Entries from February 2008

Rumor: Possible Ability To Distribute SDK-Created Apps / Games / Widgets Without Apple’s Approval

Date February 29, 2008

Well, things are finally back in order here at Touch Podium! After a loss of 20+ RSS feed readers, 1 e-mail subscription, 500+ poll votes, 10 or more top blog lists, and 600+ tags, we’re finally getting things back on track. There’s no way of getting any of those things back, so we’ll just have [...]

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Construction Ahead

Date February 28, 2008

Well, we finally got moved over to the new site and imported all of the articles — what a nightmare that was. But we finally got the bulk of it transferred over and configured. There’s still a fair bit of work ahead however, so if there’s stuff you don’t see that should be [...]

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Marathon Touch Project to be Released Sunday

Date February 28, 2008

So Matt’s got some updates for us. The Marathon Project was supposed to be released to the public this passed Monday, but he actually forgot! hehe.. So, the new release date is this upcoming Sunday! Keep an eye out for a story in regards to the release, here at Touch Podium.
Here’s a snip-it from the [...]

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We’re a-Movin’ On Up! (Movin’ On Up)

Date February 27, 2008

To the East side! To some de-luxe web hosting in the sky! With Bluehost, that is. Fact is, we’ve had it with our current web hosts’s problems. The server problems are more than we can bear, so we’re picking up our things, slamming the door behind us, and moving everything over [...]

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Dream or Reality

Date February 27, 2008

Finally, the iPhone / iPod Touch SDK is to be announced at the Cupertino Campus on March 6th. As many of you know the SDK has been on our minds for several days, especially with Apple taunting us with suspenseful delays of this release. Before I discuss what to expect with the SDK, I believe [...]

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New Editor! *Gasp*

Date February 27, 2008

Hello, Touch Podium readers, I would just like to inform you that I have just been hired as a new editor for Touch Podium. A few things you should know about me. First off, my name is Jake Brooks, I am 17 and am currently attending my last year of high school. Recently, I [...]

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ContactFlow: Like CoverFlow, But For Your Contacts

Date February 27, 2008

Fafoulon designed an application that allows you to scroll through your iPod Touch / iPhone contacts like it were music album covers!
As fafoulon says him/herself: “ContactFlow is an application to manage your contact list like your music list in coverflow mode.”

 

Installation instructions:
ContactFlow is available on the Sosiphone repository:
In Installer, add this url [...]

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Firmware 1.1.4 Released

Date February 26, 2008

If you’ve loaded iTunes today, you may have noticed a couple of updates waiting in the form of both an iTunes update to 7.6.1.9, and a rather hefty firmware update for iPhone and iPod Touch to version 1.1.4. (So much for the “Update 2″ rumor) Thus far, tests have confirmed that the upgrade [...]

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Apple Tuesday Comes, SDK Doesn’t

Date February 26, 2008

It’s Tuesday, folks, and while it has given MacBook fans something to be cheery about, those of us on the more diminutive end of things mobile have only confirmed what recent rumors made us fear: No SDK. Not that there were many of us holding out much hope in the first place; Business Week [...]

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15 Beautiful Summerboard Themes - Round-Up 03

Date February 25, 2008

Good evening readers. It’s about time for another Summerboard Theme Round Up! Lets get right to it this time around!
 
15] .pass the dutchie
by ~abuseD– at deviantart
[Source]

[Not yet available for download]

14] .baking soda with acid
by ~abuseD– at deviantart
[Source]

[Not yet available for download]

13] Touchango
by ~xllx at deviantart
[Source]

[Download via Deviantart]

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iPodTouchMaster.com`s Raffle Contest Begins Tonight!

Date February 25, 2008

As posted here, iPodTouchMaster05 of the iPod Touch Fans community boards (a.k.a iPodTouchMaster on YouTube.com) is holding a raffle contest for anyone and everyone to participate in. This raffle contest is to begin tonight!
Here is what Andrew (the owner of ipodtouchmaster.com) had to say:

Hey we now have a date for the raffle contest, [...]

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We’re Looking For a Writer (or Two). APPLY WITHIN!

Date February 25, 2008

UPDATE [February 27th]:
We found ourselves a writer. Thanks for all who were interested. We are no longer looking.

Dear Touch Podium readers,
News is a little slow here, because I, personally, have become fairly busy with a new job that has been taking quite a bit of my writing time. You will still see me writing often [...]

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Introducing Audio Podcasts and Live Reading

Date February 24, 2008

You may have noticed a couple of new features on the site. Courtesy of a cool new service for bloggers, we have subscribed to the Odiogo podcast service, which uses a surprisingly good text-to-speech engine to automatically convert blog entries into audio podcasts and the ability to read each blog entry aloud from within [...]

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What Do YOU Want to See in the Next Firmware Release?

Date February 23, 2008

I write for you all this evening, wondering what Apple has in stock for us in firmware release 1.1.4 (or whatever the next iPod Touch / iPhone firmware will be called). I truly do hope it comes with a couple newly-found features, this time not making iPod Touch users pay for any of the updates..
As [...]

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Commercial Development for iPhone Take II: Caterpillar

Date February 23, 2008

It’s been a tick since we had a brouhaha over the commercialization of apps for use on jailbroken devices (if you recall the Labyrinth fiasco), and it appears that the folks over at the unfortunately-named RiP Dev are going to resurrect the debate with the release of Caterpillar. Sporting a modular design and chiefly [...]

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