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  • Can a Blackberry do this? – Ocarina (VIDEO) [Updatedx2]

    I just spotted this tonight, and thought I’d give you all a quick heads up on it. When you thought you’d exhausted every little thing you could perform with your iPhone, you find something you missed. There are many uses for your iPhone’s microphone, but this one is quite a bit different to the others. App developers have realised that the microphone can actually pick up air being blown through it, and this is the basis of Ocarina.

    Ocarina developed by Smule is a 59p/$0.99 electronic synth flute for iPhone. Basically you blow into your iPhone, and use the touch screen to control the pitch of the sound by covering virtual holes -and if you thought this was just a fly-by-night gimmick, then think again … (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…)