Archive for the ‘Touch’ Category

Custom firmware images–Jailbreak and more through iTunes

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Instead of dealing with all these jailbreaking tools, wouldn't it be nice to build a custom image --pre-hacked and pre-loaded with software--and simply load it on your phone via iTunes? Thanks to the iPhone Dev Team, this will soon be a reality. In what they are calling the "Pwnage Project", you ...

Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone (VIDEO)

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

EA isn't the only one showing off their new iPhone wares. Here's what SEGA accomplished in just 2 weeks: I've always been a fan of these simple platforming games (particularly marble madness-esque ones). From the way the SEGA rep talks about the controls, it sounds like ...

Spore on the iPhone (VIDEO)

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

In just 20 days, EA has progressed this far in bring Spore to the iPhone/Touch. Spore fan or not, it shows just how powerful the SDK (and the hardware) is. While I love the homebrew efforts thus far, it definitely won't hurt the community to augment that with some AAA ...

iPhone SDK released: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

It's finally official: the iPhone SDK is available for download at Apple.com (download link appears to be down atm). Here are the details you need to know... The Good -The SDK is free to anyone who wants to check it out. -They will allow publishers to release their apps for FREE -Developers can set ...

Firmware 1.1.4 released, ZiPhone support coming soon

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Firmware 1.1.4 has been released, but you may want to hold off on upgrading if you are jailbroken. ZiPhone reportedly works, but Zibree warns further testing is needed, and adjustments need to be made. The firmware update appears to just be bug fixes, so you aren't missing out on anything ...

Buy a 32GB Touch, get a free iPod Shuffle

Monday, February 25th, 2008

In one of the strangest Amazon promotions I've seen in a while, when you buy a 32GB iPod Touch, you get a 1GB iPod Shuffle for free. I can't imagine there are many people in the market for an iPod Touch AND a Shuffle, but for free, why not. Clip ...

Palm OS emulator on iPhone/Touch (not released)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

The folks behind the Palm emulator of Windows Mobile have an experimental version of StyleTap running on an iPod Touch. And it looks pretty damn fast and usable. Don't get your hopes up though, since it looks to be a big tease. They warn you in big bold letters: "This ...

iPod Touch support coming soon to ZiPhone

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Zibree has posted the following on his blog: As I stated many times, ZiPhone was not even intended for the iTouch. But you know...they are so similar... The "problem" with 1.1.3 iTouch is that the bootloader is a little different. Yesterday I had the time to disassemble it. 20 minutes later I found exactly what ...

ZiPhone 2.3 Released (PC and Mac GUI)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

The amazing ZiPhone app has been updated to 2.3. If you haven't been following along, ZiPhone is an all-in-one activation/jailbreak/unlocking tool for all iPhone and iPod Touch firmwares. Feel free to post in the forums if you need any help with this app. The jailbreak procedure is pretty straightforward. Do a ...

iAno - Virtual keyboard native app released

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

You may have seen the video already, but now iAno and released and waiting for you on installer. It's on the Community Sources, so just go to New Packages (or under Toys) and install it!