Archive for June, 2009

Blackjack Live Features Four Player Multiplayer Action Via Bluetooth

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Playing blackjack with your buddies just got a little easier thanks to Blackjack Live .   Blackjack Live allows you to play blackjack on your iPhone right alongside your friends, so now you won’t have to physically deal or shuffle any cards, effectively freeing up your all-important beverage hand. Blackjack Live is the first iPhone blackjack game to feature four player multiplayer via Bluetooth.  The game allows to be the dealer by hosting your own game or you can join an existing game to relinquish the role.  As the dealer you will be holding your iPhone just like a normal deck of cards and you can swipe your finger across the screen to deal out cards to each player.  You are able to see each card as it is being dealt to other players’ iPhones.  The game also features a solo mode for you to work on your blackjack skills. Like all other peer-to-peer apps, Blackjack Live ’s multiplayer over Bluetooth will only work on the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the second generation iPod touch. Blackjack Live is available in the App Store for $.99. Embedded below is a video demonstration of the multiplayer portion of Blackjack Live . Related Posts Flight Control v1.3 Adds Peer-To-Peer Multiplayer WordFu And Dr. Awesome On Sale To Celebrate Release Of Rolando 2 Mass Effect Galaxy Price Drop Knights Onrush On Sale For $.99 Topple 2 Now On Sale For $.99

Remember The Milk - First To-Do List App To Feature Push

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Apple is still slowly approving push-capable apps and app updates after the huge pre-iPhone OS 3.0 backlog, which has allowed Remember The Milk to race to the front of the pack to become the fist to-do list app to feature push notifications. Remember The Milk is a popular free online task managing service .  The service allows you to keep track of your appointments and to-do items, and it can even remind you of all of this via email, SMS, and IM.  The free Remember The Milk iPhone app allows you to do all of this while on-the-go, and thanks to recent 1.1 update you will now be able to receive reminders via push notifications. If getting all of this for free seems a little too good to be true, that’s because it kind of is. Remember The Milk is free to use online, but to utilize the iPhone app you must have a Pro account.  A Remember The Milk Pro account is $25 per year , so this free app isn’t exactly free. Even though Remember The Milk isn’t actually free, it is the first push-capable task managing and to-do list app and that’s worth something.  You can check out this app and many other push-capable apps in our Apps That Push You AppList . [Thanks to Dave for the tip!] Related Posts Sirius XM For iPhone Now Available, But Without Stern? Apple Removed Hottest Girls, Nudity Not Allowed In App Store Catapult Nomsters To Defend Your Cake In Must.Eat.Birds App Store Gets Its First App With Nudity Developer Warns Push Apps Not As Useful On iPod Touch

iPhone 3GS dropped into pool, does not falter

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

It was bound to happen sooner or later. The owner of the iPhone in question was daring enough to hold his new iPhone 3GS over the edge of the pool and use its video record feature, I’m sure you can guess what happened next. The caption of the video reads, “Was trying video on my new iPhone

Apple Posts Online iPhone 3GS Availability Tracker

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

If you are about to run out to your local Apple Retail Store to purchase an iPhone 3GS, you may want to check to see if the model you desire is available first, which should be quite easy now that Apple has posted an online iPhone 3GS availability tracker . The tracker allows you to search for Apple Retail Stores in every state.  It will then display which model is available in which store.  The list is broken down by capacity and color, so you shouldn’t have a problem finding the exact iPhone 3GS you want. According to MacRumors , the list is updated hourly.  They also state that nearly 90 percent of Apple’s 200 stores have available stock of all four models, and only five stores are completely sold out of all models at this time. Now go get yourself an iPhone 3GS! Related Posts It’s Officially iPhone 3GS, Not 3G S iPhone 3G Vs. iPhone 3G S: What We Know So Far Mobile Safari Gets Speed Boost, Auto-Fill, And More Apps That Require iPhone 3GS Magnetometer Hit App Store Unofficial iPhone SDK Feedback Project Begins

iPhone 3GS Brulée

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

French blog, “Nowhere Else,” recently posted a story in which a brand new iPhone 3GS overheated and left brown streaks on the white 3GS case. “I bought an iPhone Friday morning 3GS, I normally used and a few days ago, I did the test several apps warning radars in the car when I was a passenger, the apps using the

Flight Control v1.3 Adds Peer-To-Peer Multiplayer

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Just when you thought you may finally be able to kick your Flight Control addiction, Firemint reaches into their bag of tricks and pulls out yet another reason for you to keep playing one of the most addicting casual games available in the App Store. Yesterday evening Flight Control was updated to 1.3, which a adds peer-to-peer multiplayer mode via Bluetooth.  The new peer-to-peer multiplayer mode allows you to share Flight Control duties with a friend.  One of you will only be allowed to land the red aircraft while the other will only be allowed to land blue and yellow, but the catch is that all three colors of aircraft will appear on both of your screens.  Since you won’t be able to land all aircraft, you must direct those that you can’t land onto your friend’s screen, which will require you to work well together or you will crash and burn. Peer-to-peer via Bluetooth is only available on the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the second generation iPod touch.  The original iPhone and iPod touch do not support peer-to-peer multiplayer via Bluetooth. Another addition to the game, albeit a small one, is that you can now purchase Flight Control merchandise via the “more” button.  The products only consist of various Flight Control beverage containment devices at this time. Flight Control is available in the App Store for $.99. Related Posts Flight Control Downloaded 1,000,000 Times Get Addicted All Over Again With Flight Control v1.2 Flight Control v1.2 Submitted, Contains New Airfields And Aircraft Flight Control Ultimate High Score Finally Achieved Harbor Master - It’s Like Flight Control With Boats

Apple confirms pulling “Hottest Girls” app with topless women

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Apple on Friday confirmed it has removed Hottest Girls from the App Store due to images of topless women. Developer Allen Leung initially claimed to have ’sold out’ of the app and removed the title on his own will due to server usage, but the inaccurate explanation was later removed from the site. “Apple will not

iPhone 3GS jailbreak almost completed - using old iPod Touch exploit?

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Not that anyone ever had any doubts that the Dev Team would be able to work their magic on the 3GS, but this is quick: within a week of the phone’s launch, the hackers say they’ve figured it out. The Dev Team says that the 3GS is vulnerable to the same “24Kpwn” bootrom exploit that plagues

Hot Stuff - iPhone 3GS white overheats and becomes discolored?

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

We don’t know how many people have hit this problem (the Apple support forums talk about only overheating occasionally), but at least one user claims that his white iPhone 3GS has become PINK due to overheating, which is a very unusual (and sad) problem, if true. Not that there’s much to take away from this, but

Week In Review - June 27th Edition

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

iPhone 3GS without a space Even though the lines were short, the iPhone 3GS sold like hot cakes.  In the first three days of availability, the speedy device was purchased over one million times !  Because of the massive amount of sales, there was a bit of a delay in the activation process and Apple made up for it by issuing $30 iTunes gift cards to those who were affected. YouTube seen the iPhone 3GS affect with a 400% daily increase of mobile video uploads .  Oh yeah, by the way, it’s iPhone 3GS, not 3G S .  Trust me, it’s important. Pushing like crazy iPhone OS 3.0 finally arrived but only with a few push-capable apps, and none of them were chat apps.  Apple broke their silence on the matter over the weekend, apologizing to developers and stating that there were a few bugs left to squash.  The push-capable chat app floodgates did eventually open with AIM , BeejiveIM , and IM+ .  One developer, however, felt the need to point out that though the iPod touch is capable of receiving push notifications, it isn’t exactly the most useful feature for the device since it has a 15 minute delay while asleep . Is nudity porn? Hottest Girls made App Store history by being the first ever app to display nude images .  Not long after this news broke, the app disappeared from the App Store, but the developer claimed it was because their servers just couldn’t take all of the traffic.  Apparently you can’t trust developers who release apps with nude images because Apple came forward and said none of that was true, and that the developer had actually slipped the images into the app without permission.  So, as it goes, the App Store still doesn’t allow nudity , porn, inappropriate content, or whatever you want to call it. Dev-Team always wins The iPhone Dev-Team is slowly getting there.  They first released their iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak, but it wasn’t available for the iPhone 3GS.  Later on they released the carrier unlocking tool ultrasn0w , but once again it was unavailable for the iPhone 3GS because it still hasn’t been jailbroken.  But don’t fret iPhone 3GS owners, the Dev-Team has discovered that their 24Kpwn exploit that was originally developed for the second generation iPod touch will actually work on the 3GS, so just hang in there a little while longer, your jailbreak is coming. Get it for cheap SGN started the week of sales with F.A.S.T. , which was marked down over 50%.  Gameloft got in the on the action by placing two of its popular titles on sale, Hero of Sparta and Real Soccer ‘09 , for only $.99.  Chillingo had placed Knights Onrush on sale as well, but only for a limited time.  ngmoco’s award winner Topple 2 is on sale for $.99.   Mass Effect Galaxy was released earlier in the week for $4.99, but was reduced to $2.99 only days after.  AxoStudios made I AM NINJA available for free “until tomorrow,” but apparently tomorrow still hasn’t arrived. The rest of the news: Apps That Require iPhone 3GS Magnetometer Hit App Store Unofficial iPhone SDK Feedback Project Begins Toki Tori Contest Deadline Extended iPhone OS 3.0 Adoption Rate Estimates All Over The Place Catapult Nomsters To Defend Your Cake In Must.Eat.Birds Apple’s Remote iPhone App Updated, Now Includes Apple TV Control BeamME Pro 3.0 Update Adds Peer-To-Peer Beaming, Subscription Service Warpack Grunts Tutorial Video Tennessee Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs Liver Transplant AIM Version 3.0.1 - What’s New Getting To Know iPhone 3.0 - Copy And Paste! An Elaborate Find My iPhone Story With A Happy Ending Stern Claims “Rights Issues” To Blame For Not Being Included In iPhone App Vampire Origins First Look Gameplay Video And Screenshots New Gameplay Video And Screenshots For Touch KO Mass Effect Galaxy Now Available In App Store AT&T Navigator Turn-By-Turn App Costs $9.99 A Month Steve Jobs Officially Back At Work? 1Password, 1Password Pro - What’s The Difference? Bring Your iPhone On A Dunkin’ Run Sentinel 2: Earth Defense Preview Video And Screenshots Video Preview Of NimbleBit’s Upcoming iPhone Game Moon Drop WSJ Reports That Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant Columns: iPhone 3GS: The Gaming Difference App Store Insider: The Lyrics Easter Egg Hunt Hidden Gems: Overloaded On OS 3.0 News? Check Out These Apps How-to Get Free Ringtones (No Jailbreaking Required) Reviews: Sally’s Spa F.A.S.T. – Fleet Air Superiority Training Castle of Magic Blimp - The Flying Adventures Harbor Master Related Posts Week In Review - June 20th Edition Week In Review - June 12th Edition Week In Review - June 5th Edition Week In Review - May 29th Edition Week In Review - May 22nd Edition