info.

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iBlast Moki Lite Hits App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## iBlast Moki, a very cool physics puzzle game, now has a lite version available in the App Store. The lite version is free and contains 13 levels. If you have been holding off on purchasing iBlast Moki, I will definitely want to check out the lite version. This is one of the best physics game out there!

iBlast Moki Lite
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25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale – Auditorium & Surviving High School

Available In: App Store       Price: $0.99  

Surviving High School Today for EA Mobile’s 25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale they have two games on sale; Auditorium and Surviving High School. Both games are on sale for $0.99.
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Aqua Forest 2 Available in App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: $4.99  

Aqua Forest 2 Aqua Forest 2, by Hudson Software, recently hit the App Store. It is a sequel to the first Aqua Forest game which is one of Doug’s favorite games.

Aqua Forest 2 contains two modes; Puzzle and Endless. The object of Aqua Forest 2 is to navigate water droplets. Honestly, I’m exactly sure why it is called Aqua Forest 2… it doesn’t look to be very similar to the original Aqua Forest game. You can pick up Aqua Forest 2 for $4.99 (the original Aqua Forest remains at it’s original launch price of $7.99).

Aqua Forest 2

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App Store Description:

The sequel to the unique and popular puzzle game “AQUA FOREST” is here!

This game challenges you to guide a drop of water from start to finish across a variety of beautiful photorealistic levels, including leaves, mossy rocks, flower petals, and more. Simply tilt your phone to make the water move, thanks to the technology of the “OctaveEngine™ Casual” 2D multi-physics engine.

FEATURES
・”Puzzle” Mode
In Puzzle Mode, your goal is to guide as much water as possible to the finish. There are 50 stages in total, with

several types of stages, including ones where you must gather multiple water
drops or ones that require you to split water drops. Try to get 100% of the water to the goal, without spilling even the tiniest drop!

・”Endless” mode
In this mode, complete as many levels as possible before you run out of water. However much water you save at the end of one stage is how much you begin with in the next stage. See just how far you can get, and check your Top 10 scores to see how well you’ve done so far.
What’s new

Saurik Updates Cydia to Display All SHSH Files on File

CydiaSaurik recently tweeted that he has “finished upgrading the in-Cydia SHSH on file firmware display” and “it will now show the full list of on file firmwares.” What does this mean? Apple has made it so you have to connect to their servers via iTunes when you restore your iPhone 3GS. This let’s them approve what version of firmware you are restoring too. Then, they make it so older firmwares won’t restore, which forces you to upgrade.

Saurik has built his own authentication server that you can point iTunes to and then restore to any firmware that you’ve had installed and jailbroken since 3.0. You must approve Cydia to connect to Sauriks servers to store the SHSH authentication file. Previously, Cydia would only show that there was an SHSH file stored for firmware 3.0, but now it will show others like 3.1 and 3.1.2.

This doesn’t affect iPhone 3Gs or the 1st Gen iPhone because only the iPhone 3GS has hardware encryption.

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25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale – Boggle $0.99

Available In: App Store       Price: $1.99  

##ICON_NAME## Today’s 25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale is Boggle… on sale for $0.99 (down from $1.99).

ScreenShots:

boggle

App Store Description:

TICK-TOCK. BEAT THE CLOCK.
Once you start you just can’t stop!

Test your way with words playing the popular wordsearch game that’s addictive fun-on-the-run!
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3 WAYS TO PLAY
Race to win in Challenge Mode, choose a speed in Advanced Mode, and play by your own rules in
Self-Score Mode.

FEELING COMPETITIVE?
Email friends & challenge them to a word duel and find out who can think on their feet the quickest.

SMART CONTROLS
Shake your iPhone to shuffle 3D letter cubes. Tap and drag to spell the word that wins!

CUE THE MUSIC
BOGGLE is 3.0 ready! Listen to & control music from your iTunes® Library while you play.

TAKE A BOW
Collect rewards for forming the longest word, the best word, and using the most letters in the shortest amount of time!

Let It Snow Widget for iPhone

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

WinterboardThis hack for the iPhone makes it snow behind your icons and above your wallpaper. It is downloaded in Cydia and activated by Winterboard. You must be jailbroken for this to work. It does slow down the device a bit and I did notice minor glitching when swiping between pages. My iPhone has a lot of hacks so that may be something to do with it. If you try it out, let me know how it works for you.

EA Mobile – 25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale

##ICON_NAME## EA Mobile is having a 25 Games ‘Til Xmas Sale in which they will have one game on sale every day until Christmas. Yesterday, Trivial Pursuit was on sale for $1.99 (down from $4.99). Today, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® BY EA SPORTS™ is on sale for $2.99 (down from $4.99). We will keep you posted on the daily sales.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR®
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The AT&T/Verizon Vengeance Continues – New Commercials

##ICON_NAME## It seems as though AT&T and Verizon are not losing steam on this whole commercial vengeance thing. Both AT&T and Verizon have recently released a new commercial. Verizon is targeting Apple this time around instead of AT&T. It could be in retaliation to the commercials Apple released last week targeting Verizon. The difference is, Apple does it so smoothly and Verizon is tactless.

Either way, I think both Verizon and AT&T’s commercials are slipping in quality. You can check them both out below.
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