Windows only: LastSharp is .NET based application that helps you download music from Last.fm. The Download Squad blog reports: LastSharp has a lot of useful options, including on-the-fly...
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The Lifehacker team's thrilled to announce we've got a couple of new secret weapons on staff. Two commenters you already know and love have joined us as newly-minted interns: Mei-ling (aka Asian...
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I finally took a day to update Tap Tap Revolution and get a few more features in.
Among the millions of new features are:
- MUCH better tap response
- Multitouch taps have been eliminated
- Pause and Exit buttons in game mode
- Clearer tap graphic
- High Scores table for each song (that's why you're prompted for a user name)
- The iTunes Library remembers who made beats for each song
Watch for a couple new tracks coming soon, too.
It's already in iBrickr and will be in Installer very soon, thanks to Shaun who does half the packaging for Installer.app. Give him your money! He spends a lot of time packaging these apps for mass consumption and deserves a lot of the credit for how easy it is to get applications on your iPhone.
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I’ve been enjoying DLO’s Portable Speakers for iPhone since I got my hands on them a couple of months ago.
The DLO iPhone speakers are compact, (reasonably) portable and surprisingly powerful. Yet there are a few things I believe DLO can do to improve this promising iPhone accessory.
Watch my video review below to see where the DLO portable speakers for iPhone excel, and where they fall short.
Recap:
DLO Portable Speakers for iPhone - Pros
Speakers and dock snap into a ball that is easy to travel with
Dock holds iPhone in both vertical and landscape orientations
No interference from the iPhone’s cellular signal
Sleek & attractive design
Optional battery power for increased portability
Reasonably priced at $50
DLO Portable Speakers for iPhone - Cons
Power adapter and iPhone stand must be packed up separately
Wrapping up the many cables is annoying
Dock does not charge your iPhone, even though this feature could be easily incorporated
Not good for speaker-phone conversations, since the caller hears an echo of their voice
Some more photos:
The iPhone can be docked vertically or in landscape orientation.
The length of the speaker cable is 2 and a half feet, so you can spread them out pretty wide.
The speakers can run on outlet power or 4 AAA batteries.
Thank you to Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) for providing a test unit of these speakers for review.
If you’ve used the DLO portable iPhone speakers yourself, I would love to hear your experience in the comments.
[ Update: Gordon Remo of iWorldAustralia, a DLO distributer, informed us in the comments that DLO was bought out by Phillips. So the portable speakers for iPhone still exist, only they are now owned by Phillips. Thanks for the update, Gordon. ]
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I see a real problem with the iPhone hacking community. Most of the knowledge about the iPhone is somewhere within the dev team. If the dev team disbands and even a minor update is made which breaks things, all we'll have is a couple closed source tools and random information scattered around the internet. And I've had less and less time to work on this, so I can't keep up anymore.
We used to have an open wiki, actually it hasn't been open for a long time at iphone.fiveforty.net But whoever was managing it allowed it to fall apart, until it finally went offline, destroying information. I *hate* losing information. I wish I'd managed that wiki from the beginning, it's almost too late now.
Now we have the iPhone dev "wiki". According to wikipedia "A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content". So I guess it's not really a wiki.
yiphone.org got 400,000 hits. If even 1% of those people contribute to The iPhone Wiki, it will be so awesome. I already added a lot of information. Anyone can create an account and edit, even the main page. I don't filter content, only spam.
I tried really hard to make the wiki a neutral place for information. The hosting costs are paid for by the ads on this blog; I figured I should do something good with the money, so there will never be ads or donate links on the wiki. I'm trying to pass the knowledge of the iPhone onto the next generation of hackers. Will you help me?
Tagi: coue, iphone, source tools, mey, dev team, iphe, accesses, wikipedia, dev wiki, hackers, ace, web pages, spam
Windows only: LastSharp is .NET based application that helps you download music from Last.fm. The Download Squad blog reports: LastSharp has a lot of useful options, including on-the-fly...
I finally took a day to update Tap Tap Revolution and get a few more features in.
