The developer Brian Hammond brings his first app into the App Store, and it looks like its a must-have app! For everyone who is a fan of Dart games, Brian Hammond has released Darts, the best dart game in the App Store! Darts comes with 2 dart games: X01 and Cricket. X01, which is the most popular darts game, is when you have to hit numbers to get your score from a pre-set score back to 0. The objective of Cricket (which was a new one for me) is to hit a number between 15-20 and Bulls-eye 3 times each. The first person to do so, wins. This game is pretty simple to play, but can range in difficulty from fairly easy, to practically impossible!

On the dart board, you control a little white crosshair, which determines where your dart will primarily attempt to aim. Once you have found where to aim, you must swipe your finger from about halfway of the screen up to throw the dart. The speed that you flick your finger determines how high or low the dart will land above the crosshair. Trust me, it takes some time to find the perfect speed to flick to get the dart to land EXACTLY where you want it. This app is really fun and a HUGE icon to wasting time in a fun way. The best part about it is this app is COMPLETELY FREE!

If you want more info on the app, how to play, screenshots and videos, and support for donations and FAQ’s, Brian Hammond has set up a website for the app. The address is www.dartsapp.com.
If you’re into fun time wasting apps, then Darts is for you!

Recent Twitter for Darts iPhone:

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The fella’s over at StarByte are proud to present Black Mamba Racer! This game is a pretty challenging game about racing in teeny cars amongst many different race tracks. When you first open the app, it asks for your name. This will be your profile name throughout the whole game however, you can change it in the Options menu. Once you enter a name, it takes you to the main menu where you can select from; Play, Options, or Help. Help will bring you to a screen where the Black Mamba Racer gives you a few tips on how to play, and strategies on how to win. Options brings up the normal options, such as Game Volume, Name Change, and others. Play will bring up the level select screen. Levels are set up in 2 races. The first is a time trial to see if you can complete the track in the allotted time. The second one is where you actually race against 4 other drones (Blue one is the toughest opponent, then Green, then Yellow, and White is not so good ).

Once you pass a level, it shows your best time for that level. Once you pass all the possible tracks, the Black Mamba Racer will race you herself! Sometimes it will be just you and her, other times she might bring a drone, and sometimes she might bring all of them to join the race. The key to racing successfully in this game is learning how to control your skidding and drifting. Once you play, you will notice the car skids a lot during sharp turns, making it nearly impossible to correctly accomplish a turn without hitting a wall, obstacle, or even another racer! My strategy is to stay on the outside of the turn and start the drift before I get to the turn, so the effect of the skid forces me to perfectly curve around the turn. Phew! That was a mouthful! Anyways, Black Mamba Racer is in the App Store right now for the low price of $1.99, but if you want to test it out before you buy it, they also have a Black Mamba Lite which is free. I recommend this game to any true gamer who loves racing games and challenging games that require strategy.

Recent Twitter for Black Mamba Racer:

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Today a new mod was released (via ModMyiFone) called QuickUnlock. Don’t be confused, they’re talking about Lock Screens, not GUI SIM Card unlocks! What it does is it allows easy access to your springboard by simply tapping the Home button 3 times consecutively. When you tap it 3 times, it temporarily shows your springboard for 10 seconds (unless the Home button is tapped again or an app is launched) and locks again. It installed easily and works like a charm. The only concern is you have to press the Home button pretty fast to trigger it. This is a great mod to use when you quickly have to access something.

One of the best, high-quality games back in the 1.1.4 days has been ported to 2.1! This game has always been one of my favorites, and much hasn’t changed since back then. First thing you see is that title screen we all fell in love with. After that, you now see a new level select. Once you select a level, the game overall follows a little story giving you specific items to tap each level. Also, when you tap something, it gives a nice realistic echo of a bullet falling to the floor, which I find really neat and professional. The game overall does get a bit challenging, and is pretty long as well. Other than that, it’s the same ‘ol tribal we all had installed back in the good days…. It’s available in the App Store for $5.99, and is a really good time waster… Have fun! Screenshots below.

I’m SURE you guys are familiar with the app “BubbleWrap”, right? If not, it’s a really addicting, yet pointless app of popping bubbles on bubble-wrap (I’m sure it’s something EVERYONE enjoyed doing as a kid). Well, meet their big sister. This app is from the same company and has the same gameplay, but with a twist: if you get the highest score, you win MONEY. Here’s how it works: the app records your high score on a huge list, and it displays the top 10 high scores when you record yours. The coolest thing about it is that contests NEVER STOP. Once one contest ends, another one begins. And they’re fairly long, usually a week.

The current contest prize is $100, with a high-score of 454!! That’s CRAZY high! And the last contest’s prize went as high as $500! The overall gameplay adds one new feature that BubbleWrap does not have. If you select an empty space, a buzzer sounds and you lose one point. In the original version, when you tap an empty space, it does nothing. This app is fairly cheap as well, sitting at a mere $1.99, but can bring you huge rewards. My high score is currently 224…what’s yours?

Recently, there has been a couple of files in Cydia that have caught my eye. These were lockscreen animations. This made me pretty excited because I could finally de-uglify my lock screen. There are 3 available through the ModMyiFone source, one of KoiFish, one of Clown Fish, and one (for the guys) of a speedometer. They’re pretty neat an add a nice touch to the customization of your iPhone. It’s also something nice to look at when you unlock (literally, not SIM card unlock) your iPhone instead of a stale picture. Since this has been discovered, I’m sure we’re gonna see a lot more being released in the next couple of days, or even weeks!

Note: (from Brooke) These are used via WinterBoard. So, once you install them you will need to go into WinterBoard to activate them.

I really like this theme! This theme is kinda like a blue version of iWood Realized, and is a good theme if you’re looking for a nice, soft theme. This theme skins a good variety of icons, but not a lot. One positive side to that is the icons are square, just like the App Store icons, so if you have many apps installed, they won’t stick out as much with this theme. This theme does not skin any apps, or have an “other.artwork” skin, but is nice for a basic, decent look for your iPhone.

This is currently my favorite theme in Cydia! It’s called Stereo’s Leopard, and it was a theme I immediately remembered from Customize 2.0 back on 1.1.4. The one thing I love about this theme are the large (literally), and big amount of icons it has. It skinned about 50% of my icons, and has app themes too. Like MobileMusicPlayer (pictured below) for instance: usually, you would see a frozen screenshot of it for about 2 seconds, then would be able to use it. Those 2 seconds are when the app loads. So what this theme does is replaces the screenshot of those 2 seconds with a proper “loading” screen. Wow that was a mouthful! This feature is the same for all the base apps except SMS & Calculator apps (I have no idea why, lol). If you like complete themes, this is pretty much the most complete theme out there, so go install it!

http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1880

AptBackup is an application in Cydia that makes restoring 1000% less painful. It is in the BigBoss source and is a 43 kB download. Here is the text from the app:

‘This app will backup your Cydia installed app list. This does not back up your actual apps or apps settings. But it is close. It will make a list of everything you installed from Cydia and back that up. When you restore, it will reinstall all the packages in one step. The list is stored with other settings files and backed up with iTunes. After you restore your iPhone and restore your backup in iTunes, run the restore function here, and it should find and restore your apps. -BigBoss & Chris Featherstone-’

It works purely effectively with 2.1, just remember to MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR IPHONE IN ITUNES BEFORE you upgrade, then restore from that backup, install the app again, and click “Restore”. It takes a while (depending on how many apps/themes you had installed). It installed everything I had installed before, just didn’t save the settings of some stuff (Winterboard Order And Checked List).

This is really something that I need, since I always test unstable apps that crash my iPhone (it pays to be a tester!). This is now a must-have app for me!