Unity Technologies has just issued a press release stating that they plan to bring iPhone and iPod Touch support to their Unity 3D gaming engine. Unity is a cross-platform 3D development engine designed to allow developers to simply and easily deploy games across Windows, Mac, Linux, and even online within browsers (with the appropriate [...]

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You may recall a couple of weeks ago that RiP Dev discovered that the iPhone has built-in screenshot capabilities.  All you had to do was hold the HOME button while you flicked the mute switch.  The screen would flash white and your screenshot would turn up in your camera roll.  That changed with the beta [...]

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The Boston Apple Store at the Cambridgeside Galleria held an event (one of many) on March 24th. The crazy thing about the whole event is that Apple allowed for one of the very first software engineers to bypass the iPhone’s restrictions on loading third-party software; Zdziarski, to speak at said event.
Jonathan Zdziarski talked about the [...]

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According to MacRumors, it is very possible we will be seeing a revised version of the currently available iPod Touches and iPod Nanos come quarter three (July - September) of 2008.
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MacRumors also states that Apple seems to be making a chip-making switch over to a new company, leaving Wolfson Microelectronics with nothing but past relationship [...]

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Alright folks. You’ve got five+ choices; Twitter’s new Twitter for iPhones website, Hahlo Twitter, ThinCloud Twitter, MobileTwitter.app, and the MobileTwitterific.app. (There are in fact more out there, so if you’re that interested, feel free to look around via Google.)
The Twitter app that became available first, was ThinCloud. Months later, Hahlo followed, then it was Twitter themselves who made a [...]

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When the iPhone SDK beta 2 was released, many people were in a rush to find out what the new changes were. One of the bigger recognizable changes has given reason to believe that firmware 2.0 will make it possible to wireless sync with .Mac.
The latest SDK seed contains the following quote. “Syncing with this Dot Mac [...]

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Mr Starrett of iLounge.com informs that Sling Media has been looking at the recently released iPhone SDK, and just may be thinking about releasing a version of their SlingPlayer Mobile application for the iPhone/Touch in the near future. (This is according to a statement sent to iLounge.)
Dave Zatz of Sling Media states: “We were definitely [...]

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rWallpaper changes your Summerboard wallpaper every ten(10) seconds. Personally, I find this to be far too frequent, but what does that matter. The author of the application may decide to allow us to chose how frequent the wallpaper changes in future version, but we’ll just have to wait it out and see.
Warning: According to Apple [...]

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A newly published patent application reveals that Apple has been exploring the possibility of expanding their Nike + iPod sport kit into a full fledged fitness system.

The first segment of the interview process would poll the user on their fitness goals, desired activity level (moderate, advanced), fitness interests (such as jogging, pilates, and swimming), [...]

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As seen above, Apple is currently looking for a full time representative in Cupertino, California, whom is experienced in working with Handwriting Recognition; hence-forth, being a Handwriting Recognition Engineer. Nothing special, right?.. Well, it doesn’t end there.
Take a peek at the very last sentence of the job opening. It reads:
“The recognition technology you [...]

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If you haven’t heard of this one before, you probably aren’t Italian, because iSpazio has finally released version 0.61 of Millionaire, the first version to add English support. I probably don’t need to explain what this one is about, but for the three of you who aren’t savvy, Millionaire is a version of the [...]

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(Image via Engadget)
According to Engadget, Firmware 2.0 is being distributed around in the back-alleys as of earlier today.
Writer Ryan Block states that from what they can see thus far, the version number found in the About section is now officially 2.0, instead of 1.2, the Cisco VPN settings got a few tweaks and adjustments, and [...]

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Skylar has released yet another version of PocketTouch; 1.2. This update doesn’t have any fixes or larger changes, but it does make things look more sleek and stylish.
In the new version, Skylar decided to bold the song title that is currently playing, lower the font size of the “Now Playing” text, and change the font [...]

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Live Scores (iScores) 1.00 allows for you to check the scores of games that are going on now! Have to go to the bathroom? Take your iPhone/Touch with ya, and you won’t miss out on a thing!… Well, on second thought, maybe you will - but hey, at least you’ll know what the scores [...]

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It’s official, folks! Zibri has made ZiPhone 3.0 available for download as of earlier today, via www.ziphone.org.
Zibri says:
Hello there !
Here you have the latest ZiPhone version !
This version has many new features !
Don’t forget to read the README.txt and the
PLUGIN_HOWTO.txt !!
As usual it is better to use ziphone on a
restored iPhone, but you can also just
run [...]

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