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Tag: iPhone

  • 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…)

  • Classics: The Stylish eBook Reader, Now Available – [VIDEO]

    [Update] – See Classics in action, with our brief video walk-through. Just added.

    Let me first say I’ve never really been the reading type. I went through a spell while on holiday one year of picking up a book and not being able to put it down. The most prominent of these two being ‘Digital Fortress’ [Wiki] and ‘The Da Vinci Code’ [Wiki] by Dan Brown. Two amazing reads if you ever get a chance to look at them.

    Anyhoo, for the purpose of this review, I last night bought Classics. Not because I like reading (although I can feel I probably will again, after using this app for a while), I wanted to talk to you about it’s clearly leading user interface … (more…)