If you haven’t seen these then basically they comprise of a Powermat (charging station) and some kind of adapted device to allow it to get charged by the Powermat. The adaptation, initially, was an external case for the iPhone or a new backing for some of the Blackberry devices. They have since added a huge range of products to their line so you can charge digital cameras, smart phones, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, iPod etc. Some of these require the Powercube which contains various adapters to plug into your device (so not really wireless anymore but at least it means less chargers to carry with you!). Continue reading »

My 5th generation iPod and it’s predecessor the Creative Zen Xtra both have/had a great feature that I used practically every day. This feature, Album Shuffle, was ideal for someone like myself who prefers to listen to a whole album as it was released rather than just a random song. I also have a number of live recordings that need to be played in order. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided to disable the shuffle by album feature in both the iPhone and iPod Touch. Did you notice how I say ‘disable’ and not ‘remove’? The feature is present in the .plist file for Settings.app but this is only available to jailbroken phones and those with access to Xcode – which dramatically reduces the number of people it is available to. It also requires connecting to a Mac every time you want to change your shuffle mode from ‘by album’ to ‘by track’ so is no good when you’re on the road.

So, what are the other options? Well, as Apple rightly advertise: ‘There’s an App for That’ although in this case there are 3 that do the job and are currently available in the UK AppStore. In alphabetical order we have: ‘Album Mixer – Shuffle by Album‘, ‘iAlbum Player‘ and ‘Quick Music‘.

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Released shortly after the surge of zombie-based games that plagued the AppStore around Halloween, Westbright’s ‘Zombies’ breathes a breath of fresh air and comedy into a somewhat stale genre.

Zombies is a turn-based game where your aim is to, rather unsurprisingly, kill the zombies. This is not, however, the usual gore-laden shooter commonly associated with zombie games but, rather, an amusing little gem that is so addictive in it’s simplicity. How many other zombie-based games have the lead character saying in their best British accent ‘oh dear’ when devoured by the living dead?!

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Is this evidence of Apple’s controversial Killswitch in action?

Please note this now appears to be a bug which is being fixed.

A recent app that I, like many others, bought on the AppStore with real money appears to have suddenly stopped working. A simple application called Night Stand, which is now copied by other app developers in true AppStore style, designed to simply display the time and alarm while dimming the screen. Not exactly a controversial app to say the least and has been available for some time! Now it seems that you can load the app but it simply won’t run.

This app has also been tested on a colleagues phone with the same results. This is not as a result of any updates as it was seen to work recently and, stranger still, the app has been pulled from the AppStore itself. As of this moment I have not yet been able to find any reason for it’s disappearance, but am more concerned about the fact that any app can seemingly be pulled from your device without warning or reason.

I paid good money for that app, all be it 59 pence but it is mine, or is it?

The amazing geohot has done it again. This guy has more talent in his little finger than I have in my whole body. His latest achievement is to have unlocked the iphone’s 05:11:07 Baseband. This is particularly important to those iphone users who want to jailbreak and unlock their iphones who accidentally updated their phones to the 3.1.2 firmware and lost the unlock.

Now through a stinging attack on the unlocking community Geohot is calling for information warfare on all the sites and sellers (SCUM) who continue to sell his and the Dev Teams freeware Software to unsuspecting users.
This was started in his recent blog posted at http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/ where he publicly refused the $10,000 reward offered for the development of the unlock on the ground of his own integrity. Good on you! He is calling on all to inform the public that they should never have to buy any unlocking software as it will always remain FREE from the Dev Team and Geohot, and the more people who know this the less of a market these scum will have. So read his article, and pass it on!

Apple have released an update for the iPhone and iPod Touch update to take them to OS 3.1.2.

The release notes claim that 3.1.2:

• Resolves sporadic issues that may cause iPhone not to wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update is available from iTunes in the usual way!

OS 3.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available to download via iTunes 9. It is a free upgrade for iPhone and iPod Touch running OS 3.0. Most of the published features are keeping in line with the new features of iTunes 9 such as App organisation and Genius Mixes. Some new features include voice control over bluetooth (3GS) and pasting numbers into the dialler.

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We recently review Team 17’s Worms for iPhone and are now happy to announce that the handful of ‘issues’ that we had have now been fixed in a recent update, along with a bunch of other bugs that we didn’t even notice existed! It is available now in the AppStore here.

Major improvements:

• The option to change graphical settings for increased performance in game on 1G and 3G devices.
• More responsive camera controls, including the ability to make the camera zoom further in for a closer look at the action.
• The ability to flip the game screen based on the orientation of your device.
• Improved Ninja Rope controls allowing even more death-defying rope stunts.
• The ability to unleash devastating weapons on your enemies from the safety of a parachute.
• Shorter thinking times of AI players.
• Highly improved back-flip and jump controls, including a new finger swipe method for back-flip to make sure you never accidentally jump worms into the water again.
• The facility to customise the game even further by creating your own enemy teams.
• General performance increases across the board.
• Quick shortcut to zoom out/in quickly with a press of the top left corner.

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There are a lot of race car fans out there, and the pinnacle of car racing is Formula 1. Currently the 2009 season has been dominated by Brawn. Now is your chance to drive a virtual Brawn F1 car and experience the magic of Ross Brawn and his engineering team with the Brawn GP Racing iPhone Game developed by FISHLABS.

Not only do you get the gameplay you also have the chance to win a real Mercedes SL sports car. Check out www.brawngpcontest.com.

The game is available on the Apple AppStore for $3.99 or £2.39.

The full Brawn GP Racing press release:
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How do you wake up in the morning? I use the alarm on my iPhone, but sometimes that is not enough to wake me. iLuv have the solution to that problem with the new iLuv iMM153 alarm clock.

The iLuv iMM153 is not just an alarm clock, but it also has a vibrating extension to place in your bed. When the alarm goes off in the morning your bed gently shakes and wakes you up. Neat… Now all we need is it’s opposite: a rocking device to put you to sleep at night.

The device also has a universal dock to play and charge the iPod, with integrated amplifier and radio. There are 2 alarm settings so if you and your partner get up at different times you do not need separate alarm clocks.

The iLuv iMM153 is compatible with iPods only, there is no mention of the iPhone so can only be used with the iPod touch. With a price tag of $60 it will be available in July.
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