Apple’s iPhone as a Gaming Console Controller?
This is awesome! The folks at Ars Technica got in contact with the developers of Moto Chaser (a 99 cent motorcycle racing game for the iPhone/iPod touch) and pitched them a brilliant idea. Using an undocumented SDK class in the iPhone that streams video through the video outport, they created a TV version of the [...]
Move Visual Voicemail’s to To Do List on iPhone
You know what a handy software feature of the Visual Voicemail App on the iPhone? The ability to transfer voicemails to a to do list where you can add notes. There is a great App idea. Is there a way to tap into the Visual Voicemail App data in the SDK? Has someone [...]
The iPhone crashing calculator
My effing calculator crashed. The one on my iPhone. Why is the calculator on my iPhone crashing? Why does a calculator program crash? Especially when nothing gets inputed into it. It’s not like it was crunching pi to a high precision.
Wikipedia releases more robust API
I love my iPhone, and I love Wikipedia. I downloaded Wikipanion for my phone so I could quickly look up Wikipedia articles. I consider them a good reference point, maybe not entirely accurate, but good reference none-the-less.
Anyhow, the Wikipanion app could be better, especially if they utilized the new API from Wikipedia. [...]
Push for the iPhone is pulled
I know, kinda late. Everyone already knows that push was booted as a feature to developers earlier this week, but isn’t it upsetting? Push would be perfect for instant messaging programs like AIM or even Twinkle.
When you start an application on the iPhone, whatever application that was open before it, loses connectivity to the Internet and closes. [...]