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  • iPhone Vs Storm: The Fight is Officially On [Updated]

    When Apple first introduced the iPhone back in 2007, it was called by them and us, revolutionary. Apart from it’s 3-in-1 product appeal, it’s responsive touch screen was like nothing else then available on the market. It’s user interface was clean, reliable, readable and most importantly, easy navigable. As the months went on iPhone advanced with technology gaining 3G, and built-in GPS .. (more…)

  • Trailers by xTeo

    Being into movies myself, I’ve been watching this app very closely. After submitting feedback to it’s developers back in late September outlining the use of tacky UI elements and bugs which ultimately made the app crash, they finally released version 1.1.0 on the store. A stable, feature-full offering which is sure to give you all that trailer-goodness you so very much love and have probably been looking for … (more…)

  • Photoshop Tutorials: Create an iPhone from Scratch

    Hot on the heels of glass reflections, the most requested tutorials on the web today are the creation of realistic vectors of electronic equipment, namely high-profile devices like the iPhone or iPod touch. In this tutorial, from a white wall of nothing, we’ll create a realistic iPhone, taking advantage of the effects and techniques we learnt in the last tutorial as well as learning some new ones … (more…)

  • Star Smasher or Venger?

    Both looking suspiciously like Apple’s March event demo of Touch Fighter, Star Smasher and Venger are two competing products on the App Store, using the same basic concept, and taking advantage of the iPhone’s built in accelerometer. 3D graphics, 3D positional sound, and control of a craft using a 3-axis accelerometer – But which one of the two is worth plunking down for? … (more…)

  • iPhone Fails to Show Calling Screen – [Briefly]

    Can anyone shout out what the fundamental factors of a phone are? – You’d think the ability to answer a call would be pretty high up on the list, right? About 20 minutes ago I received a call. I missed it. Why? – My iPhone physically didn’t let me answer it … (more…)

  • iPhoneOS: Where is Push Notification?!

    On June 9th, Apple Inc announced it had intentions to provide a viable solution to background processing on the iPhone and iPod touch. While taking a dig or two at Microsoft’s ‘Task Manager’ stating clearly that this wasn’t the way forward, WWDC08 also saw Apple announce it’s Push Notification Service. A solution which would save your battery, and keep a persistent connection to any applications which needed it. A service, which was promised, but is yet to be implemented … (more…)

  • Fuzzle: Do you Fuzzle?

    Half price (today only) at $0.99/£0.59p, I take a look and Fuzzle, the chart-topping puzzler which took the App Store by storm. What was all the fuss about? How is it played? OK, it’s on sale, but is it worth it’s original price-tag? … (more…)