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Aurora Feint: The Beginning
by Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron
game type: Block puzzle role-playing game hybrid (MMo)
game platform: for iPhone and iPod Touch OS 2.0, free on iTunes App Store
Game Brief
A superb 10-week opus by 22 year old designers Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron, Aurora Feint is, indeed, a beginning. Their lush fantasy graphics situate you [...]

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Open Source Native App for WordPress
Although we began work last year on Safari based WordPress Theme and Plugin suite that had potential to offer the untethered convenience of mobile blogging, we were beat to the punch by Automattic/Effigent. Built on the iPhone SDK as a native Cocoa Touch app makes a robust touch UI crisp [...]

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Although we have been graced with some quality free iPhone software already (see our “essential dozen” below), the wündervice still lacks The Killer App.
What’s The Killer App?
To put it one way, when urged to flick icons on microquest for stroke amusement and no app earns a tap, then I’ll know The Killer App has arrived.
An [...]

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In a stroke of irony, the iPhone Dev Team, the folks who brought the world consistent jailbreak and SIM unlock tools, could totally save Apple’s ass right now, as their activation servers are toppled due to the massive user-base (6 million) trying to update to firmware 2.0 on the 3G launch day.
It’s assumed that the [...]

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Perhaps Thousands of iPhones Bricked at the Moment

Any iPhone user (2.5G and 3G), who needs to activate their phone with iTunes is out of luck right now. Apparently slammed by activations or launch glitches, now is not the time to perform an update or restore function on ANY iPhone, as you won’t able to reactivate [...]

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