Posted by digitalkid56 on Nov 4, 2009 in
iPhone Apps 
If you’re lucky enough to have a Google Wave account, you may be familiar withWaveboard. I started out using Wave via aFluid SSB, running Wave Growl for Growlnotifications and Dock badges. Then I found Waveboard, and it made things smooth enough that I haven’t looked at Wave any other way since. So, obviously, I’d been anticipating the iPhone version of Waveboard. It’s here, and it’s, well, moderately interesting.
The desktop app is essentially a Single Site Browser, like a Fluid app, but it adds handy, Mac-like keyboard shortcuts, Growl notifications, Dock and Menubar notifications, etc. The iPhone app is the same, a webkit browser showing what Google already provides, but there just wasn’t as much potential integration to take advantage of on the iPhone. They took advantage of the shake gesture to reload or log out. Websites can be opened in the same browser or sent to Safari. Landscape mode is supported. And you can kind of get push notifications, by using Prowl (which Aron has mentioned before). Setup instructions are available on the Waveboard blog.
That’s about it, for now. Google hasn’t offered an API, which seriously hampers a developer’s ability to do cool things. More features are reportedly in the works, so we’ll see if it turns into a truly useful counterpart to its desktop cousin over time.
Waveboard for iPhone is available on the App Store iTunes link for $0.99US. Under a buck, and it might be worth a look for avid Wavers (which I would be, if enough of my clients and cohorts had accounts to make it truly useful).
[via TechCrunch]
Tags: GoogleWave, iPhone, WaveBoard
Posted by digitalkid56 on Sep 4, 2009 in
iPhone Games
The first iPhone game that displays Such a high level of graphics:
a full-3D reconstruction of an entire city with detailed buildings, beautiful landscapes and impressive cars that animate and take crash damage.
A unique feeling of freedom:
Drive for miles and miles in massive, open-ended environments. Feel free to complete missions at your own pace, or just do absolutely anything you want!
Get rich or die trying!
Explore the city, shoot and fight, steal vehicles, kill, sell goods and drive or walk anywhere. Go from rags to riches by connecting with relatives and helping out their gang. But beware the police!
Intuitive gameplay:
Drive a variety of vehicles easily thanks to touch controls, and aim at a target simply by touching it on the screen. Shooting sequences are even more enjoyable thanks to the auto-aiming system.
Be a Gangster your way.
Choose your favorite radio station (hip-hop, rap, reggae, electro, Californian punk rock, etc), or listen to your own music stored on your iPhone!
Posted by digitalkid56 on Sep 4, 2009 in
iPhone Apps 
Yes I bought it..
(via Mike Schramm on TUAW)
God bless Smule. I panned their Ocarina app way back, but since then they’ve pushed right along without me, releasing idea after idea on Apple’s App Store. And I think that, though the Leaf Trombone didn’t really capture my attention, this one might finally be the big winner in my book: they’ve released I am T-Pain, an app that will automatically Auto-tune you into the style of some of the rapper’s top songs, with more purchaseable within the app. There’s even a “freestyle” mode, complete with a few unreleased background tracks to jam with — as you can see above, all you do is talk into the iPhone’s mic, and you can autotune the news or whatever else you want. Shawwwwty!
Silly? Maybe, but they’re going to sell a million of these, and given that Smule’s apps tend to be easy to pick up and fun to play with, even people who aren’t familiar with T-Pain’s work will probably get the app just to sing a few bars to see what it sounds like (you can also send those messages off to Facebook or email as well). And Smule is moving right up into the iPhone 3.0 era: the app comes with four songs, and there are four more available to purchase in-app, along with even more (and more popular: Kanye’s “Good Life” and the Lonely Island’s “On a Boat” track are due out soon) songs coming, complete with lyrics and auto-tune settings and timings in the future.
Maybe you’re laughing. Maybe you think this is dumb, and you’ve already had enough of auto-tune on pop radio, and don’t really want it in your iPhone, too. But trust me on this one: Smule is a company that’s made silly music experiences on the iPhone extremely popular, and having T-Pain’s tunes and auto-tuning abilities (officially from the company behind the pro version, too) available in this app is going to make it big, no question. The app’s available right now for $2.99, so pick it up if you’re feeling the beat and want to sing, even if you can’t. Yeahhh-eeeyeaahh-yeah.
Posted by digitalkid56 on Jul 19, 2009 in
iPhone Apps
Get your Emoji icon’s enabled for FREE with Spell Number. Just follow these simple steps!
1. Launch Spell Number, and enter secret digit 9876543.21 91929394.59
2. Quit Spell Number by pressing the home button and return to home screen. Now open “Settings”
3. Go to General->Keyboard->International Keyboards->Japanese, and now you will find a new switch called “Emoji”, check it if you want to enable Emoji keyboard. You can also uncheck it to disable Emoji keyboard later.
4. Now the Emoji keyboard is enabled, go to any program (I use Notes for example), click any field to popup the keyboard, click the “Earth” icon until Emoji popup. You can also delete Spell Number if you don’t want it, the setting will still be here.
Tags: 3.0, Emoji, Free, iPhone
Posted by admin on Jul 19, 2009 in
iPhone Games 
NGMOCO has announced the launch of Star Defense for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed in collaboration with Rough Cookie, Star Defense promises to revolutionise the classic tower defence genre with dynamic 3D environments, multi-touch user interface controls and innovative gameplay.
“ngmoco is thrilled to add Star Defense to our expanding catalogue of premium iPhone and iPod touch games,” said Neil Young, CEO and founder of ngmoco. “By combining immersive strategic gameplay and fast-paced action into 3D environments that players can fully manipulate, Star Defense is set to evolve the tower defence genre.”
In Star Defense, players battle hordes of alien S’rath invaders in their quest to save human outposts across the galaxy. Using Multi-Touch controls, players will twist, spin, and zoom-in on 3D planets and examine the terrain to plan their defences.
With five towers and fifteen different weapons, players will need to strategically place turrets that unleash burning hot plasma to high-voltage blasts.
The game also integrates with social networks, allowing players to expand their campaigns and compete with friends over Twitter, Facebook and email.
Tags: 3.0, Games, iPhone, NGmoco, Star Defense