iPod touch Fans

Tap Tap Revenge: The Touch Fans Clans

posted by Abcmsaj on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:39 pm.

You love Tap Tap Revenge. It’s an addictive game, with fun songs, great graphics and can be very competitive and challenging. Tap Tap Revenge 3 has shown that the franchise is still thriving and better than ever before.

And now Tapulous have cut the red ribbon on a new website: http://www.taptaprevenge.com/ – A place for TTR socialising through your web browser. With chart info, integrated chat, profile info and a small forum, this is the place to be if you want the latest news from Tapulous or like to keep up to date with your stats. Head over there today and make yourself an account (or use your current TTR account and just retrieve a password!) and start chatting on the discussion forums with other Tap Tap users.

So to celebrate, iPod Touch Fans is doing a few special Tap Tap Revenge related things to show appreciation to the game for being around on the App Store from day 1, and even BEFORE that in those distant jailbreak days… More after the jump.

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SmartScreen Released!

posted by Abcmsaj on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:06 pm. Originally submitted by Jawcl

SmartScreen has been in the pipeline for a while. Another lock screen app… but this one’s a lot different. It gives you more functionality in the form of widgets (similar to a Mac dashboard) – and some very useful system controls on your lock screen too (turn off Wifi, Edge, iPod Controls and more).

The app comes in two varieties: Lite and Full. Full is $5 and comes with everything they boast on their website. The lite version limits you to using a maximum of 3 widgets, and you also lose:

  • Controls Screen
  • “iPod Shake to Shuffle” on “Lock” screen
  • Show/hide and preview the widget
  • Updates with new features

But it’s always nice to have a free demo before you fork out $5 for the real thing!

So open your APT app and enter source: “http://apt.media-phone.ch” to be able to download it straight away!

And for all you devs, start developing your own SmartScreen widgets with the SDK.

TTR, Rock Band, …and Big Brain of Fire?

posted by bgizzle on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:41 pm. Originally submitted by Arroyo

By this point, we’ve all played or at least seen instrumental arcade games on the iPhone and iPod touch. Tapulous’ Tap Tap Revenge dominated the category without any serious competition until EA’s hit Rock Band franchise came to the iPhone this October to give it a run for its money.

Today, relatively-unknown studio Arroyo released their take on the genre, Big Brain of Fire. We haven’t yet had a chance to put it through its paces, and the lack of downloadable content means that the game will have less replay value than competing titles (thought it makes up for this through the addition of free play mode), but we find it inspiring that a relative unknown would take on the likes of EA and Tapulous. The game’s cartoonish, almost absurd take on the genre should be a fun alternative if the mainstays have lost their luster. Gameplay video after the jump.

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iPhone Folders brings seamless Windows integration

posted by bgizzle on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 9:13 pm. Originally submitted by caseyseuy

iphonefolders

It’s surprising that this nifty little utility for Windows PCs (sorry, Mac users) has avoided our attention for so long, but not anymore. In case we weren’t the last ones that hadn’t heard about this, iPhone Folders by Bozhenov Artem is a great way to access the files on your iPod touch and iPhone from Windows. Because it hooks in as a Windows Explorer extension, there is no software to run once it’s installed: it just works. The iPhone or iPod touch just shows up like any other hard-drive, and the extension even includes support for displaying application icons for .app folders in thumbnail mode. It’s very slick, almost as if it was functionality that Apple forgot to ship.

Classic iPod interface coming to the iPhone/iPod touch

posted by bgizzle on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:07 pm. Originally submitted by Cstsxyfry212

iPod classic tease

Miss the click-wheel action and the simple interface of the classic iPod? Well don’t fret, because, if the announcement is to be believed, the team of Emilio Pelaez (coding) and Christian Baroni (graphics) will soon bring back the retro experience we’ve been missing (yes, original iPods now count as retro). Although we can’t say that we believe that Apple will ever approve this for sale on the official App Store, we look forward to buying this from the Cydia store for $1.99 when it is released in the next few weeks.

NailDodger Review

posted by spoonforknife on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm.

Dewan Payroda, better known to the internet world as AppStoreMod, describes himself as “EPIC!” and a provider of “professional tutorials.” While this may or may not be the case, Payroda has managed 9,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel where he does application reviews. AppStoreMod pioneered the somewhat tiresome UITabBarController applications taking over Cydia. However, both are fairly great accomplishments and the AppStoreMod application is available in the App Store for Free.

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Nvidia’s tablet…

posted by studangerous on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2:54 am. Originally submitted by Akiyama Mio

Nvidia’s CEO showed off their prototype tablet at a press conference recently and then proceeded to talk up his love for all things Apple.  That’s a very nice beveled edge and recessed home button…

Update: it’s an ODM Tegra prototype tablet…

On a Mac? Want free stuff?

posted by Abcmsaj on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:41 pm. Originally submitted by GregoryFire

Screen shot 2009-11-06 at 01.38.34Then look no further. MacHeist has just broadcasted a live announcement of the 6 apps that are going to appear in the NanoBundle this year. MacHeist are known for having top quality indie apps in their bundles, and normally incredibly fair and cheap prices on the bundles – And this bundle is no exception.

Hit up the “read more” link to see the six apps and the VERY appetising price tag on them all…

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How would you change: Eliminate?

posted by Abcmsaj on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:36 am.

Let’s say you’re a developer for ngmoco, just for the day! Now that one the most anticipated game of the year is on the App Store, it’s had some criticism and some praise and everyone gotten their chance to play with it (even if it was one offline game.)

I’d like to hear your thoughts on it: What you’d change to improve it or make it different? What would you add or take away? Why would you do those things? And we’ll see if everyone’s opinions match up!

blackra1n RC3 and blacksn0w released

posted by studangerous on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:04 pm.

Just in case you’ve been hiding in a cave or had your head in the sand for the last few weeks.
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ALL currently available iPod touches and iPhones are jailbreakable and unlockable thanks to the magic of George Hotz.

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