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Tapatalk
is a great new iPhone application that allows you to access your favourite discussion communities using an elegent and optimized iPhone interface.
Tapatalk enables you to participate in discussions with no pinch-zooming in Safari. You can even view forum’s photos with iPhone optimized pictures.
Tapatalk iPhone connects to your favorite discussion forum (with Tapatalk support activated), allows you to participate the latest discussions, post topics and responses to topics all on the tailor-made iPhone interface. So you no longer need to use pinch-zooming with Safari, not to mention it uses much less bandwidth so you can download more music and photos without breaking your wallet.
Forum Owners: Tapatalk allows your members to visit your forum any time and from anywhere.
You will need to download a Tapatalk Plugin that’s compatible with your forum system to get started (Currently vBulletin is supported). The Plugin is designed to be safe and easy to install/uninstall. It inherits all of your forum security policies so there should be no problems.
What is in my opinion, possibly the best and definitely the iPhone’s most popular rhythm game has been revamped as Tap Tap Revenge 2, and best of all it’s still free.
Rhythm games have become very popular in recent years across all gaming formats, think of Dance Dance Revolution, and other music-based games such as Donkey Konga and Guitar Hero, but it’s the Tap Tap series that’s topped the charts on the iPhone. There’s one major reason for this: most of the games are free.
The second instalment of the Tap Tap Revenge series, Tap Tap Revenge 2, has just been released, complete with new visual effects, tunes and game modes. Although most of the songs available for it are from fledgling artists, and therefore not well known, there are now songs from bigger groups like Nine Inch Nails available. And of course, these songs are all free to download.
Tap Tap Revenge works on the idea that once you’ve grown to love a song by playing through it, you’re more likely to buy the tune separately on iTunes, and indeed more songs from that artist.
The game itself is extremely simple (the concept at least – the game gets quite tricky!). Musical notes fly towards you in the form of coloured spheres. When they reach the bottom of the screen, you need to tap them in time with the music. Not exactly as fun as a plastic air guitar, but engaging enough to keep me entertained on a journey.
I’m going to predict big things for Tap Tap Revenge 2. It could even reach the No1 free app position.
Turn your iPhone into a real alarm clock with this new app from the app store. Night Stand is a free brand new iPhone alarm manager, with extra style.
The application, by SpoonJuice will wake you up in the morning in what style. Night Stand developers took care and bundled several colour schemes and themes in the application.
By default, the entire screen will display an old-style flip clock theme in black and white. If you feel a bit funkier, you can also choose a digital clock with green, blue or red numbers.
You can choose what information you want on the screen. This way, the style-conscious user might want a simple, uncluttered display, while the geek in every iPhone user might urge them to go for date and second display. There is also a 24-hours time display option.
The application can seamlessly run in the background, allowing you to do something else on your iPhone before you sleep. The most important part of the application, the actual alarm manager, has many functions, but some users might miss some features.
There is a choice of ten alarm sounds, from the classics to a scary scream.
Ever suffer from the snooze button bashing? Not possible with Night Stand as it will ask you to solve a simple math equation in order to get your 5 mins more peace.
If that doesn’t put you off, this might: the application won’t work when the iPhone (and most likely you) is asleep. This leaves you with two options. First, you keep the iPhone plugged in to the mains all night. Second, you could also set the iPhone not to go to sleep at all, but this thing will drain a bit more power from your battery.
Overall, Night Stand is a great new alarm clock app, but has some drawbacks.
31 fart apps (for your free iPhone) in 90 seconds!!
Made me chuckle anyway….
Apple has barred an iPhone application in which users bounce Barack Obama on a trampoline from going on sale at its iTunes online store.
The trampoline game, seemingly light-hearted – features cartoon caricatures of Barack Obama and around 20 Democrat and Republican politicians including Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and a trouser-less Bill Clinton.
Players move the iPhone, using its motion detection to control the direction and height the politicians jump, and can even direct them to pop balloons hanging from the ceiling.
If you want this app, tough luck – because Apple has refused to distribute the Obama trampoline app, apparently because it makes fun of Mr Obama and other leaders.
You can get loads of free iPhone apps from the app store though so don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll find something to amuse yourself on your free iphone.
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British news agency ITN has launched a video-focused news iPhone application. The video news app, , has climbed to the number eight most downloaded free app since its launch over a week ago on the App Store and is the most downloaded free news app. Get yourself a free iPhone and experiment with all the great apps from this free iPhone site.
ITN’s head of new media Ave Wrigley said that the iPhone app was ad-funded, and that they had chosen not to make it a paid-for app in order to attract users. They see the iPhone app, which took three months to develop and “considerable investment,” as a test and will follow up the free iPhone app with Android, Blackberry and Symbian versions if the iPhone app proves successful. ITN currently has an app built with Google Gears that can determine the user’s location and serve up relevant stories.
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Nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has written Doodle Kids for the iPhone.
Lim has written many applications for the Apple iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple’s iTunes store in two weeks.
The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.
“I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw.” Lim said.
His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.
“Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads,” the older Lim said.
The boy, who enjoys reading books on programing, is in the process of writing another iPhone application — a science fiction game called “Invader Wars.”
If you want to try writing iPhone applications, you should start by getting yourself a free iPhone.
Google have released a mobile version of their Google books service, enabling free iPhone users to have access to 1.5M (in the US, 0.5M everywhere else) public domain books.
While these books were already available on Google Book Search, these new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen. To try it out and start reading, open up your web browser in your free iPhone or Android phone and go to http://books.google.com/m.
To make the books readable on the iPhone, Google extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short). The following example demonstrates the difference between page images and the extracted text:
=> “Because I made a blunder, my dear Watson— which is, I am afraid, a more common occurrence than anyone would think who only knew me through your memoirs. …”
The extraction of text from page images is a difficult engineering task. Smudges on the physical books’ pages, fancy fonts, old fonts, torn pages, etc. can all lead to errors in the extracted text. The example below shows the page image from the original manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. In this extreme case, the extracted text is riddled with errors:
=> “lV~e.il!” .ÍAoHyU- AUte. U brstty/affc. su.it a. f o.tl as ~tk¿* , I s&O.IL .éfiiíjz tiotkun-) of-ttmlr1¿*y ¿i^n. sta¿rs ! Jfo» ura.ve …
Imperfect OCR is only the first challenge in the ultimate goal of moving from collections of page images to extracted-text based books. Google’s computer algorithms also have to automatically determine the structure of the book (what are the headers and footers, where images are placed, whether text is verse or prose, and so forth). Getting this right allows Google books to render the book in a way that follows the format of the original book.
To try it out, point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m and begin reading. If you come across patches where the text seems wrong you can just tap on the text to see the original page image for that section of text.
Come on! Is this the best iPhone app ever released? With the iPhone Wobble you can make anyones boobles jiggle around on your iPhone!
Worth getting an iPhone for.
iFart is fast becoming one of the most popular iPhone/iPod Touch applications out there. The developer of iFart, Joel Comm, has been pretty forthcoming with sales figures, and on his blog he noted that over Christmas Eve and Christmas day, more than 58,000 people purchased a copy of iFart, netting him over $40,000 dollars in just two days.
iFart, as the name suggests, is a $.99 novelty iPhone app that plays a wide variety of fart sounds. It was initially released on December 12th, and has skyrocketed up the app store charts. In the two weeks following its release, it wass been downloaded 113,865 times, netting the creators $78,908 in the process.
