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Game Review: Aurora Feint on App Store

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Macworld 2008

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Macworld 2008: Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
Despite furious speculation, Jobs releases incremental product improvements, rather than fundamental game-changing gear

Apple announced four new products today in San Francisco:

Time Capsule, wireless base station and network storage device
iPhone and iPod Touch firmware updates
Apple TV 2.0 and iTunes Video Rentals
MacBook Air ultra-thin notebook
One more thing… There is NO “one more thing!”

Interestingly, [...]

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Instant One-Touch Jailbreak Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s never been easier to install custom applications
You can now jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch to install third-party applications with extraordinary ease. Visit the URL pictured above with your Mobile Safari and in an instant your device’s file system will be opened and the AppTapp Installer will appear on your Springboard after a restart.
Via [...]

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Space Time Play, A Catalog of How Video Games Change Our Landscape

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
» Book Website (spacetimeplay.org)
» Table of Contents (PDF)
» Introduction (PDF)
Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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iPhone 1.1.1 AppTapp Manual Install

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

For those who cannot wait for an AppTapp 1.1.1 Update
See our Install AppTapp 3.0 beta in iPhone 1.1.1 without Command Line tutorial←
Certainly, at this moment, we can only assume that Nullriver is busy updating their AppTapp installer to integrate the revised jailbreak and install procedure required with the iPhone 1.1.1 software update. Only in [...]

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Tags: Technical