Some of you are just lazy. Others had substantial problems with AT&T’s mess of an iPhone 4 pre-order. If you plan on visiting your local AT&T in anticipation later this week, sit your butt down. We’re not going anywhere until June 29th.
[via MacRumors]
Microsoft is putting out some decent iPhone applications lately, and now they’ve decided to revamp Bing for the iPhone. Bing was pretty great on its own as a Google competitor, but now it adds “Google Goggles” like features for visually search. Microsoft calls this Visual Scanning, which can check out CDs, books, and video games using your iPhone’s camera.
If you connect your Facebook and Twitter account to Microsoft’s Bing, you can also get a nifty list featuring status updates from your bestest friends and Twitter adversaries. It’s pretty slick, and you can download it here via iTunes.
[via TechCrunch]
The iPhone 4 is arriving early. 2 days early, to be exact. You can blame the faster processor, you can thank FedEx - no matter who you’d like to thank or praise, some American folks already got their hands on an iPhone 4.
If you’re not jealous and think you can hold up to a few pictures, jump beyond the break and take a look at what unboxing the iPhone 4 looks like.
You’re warned though: it looks great.
[UPDATE: scroll down for some great photos and videos shot by Loyal Moses with his iPhone 4]
Earlier today we posted a tutorial on how to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4 with an unofficial build of PwnageTool. Now, the Dev-Team has just release its official build of PwnageTool, read the blog post here.
PwnageTool 4 works on the iPhone 3G / 3GS and iPod Touch 2G. iPhone 2G, iPod Touch and iPod Touch 3G are not supported. The process of creating a custom firmware is the same we described this morning.
Enjoy your jailbroken iOS 4, folks.
Aves is a new game engine entirely based on web technologies. It will be used to build 2D / 2.5D videogames running in every browser with modern CSS, HTML and Javascript web standards. It will handle viewports automatically, and - being based on web technologies - the developers promise Aves games will run just fine on the iPad and other iOS, Android and WebOS devices.
But it doesn’t stop at building games with HTML. It’s got some great API stuff we should all look forward to:
“So again, what are action surfaces? As you know, the whole Web 2.0-Idea is actually about sharing and exchanging data using APIs. We have thousands of those in the web today and you can integrate data from Flickr, YouTube, Twitter or Google Maps on your website today by adding a few lines of code.
Guess what? Now you can integrate all those into your games with a mouse click!
If you want to display certain photos from Flickr on an object like a TV-Set you simply tell the Aves Engine that this particular object should have an action surface attached to it and that you want to fill this surface with some data.”
It’s very promising indeed. Check out the official page here, and the demo video after the break. We’ll keep you posted about this.
While I wish Apple would update their Remote application for the iPad (Am I the only one that uses AirTunes?) – even though it would ruin their “remote” metaphor – Sonos is set to release an iPad native controller that’s incredibly well done. Though you’ll have to wait a bit before you can get your hands on it. All Engadget has obtained is a demo, and reportedly we won’t see this bad boy until August. But hey, that gives you some time to save up enough money so you can actually buy a Sonos wireless speaker system, right?
VLC 1.1 is getting lots of love today as it rolls out on Windows, Mac, and Linux. But Mac users seem to be left behind, as Nvidia-based hardware acceleration only works on Windows and Linux systems. Though don’t let that stop you from from the open-source goodness, lots of additions and updates have been applied to the client that should improve playback and performance all around.
You know what to do - download VLC 1.1 here (direct download).
[VideoLAN via Lifehacker]
Transmission, the popular cross-platform torrent client, has been updated over the weekend to the final 2.0 version. Beta versions of 2.0 have been released in the past months for testing.
Transmission 2.0 brings very important changes such as a new compact view on Mac OS X, faster startup times and verification of data, a local peers discovery feature and optimization of downloads according to bandwidth available. Check out the full changes here, and check for updates if you’re running an old version of Transmission.
How do you sell a $1000 dollar application on the iTunes App Store? You sell it to law students of course.
Law students who are taking the bar exam in California can currently purchase BarMax CA from the iTunes app store for the measly price of $999.99. But this actually isn’t bad, considering the leading competitor BarBri charges up to $4000 for their study guides.
Earlier this year, TechCrunch made aware the purpose of such an application.
“So what do you get for your $1,000 BarMax CA app? A lot, actually. The app is over 1 gigabyte in size, which is the largest application I’ve ever seen. It includes thousands of pages of materials as well as hundreds of hours of audio lectures. It’s all the information you could ever want for the two-month course. And again, it can be done all on your iPhone.”
Now, they’re following up to see how well it’s done in the App Store. Spoiler: it’s a success.
