I first saw Enigmo in a video of the unveiling of the iPhone SDK. I’ve tried a fair number of games on the DS and on my Sony Ericsson k750, so I was wondering how the iPhone could handle gaming. A lack of hardware buttons is a pretty big deal when you’re dealing with controls.
Thankfully, Pangea has really paved the way in terms of porting an experience with gameplay that really feel like it’s meant for the iPhone. Enigmo’s premise is a simple one: guide the droplets of water from the coloured drip into the similarly coloured vessel. You use a variety of tools to bounce, drop, and shoot the droplets – ultimately guiding 40 of them into the vessel to win the level. It’s like a pachinko machine, but with water!
I’ve gotta say I’m pretty psyched to see these games, and I hope that they can add more depth to than their mobile Spore version, which looks like a very casual version of the Spore experience. I want deeper gameplay experiences on the iPhone like the stuff PSN and Xbox Live seem to be getting with their downloadable games that retail for $10-15.
So there I am relaxing on my couch, looking for a new Cydia update, and then you bust out this dot upgrade and add all sorts of incredible new features.
Right on the top of my list here is the new Quickview (shown above), which allows you to actually read e-mail and text right on the unlock screen. You can even ‘mark as unread’ or delete.
There are also disgustingly cool new swipe features that lets you hide and reveal Intelliscreen with one swipe. Clean wallpaper one second, swipe right on the clock, Intelliscreen reveals itself – ambushing you with all the information you want.
These are just my highlights, though. The release notes page for the other upgrades and all the bug fixes. I strongly suggest you update ASAP. This update rocks! I’m really digging the new Quickview feature. I get all these stupid SMS for Voicemail and I used to have to take 10 seconds to delve into SMS just to clear it. Now I swipe right on the SMS and it’s marked as read. Perfect!
Posted By Ragart on Saturday, August 30, 2008 under General | 2 Comments
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Aug
So my best friend was whining to me the other day about how low I was speaking on my iPhone. I chided him for his comment and thought to myself: excuse me, that’s because I’m a really great and polite person and I try not to speak too loud on my phone in public.
Later on, another friend called me up (I have more than one friend!) and she told me to speak up some more. I had to start shouting at home (so much for being polite…) just so she could hear me say “OK”. Obviously something had gone amiss in iPhone Land.
I started looking around online and found an Apple support ticket. Article #4 about Lint or dust covering the speakers and mic were of particular interest to me. I set off to investigate the issue with a toothpick, but it wouldn’t fit through the stupid micro holes. Then I took up the threader I use for flossing, then micro tweezers – but nothing could fit into the stupid holes enough to really get the gunk out. Then I got a set of hand needles for sewing and set those bad boys into the holes like a cellular acupuncture session.
It worked! I wouldn’t exactly recommend this to anyone, since pressing too hard might just damage something, but I thought I’d share my quick experience. I just stuck the needle into each of the holes (even the speakers – they’re loud as they were when I bought the iPhone six months ago). The needle felt like it was piercing layers of dust at some points…as if the stuff was caked underneath the black grill. I might still have to open the iPhone to clear it all out, but for now I’m fine having poked holes right through the dust cake.
First generation iPhone users like myself are used to the idea of adapters for use with the iPhone. After all, Apple, in all of their infinite genius, decided to make the 3.5mm port for earphones too bloody small for a large number of earphones on the market. Their solution? Hey, use an adapter (or buy an iPhone 3G)!
Another thing Apple kinda skipped out on with the iPhone (3G version included) is Bluetooth a2dp, which allows for wireless stereo sound on your compatible stereo Bluetooth headphones. You can pair headsets with the iPhone natively, but only for the making of the phone callings. Forget music – unless you count your ringtone.
But there’s got to be a way around, right? Like maybe Brando’s INFINXX Bluetooth Adapter that snaps onto the bottom of your iPhone? Something like that?
Posted By Ragart on Sunday, August 24, 2008 under General | 8 Comments
24
Aug
Alright, not too much info to give on this one aside from the video. The application that’s shown doesn’t seem to be out yet, and it’s more of an art piece than a functional piece of software – but that doesn’t detract from its cool factor. I love the green glow in the background! The app is still incomplete (not even sure it’s going to be finished per se), but the vid is awesome!
Marines, get some! Ok, so that has nothing to do with this post. I’ve just been watching too much Generation Kill on HBO. But when I’m not watching high quality mini-series about marines in Iraq, I like to spend a bit of time gaming on my iPhone. And what better way to burn a few minutes (hours) than with a free and ridiculously good-looking Tetris clone called Tris. The game was on Installer in the pre-2.0 days, but it’s now official and in the App Store and has a real uniform and everything!
Hit the jump for a quick look at the game, and what to expect.
Ok so here’s just a quick thing I found out just now with a little bit of playing around. It might be obvious, but it certainly mystified me for a while. So there’s this little setting under Settings –> Fetch New Data –> Advanced where you can tell your Exchange account to only sync manually. This is fine for Mail with its refresh button, but what about Contacts and Calendar?
The key here seems to be just loading the programs up, which seems to start the sync process. The thing is, since you don’t initiate the thing, there’s no easy way to tell (AFAIK) when your sync is done. So beware of times when you’ve done a lot of work on your desktop calendar but haven’t opened Calendar on the iPhone. Maybe leave Calendar/Contacts on for a few minutes to make sure everything gets downloaded.
That’s all for now, folks. Hope that helps a few of you out there looking to save a bit of juice. I like Nuevasync for push PIM with Google, but I don’t need contacts and events updated live. My life’s just not that fast
[Disclaimer: still playing with Flock, can't preview posts while doing this, so pic location may be a little crazy]
Ok, so it was kind of a long road for me this time. It’s been a lot of shouting and cursing, but I figured I’d blog about it real quick so others might have it a bit easier.
Here’s how I went about upgrading the first time. I downloaded WinPwn 2.0.0.4, the 2.0.1 firmware, as well as the bootloaders (3.9 and 4.6). I followed the instructions at iClarified just like I did last time, put the iPhone in DFU mode, and utterly failed. Phailed. Flailed. The problem here was that iTunes refused to recognize the firmware I was making and would give me an error saying “iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (6″. There are a lot of posts about this everywhere, but there were a few people here and there who claimed they were successful, so how’d they do it?
On the surface, little has changed, but look closer and you will see that with the launch of iPhone 2.0 software to go with the new 3G device, the iPhone has become less a mobile communications handset and more a pocket computer. — The Telegraph
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