Preview: GTS World Racing for iPhone / iPod touch

Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone, App Store

If there’s one company in the world that is in the business of keeping people happy, it’s Astraware. They’re a UK-based development firm that excels in writing games for handheld devices. In the past, they’ve published games like Bejeweled 2, Cubis, and Zuma for Palm and Windows Mobile, and now they’re entering the iPhone market with a splash.

GTS World Racing is an arcade-style racing game licensed from… Continue reading

Blast from the past: 1st generation iPod review

Filed under: iPod Family, Found Footage

Ah, the simpler days: before the iPhone, before the iTunes store, and before Apple killed FireWire in favor of syncing via USB. Yes, we’re speaking about the birth of the iPod. This video is one of the very first reviews on TechTV (wow, anyone remember that television network?).

The original iPod came in 5 GB and 10 GB models, and sold for $399 and $499 respectively. The battery life was 10 hours, and first generation iPods were Mac-only, running on… Continue reading

PwnageTool 2.0.2 is live

Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, iPhone

Erica took a look at Pwnage 2.0 recently, recommending that “casual jailbreakers” wait patiently for the kinks to be worked out. Well, Pwnage 2.0.2 has dropped while most of us in American are sleeping. Well, some of us, anyway. Meanwhile, the iPhone-dev team released the much-anticipated update with ninja stealth.The iPhone-dev team recommends using the built in updater to get the latest version … “Check for Updates” in your current version of PwnageTool. If you

Preview: GTS World Racing for iPhone / iPod touch

Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone, App Store

If there’s one company in the world that’s in the business of keeping people happy, it’s Astraware. They’re a UK-based development firm that excels in writing games for handheld devices. In the past, they’ve published games like Bejeweled 2, Cubis, and Zuma for Palm and Windows Mobile, and now they’re entering the iPhone market with a splash.

GTS World Racing is an arcade-style racing game licensed from Pazzazz… Continue reading

Thoughts on the iPhone App Store review process

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App Store

Should Apple have approved “I Am Rich”? Pretty much everyone agrees that it’s a useless application. But once approved, should they have pulled it? Jason Kottke says it should stay in the App Store. He argues that Apple should be providing an open marketplace rather than a hand-selected boutique.

State what you’ll about Apple’s App Store shortcomings (no shopping carts? What were they thinking!), iPhone consumers are split between those who’d like greater oversight and those who’d… Continue reading

iPhone hacker states devices “phone home,” allows for disabling apps remotely

Filed under: iPod Family, Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store

iPhone Atlas is reporting that Apple has a way to blacklist and remotely remove applications from your iPhone. According to the post, the iPhone will remotely “phone home” and check a posted blacklist of bad applications. These speculations are based on a URL found on Apple’s site with references for a blacklisting mechanism:

https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps

Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone hacker, says nothing has been… Continue reading

TUAW Hands On: Lumen

Filed under: Gaming, iPod Family, iPhone, App Store

Lumen is one of those games, that like the Mahjongg game I reviewed a few weeks ago has suffered from a syndrome I’m now calling “too good a game on too small a screen”. Let me start by saying, I love this game. It’s brilliant, it’s fun, it’s challenging. The idea is this: you move around reflectors that bend lasers and that provide additive color until you fully light up all targets on the screen. There are a gadzillion… Continue reading

Apple to release new iPhone/iPod touch dock?

Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family, iPhone

Electronista reports on a patent filing for an iPhone/iPod touch dock that could allow you to both charge and play video in landscape mode, simultaneously. The patent was filed on September 5, 2007 — near the time of the iPod touch debut. The so-called “dock” looks more like the tiny holder that ships with the iPod touch, with the exception of a dock connector plugged in.Apple does, however, file patents… Continue reading

TUAW Hands on with FlipBook for iPhone

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App Store

Josh Anon’s $9.99 FlipBook [App Store link] offers a well-designed animation building tool. Like other flip book drawing products, it lets you create movement frame by frame. What makes FlipBook stand out from the crowd of iPhone drawing tools is its fine attention to interface details and the addition of the flipbook.tv sharing site for the animations you create.

Read on for TUAW’s take on this new AppStore offering, and see the gallery… Continue reading

Bubble Level: surprisingly useful

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App Store

With my girlfriend in the process of refurbishing her kitchen, I found myself in need of (and without) a carpenter’s level yesterday afternoon. But then I remembered Bubble Level, an application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

A penny short of a dollar later, I had myself a working, surprisingly accurate level right in my iPod touch.

Bubble Level grants you to calibrate it (for example, with an actual bubble level) so its measurements are accurate… Continue reading

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