Posted on June 27th, 2008 by admin
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by admin
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An anonymous tipster sent us a short video showing new capabilities of the iPhone 2.0 software.

It appears that videos will be easily playable in portrait or landscape orientations, using data from the iPhone’s accelerometer. (Though it’s been possible to play embedded QuickTime videos through Safari in the vertical orientation since firmware version 1.1.1.)

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by admin
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If admiration of an iPod-powered Lego vehicle indicates that one is a nerd, then buy me a pocket protector and hike my pants up to my ribcage.The folks at BattleBricks have constructed just such a creature. Here’s (briefly) how it works. There are two iPhones involved. The one on the vehicle displays certain colors based on commands issued from the 2nd controller iPhone via a Safari app written with Google’s Web Toolkit. The vehicle executes a command based on the color it “sees.”

You can download the source code for yourself from Battle Bricks. Think of the applications! Frighten children and small animals, attach a small brush and clear away dust bunnies or deliver very small parcels.

via  http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/05/iphone-powered-lego-vehicle/

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by admin
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by admin
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Representing perhaps the first genuinely useful native peer-to-peer application for the iPhone, iSlsk, which is capable of accessing the Soulseek music sharing network, has debuted.

SoulSeek was created by Nir Arbel, a former Napster programmer, and offers access to a vast peer-shared library of files, composed primarily of music. THe network boasts hundreds of thousands of active users.

The iSlsk iPhone application allows users to search the SoulSeek database, select files for download, and even queue transfers. The music is automatically added to the iTunes library on the iPhone and is instantly playable. You can see the application in action in the embedded YouTube video below. Tap here to watch it if you’re on an iPhone.

Installation of iSlsk requires a jailbroken iPhone. Follow our guide to third-party applications to jailbreak your iPhone and get it ready for applications, then make sure you have the “Big Boss” repository added to Installer.app. This source should be added automatically when you install the “Community Sources” package as described in our guide, but you can also manually add it going to Installer.app and following these instructions: tap the “Sources,” button, then tap “Edit” in the upper-right corner, and finally “Add” in the upper-left corner. Enter the URL of the source you would like to add (thebigboss.org/repo.xml) and press “OK.” Installer.app will add the source, and you will be able to find the new application(s) in the normal “Install” menu.

Posted on May 19th, 2008 by admin
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by admin
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Jake Marsh sent along this neat screencast of an iPhone web app for MySpace that he’s working on. Facebook basically seems to be the gold standard of social networking web apps these days, and this looks basically just like that one. It is cool that you can look up people right away, but the real improvements are on MySpace’s Music pages — not only can you subscribe directly from the profile, but he’s also got it working to play all the music there (usually trapped in Flash, though there is a less easy way around it already). He also says that it might eventually be possible, for songs that are available for download, to get them with one click into the iPhone’s iPod library.

Yes, it looks just like Facebook (in fact, it looks like a rip of the mobile site), but why fix something that’s not broken? Unfortunately, Marsh is just showing off — he says that it’s just for him right now and he’s aiming for an open beta in August. He should probably aim for a little sooner than that: after June, we might all be saying “what web apps?”

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by admin
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by admin
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