Posts from — January 2008

Penguin Panic is a native iPhone accelerometer based game wherein you tilt your iPhone to guide your penguin away from the falling stalagtites. Available on Installer by adding: http://www.newattiphone.com/repo.xml as a source. Requires Jiggly Runtime, also available on Installer, to be installed.

Screenshots:

I decided to give this official 1.1.3 Dev Team jailbreak a try and i’m finding myself going back to 1.1.2 again like I did after the first published 1.1.3 jailbreak. Initial jailbreak went smoothly and the only problem I encountered from the stock applications was the Maps “locate” feature not working. The Maps “locate” feature did work after installation of the third party application LocateMe was installed but upon reboot, stopped functioning again. Installing applications from Installer proved to be frustrating as they would download but upon installing, would just send me back to the springboard with no evidence of the application. The same futile results were obtained trying to manually install applications via sftp. If you’d like to try your luck with this jailbreak, head on over to HackthatPhone for well written instructions.

iPodTouchFans forum member Lazrhog has developed iZoo, a native iPhone/iPod Touch Bejeweled type game. iZoo uses animals in place of the familiar gems in Bejeweled but by using a skin made by Garfield, also an iPodTouchFan member, brings back the Bejeweled theme. iZoo is available on Installer by adding: http://www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml as a source. PopCap Games, Inc. has kindly asked me to take down images and download links for Bejeweled and Zuma as they own the trademarks.

Screenshots:

One of the cool features I was looking forward to were the jiggly icons Apple implemented on the new 1.1.3 firmware signaling the readiness of the re-ordering of the springboard icons. My update didn’t turn out as expected so I reverted back to 1.1.2 leaving behind the jiggly icon goodness of 1.1.3. Well iRection puts a little bit of that jigglyness back into my iPhone by using the accelerometer to test the effects of gravity on weighted objects. And to think there are people who still think that the iPhone isn’t a serious business tool. Download here.

Screenshots:

MaCalc has been updated to include algebraic input, built-in conversions and additional skins. It should be available thru the ModMyiFone Installer source soon or for manual install here.

Features:

General
Entry-system: RPN or Algebraic
Storage arithmetic: (Sto/Rcl +, -, ×, ÷)
Math: (+, -, ×, ÷, Mod)
Skins: four to choose from
Floating point calculator
FIXed, SCIentific and ENGineering number format
Functions: pi, 1/x, %, factorial
Functions: sq root, root n
Functions: yx, 10x, x2, ex
Functions: log, ln, hypotenuse
Trig funtions: sin, cos, tan, hsin …
Trig modes: degrees, radians, grads
Conversion: polar, retangular
Conversion: degrees, radians, grads
Integer calculator
Signed or unsigned operations
Base conversion (2,10 and 16)
Selectable word size (8bits, 16bits, 32bits)
Bit operations: AND, OR, XOR….

Usage hints

MACalc has two independent calculators, Integer and Float. To switch from Float to Integer and back “swipe” or “tapp” the display area.

MACalc float:
10 storage registers
10 stack registers

MACalc integer:
10 storage register
10 stack registers

Press and hold the Del key for 1 second to “clear X”.
Press the Menu > Settings key for settings.
To change mode press Mode.
To change functions press Fn.
Moving the phone to a horizontal position with screen facing down erases all calculator registers and vibrates (if enabled).
Press Mode > Conversions to switch to conversions view.
The current X value will be copied into the “input field”.
Pressing Float will return to calculator mode and result will be copied into X.

Screenshots: