Filed under: iPhone, App Store

Skype (iTunes link) has been updated to 1.1, which brings it some new features making it more closely resemble its desktop sibling. So, what's new? Well, there's now support for Skype voicemail (subscription needed) and SMS text messaging.

However, SMS texting is not bidirectional. Which means that you can send SMS texts, but not receive them. And while a dialog box states that sent SMS texts will show up as sent from the sender's Skype screen name, in my case it displayed the "999-99" caller ID that typically accompanies calls from a Skype-based client. Perhaps that's because I don't have a SkypeIn number?

The 1.1 update also provides additional language support as well as more help when dialing phones.

SMS texting and voicemail support come with latest Skype update originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

SMS texting and voicemail support come with latest Skype update originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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id Software has released DOOM Resurrection [App Store] exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game takes the style of Doom 3 and puts it into a scrolling shooter format, where the player's movements are controlled by the game, but shooting and aiming are controlled by the player. You can check out the video after the break.

Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, iPhone

Not too long ago we told you about an artist creating a cover for the New Yorker magazine using a paint program on the iPhone. Now an Australian photographer has won an award for a photo he took on his iPhone.

Steve Turner created a rather striking collection of images he put together, and manipulated to create a print that caught the eye of the judges at the Photo Marketing Association show in Sydney.

I tried to contact the photographer, and we had a brief email back and forth. He's traveling so I don't have too many details and the time difference between us has made communications spotty. His messages, of course, are all coming via iPhone. Steve says he has about $200,000 worth of camera equipment but loves shooting on the iPhone. He used CameraBag for the effects, and scaled the photos up on his Mac at his studio. If you go to Steve's web site you'll see the photo pop up. It's the photo with 9 small images and a larger image of a car. His non- iPhone work is pretty impressive as well. My guess is the image was taken with the older 2MP camera, allowing for time to submit his photo for consideration, but it is impressive.

There's just no predicting how creative people can be even if the equipment is not top notch. As I remember learning some years ago from an instructor in a photography course when I was complaining about my little camera, 'If Ansel Adams uses my camera, he gets great pictures. If I get his camera, not so much.' Great lesson for us all, and congrats Steve.

Thanks to photographer Gavin Blue for the tip

iPhone making a splash in the arts originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

iPhone making a splash in the arts originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The company plans to introduce changes to its family of Kbox appliances this summer that will let IT administrators manage Windows and Mac OS X machines from a single interface on a single appliance.

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage

Looks like Stack for Jailbreak has some new improvements. For those of you unfamiliar with the application, Stack adds a quick-launch menu directly to your iPhone dock, letting you expand your dock space to hold all your favorite apps. With it you can add 16 items (using grid view) or 5 items (in fan view) for easy access in each stack. And stacks are not just limited to the dock. You can add stacks anywhere in the home screen as well.

As this video shows, you can now rename your stacks as well as use drag and drop editing. So you can create a 'Games' stack, an 'Internet' stack, and so forth. Removing items from a stack is just as easy as adding them. Just drag them out from the stack for an Apple-standard "puff of smoke" animation.

Stack, which is developed by iPhone expert Steven Troughton-Smith is donor-ware. Although not ready for public release, he has regularly been seeding early alpha builds to people who have donated to the project. But as you can see, it's making great progress.

Stack is a jailbreak-only product as Apple does not permit this kind of OS-based enhancement in App Store. That's a pity, because the relative difficulty and fear of jailbreaking keeps this kind of groundbreaking software away from the general public. It's an enhancement that Apple really should have built into the iPhone -- and hopefully someday will.

Found Footage: More new Stack features for jailbreak iPhones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Found Footage: More new Stack features for jailbreak iPhones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's official, everyone! Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs, their CEO, has returned to work at the company. “Steve is back to work,” Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesperson, told Bloomberg earlier today. “We are very glad to have him back.” Steve's return has been the subject of much controversy and rampant speculation since he left in January.

id Software's original iPhone game Doom Resurrection [App Store] was released into the App Store earlier today. The Doom 3 inspired game offers a first person shooting experience that's been adapted to the iPhone. From a TouchArcade review ...

On Monday Apple released an SMC firmware update for MacBook Air models.

Mimio Studio 6, now available on the Mac, adds multimedia support and makes additional improvements. Other programs updated Monday include Today and Letter Opener.

Doom Resurrection, a new Doom game from Id Software, is available for download from the App Store.