You've been iPhoned!

Guitarist and bassist everywhere will really appreciate the upcoming implementation of Amplitube, giving them the ability to always have with them the best effects by simply connecting their guitar/bass to their iphone, ipad or ipod touch.



With the full version of AmpliTube user can choose between five amps (clean, crunch, lead, metal, bass) with all controls, ten Pedal (delay, flanger, phaser, overdrive, distortion, filter, wah, fuzz , octaver, chorus), five cabins and two microphones (dynamic and condenser).

Also, AmpliTube includes a chromatic tuner and digital metronome which you can apply to and play on backing tracks or songs using all the effects in real time.

Ever had trouble finding a particular app at the iPhone App Store? Who hasn't? A couple weeks ago I spent like 10 minutes trying to find a game a friend had just shown me. That may have had more to do with me being intoxicated and less about the App Store's search functionality, though.

Still, things may be improving. According to AppleInsider, Apple is now asking iPhone developers to enter 255 comma-separated characters as keywords to iTunes Connect to be used for search in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch.

iTunes Connect is the application that developers use to upload and submit their iPhone and iPod Touch apps to Apple.

Definitely a welcome change, and it can only improve sales, so I'm sure most developers will be taking advantage of it. I would not be surprised to see some developers exploit this, though, by entering popular keywords for apps that are completely unrelated just for the chance of added exposure.

Hopefully this addition will also improve my app-finding luck as well. Whether I've been drinking or otherwise.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10299052-233.html

So here's a true example of some modding his iDevice... check it out. Josh Darrah, a guy in Australia, actually gutted an iPod Mini and created a whole new casing from wood. The iWood.
He's got a whole Flickr gallery up showing the process. The guy even made a dock out of wood which the thing sits in.
Nice job, Josh.

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/ipod-news/678654-ipod-wood-iwood.html

Το TuneWiki επιστρέφει δριμύτερο και αυτή τη φορά κυκλοφορεί μέσω του App store σαν official εφαρμογή!

Ένα από τα κυριότερα χαρακτηριστικά του TuneWiki είναι πως έχετε στην διάθεση σας τα Lyrics των τραγουδιών τα οποία έχετε περασμένα στο iPhone σας, ωστόσο οι δυνατότητες του δεν σταματούν εδώ:

- Play your music while lyrics appear on screen, synced with the audio.
- Find music videos on YouTube by artist and song.
- Listen to thousands of streaming internet radio stations with synced lyrics.
- Search for your favorite song’s lyrics legally whether you own the actual song or not.
- Get translations of your favorite songs to multiple languages contributed by your peers.
- Contribute to the community by adding and syncing lyrics to songs that are missing from our database.
- See what is playing around the world and where in the world specific songs are being played on an interactive world map.
- Follow the top songs and artists in different regions.
- Share your thoughts about songs and artist with others around the world.
- Experience your music with a whole community around you to explore!

[iTunes link - Τιμή: ΔΩΡΕΑΝ]

Το πολυαναμενόμενο Worms της Team17 κυκλοφόρησε στο App store!

Worms features:

• Authentic Worms™ gameplay.
• Honed iPhone control system.
• Cartoon-style visuals and comical audio.
• Plan your attacks with the Sheep, Holy Hand Grenade and the Banana Bomb!
• 50 challenges, with items to unlock.
• 6 environments, each one with random battlefields, no two games are the same!
• Personalise your team with names, voices and gravestones.
• Custom music support.
• Auto-saves game state on exit.
• 3.0 features coming soon!

[iTunes link - Τιμή: 3,99€]

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Ever since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 on both my first generation iPhone and my brother’s current generation iPod touch, I’d been experiencing flaky Wi-Fi connectivity on both devices. I didn’t think much about it at first: Wi-Fi coverage has always been an issue in our three-story brick-and-mortar house, so I kept telling myself it was no worse than before.

However, upon reading complaints about Wi-Fi reception on iPhone 3.0 from hundreds of other disgruntled iPhone and iPod touch users on the Apple discussion boards, I cannot ignore it anymore—Wi-Fi coverage has definitely taken a turn for the worse in the Arya household ever since the introduction of iPhone OS 3.0. Through it all, my MacBook has been unaffected by the change and still joins the same Wi-Fi network at the same location in the house without any issues at all.

There are several threads on the Apple discussion boards dedicated to this problem, which seems to be affecting users of all models of the iPhone and iPod touch, and there isn’t any official solution or acknowledgment from Apple yet. It is almost definitely a software issue though, so I expect to see a fix for it in the upcoming iPhone OS 3.1 update (which will likely be free for all iPhone and iPod touch users).

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When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), the rubric that covers AT&T’s two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream and HSUPA for upstream. It turns out that the iPhone 3GS is more limited than what I outlined in that article.

On the downstream side, all is well. The iPhone 3G handles up to 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, and the 3GS can use the newer 7.2 Mbps HSDPA flavor. AT&T is building out the 7.2 Mbps service, which will start being available in some metropolitan areas later this year.

I had supposed that Apple took the opportunity to build HSUPA on the upstream side, at either 1.4 or 1.9 Mbps speeds that are supported in many European networks that have already rolled out 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. But it turns out, Apple didn’t. (As Jason Snell has written, Apple doesn’t like to offer much detail about the iPhone’s internal specs.)

After my HSPA article ran, reader Nick Dunklee pointed out in e-mail that a teardown at RapidRepair of an iPhone 3GS shows that it has a UMTS/HSDPA chip. UMTS is the earliest 3G standard deployed on GSM networks, and it tops out at 384 Kbps. It’s easy to test, if you have an iPhone 3GS. Go to any speed tester, like Testmyiphone when you’re outdoors with a good signal. Downstream, you might hit well over 1 Mbps; upstream, under 384 Kbps.

Dunklee examined the specs on a number of GSM network smartphones, and found none included HSUPA. It’s possible that there could be a firmware update from UMTS to HSUPA, but that’s unlikely. There’s usually a reason for using an older standard, which is related to power consumption, chip size, or cost.

In contrast, Dunklee noted, phones that handle EVDO Rev. A—the 3G standard used on CDMA networks like those operated by Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless—have the full high-data-rate upload speed. EVDO comes in multiple flavors (Rev. 0 and Rev. A), but phones that support Rev. A for downstream access also support it for upstream. (Verizon and Sprint also have 3G more extensively deployed than AT&T due to network design as well as long-term infrastructure building that AT&T deferred at least in part until recently.)

It’s a shame that the iPhone won’t be able to send video and photos at the faster rates that laptops with 3G cards on the same network can. But I suppose this offers a new marketing bullet point for a future iPhone model—now, with HSUPA!

http://www.macworld.com/article/141606/2009/07/iphone3gs_hspa.html