iPhone. News and Tips

Well, at last every iPhone owner ia able to put up to five useful icons into the bottom dock. Download a Five Icon Dock application from Cydia, install it and just drag an icon you need to the bottom dock.

Everithing is clear – there are no any hints and there are no any troubles.

Now we are happy to announce the new call manager for 2.x.x version firmware. It replaces the Apple original CM.

That was a good news. The bad news is that the application is not free and costs $7. You will be limited to manage no more than 100 calls and will constantly see the “Buy-a-software” window while using it without serial key. All other functions should work without any limitations.

By the way, you can find the game using the installer’s smart search.

Dev Team thinks about every iPhone owner. These guys don’t sleep or eat, just working all day and night long to help us manage our iPhones. Recently we saw information about WinPWN release, and now they are announcing a new QuickPWN available for download here.

At last we can download a WinPWN! That’s a beta-version, so use it on your own risk.

Download from Rapidshare.com.

A mirror on Yandex.Disk from Mr.Berserk.

Recently a new online service was presented by Adobe – Photoshop Express Online. There’s no secret, that the original Photoshop costs a lot. And this variant is “cheap, dedicated and easy to use” and so on… It looks like Adobe decided to engage potential graphic packet buyers with totally free online service. You know, imagine you are using Photoshop Online for a month or a year, and someday you think “It’s so good, that I wanna buy it, right now!”. If this scenario will work Adobe could sell another thousand of P-Shops in a year or two.

Now they are going just to mobile market and are offering a PhotoshopExpress service on your iPhone. You will be able to use it till 9th of September. You also should download a Shozu app (here’s an iTunes link) to use PE online. After the registration you will be granted by 2 Gb of free space to upload your photo on web-server. If you would like to become an official subscriber and you are ready to pay for it the available freespace will be increased to 20 Gb.

Exciting, isn’t it?

There’s a new game released in AppStore named aBalls made by rashid. That’s a Lines logic game remake, that was so popular in Russia in the beginning of 90th.

You should make lines out of five balls of the same color. The gameplay is improved by adding bonus- and disaster-object. There’s also a time counter to compare your results with your opponents. If you made a nice score – send it to web-based table of honour.

Price: $1.99
[iTunes Link]

ImagePhone is a useful application to create custom wallpapers and upload them to your iPhone. The main features:

- you are free to cut, rotate and resize wallpapers;
- the ability to work with iPhone library and Address Book;
- app can preview the results of your work;
- of course, you can export finalized versions to iPhone.

Resume: a nice addition to iToner app. Easy, steady, fast – like everything running on Mac.

A modmyfone.com portal posted an information about new project start named XiPhone. This program should be a sum of WinPwn and QuickPwn apps with some improvements and brand new features.

The good news are that XiPhone will be built using XPWN architecture. The bad one is that only Windows users will be able to use it. Here is a short list of XiPhone features announced:

- an automatic firmware loading;
- a glamorous Vista-style design;
- an ability to export configuration settings into .xml;
- automatic software update;
- an impressive set of pre-loaded logos;
- an ability to turn on or off the customization settings after system restore.

There’s more information about project on developer’s blog – XPWN.

Here’s the the first fighting made especially for iPhone. Now it’s available for download at AppStore.

The main feature of the game is a true 3d-graphics gameplay. To strike or block punches, low and high kicks use the buttons on iPhone sensor screen. You’ll be able to choose a favorite fighter from 12 characters, fight your opponents in 5 game modes and on 5 different locations. And don’t forget about various background music, which will help you to take a 110% enjoy from the game.

Download it, play a while and have fun, but don’t scratch the touchscreen making a 6x-super-combo-in-a-second.

Price: $7.99

[iTunes link]

Installer 4 has reached beta 6 status just recently.

What’s new:

- Search function. But an advanced one. It can search not only the packages in the repos you’ve added, but also through RipDev server, when necessary.

- uninstalling work better now

-fixed a bug, where several copies of a package could appear in a folder

- the installer became more stable and the Springboard (the desktop) updates faster

The repo’s code was also changed. The new instructions are located here:

More details can be found in RipDev blog.

Forum discussions.

The first Myst game appeared in 1995. All critics considered it as the best adventure game ever made. Encouraged by the game success , developers – Cyan and SunSoft companies, tried to make a little bit more money on making sequels, but Myst 2 and 3 were not as good as original game. The last try to improve the popularity of Myst series was the start of Myst Online project, but it didn’t succeeded.

Recently, in information about developing new game in series – iMyst, became available on official game forum. It’s not clear at the moment, will it be a brand new game or just a port to iPhone platform. According to available screenshots from Nintendo DS game version, the second opinion is more probable.

Approximately an hour ago the updated QuickPwn became available for download.

The 2.0 and 2.0.2 firmware compatibility was added, that means that now QuickPwn accepts the full scale of 2.x.x firmware versions. You can download the updated software here.

Guys from the Dev Team say, that there will be QuickPwn Mac OS X version available soon.

Another one racing game for our lovely iPhone – “Audi A4 Driving Challenge”. As you can see from the title, you will drive an A4 sedan through the racing circuts. The goal is to run the circut as fast as you can and try to improve your result lap by lap. Watch the border cones – if you knock some you’ll get a penalty seconds.

The main feature of the game is an innovative way to control your car. Just rotate your iPhone left or right (imagine that you drive a car, and iPhone is your steerin wheel), and your Audi will follow the moves of iPhone.

Don’t miss the turn, easy right!

P.S. Yes, it’s totally free on iTunes =)
iTunes link

The program we have been waiting for a long time – Pysl 2 , that is used to manage call and message filter have been released at last.

In my opinion it’s there is no need to describe all the functions of the program. We all know what we need such software for and we have been waiting for it for a long time. In a nutshell, we need it to create and manage black-lists for calls, to set a password to access the programme, to block SMS from black-list contacts.

Now let’s test and describe it.

The program is absolutely free.

Now you can choose a way to explore and launch the software installed on your iPhone – use the Apple’s default explorer or a third-party software named Dock 3.0. This freeware application, available on Cydia, adds a little bar to the bottom of the screen. Just tap it and a number of software categories will appear on the screen. Move your finger up the screen to the category you need (for example, games) and another line of icons will appear above the categories list (see the pictures). This utility was originally built for the early firmware versions, where it used to be in disfavor .

The Koi Pond iPhone application opens a door into the world of relax and tranquility.
The developers of that software succeeded in creating some kind of a peaceful atmosphere, that makes you to forget about your problems, take a seat and have a rest for a moment. There are a lot of people who enjoy breeding Japanese decorative fishes named Koi, famous for it grace and unique appearance. So, you launch the application, and in the moment find yourself not seating in front of your keyboard, but looking into the phantasmal pond inside your iPhone, where beautiful Koi fishes are whirling in the underwater garden, flashing with all the rainbow colors. They say, some tints of fishes coloring can draw some luck to the owner of the aquarium.

You can find some more information about Koi Pond app in this video.

[iTunes link]

The price of the this real tranquility app is just $0,99.

It’s not enough to be a dedicated developer to pass through Apple’s censorship and sell your own software in a Apple Store. The Big Guys just have announced some rules all Apple developers should know and keep.

First of all, you should not override the 2 Gb limit of production-ready software. Probably, it’ll be harder to exceed it. For example, the map of Moscow and English-Russian dictionary will take approximitly 0,8 Gb.

Also, the cost of your software must not be more then $999. Nobody knows why Apple limits it – probably they don’t want anybody to get more money than Steve Jobs.

Today a new program was introduced in the Installer: Babe Of The Day.

The function of the program is very simple: to download and show you the picture of half-naked woman. The picture changes once a day.

Repository: iSpazio in Community Sources (100 kb)

One more novelty in the new Installer – Touchcmd.

The program is made for setting rights and owners for your iPhone folders.

You don’t need to memorize long and complicated lines of code for terminal any more. You just need to input the needed command once and the program will “memorize” it for you and execute it launch.

To make it perfect, someone needs to fix the plist of the program and fill it with different commands…

Repository: iSpazio in Community Sources (39 kb)

Qik is an on-line broadcasting service. You can now do it from your iPhone directly.

First you need to go to qik.com. The registration is easy. A nickname, password, and your phone number (the further instruction will be sent to your mobile).

Now you need to download a program from Cydia. It’s called QIK and it’s located in Multimedia section.

Launch, connect, tune the settings and press Rec.

The link whre you can see your broadcast looks like: http://qik.com/video/_username_

Aside from the broadcast, the users can chat and the author of the broadcast will be able to see it on his iPhone screen.

Here is my broadcast: (read more…)