Posts from — March 2008

Makayama has released Photodial, a dialer using pictures of your contacts. Preferences include the ability to display the number of contacts on a page or to use CoverFlow mode and enables you to re-order your photo contacts. Currently priced at $ 16.95 / EUR 11.95 ex. tax.
To get a free tryout, start Installer on your iPhone, press Sources, then Edit, then Add. Next, type http://tinyurl.com/2t8cax

*wgt has won the photodial license. Your email address has been forwarded to Makayama. Thanks to all those that participated.*

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MXTube is a native iPhone/iPod Touch application that essentially allows you to download YouTube videos onto your iPhone and allow playback locally. Videos can be downloaded via WiFi with a high quality setting or a lower quality setting via Edge. Now available on Installer using: sleepers.net/iphonerepo as a source and found under the Multimedia category.

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Developers over at PuzzleManiak have ported Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection for the iPhone. There are three games currently available of which are Bridges, LightUp and Net. Download here for manual install or wait for it to show up on Installer.

Bridges Rules:

You have a set of islands distributed across the playing area. Each island contains a number. Your aim is to connect the islands together with bridges, in such a way that:

Bridges run horizontally or vertically.
The number of bridges terminating at any island is equal to the number written in that island.
Two bridges may run in parallel between the same two islands, but no more than two may do so.
No bridge crosses another bridge.
All the islands are connected together.

LightUp Rules:

You have a grid of squares. Some are filled in black; some of the black squares are numbered. Your aim is to ‘light up’ all the empty squares by placing light bulbs in some of them.

Each light bulb illuminates the square it is on, plus all squares in line with it horizontally or vertically unless a black square is blocking the way.

To win the game, you must satisfy the following conditions:

All non-black squares are lit.
No light is lit by another light.
All numbered black squares have exactly that number of lights adjacent to them (in the four squares above, below, and to the side).
Non-numbered black squares may have any number of lights adjacent to them.

Net Rules:

The computer prepares a network by connecting up the centres of squares in a grid, and then shuffles the network by rotating every tile randomly.

Your job is to rotate it all back into place.

The successful solution will be an entirely connected network, with no closed loops.

As a visual aid, all tiles which are connected to the one in the middle are highlighted.

If you’re a fan of Chinese Chess, head on over to iPhone Cake and check out some of their offerings. Their Installer source is: http://iphonecake.com/src/all
Just to let you know, i’ve had to SSH into my iPhone as the permissions weren’t set right after downloading from Installer. One game in particular that is offered on this site, is probably the most polished game i’ve seen for the iPhone yet but due to a cease and desist letter I received about a month back, I can’t post about it. Happy hunting and let me know if you find the game i’m talking about. I can probably delete my copy of iZoo now.

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T4Two.app is essentially a pong-like game for two players on the iphone using the touchscreen to maneuver your paddle. Scoring is kept by the red and blue indicators on the side of the screen and uses your current background as the default playing surface. Install by adding: http://akamatsu.org/repo.xml as a source in Installer.

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