Ah, my first editorial. I felt the need to write this after being at a small social gathering last Friday with a group of friends, none of them being Apple Geeks like myself.
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An iOS-Powered Massage Chair
Who wants to use a wired analog remote when you can use a sleek, retina-displayed iDevice to do it? The Acutouch HT-9500 massage chair is being sold for only $4,999 (iPhone not included). After you drop $5K on the chair, head on over to the App Store and download the FREE (it better be) HT-Connect™ app to start making your iDevice your personal masseuse. It uses Bluetooth to send the controls/settings to the chair and grants you “instant access to a world of resources, massage programs and expertise designed to improve your wellness and life.”
Wow, my back feels better already, it’s my wallet that’s hurting now. Read more
Super Twario Turns Twitter Into A Platform Game for iPhone
Of all the great things you can do with Twitter (such as following Forstall or Conan O’ Brien), can you imagine turning it into a platform game for iPhone where you literally jump on tweets and earn Game Center achievements by replying to mentions or faving tweets?
Super Twario, a $2 game available here, does just that. You simply move around after the app has fetched tweets form your timeline and start walking and jumping and running. With Game Center integration, you can unlock achievements by doing things you would regularly do in any other Twitter client, without getting rewarded.
This opens the road to non-games achievements I think, like “read 150 articles in Instapaper” or “write 15 articles in Simplenote”. We’ll see. Check out the demo video of Super Twario below. [via Engadget] Read more
Verizon iPhone Hits Testing Stage, iPhone 5 Goes “EVT”
Interesting rumor reported by BGR, whose sources are usually reliable and correct: the mythical Verizon iPhone hit “AP” testing stage, which is the last stage before the product release. Almost ready to go public, with final hardware and almost final operating system.
Wi-Fi LED Lights + iOS App = iParty
This is a whole new use for the iPhone - the iGLO LED Set bundles a WiFi-enabled strip of 120 multi-color LEDs (over 16 feet) with a (free) iOS app to control them. The lights are $299, but imagine all the possibilities! Parties, raves, birthdays, college dorms, a colorful lasso - the possibilities are endless.
FolderEnhancer Updated for 4.1, Still The Best Mod For iOS Folders | Cydia Store
Today is a great day for jailbreakers, in case you haven’t noticed. FolderEnhancer, the great tweak that brings dozens of new features to iOS’ folders, has been updated to include support for iOS 4.1. It’s available in Cydia at $1.99, but if you’re a previous CategoriesSB customer you can get the app at $0.99 until the end of October. Read more
FullScreen for Safari Brings Gestures and Fullscreen To Apple’s Browser | Cydia Store
My new favorite tweak for Mobile Safari has just been released in the Cydia Store: FullScreen for Safari, developed by the creator of Firewall IP, is a neat little app available at $1.49 (introductory price) through Big Boss repository that enables you to navigate in fullscreen and use two and three fingers multitouch gestures to surf the web faster with a lot more functionalities. Read more
Text-to-Speech On Your iPhone With Action Menu Voice | Cydia
If there’s something great about OS X’ default text-to-speech feature is that it’s a perfect tool to scare people who don’t know anything about it. “The computer has spoken!” - something like that. I’d like to tell you about this summer’s joke with two friends of mine and some polish dudes sitting next to my computer, but not now.
What we have here is an Action Menu (the amazing tweak developed by Ryan Petrich which adds additional buttons to the standard copy & paste menu) plugin which allows your device to “read and speak” selected text. Read more
Gestures Coming To Mobile Safari with Cydia Tweak | Cydia Store
Mobile Safari is a great browser, and especially on the iPhone I haven’t managed to find an alternative in the App Store that can live up to Apple’s standards. It’s minimal, fast and does most of the stuff one could ever need - but the jailbreak community is always there to enhance stuff. If you open Cydia and search for “Safari” you’ll find tons of neat tweaks and mods to enhance the functionality of Apple’s mobile browser.
The next great tweak coming soon in Cydia is FullScreen for Safari, developed by the creator of Firewall IP. The tweak (which should be available in a couple of days) will add fullscreen capabilities and gestures to Safari, such as two-finger swipe to switch between tabs and two-finger swipe down to open a new tab. A preview is available on iSpazio (Italian), or you can check out the demo video below. Read more