Fare City is an Incredibly Addictive, Taxi Management Game

This weekend I came across a little iPhone game called Fare City. While I don’t know or understand the full story behind Fare City; I guess it was shuffled between a few different developers; It’s back in possession of the original creators, Finkly Interactive (no relation). But asides from all the drama, the game itself is really fantastic, and I couldn’t count the hours I wasted on this thing yesterday. I think my iPod touch officially has a concave shape to it after it practically melted in my fingers.

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Mémoires Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Memoired giveaway.We also want to thank the Coding Robots developers for the licenses they offered to MacStories readers.

Here are the winners:

Jash Sayani

Christohper Misiano

Clemens Bauer

You’ll receive the promo licenses in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci

An iPad Controlled Blimp [Video]

I knew all along that the iPad would turn out to be an amazing device, but a blimp controller with integrated cockpit view? No, I didn’t think of that.

The guys over at BreakfastNY.com have created a modified BlimpDuino which is controlled by the iPad’s accelerometer through a custom software which connects to a built in computer. The iPad thus becomes the real controller which also displays what the blimp sees via an attached front camera.

It’s awesome, check out the video after the break.

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Foxconn Will Ship 24 Million iPhone 4G Units in 2010

Foxconn is set to ship 24 million units of Apple’s next iPhone in 2010, Digitimes reports.

“According to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers:

Foxconn will ship 4.5 million units in the first half and 19.5 million units for the rest of 2010. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

The new device will adopt IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution, Kuo said, noting that LG Display and Prime View International are the panel suppliers.

The iPhone 4G will run on the Arm Cortex A8 processor and a 512MB memory module from Samsung Electronics, doubling the memory capacity seen in the iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the multi-tasking capability of the iPhone 4.0 platform, Kuo revealed.”

The question is, will 24 million units be enough or too much for 2010?

iPhone to Oust Blackberry in Corporate World?

In news I didn’t expect to hear for quite awhile, the iPhone is starting to make  some noise in the corporate sector. Standard Chartered is offering 75,000 employees the opportunity to ditch their Blackberry’s for one of Apple’s luxurious devices, though is one company really enough to break news for? Sure, if that company is involved in global initiate to get other banks to follow through. RIM might not have anything to worry about after all, but this should raise an eyebrow at what could be a future trend. While we won’t see the iPhone’s best enterprise features until OS 4.0 is available to the public, it’ll be interesting to see what effect that has, if any, on our corporate overlords.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

Extend Your iPad Dock with Infinidock

With all those extra pixels, I think Apple could have done something more with the iPad dock. You can add more icons than the iPhone, but that’s pretty much it. Fortunately ther are some tweaks in Cydia you can download to enhance the functionality of the iPad dock, and today we’re taking a look at Infinidock from @chpwn.

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