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iPhone Applications

Bizarro iPhone Apps: Jump Jump

March 15, 2010

The description for Jump Jump in the App Store is very short:
This game will improve your fitness! Can you jump in sync with the music?

Here’s a little more from an email from it developers:
Think of it as Dance Dance Revolution, but without the mat and the computer, thus casually available [...]

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ngmoco releases Eliminate: CO-OP for iPhone

March 14, 2010

Eliminate Pro fans looking for a change of pace have something new to play with this weekend: if you’re tired of endless deathmatches, why not try some Eliminate CO-OP for a change? I’ve played a few rounds of the game and have a few impressions to share.

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I can’t wait to get my hands on Sword and Sworcery for iPhone

March 13, 2010

No, the spelling of Sworcery is not a typo.
One of the best bits of news coming out of the Game Developers Conference ‘10 has to be the Vimeo-hosted trailer for Sword and Sorcery: a pixelized adventure title that’s scheduled to hit iPhones in the second half of this year. If you keep the iPhone in [...]

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iPhone Apps Gone Free – Spartacus: Blood and Sand

March 13, 2010

Here’s a big iPhone game price dropper to start off the weekend. Spartacus: Blood and Sand has been reduced from $4.99 to free for a limited time. The offer started yesterday (Friday 3/12) and does not have a specified end date as yet. Here’s a quick slice of the game’s description:
Step into the arena [...]

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Quick Look: DisCover for iPhone, Add Home Screen Icons to Play Your Favorite Album Tracks

March 12, 2010

DisCover is an app that helps you create home screen icons for your favorite music on your iPhone. I think it’s a nice idea, if you have the home screen space.
So I’ve been giving the app a try over the last few days. Hit the jump for some quick impressions on it …
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Tweetie 2 for iPhone Updated – Ready for iPad?

March 12, 2010

Tweetie 2 – the hugely popular iPhone Twitter app – has had an update, to Version 2.1.1.
The very first listed change for this version is a very interesting one:
OS 3.2 compatibility

OS 3.2 is what the iPad currently runs. So presumably this means that this is an iPad compatible version of Tweetie 2. That would [...]

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InfiniBoard for iPhone updated with Overboard support

March 12, 2010

chpwn updated InfiniBoard to 1.1.2 last night and I can confirm that it is now compatible with OverBoard (Springboard Exposé). This means you can throw a near-infinite number of icons onto a scrollable Springboard page while still enjoying the convenience of jumping between pages at will
Activating OverBoard will still only show the first 16 icons [...]

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Pastefire, Desktop to iPhone Pasteboard Utility, Adds a Mac Client

March 11, 2010

Pastefire is a handy little utility that lets you paste things quickly from your desktop to iPhone, but with some added magic. The magic is that Pastefire takes what you’re pasting and makes intelligent choices about what to do with it, saving you several taps and steps. For instance, if you paste @justiphoneblog it doesn’t [...]

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iDouken! Street Fighter IV is now available on your iPhone

March 10, 2010

The folks who are lucky enough to be over at the Game Developers Conference got to see Street Fighter IV first-hand last night, just moments before it was released to the App Store public. I’ve been hearing various things about the title: TUAW thinks it’s a bit too unwieldy, but Shacknews seems to think the [...]

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Second Look: Front Contacts – Make Calls & See Recent Calls from the iPhone Lock Screen (jailbreak only)

March 8, 2010

I took an initial look at Front Contacts a couple of weeks back. It’s an interesting app that lets you do several things involving the Phone app right on your lock screen – such as:

Make a call
See your Recent Calls
Search for a contact
Pull up the Phone keypad to dial a number

When I first gave [...]

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