Turbo iPhone

There appears to be a bug on Apple’s iTunes App Store that’s causing apps to show up as having updates available even after they’ve been downloaded over and over again. We’ve gotten quiet a few readers writing in about it now, and there’s the usual huge thread up on Apple’s discussion boards.
Here’s what it looks like — the App Store on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iTunes on your PC tells you you have an update for an app. You tap or click to update, enter your iTunes password, and the app downloads — but it still shows the app in the update list. You tap or click update again, it downloads again, but again still shows the app in the update list. Or worse (as happened to me a [...] Continue Reading…

In SEED 1: Rise of Darkness, players adventure within a thriving fantasy-RPG universe developed by CH Games. Players begin their adventure as an unskilled apprentice, who must defeat enemy monsters and complete quests to discover new weapons, skills and spells. Eventually, they will become a powerful hero who can change the fantasy world of Kalikoop forever.

Game Features
· Explore a thriving fantasy universe: Every step of this exciting journey will be rewarding and enjoyable! Visit over 20 unique towns, and conquer monstrous enemies on hundreds of battlefields around the world.

· Grow and customize your character: Collect special items and manipulate them to your preference through socketing, compounding and refining your collection. Use skill and intelligence to make powerful combinations of untold power!

· Use reflexes and skill in combat: Battle armies of [...] Continue Reading…

TechCrunch reports that Google has begun testing a new Android device with their employees. The new device is said not to be just another Android-based phone, but the official Google Phone that has been rumored for some time. From TechCrunch:
Google is building their own branded phone that they?ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

There won?t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone?s design of features ? Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android [...] Continue Reading…

One-way video chat has been added to Fring, a free app for the iPhone which serves as a unified platform for contacts across multiple chat clients. The chat is only one-way, allowing iPhone users to receive video chat requests but does not allow for use of the camera on the iPhone itself for chatting. This limitation is according to the developer, “due to the location of the camera” on the iPhone.

The video functionality is available over the Wi-Fi connection and supports video though Skype to Fring and Fring to Fring chat.

Fring supports a variety of communication platforms including: Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Twitter, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and also offers support for a number of VoIP providers. Fring also interacts with Facebook, Last.fm and Google Mail.

Did Apple close the 24kpwn exploit in the latest shipments of the iPhone 3GS due to app piracy? MobileCrunch thinks it’s certainly a factor:

While jailbreaking allows for countless wonderful (but otherwise disallowed) apps to run on the iPhone, it also allows cracked versions of paid applications to be installed. As a result, piracy is mind-blowingly, soul-crushingly rampant on the iPhone. Many iPhone developers – such as those behind the popular IM client, Beejive – are reporting that 80 percent of their users are pirates. Yep. For every 10 users on Beejive, 8 of them didn’t pay for it. I’m no saint myself, and all of us here fully understand that a download does not equal a lost sale – but when 80% of the people [...] Continue Reading…

A great band introduced to me last year now has an iPhone App: Perpetual Groove.  With it you can sample and purchase music, watch live shows, and learn more about the band.  These guys are cool as hell, I had the honor of meeting and talking to them while they were in St. Louis.

Rising out of the low country of Savannah, GA in 2001, Perpetual Groove has grown quickly into a formidable internationally touring organization. Now based in Athens, GA, the band continues to ride an unending wave of momentum buoyed by an enthusiastic fan base and international critical acclaim. Fans of Perpetual Groove (or PGroove, as the fans like to call them) are known to follow the band from state to state, night to night, to experience their [...] Continue Reading…

Adobe has announced the release of Photoshop for your iPhone or iPod touch – although the software is closely tied to Adobe’s Photoshop.com photo hosting and sharing service.

The snappily-named “Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone” is free to download. It offers the kind of images editing controls you’d expect to see in an iPhone app: cropping, flipping and rotating; saturation, exposure and tint controls; and a collection of special effects with names like Soft Focus and Sketch.

It also lets you upload to – and I think sync with – a Photoshop.com account, which offers 2GB of image storage for free and the option to get more space and extra features if you’re prepared to pay up for them. I’m not sure if the app also lets you share in other [...] Continue Reading…

(San Antonio, TX) – Mere hours after it was launched, the eagerly awaited MMS (multi-media messaging) feature for Apple’s hugely popular iPhone was disabled, as AT&T’s data servers proved incapable of coping with the massive influx of wiener pic traffic.

“Within the first few minutes, our network was flooded with nearly 3.4 million MMS messages and the early data shows that almost 98% of those were pictures of our male customers’ penises,” stated Ronald MacArthur, head of data traffic for the company.

In the weeks and days up until the feature was rolled out, AT&T had been working around the clock to make improvements to its network, in order to deal with the expected spike in customers using the service. Unfortunately, their efforts appear to have been woefully inadequate.

“I guess we [...] Continue Reading…

Just plug into itunes, update your phone, turn it off and back on and you’ll have a new icon in the messaging screen.  Its overloaded right now so it may be a bit glitchy, but dang its about time!

This is actually 20 apps in one. It cost .99 cents in the app store and I downloaded just out of curiosity so here. we.go.

Alright 20 apps in one hmmmm.  lots of interesting apps here, not sure how often ill use 99% of em but hey, to each there own.

battery life ( best app on it, tells you remaing talk and standby time)

Clineometer (level)

Currency Exchange

Date Calc (add days or months together)

Days Untill

Flashlight

Upcoming Holidays

Loan Calc

Pcalendar (calculates best time to try and get pregnant)

Price Grab(will find unit price, example box of snickers-better to buy the whole box or 20 individual?)

Random (this just picks a random number between 1-100, really)

Ruler

Sale Price (chjeap way of telling you how much you save on a item listed for sale)

System Info ( memory info)

Tip Calc

Translator- this [...] Continue Reading…

Apple has been contacting some iPhone owners that have been complaining about poor battery life after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 The company has apparently been asking select iPhone owners a series of questions about battery performance and asking them to install a battery life logging tool, according to The iPhone Blog. The iPhone owners Apple has been contacting have all been involved in battery-related discussions in the Apple online forums. The forum members all received an email from AppleCare asking a series of questions about which applications they have installed, email usage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth activity, and more. The email also included that enables battery activity logging and transmits the collected data to Apple during iPhone syncing. Apple will presumably use the information it is [...] Continue Reading…

McDonald’s Italy just launched a new, limited-edition hamburger called the Mac. It boasts “stone baked bread, Emmental cheese, choice beef, tomato and lettuce.”

The tag line above says “Discover our new creation available from September 16.”

Don’t tell Apple, they might not like that “il Mac,” as it’s called in Italian in exactly the same way as the computer, is ready for speedy, cheap consumption.

Tasty.

Via Cultofmac

wow…

I know a lot of us have at one point or another hated the virtual keyboard for the iPhone. That darn predictive text input and just not havin a button to press can be frustrating, esp when were driving!

A new keyboard called the iTwinge had been unveiled for the iPhone that is similar to the Blackberry keyboard. The iTwinge will cost you $30 and is sort of like a half sleeve with a keyboard built in.

The big downside is that the keyboard blocks about 40% of the iPhone screen, which would make navigation difficulty. The company behind the product claims that typing speed can be increased by up to 40% and errors reduced by up to 80%. The iTwinge is set to ship on November 17.

I dont think ill [...] Continue Reading…

The non-availability of tethering and MMS features in the U.S at the time of the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 was probably the most disappointing news that was announced at the WWDC 2009 Keynote address.
Some folks had figured out a simple hack to enable tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 without the need to jailbreak their iPhone.

In case you didn’t know, Aaron Krill over at Krillr.com has also figured out a way to enable MMS on iPhone

OS 3.0.
Before you start, you need the following things:

Modified version of ATT_US.ipcc which can be download from this link.
iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0
iTunes 8.2
Another AT&T Phone (not an iPhone)
This guide is only for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users, iPhone 2G (1st generation iPhone) users can refer to this guide.

You then need to [...] Continue Reading…