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What’s Hot in TouchMyApps Forums – 14 March
Every week, TouchMyApps’ forums are rammed with interesting finds, eulogies, epigrams, and otherwise, rubbish fun. This week saw:
- iPhone OS 4.0 feature hunt: if you could choose just one feature…
- Again, the forum ignites with reasons to reboot the iPhone
- With the iPad pre-order, iPad: buy or not thread has seen a sharp uptake in popularity
- iPad pre-order – what do you think?
- One user is looking for help in saving Flash video to the iDevice
- ArtStudio review has been attracting user and developer attention
- Naturally, Tetraedge Game’s Dev thread is alive because of Dracula Path of the Dragon 2
- TMA headphone section to be updated with amp reviews, but in the meantime, enjoy new pics and impressions of ACS’ T1 custom-fit earphone – a brilliant silicon beauty!
A week isn’ often enough to satisfy hungry issues, but it is enough to get munching on the kneecaps of a few. Come join the community, learn to lurk, read, chat, and brag about your iDevice feats. Then, if you want to get really nerdy, come in and discuss your favourite headphones!
The Red Star is coming to the iPhone – What if USSR… whoops… I meant U.R.R.S ruled the world?
The Red Star was quite a highly acclaimed PS2 Action title (Metacritic score – 72), released back in 2007. Without much fuss XS Games have added an iPhone section to their website with The Red Star release date as TBA.
Game features include:
- Three playable legendary warriors, each with unique fighting skills and weapons
- Two player cooperative gameplay that lets you enter the fray with a friend
- Relentless action that seamlessly blends brutal melee with “old-school” shooter gameplay
- Unlockable secret characters, hidden gameplay modes and more for extensive replay value
I don’t know about you, but having read some PS2 reviews and taken a good look at the screenshots/video, I’m quite excited with its eventual App Store release. The game should be an excellent match for the platform, especially if the developers get the controls right. And it will probably be the first game ported to the iDevice from the PS2, which is also a significant milestone.
Video and some more screens after the gap.
iDongle – Boot your tethered jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch without a PC
One of the issues for the free-minded owners of later versions of the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G & 3G is the inability to do an “untethered jailbreak”. These devices CAN be jailbroken but have to be connected to a PC on each reboot and be jailbroken again, or else be stuck in recovery mode. There is still no word from either Geohot or the iPhone Dev Team when or even whether an untethered jailbreak will be possible for the latest Jesus devices.
Meanwhile, Mribreakit, an electronics engineer from France has decided to go the other way and make a dongle-type device to make a standalone tethered boot of a jailbroken device. And while it’s still in prototype stages at the moment, it seems like a new round of Apple vs Community battle has begun.
Product info, video and some pictures after the gap.
Jays launches a-JAYS – high performance earphones
More details emerge about Jays 2010 earphone line up. Jays’ entry level earphone, the dynamic-driver a-JAYS will debut as a price-tiered model and start at 39$. Each a-JAYS model utilises the same-sized speaker unit, a titanium-coated 8,6mm driver. The new earphones also come with a new flat cable and excellent carrying case and package, making their asking price seem paltry. I’ve spent a few tender minutes with boy Jays a-JAYS and t-JAYS and can say with certainty, that their new line up is powerful, fun, and aimed at killing their respective price brackets.
TMA has reviewed Jays’:
Piccies and more after the gap:
Dracula: The Path Of The Dragon Part 2 submitted to Apple (Updated! It is available now!)
I am very pleased to announce that part 2 of the excellent Dracula: The Path Of The Dragon adventure game has finally been submitted to Apple for review and should be biting it’s way onto the AppStore soon. This coincides quite nicely with the recently opened dedicated section for Tetraedge Games support, opened jointly with the developers to have direct access to their community. And while you’re waiting for the release, be sure to check out our review of Part 1 (Dracula: The Path Of The Dragon – Part 1 in Review – sadistically beautiful) and the game itself if you haven’t already!
UPDATED: It is already available on the AppStore for just $1.99! Go get it!
Chillingo Ltd, Dracula: The Path Of The Dragon – Part 1 – $0.99
Chillingo Ltd, Dracula: The Path Of The Dragon – Part 2 – $1.99
The official app description and some screenshots to wet your appetite after the gap…
iPad release date: April 3rd. Pre-orders starting March 12th
The “magical and revolutionary” iPad (no, not that iPad), undoubtedly the most hyped and highly anticipated electronic gizmo in recent memory, now has a confirmed release date: April 3rd.
March 5, 2010—Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
The basic Wi-Fi model will be released first in the US, followed by the Wi-Fi + 3G version in late April. As for the rest of the world (select countries), the good news is that they don’t have to wait long before both models will be made available. Pricing, one of the more attractive aspects of the iPad will be as follows: Base Model (Wi-Fi only) – $499US for 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB. The higher end Wi-Fi + 3G Model will sell for $629US for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB.
From our Forum’s iPad discussion thread, it seems that our members are somewhat divided when it comes to getting one or not.Those already with an iPhone and Macbook don’t feel the need for a tablet, while others simply don’t see a reason to take the plunge. So will you be buying an iPad? Feel free to share your thoughts in our forums!
What’s Hot in TouchMyApps Forums – 7 March
Every week, TouchMyApps’ forums are rammed with interesting finds, eulogies, epigrams, and otherwise, rubbish fun. This week saw:
- NineSword’s journeys through the bastardisation of OSX on a PC via OSx86 hacks
- Heartfelt thanks (and welcomes) for TMA’s iSkin giveaway
- The opening of TMA’s Developer connection centre
- Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer has been tearing TMA’s forum a new one
- The popular Space Miner’s sale and Space Miner review are never short interest
- Flash and battery drain has been stirring the pot for a while
- Bluetooth and WiFi Multiplayer problems, and their solution
- New Right Mark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) tests bust into our headphone scene – many more to come
A week isn’ often enough to satisfy hungry issues, but it is enough to get munching on the kneecaps of a few. Come join the community, learn to lurk, read, chat, and brag about your iDevice feats. Then, if you want to get really nerdy, come in and discuss your favourite headphones!
E! Online is ready for the Oscars – are you?
In the spirit of glam and plastic surgery, support for the Oscars has come to E! Entertainment’s popular E! Online iPhone app. Version 1.1.1 gives fans new and interactive ways to engage their favourite stars and gossip with that special Oscar flare. Remember to suss your Oscars for a chance to win 1$ Million dollars thanks to Bite Interactive’s Red Carpet.
E! Entertainment Television, Inc., E! Online – Free
Piccies, Press and more after the gap:
The day the music died – Apple pressure labels to drop Amazon’s Daily Deals
When the iPod arrived on the scene in 2001, it lacked the iTunes store. Of course, users could rip their own CD’s or download from various file-sharing sites. Other options existed, but none ubiquitously had parity with online piracy. Then in 2003, the iTunes music store opened offering tracks in Apple’s locked-down FairPlay version of AAC. Ascribe what you will to the quality of the tracks and selection; snub your nose at those days all you want – in 2007, Apple dropped DRM from its music, raised compression quality, and garnered a fuzzy Samaratin aura from its fans: good news. But while iTunes in many ways forged a new, prosperous path for online music sales, it devolved into a hedged-in business which is first and foremost, looking out for its own. Amazon’s music store is Apple’s primary competition and the two have been playing cats’n mice in each other’s back yards for many years, taking advantage of proprietary market advantages. One such is Amazon’s Daily Deals MP3 sales which allow the online retail giant exclusivity on all Daily Deal sales for 24 hours. Apple won’t have it, however.
Tiger Woods + Email App = Double the Fun?
There’s no denying that Tiger Woods has inspired a whole new generation of people to watch and play the game of golf. Well, it seems Tiger is continuing to inspire as iPhone developers are gearing up for what will surely be a heated battle between apps that’ll have your mail/text messages vanish without a trace after it’s been read.
As you may already know, Tiger Woods was reportedly busted for his “extra curricular activities” after his wife found incriminating text messages on his cellphone. So if you were a man (or woman) in Tiger’s shoes (and I hope you’re not), what do you do? Wish you had an iPhone and the TigerText app is what! Released last week, TigerText will allow the sender to set the lifespan of a message once it’s been opened. You can set the countdown at 60 seconds or even days if you wish before the text is permanently deleted from their servers (and hence vanishing from your phone). Of course, the downfall to this is that the sender and recipient will both need a copy of the app. And set to be released in less than a week is TigerMail, a similar app aimed at keeping your naughty mail (and you) safe from life altering consequences down the road. And rather than having your messages stored on a server for even the briefest of moments, TigerMail’s website claims that nothing will be stored as your mail will only be forwarded. Regardless, if you have something to hide or you’re simply the paranoid type, these Tiger Woods inspired email apps will indeed be very tempting.
X Sigma Partners LLC, Tiger Text – Free (First 15 days/100 text)
