Temper4iphone brings TurboGrafx 16 emulator to iPhone

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »

iPhone hacking geniuses have already brought us the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, the Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator, ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play popular LucasArts and Sierra games and Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone.

And if you are still not satisfied, then ZodTTD who had released the first public version of the Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch has recently ported TurboGrafx-16 emulator, Temper, to iPhone.

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iPong – Multi-Player iPhone Game demoed

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »

If you were not excited about the iPhone as a gaming platform then the video of iPong (after the jump), a multi-player iPhone game developed by a couple of Japanese researchers will definitely do the trick.

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iPhone users can now use Address Book app in Mac OS X 10.5.3 to sync Google Contacts

iPhone users can now use Address Book app in Mac OS X 10.5.3 to sync Google Contacts
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 29, 2008 | Comments (6)

If you have updated to Mac OS X 10.5.3 which was released by Apple yesterday and you use Google Contacts then there is some good news for you.

The Address Book application in Mac OS X 10.5.3 now allows iPhone users to sync their Address Book with Google Contacts. More details on how to set this up is available after the jump.

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iPhone SDK beta 6 build 9M2192 released; confirms 3G iPhone is coming soon

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 29, 2008 | Comments (4)

Apple has released the latest beta version of the iPhone SDK, build 9M2192 Beta 6 and the iPhone experts have again found something interesting to report to confirm the news reported couple of weeks back here at iPhone Hacks that the 3G iPhone is coming soon.

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Earthscape to release Google Earth-like iPhone App

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 27, 2008 | Comments (4)

When you watch the demo of this native iPhone application (after the jump) you would probably say to yourself, why didn’t someone think of this before? It just seems such a natural choice of application to take advantage of iPhone’s accelerometer and touchscreen capabilities.

The native iPhone application is a 3D Earth application called Earthscape mobile. Earthscape is developing this native iPhone application using iPhone’s SDK and are planning to release the native application via the Appstore.

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Checkout Kingdom Lores – 3D Fantasy Game for the iPhone

Checkout Kingdom Lores – 3D Fantasy Game for the iPhone
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 26, 2008 | Comments (8)

The iPhone hacking community has already given us a glimpse of the
potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform with native iPhone games
like Raging Thunder and with the official native iPhone games around the corner it is safe to say that this is just the beginning.

Checkout the video clip (after the jump) of the pre-alpha preview version of latest native iPhone game Kingdom Lores, a 3D fantasy game for the iPhone based on a custom OpenGL rendering engine.

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iPhone Accessory – iControlPad will add physical buttons and joypad to the iPhone for some serious gaming action

iPhone Accessory – iControlPad will add physical buttons and joypad to the iPhone for some serious gaming action
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 25, 2008 | Comments (6)

We have seen some interesting native games for the iPhone such as Raging Thunder that have taken advantage of iPhone’s accelerometer and can expect games like Doom and Quake 3 to be ported to the iPhone soon.

Though all that is exciting news for iPhone users, I prefer the physical controls that are available in portable gaming consoles like Sony’s PSP rather than using iPhone’s touchscreen and the accelerometer.

Some enterprising folks seem to agree and are currently developing an iPhone accessory called iControlpad which is expected to be released soon will add physical buttons and joypad to the iPhone.

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iPhone Hacks News and Rumors Roundup, 18th May – 24th May 2008

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »

Its Sunday and that time of the week to checkout the weekly (18th May – 24th
May 2008) news, posts and rumors roundup on the iPhone from here at
iPhone Hacks and also from around the web that did not make it here
after the jump.

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Zinio brings Playboy, Penthouse, Popular Mechanics, Readers Digest to the iPhone

Zinio brings Playboy, Penthouse, Popular Mechanics, Readers Digest to the iPhone
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 24, 2008 | Comment (1)

Zinio, a digital publisher and distributor for digital magazines and books had announced way back in November that they will feature popular magazines on iPhone as well as iPod Touch.

They have extended their content offering quite a bit this week with the addition of 20 new titles for the iPhone and now includes popular titles like Playboy, Penthouse, Popular Mechanics, Readers Digest, PC Magazine.

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iPhone Tip: How-To Format/Erase/Wipe your personal data from the iPhone

Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 23, 2008 | Comments (10)

When I had reported the breaking news of the 3G iPhone launch on June 9th, readers had commented and emailed that they plan to sell their older but soon to be obsolete iPhone to buy the latest and greatest version. If you are one of them then the post earlier this week regarding iPhones sold as refurbished unit revealed previous owners personal data could definitely be one of your concerns.

Rich Mogull over at Securosis.com has come to the rescue and has published a method that should wipe out almost all your personal data to prevent it from being recovered later.

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