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    • Two New iPhone 3GS Ads: ‘Voice Control’ and ‘Copy and Paste’

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 9:40 pm | Comments Off
    Apple has released two new television commercials for the iPhone 3GS and posted them to its ad gallery.

    Voice Control: Demonstrates the new Voice Control feature available on the iPhone 3GS, showing both the calling and music voice fun...

    iPhone Dev-Team: ultrasn0w Users Avoid iPhone 3.1 Beta!

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 7:32 pm | Comments Off

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    Right in time for iPhone 3.1, the iPhone Dev-Team has begun issuing their usual warnings about jailbreak/unlock users and new firmware updates:

    ultrasn0w users must stay away from official 3.1 (incl. betas) until we release the tools for it, or you’ll lose unlock!

    Tempting as a tasty new beta may be, if you can’t live without your hacked iPhone, don’t hit that update button now, or any time before the iPhone Dev-Team has new, tested tools ready for you.

    Once again, you’ve been warned!

    [Via Twitter]

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    iPhone Dev-Team: ultrasn0w Users Avoid iPhone 3.1 Beta!


    WWDC Demo: Master Jumperton and Battle of Pirate Bay (preview)

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 6:30 pm | Comments Off

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    Master Jumperton is a simple game where you swipe to create platforms for Master Jumperton to continually jump higher and higher. There are some similar games on the store, but Jumperton is well-crafted and features a high scores board and basic options. Master Jumperton isn't yet available on the store.

    The Battle of Pirate Bay will be available July 1, we are told, and it's a more involved game. That isn't to say it is complicated, as anyone familiar with Flight Control or Harbor Master's game mechanic will understand what to do. Battle goes one step beyond time and path management to add the element of battle with waves of enemies. You have to balance ammo and the health of your base in the bay plus the routing of faster or slower ships with different capabilities all while moving your finger around to direct traffic, as it were. Very fast-paced, and it looks like a lot of fun. We'll tweet when it lands in the store this week.

    Both games are from veteran mobile developers Muteki, who developed Maze Finger and Topple 2 for ngmoco. Topple 2 won an Apple design award at this year's WWDC.

    Gallery: Battle of Pirate Bay screenshots



    Update: The Battle of Pirate Bay (iTunes link) is now available in the store.

    WWDC Demo: Master Jumperton and Battle of Pirate Bay (preview) originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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    iPhone 3.1: Non-Destructive Video Editing, Bluetooth Voice Control, Vibrating Icon Moves, and More!

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 6:26 pm | Comments Off

    iPhone 3.1: Video Editing: Save As...

    Early word from TiPb commenters and the Twitter show some new iPhone 3.1 features found already:

    • Non-destructive video editing means trimming a clip no longer saves over the original video but gives you the option to “Save as copy…”
    • Voice Control now works over Bluetooth
    • iPhone vibrates when moving icons
    • Updated AT&T profile to 4.2
    • Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01

    Behind the scenes changes abound as well:

    • Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
    • APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

    Update: Yes, MMS buttons appear to be back for AT&T users, but as with early iphone 3.0 Betas, they’re non-functional on standard devices. Whether they survive to the official release this time (they were removed in 3.0 Beta 5), who knows?

    [Thanks to Chris, Muero and WhenWillApple]

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    iPhone 3.1: Non-Destructive Video Editing, Bluetooth Voice Control, Vibrating Icon Moves, and More!


    Skype for iPhone Updated: SMS and Voicemail, But No Push

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 5:36 pm | Comments Off
    Skype [App Store, Free] has been updated to Version 1.1, bringing SMS and voicemail support to the iPhone application, as well as additional language support. Unfortunately, support for Push Notifications is not included in the new version.

    Apple releases 3.1 beta for iPhone SDK

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 5:25 pm | Comments Off

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    Apple has released a 3.1 beta for the iPhone SDK. Both the SDK beta and firmware are available for testing and development to paid members of the iPhone developer program. As pre-release software, any details about this new release remain under NDA.

    A pre-installation advisory and beta release notes are available as per Apple's usual release strategy. As before, you cannot use the 3.1 SDK to create applications for submitting to the App Store, so if you plan to download it be prepared to create a separate installation directory.

    The new release comes just on the heels of the public 3.0 firmware. Its full-dot-number indicates that it contains more than just minor bug fixes (a relatively minor revision would probably be listed as 3.0.1).

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

    Apple releases 3.1 beta for iPhone SDK originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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    Quick App: Cellar Wine Tracker for iPhone

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 5:20 pm | Comments Off

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    From the team team that brought us Barista, Cellar aims to give wine the same app love coffee has enjoyed for a while now:

    Cellar is a portable, swipeable showcase of what’s currently in your cellar or wine rack, plus the Garage feature lets you store wine that you’ve decided you might buy again.

    Cellar has been submitted to the App Store and should be available… as soon as Apple decides to make it so.

    In the meantime, enjoy the screenshots after the break!

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    Quick App: Cellar Wine Tracker for iPhone


    MacRumors: Apple Releases Beta 3.1 iPhone Firmware and SDK to Developers

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 4:52 pm | Comments Off

    Even with the recent release of iPhone 3.0, Apple is hard at work at the next update: iPhone 3.1. Apple seeded registered developers with a beta version of the firmware and SDK today. Few details were provided as to the improvements to be f...

    Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 Beta, SDK 3.1 To Developers [Update: MMS Enabled... Kind of]

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 4:24 pm | Comments Off

    Today Apple provided iPhone developers with a beta version of iPhone OS 3.1 for all versions of the iPod touch and iPhone, including iPhone 3GS. Additionally, Apple has released an updated version of the iPhone SDK for both Leopard and Snow Leopard. No changes have been reported as of yet, but we expect the big differences will come in the form of bug fixes.

    If you find any changes, let us know in the comments!

    Apple Releases iPhone 3.1 and SDK Beta to Developers

    News, iPhone | Tuesday June 30 2009 4:22 pm | Comments Off

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    Apple has just released iPhone 3.1 SDK Beta to developers:

    iPhone SDK 3.1 beta and iPhone OS 3.1 beta are now posted to the iPhone Dev Center. These versions are for development and testing only and should be installed on devices dedicated to iPhone OS 3.1 beta software development. Please read the iPhone OS Pre-Install Advisory and the iPhone SDK 3.1 beta release notes before downloading and installing.

    Available now via developer.apple.com, and TiPb once again reminds non-developers to stay clear, avoid potential problems, and wait for the general release.

    (Thanks Quickpwn.com and everyone else for the tip!)

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    Apple Releases iPhone 3.1 and SDK Beta to Developers


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