Despite a few flaws, this is a useful app for tracking balls, strikes, and pitch counts if you're a baseball coach.

Da pochi giorni è online il sito dedicato a SlideSpace, un puzzle-game di cui vi abbiamo già parlato in passato e che presto sarà disponibile su AppStore.

Nel sito si trovano informazioni e video di questo bel gioco. Ne approfittiamo anche per svelarvi in anteprima alcune funzioni che verranno aggiunte in seguito a SlideSpace:

Filed under: Software, iPhone

To start with: I am a Disney fan -- to be precise, it's a lot like the way Jack Nicholson is a Laker fan -- so on my very nearly annual expeditions to a Disney park, I don't really need the map. I have memorized shortcuts and low-traffic restrooms, how to get all the good stuff done in one day, and loads more random bits (look closely in the Hall Of Presidents; molds for their faces are used on other animatronics around the park), mostly because carrying them around in my head was the easiest way to carry them.

Then I got my iPhone (my first smartphone) and was able to put data on my phone (which I always carry with me). Enter the Walt Disney World Notescast. This $0.99 app is a handy planning/informational tool that can guide your entire Walt Disney World trip, from vacation packages to tips on annual events and park history. I tested the iPhone version of this app, but TimeStream Software also sells a $1.99 version for notes-capable classic iPods and nanos. It doesn't rely on a data connection and you can carry all this info with you easily.

When you first launch the application, you get a list of options to choose from. I liked the variety of options, but I wish I could customize or at least re-order it so I could get at a few of the options more quickly. There is a bookmark system available, but I ended up bookmarking a lot of things so that list went non-functional pretty quickly. And while I understand not having a ton of information on one page, I had a hard time figuring out why there were breaks between, for example, "Tours of EPCOT I" and "Tours of EPCOT II". I love the list of phone numbers, especially since I can tap the number to make the call. In the now cutthroat world of Disney Dining, having that number handy -- as well as the ticket line and even the camping and Magical Express numbers, not usually easy to find on the WDW site -- is a huge convenience.

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UberGizmo e Michael Schade di Fishlabs hanno dichiarato che grazie all’OpenGL|ES 2.0 del nuovo iPhone 3G S l’App Store potrà accogliere dei giochi fantastici di un livello altissimo!

Una grafica senza paragoni con una buona accelerazione grazie anche al processore e alla Ram migliorati. Riportiamo proprio le parole di Shade:

The OpenGL 2.0 support will push the iPhone beyond PSP

“Il supporto all’OpenGL 2.0 porterà l’iPhone oltre la PSP”, ma poi ha anche aggiunto che non dovremo aspettarci questi giochi a 0,79€.. ovviamente.

E’ stato anche realizzato un confronto pratico prendendo in considerazione i giochi “Half Life” ed “Half Life 2″ per PC. Il primo screenshot che vedete di seguito rappresenta la grafica che è in grado di riprodurre un iPhone 3G, il secondo invece mostra quello che si riuscirà ad ottenere su un iPhone 3G S:

Sembra proprio che con questa mossa Apple riuscirà ad affermare l’iPhone anche come Mobile Game Device, e se le premesse sono queste, non possiamo fare altro che attenderne il rilascio.

The backlash against AT&T for its iPhone 3G S pricing underscores the conflicted relationship phone users often have with their carriers, Computerworld writes.

L'analyste Ashok Kumarà a fait savoir que, malgré l'amélioration hardware, et malgré la puissance du nouvel iPhone, Apple a décidé de réduire la production de l'iPhone 3GS.

L'arrivée de l'iPhone 3GS n'a pas été accueillie par le public d'une façon souhaitée par Apple ! Beaucoup ont fait part de leur mécontentement suite au non changement du design et du peu de changements par rapport au 3G

Certes coté hardware, pas de souci, Apple a mis ce qu'il fallait mais pour le reste.....

Suite donc à ça mais aussi à la crise économique actuelle, Apple a donc décidé de produire entre 4,6 et 5 millions d'unités contre 7,5 millions préalablement prévues !

Certes ces chiffres peuvent paraître énormes mais pour une société comme Apple, cette baisse est un vrai manque à gagner !

Apple espère néanmoins conquérir une nouvelle clientèle avec ses nouveaux MacBook présentés à la Keynote, surtout qu'ils seront vendus à un prix plus bas qu'à l'accoutumée

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, First Look, App Review

If you own a GPS system, then you're sure to know about the best feature ever invented for GPS: The "Take Me Home" button. Most GPS systems can store your home location and route you back to it with a single tap. The iPhone, of course, doesn't have one of these features ... until now.

Get Home [iTunes link] gives you many options for finding your way back home. You can add a button to the main screen of the app that will call a taxi, find your current location, call a contact, text message a contact, get walking directions, or find a bus route. At the bottom of the app's main screen, you will find how far away you are from your home location. From this same screen, you can tap any of the buttons you've added to open the Maps app and perform the requested action; for instance getting walking directions. If you select to phone a person or text a person, those actions will be carried out immediately as well.

Get Home is a good application for people who like to do a specific task from one application. The main purpose of this application, which is to find a way home, can be carried out mainly with the Maps application and saving bookmarks. That being said, Get Home does work as advertised and does have a nice interface. You can purchase Get Home from the App Store for $1.99 US.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

I guess I’m on some sort of iPod kick today so, here is another cool app for you. MusicInfo is a mod that quickly displays a song’s info in your status bar.

Once installed, when you switch to a new song, you will get a quick five second overlay on your status bar that displays the song title, artist and album.

This mod will work anywhere in which the status bar is visible. It also comes in two colors; black and white (installed separately). Also, this a code app so you will not see an icon on your SpringBoard. It is not activated/deactivated via WinterBoard. If you would like to remove the mod, you will need to uninstall it in Cydia.

A simple application but, it’s decently cool. You can get MusicInfo via the Touch-Mania source.

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Quasi ogni prodotto Apple viene presentato senza specificare espressamente i componenti, ma qual è il senso di questa omissione?

Apple preferisce focalizzare l’attenzione dei propri clienti sulle funzionalità esclusive dei propri prodotti, piuttosto che sulle caratteristiche intrinseche. Da un punto di vista del profitto, la possibilità di far girare oltre 50000 applicazioni su iPhone, è molto più importante della potenza dei componenti hardware. Come sappiamo, non esiste nessun altro dispositivo mobile che possa vantare un numero di applicazioni così copioso.

Ad Apple poi va riconosciuta la capacità di integrare i propri dispositivi con le piattaforme: da iPhone 2G ad iPhone 3G S sono state introdotte una serie di migliorie e caratteristiche hardware (GPS, UMTS) ma ciò non ha inibito, ai dispositivi più vetusti, l’ accesso ad App Store.

Il punto debole delle altre case costruttrici, probabilmente, è quello di produrre diversi modelli di telefoni con diverse specifiche tecniche, che poi vengono tenuti su piattaforme eterogenee.

I limiti del sandboxing ( il blocco del software non approvato da Apple) e delle ferree regole della SDK, spesso molto criticate da utenti e sviluppatori, hanno però contribuito ampiamente a creare il successo di iPhone. Per Apple, gli utenti non devono essere consapevoli di quanta RAM o a quale frequenza di clock gira la CPU, ma solo del fatto che le applicazioni funzionino perfettamente con il proprio dispositivo.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

SBSetting Volume MC is a SBSettings toggle that turns your volume control into iPod controller. Once installed, the app is added to SBSetting (you may need to go into the More/Set Toggles options and turn it on). When it is activated, it turns your volume control on the side of your device into a controller for your iPod allowing you to scroll through your songs.

If you tap the volume up button on your volume control, it will go forward a song. If you tap the volume down button, it will go back a song. If you quickly tap the up and then the down button on your volume control it will pause the song. You can then either tap the up or down button to start the song again. One thing I like about this app is that it starts your iPod when you tap up or down. You do not have to go into your iPod start your music and then the app works. You can use SBSetting Volume MC to start your music.

The only problem I have with this app is that I am so used to using my volume control for my volume that I keep accidentally changing my song when really I want to adjust the volume. If you are going to use the SBSetting Volume MC app, I would suggest also installing the Volume Slider Widget. It is a SBSetting toggle as well which allows you to have an easy way to adjust your volume.

One thing that would be nice is if you held the volume button down, it affected the volume. So, instead of just a quick tap on the volume button to change the song, if you held down the volume up button, it would turn up the volume. Or maybe if you held the volume button up or down, it would fastward or rewind the song. That would be cool too….either one I guess!

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