iPhone. News and Tips

A new utility to share iPhone using wireless connection is available. AirSharing allows you to use Finder (Mac OS), Explorer (Windows) and Nautilus (Linux) to explore your iPhone.

After connection established you’ll see two folders where you will be able to copy or move all the office documents you need to read from iPhone.

That’s the way the document list is seen at telephone.

There is also detailed instruction manual available.

Mac OS

1. Start the Finder;
2. Press Cmd+K;
3. Type an ip-address to access iPhone (it’s specified by utility)
http://IP_address:8080

Windows

1. Open My Network Places;
2. Select Add a Network Place >> Choose another network location >> Next;
3. Type an ip-address to access iPhone (it’s specified by utility)
http://IP_address:8080.

Supported file formats:

Watching and zooming photos.
All the pictures are synchronized using standard utility are loaded into iPhone in smaller size. Air Sharing allows you to transfer pictures into your mobile without any quality loss.

Watching…

… and zooming

Price: FREE until 23rd of September. Later it’ll cost $6.99.
Hurry up, guys!

[iTunes link]

The Apple web-site (http://www.apple.com/ru/iphone/) announces about coming start of the iPhone 3G sells in Russia.

A sports simulator game – Real Soccer 2009, recently appeared in AppStore.

All the pictures are clickable

The first impression – the game is perfect!

The main advantages of Real Soccer 2009:
1. Realistic 3d graphics;
2. Rich audio environment;
3. A usable way to control the soccer player like using a console joystic with A and B buttons responsible for player speed acceleration and for the kick and pass strength.
4. Different game modes – Cup, League, Penalty, Practice, Trophy;
5. A huge number of teams: both world championship teams and clubs;
6. A lots of customization options (match time, etc.)
7. Optional soccer player actions – short or long pass, etc.
8. There is Russian team in the game! And even with the right player positioning!

Price: $9.99
[iTunes link]

Everybody knows, how BMW gets together with iPhone. And here’s a photo, proving that girls also can get well both with BMW and iPhone.

© Nick Kiselev

Thanks to Nick Kiselev.

If you are a photographer and got any images that corresponds the idea of the project - we will be glad to publish them here. Here’s the contact e-mail:

You can specify all the contact information you like or same advertising information. Everything will be posted just below the images you’ll send.

There’s an iPod Touch advertised in the first part of the clip. Apple makes accent not on the music content, but on AppStore games that can be downloaded and played. The second part describes a variety of iPod Touch colors available to choose from.

When will new Apple firmware be available?

- An iPod Touch firmware upgrade to 2.1 version should be already available and costs $9.95.
- An iPhone firmware update is totally free of cost, but will be presented only on Friday.

What’s new in iPhone FW 2.1:

- The problems arising while making calls or launching the application are corrected;
- The synchronization speed with iTunes is increased;
- The battery will work for a longer time.

The energy optimization might be copied from existing PocketPCs – probably iPhone automaticly designates the running programs statuses and sets a processor speed according to the current load. That’s just a guess-work…

Steve Jobs makes fun on the gossips about his death. As you remember, at least twice for the past three months newspapers wrote he is being near death (Steve suffers from pancreas cancer). Here you can see the famous Mark Twen’s phrase, that famous writer used in the similar circumstances.

A well-known racing game will appear in AppStore on November.

Apple have renewed the operators settings – Russian MTS, Beeline and Megafon were added to the list.

screenshot by .:(AMIGO):.

After the button “Download and Upgrade” press and the iPhone restart old Beeline logo is replaced with the new one. MTS subscribers don’t see anything like that, but they report EDGE/GPRS settings menu disappears (they are set automatically) and these new menus appear:

A Japan-based mobile operator Softbank makes it’s best to raise the sells of iPhones in the country of the Rising Sun. They should sell approximately 800 000 iPhones in the next two months to follow the conditions identified in the contract that Softbank had signed with Apple.

When Softbank dropped the tariffs from $55 to $16 per month that didn’t succeeded – the Japanese mobile market is overfilled with different New Generation mobile gadgets, and iPhone doesn’t even pretend to compete with them. And Softbank has only two months before it should report Apple about the sales statistics.

That’s extremely interesting, how Russian operators will try to evade the errors made by their Japanese colleagues.

New iPod Touch is supplied with brand new headphones, that was announced by Apple yesterday conference Let’s Rock.

The main feature of new device is that a small woofer and tweeter are integrated into headphones. So we have the two-way stereo-speaker, that can size in your pocket. There are also three earpieces supplied to fit every earsize.

The volume control and microphone are fixed on the right ear wire. At the moment, Apple sais that this earphones are compatible with iPod Touch, New iPod Nano 4G and new iPod Classic. There was no any word said about iPhone unfortunately.

Price: $79.

© Лунин Владимир, gallery.me.com/lunin/100062

Let’s Rock, guys!

If you are a photographer and got any images that corresponds the idea of the project - we will be glad to publish them here. Here’s the contact e-mail:

You can specify all the contact information you like or same advertising information. Everything will be posted just below the images you’ll send.

What was the next? The occasion, that nobody expected.
Apple have redesigned iPod Touch!

The player became thinner. The metal edging appeared on the case. The size of the display haven’t been changed.

After finishing the announcement, Steve Jobs had mentioned, that approximately 100 million applications have been downloaded from AppStore and that iPod Nano can also work with this online store.

A 32Gb model was also announced. Here are the prices.
8GB is $229, 16GB is $299 and 32GB is $399

iTunes with multimedia albums was presented. It’s also possible to upgrade at the moment.

The next extremely expected announcement was the presentation of 4th generation iPod. Here are the photos.

Different points of view

When you orientate your iPod horizontally the landscape mode is activated, that shows that iPod received the same accelerometer that iPhone has.

New iPod Nano can play music all day and night long (for 24 hours) and show video for 4 hours.

Greenpeace now loves Apple. The new iPod Nano is totally environment friendly.

It’s available in any color of the rainbow (and also in steel color, of course).

The 8Gb model is available for purchase for $149, the 16Gb will be offered for $199 from the next week.

A player is supplied with special headphones with the remote volume control ability and microphone for voice recording, so you are able to make notes using voice-recorder integrated application.

The presentation started from the following announcements:

iTunes Store accounts approximately 8,5 million songs, 125 thousands of podcasts, 30 thousand episodes of different TV-show, 2600 movies, 3000 applications from AppStore.

The HD TV Shows support was added on 9th of September (it costs $2.99). Also NBC returned to iTunes Store offering their tv-series Monk, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock.

A lot of people want to now, will be the monstrous Worms:Armrageddon ever ported to iPhone. Here’s some information about this cult game perspectives.
There are only two developers left, who are working under Worms project – their names are Deadcode and CyberShadow. The last one is living in Kishenev, Moldova, he also enjoys playing Worms and likes to modify the game’s code in order to improve it.

We have communicated CyberShadow and asked him, if it’s possible to port Worms game to iPhone platform. The developer said the following.

Unfortunately, this project can’t be realized because we have only heavily restricted rights to make changes in game. The only thing we can do is making updates for Windows-based game version – everything else is in Team 17 competence.

They say, Team 17 is making new Worms game at the moment, and the iPhone version is also expected. So I don’t think that the Worms:Armageddon port-project will be appreciated by Team 17 as commercially successful. Anyway, I advice you to contact Team 17 director Martyn “Spadge” Brown.

We must also mention another Worms clone named HedgeWars ( http://www.hedgewars.org/ ), that is being developed by Russian team. They plan to issue the commercial version of the game for iPhone platform, but Team 17 already claimed them for copyright violation.

As we can see, the only sticking point is Team 17. If they will consider to do so, the new Worms game port will appear in AppStore before the Christmas.

Our special thanks to Eugeny Reshetov.

Here’s a new wallpaper set for iPhone and iPod Touch (approximately 50 wallpapers in 7.1 Mb ZIP archive).

And 170 wallpapers and 619 pictures are available at iphones.ru forum.
You can download all the pictures you like to /Library/Wallpaper folder of your iPhone.

And Jurrasis is a great fan of Elisia Catbert.

Here’s 33 wallpapers with her photos.

Well, is there any iPhone and Wall-E fan? We lack of Wall-E iPhone wallpapers!

The iSnap game for iPhone could be a relative of Tetris and Ping-Pong old good games. The gameplay is simple – touch the ball, pull it back (like an arrow in a bow) and shoot. The ball rises high and drops on the color bricks. If you will hit one in a number of same color bricks – all of them will disappear. You can also get bonuses like clocks, hammers or traditional dynamite.

The game is as sticky as a chewing gum. Run it and spend a day playing it. The only minus is the way to control a ball – it’s too sensitive.

Price: $0.99
[iTunes link]

Here’s our forum girl Voltchitsa (she-Wolf). She owns iPhone 3G and knows what’s the difference between jailbrake and activation. Oh yeah, she’s master in some kind of sport.

Thank’s to NorNick’s camera, that allows you to enjoy Voltchitsa’s grace and her iPhone.

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Will Wright, the creator of The Sims and SimCity is presenting a new iPhone game, that supposed to become a real hit! The Spore is evolution simulator game. Player should begin the game from the basic microorganism and pass through to dedicated civilization. This is a first ever made strategy game for iPhone.

So, the little spore is coming to Earth. You must control spore using iPhone accelerometer and feed it with surrounding bacteria. After completeing a level you can improve your spore, resize it, add new organs and transfer it to the next evolution level.

You are free to color your spore. If you will be not satisfied with a standard color sets you can add a texture from your iPhone photoalbum.

Don’t forget you are not on the top of food pyramid – there are others who are bigger than you and are lso hungry. Be careful!

The music environment is also pretty good. Listen to the instrumental accompaniment, construct millions of creatures and be the God for them.

By the way, EA Games is developing at least 10 new games for iPhone.

Price: $9.99
[iTunes link]