The Impact Game Engine has yet to be released but PhobosLab has posted a little teaser. Their game, Biolab Disaster, is shown running on an iPhone 3GS with 60 frames a second! How? Read more
60 FPS: Impact Game Engine for iOS
Monitor and Geotag Your iPhone Data Usage with DataMan
If you have an iPhone and a contract with your carrier (of course you guys in the US do), then I guess you’re obsessed with data usage tracking: how many messages can you send per month? What’s the threshold for mobile internet access? How much have you consumed this week? Depending on the country and carrier, the experience can be terrible. Fortunately, I have a pretty good plan with 3 Italia over here (4 GB internet / month, 400 SMS, 800 minutes voice) so I haven’t really worried about keeping track of my usage - I understand, though, that this is a problem for many.
DataMan by XVision is probably the most complete app to monitor and even geotag your daily, monthly and week data usage on your iPhone. Read more
Watch Videos While Surfing on Your iPad
Who said you can’t ‘multitask’ on an iPad (without installing the iOS developer beta)? Geeky Gadgets has a tutorial for a DIY HUD adapter/dock that holds your iPhone on top of your iPad. View media on your iPhone and surf the web on your iPad at the same time. Read more
Yahoo! Messenger 2.0 Available With Video Calling
Announced last week, an update to the official Yahoo Messenger app has just been released in the App Store. The new 2.0 version brings video calling to the iPhone, thus directly competing with Apple’s FaceTime…if you’re a Yahoo! Messenger user. Among other features, multitasking and support for iOS notifications.
Check out the changelog and screenshots below, go download the app here. Read more
The App Hall Of Fame→
The App Hall Of Fame
Discovering the very best apps is an increasingly difficult task. There are so many new applications released that it becomes harder and harder to find the gems in the crowd — especially so once that special new app smell wears off. That’s why we’re here. The App Hall of Fame exists to archive the very best of the best in mobile apps. The apps inducted into the hall of fame are considered to be the very best in the app store, the cream of the crop, as it were.
A fun and interesting project. I’m in the selection committee.
Gene Munster, Well-Known Apple Analyst, Claims Android Tablets Will Beat The iPad
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster is a well-known Apple analyst, one of those that usually predict great numbers and results from Apple. This time around, though, when talking to Business Insider’s Henry Lodget he had to say that Android tablets will eventually have more market share than Apple’s iPad, and Android is going to be the most important mobile platform of the next decade. Read more
Retinasizer Forces iPhone Games To Render in Retina Graphics
It sucks when you buy a $4.99 (or even more) game for your iPhone and you find out that the game doesn’t support the Retina Display. How is that even possible, 5 months after the release of the iPhone 4? I don’t know, but we might have a solution here: Retinasizer, a free tweak available in Cydia, can force games to run natively with high-resolution graphics on the Retina Display. Read more
Geohot Working on Limesn0w iPhone Unlock?
After the release of limera1n, the universal tool to jailbreak iOS 4.1, it looks like Geohot may be coming back with his own unlock tool. As a matter of fact, limera1n breaks the baseband unlock on iPhones where users installed Ultrasn0w on, and it’d make sense for Geohot to come up with his own solution.
You can check out the picture and video that are floating around today after the break. They show a “sn0w” unlock tool available in the limera1n app, thus the unofficial name “limesn0w”. It could be a very well-realized fake, but like I said - it makes sense. Take a look at the video below, and let us know what you think in the comments. Read more
My 20 Must-Have Cydia Apps & Tweaks for iPhone
Until 2 days ago I was running iOS 4.2 beta on my iPhone 4. Then limera1n came out, and considering that 4.2 beta wasn’t’t exactly running “smoothly” on my iPhone, and furthermore considering the lack of breakthrough features of 4.2 for the iPhone, I decided to go back to 4.1 and jailbreak once again. You can read everything about iOS 4.1 and the compatible Cydia apps here.
I missed jailbreak. I missed the tweaks and the customization, the possibility to FaceTime on 3G and the unlimited apps in folders. I missed just about everything of what the jailbreak community offers, and that’s what you get by living on the edge of software. When I went back to 4.1 and started pulling apps from Cydia again, I realized there’s this list of apps and tweaks I install every time a new jailbreak is out. Every single time.
Just like I did for the iPad and Mac OS X, here’s my list of 20 must-have apps from Cydia. Jailbreakers, this one’s for you. Read more