iPhone. News and Tips

A Bootant company, that is famous for developing the BreakClassic game, have just issued another interesting game named BiiBall 3D.
The goal is to guide the ball through the labyrinth, shooting down the cubes and avoiding collisions with walls.

Price is $1.99/€1.59
[iTunes Link]

A new Kill-em-All game were published in AppStore. The gameplay is clear – don’t let the enemy travel from A-point to B-point. You must use different artillery to achieve the goal. Any structure you build you can upgrade for a small (ore huge) sum of money. To collect money you mast destroy as many enemies as possible.

I used to play flash-version of this game, and was really so excited with it, that a week of my life was thrown into a recycle bin.
Now we are able to enjoy the gameplay on our lovely iPhones. The game is saved when a player quits the application. Three difficulty levels, three types of disposition – what else do we need to fly away from this place called reality?

See the video of gaming process for more information.

Price: $0.99

[iTunes link]

A nice mod for weather forecasts managing. Download the archive, that contains the Moscow forecast settings. When the download will be finished unpack the archive. The WeatherWidget.theme folder should be put into our iPhone file system to /Library/Themes/ location. Enable the installed mod in the WinterBoard app and see the picture like it is on the screenshot.

SeaBreeze have just tested the GPRS-appetite of application and enjoyed the results – approximately 8 kilobytes per synchronization.

Those who wants to see a hometown forecast should read the following instruction.

First of all, you should find an upgraded text editor, Notepad++ for example. You can download it from the developers site absolutely free of charge.
Then, take a file configureMe.js from WeatherWidget.themr\Private\ and open it using your advanced text editor. Find a register parameter:
var locale = “Moscow, Russia”,
and sign in your city and country like it’s shown on the screenshot. Save the file, upload it to iPhone and begin watching your own town forecast.

Yes, don’t forget to change the var updateInterval parameter, that manages the forecast renewal time. If you would paste 1440 minutes there you’ll get a daily forecast on your iPhone.

Urgent! WinterBoard is not compatible with Kate.

A Digital Jokers Spain-based company started a “Call of The Ctulhu” game porting to iPhone project. The game is based on the cult Howard Lawcraft’s book with the same name.

It should be released this month and will be distributed through AppStore. Jokers at the moment have a number of successful porting of Ctulhu-games, now CTULHU COMES TO iPHONE!

See the video for more details.

All the people like iPhone. Even those, who are making clones of this cult mobile phone. A Meizu M8 miniOne device was announced f year and a half ago, and according to rumors, it’s going to walk out the darkness to the customers. Here are the details: Windows Mobile platform, 3 megapixel camera, 8 Gb. You can see the video to understand what it will be a device.

The release date is still not announced.

At the beginning of the week our bloggers found two theme iPhone fakes.

The first one is never existed Belkin JoyPod.

The one web-site gave a green light to this gossip, and now all the gaming world thinks, that Belking is going to present an iPhony joystic, that should be much better than iControlPad. Why do we know, that this is not real prototype? Just look at the design, it’s control buttons are completely puzzling, and the manner of advertisement also differs from original Belkin’s PR.

The second fake is a mythical Gorenje fridge with iPhone dock station integrated.

The link was sent by our blogger euGeniy. That looks like a Christmas tale – who can believe that Gorenje company is going to integrate iPhone support into every kitchen device it makes?

A recent market research, that is being committed four times per year, has revealed, that iPhone’s users are making http-queries to web-sites for five times then Windows-based telephone web-surfers make one. It means, that there are five web-pages downloaded to iPhones while only one page has been watched using WinMobile gadget.

a 2007 year statistics

a 2008 year statistics

And only a year ago iPhone was losing positions to Windows-based platforms – it was 0.01 percent behind pro-Microsoft web-browsers. And now Apple-made phone left Windows Mobile devices behind – they are still sitting on the same place.

And don’t forget, that iPhone is only a newborn, a one year old device, and Windows mobile is in senior school, yes, it’s 12 year old! And this result was achieved in spite of the fact that you were supposed to buy iPhone only from USA-based operator and only with contract!

The only words we can say while looking at all of this facts, are “A piece of apple…”.

A well known game author Adikus, who created Pool and Backgammon apps, announced that he leaves the game development business. He will not support his old projects and will not create any new ones.
Nobody knows, what will he do in a nearby future. But he left a nice present for all the people who bought at least one of his games for 1.x.x firmware. Now all of them are available in 4th Installer at RipDev repository.

Thanks to scorpios33 for information given.

A WinPWN was updated recently – now 2.5.0.2 version AKA beta2 available.

What’s new:
- A QuickPwn support for 2.0/2.0.2/2.0.2 firmware;
- An ability to change system partition size;
- An Installer compatibility;
- Basic/Expert modes;
- Automatic software update;
- A WinXP and Vista 32/64 bit support.

Just run WinPWN and click the “check for updates” button.

While zerto describes us all the news in AppStore catalogue, our iPhones.ru author Evgeniy Shelenkov decides to begin a new review series. It’ll be about apps and games from “must-see” category.

The first one will be a Tap Tap Revenge named game, Evgeniy puts a 5 mark on it.

Tap Tap Revenge is a remake of original console Guitar Hero game. A player should tap notes, flying on the strings of guitar and sometimes shift his iPhone to catch a note he wants. That’s really interesting both playing the game and also watching the man playing it.

All the newbies can walk through the Tutorial to understand how to play the game. Here are the gameplay features in a nutshell. There can be two types of notes to play with. The first ones look like a circles, you are supposed to catch them tapping the border of the screen. The second ones look like an arrows. To catch them player must shift the iPhone in the direction of target arrow-type-note. The more notes you hit – the higher score you get. If you miss a note, you score decreases. There is bonus system in the game: you get higher scores if you successfully release a combo – hit a number of notes without any miss.

The previous version of the game (it was named Tap Tap Revolution) had a bug inside – you couldn’t load any new tracks. In Tap Tap Revenge you can upload the track using in-game interface. You can choose them by difficulty level – Easy Tracks, Medium Tracks, Hard Tracks, Extreme Tracks.

The last scene is highly exciting, but it’s really hard to get inside a Top Scores List. Now there are 37 tracks available, and one or two new are released every week.

The game is supposed to be played in single player mode. But you can share your iPhone screen with a mate to play together, that’s not that comfortable. It should be better to compete using Wi-Fi interface, but we think, the developers will enable this feature in the nearby future. And, don’t forget, that’s the only disadvantage of exciting an successful game.

“Must have”! Without any doubts!

Yes, and it’s totally free.

[iTunes link]

A new application appeared in Cydia, that allows to transfer contacts from one iPhone to another using Wi-Fi wireless access point without. Just select a contact you want to transfer, point the program to the target iPhone and send it.

See the video for more details.

On 28th of August the American Patent Bureau had published a patent number 20080204426. Remember this number, probably in a year or two this patent number will become legendary. On all of the 52 pages of this patent there’s a description of censor display computer, supporting multitouch technology.

All the pictures are clickable.

As we consider, the main idea of this technology is an ability to work with sensor display using combinations of simultaneous touches.

As you have already understood, the patent is registered to “one fruit company”, based in California, US.

Yes, we know, that there should be a lot of time to go until we’ll enjoy seeing the first real prototype, but on 28th of August Apple Company presented a new dream-machine to hundreds of Mac- and iPhone- users. And it really worths waiting for that device – it should be something incredible!

The official QuickOffice developers blog have been just updated with a QuickOffice’s iPhone version coming in a nearby future.

The QuickOffice Pack is a number of utilities designed to work with MS Office documents on a mobile platform. For example, it became most popular on Symbian based smartphones and communicators. The main feature of application set is an ability both to view the documents and to edit them. Yes, the most of iPhone owners are not using MS-version of office packs, but we should communicate with the other world in a some way… So, let’s wait a little for the release of this useful pack.

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.

Today Gameloft guys released a new racing game for iPhone named Asphalt 4 Elite Racing. The main features of the game:

- Multiplayer game using wi-fi players interconnection;
-28 original cars; you are free to choose the one from supercars like Ferrari, Bugatti or take a seat in a casual Ford;
- Using an iPhone like a steering wheel;
- 5 game modes and 9 different locations.

Price: $9,99
[iTunes Link]

FYI: The installation file size is approximately 92,8 Mb

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.

Happy Birthday, iPhones.ru!

Yesterday the iphones.ru blog (you know, we are the English-based version of this web-site =) ) celebrated it’s second Birthday! The English-language staff are also greeting iphones.ru, all the people who takes care about getting the most fresh and interesting iPhone news. And of course, our special greetings to the site’s founder and Super-Duper-Chief-Information-Officer – SeaBreeze. Congratulations. Bro!

SeaBreeze comments: Thank you =) Now the site stepped into it’s third year of existence, and the forum into the second one. In 2006 something happened that made me to create an iPhone internet-project. Yopu know, there was no an iPhone that time. I bought the iPhones.ru domain, where a headphones internet shop was hosted. Of course, there was a risk to become a pseudo-site about non-existing mobile phone. But I believed in Apple… and six months later the Company officially announced an iPhone. That was really great!

And here’s a first news, that was posted on iphones.ru (of course, in Russian) =)

iPhone: the new rumors.

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?