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Top 10 iPod touch and iPhone games

Hans — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:46:23 +0000

Apple’s App Store has many apps available for download. Are you looking for the top iPod touch or iPhone games? Below is a list of the current top 10 selling paid iPod touch and iPhone games on the Apple App Store.

1. Angry Birds

Use the unique destructive powers of Angry Birds to lay waste to pigs’ fortified castles. Hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. [Download]

2. Doodle Jump

In Doodle Jump, you guide the “Doodler” using tilt controls on a spring journey, up a sheet of paper, picking up jet packs, avoiding black holes, and blasting “baddies” with nose balls along the way. [Download]

3. ZombieSmash

A “Survival Comedy” game, featuring undead-themed castle defense and entertaining, physics-based gameplay. [Download]

4. Skee-Ball

Roll the ball up the ramp with a flick, and make it go into one of the numbered holes for points, tickets, and unlockable achievements. [Download]

5. Guerrilla Bob

Fast-action shooter with high quality visuals and plenty of weaponry. [Download]

6. Monopoly

Play the original Monopoly board game, with the option of challenging up to 3 friends on your same WiFi network or up to 2 friends with Bluetooth. [Download]

7. Bejeweled 2

Classic gem swapping Bejewed 2 game by PopCap. [Download]

8. Plants vs. Zombies

Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to slow down, confue, weaken and “mulchify” 26 types of zombies before they reach your front door. [Download]

9. YAHTZEE Adventures

Play the classic Yahtzee game with a 3D dice, dynamic animations, and easy to use touch controls. [Download]

10. More Salad!

Make your own salad with this tasty iPhone app. [Download]

Top 10 free iPod touch and iPhone apps

Hans — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:02:40 +0000

Apple’s App Store has a lot of apps available to download. Which ones are really popular? Below is a list of the current top 10 free iPod touch and iPhone apps on the Apple App Store. Note, you must have iTunes in order to download these apps from your computer. If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download. You can alternatively download these apps from the App Store on your iDevice, by searching.

1. Spill Da’ Milk

A classic carnival game where you try to knock down all milk bottles with one throw. [Download]

2. World War – 22 Honor Points

Massive multiplayer online game. Start as a general defending your base from enym and fight to become the dominant military presence in the world as you march your way to victory in World War. [Download]

3. Tap Store by Streetview

With Tap Store you can design our store, choose what you want to sell, and watch customers — and profit — roll in! [Download]

4. Top 100s by Year by Bing

Listen to thousands of the greatest songs of all time. [Download]

5. The Simpsons Arcade FREE

Classic arcade game, with level one for free. [Download]

6. Glow Doodle fall

Help GLOW DOODLE fall and escape the spike that is trying to close in every moment. Some negative powers will be there to make your journey more dfficult, and positive powers will also be there to help you go down easily. [Download]

7. Glow Draw!

If you like drawing, and you like glow you’ll love this app. You can “draw glow” with this. [Download]

8. Touch Pets Dogs EARTH

A virtual pet game for iPhone and iPod touch. Create virtual puppies, share with friends and the world. [Download]

9. Bing

Search using Microsoft’s Bing search engine on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can also use your voice to search. [Download]

10. Burning Bubbles Lab FREE

Addictive bubble-shooter game with tons of levels. [Download]

iPhone Devs: Android in app description = BANHAMMER

Hans — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:03:49 +0000

When it comes to iPhone apps, Apple is infamous for rejecting them for silly reasons. Once a developer’s application gets rejected, it can take a very long time until it’s approved again. Surprisingly, this time Apple acted differently. The developer of the Flash of Genius iPhone application put “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!” in his app description and that triggered Apple to e-mail him and ask him to remove the Android reference or face the consequences of having the app removed from the App Store.

In it’s defense Apple told the developer that the application contains irrelevant information, and placing references to other platforms in the App description is not allowed. Instead of removing the application directly, Apple kindly e-mailed it’s developer and told him to remove the reference otherwise his app will . Kudos to Apple for doing that! iPhone users are downloading the iPhone app, which is a different platform than the Android so it was misleading of the developer of the Flash of Genius app to include this in there. The developer of the Flash of Genius app was patient and he complied with Apple and removed the reference to Android. Other iPhone developers take note!

[via Flash of Genius: The Blog]

Apple adds an App Store Resource Center for developers

Hans — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:19:49 +0000

Today Apple announced the App Store Resource Center in an e-mail to iPhone Developers. The App Store Resource Center is a single destination where developers can find anything they want to know about submitting their app to the App Store.

The App Store Resource Center contains three sections:

Prepare for App Submission – Get started with iTunes Connect, including setting up your user accounts, submitting contracts, tax and banking information, and gathering application information.
App Store Approval Process – Ensure your application is ready for submission and learn what to expect during the app approval process.
Managing Apps on the App Store – Make the most of your presence on the App Store and learn what you can do to manage your app once it has been posted.

iPhone Developers can access the App Store Resource Center at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/appstore. Apple is known for having a really strict approval process, but with this resource I believe that developers will find it easier to find out what steps they can take to prevent their apps from getting rejected.

Search for top iPhone Apps using Bing

Hans — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:11:28 +0000

If you want to visually search through top iPhone apps, or recently released iPhone apps Microsoft has now added this in their Bing search engine. It’s currently in beta, but you can see it in action at Bing.com/visualsearch. It’s really fun to browse for iPhone apps using Bing!

With Bing’s visual search you can narrow your search by Publishers, Category, or Price (highest/lowest). Hovering over an iPhone app shows the app’s company, price, category, ranking, and release date. Clicking on an iPhone app icon takes you to search results for the app on Bing instead of launching the app in iTunes.

I found this Bing visual search for iPhone apps really useful. I can easily search for reviews of each iPhone application and filter my searches. It would be great if Bing also added the iTunes link to the iPhone applications rather than having us search Bing to get the iTunes links. What do you think about this search? Will you be using it to search for future iPhone apps or will you just stick to using iTunes?

iPhone App developers: Do not use glossy chat bubbles in your App Store apps!

Hans — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:59:55 +0000

Here is another crazy App Store story. If you’re an iPhone App developer, do not use the same glossy buttons in the SMS app in any of your iPhone applications. Apparently this is trademarked by Apple, and they don’t want you to use it in any of your applications. Joe Stump found this out the hard way.

Joe Stump, a former architect of Digg made an application called Chess Wars. Chess Wars is an application that allows you to play Chess on your iPhone with your Facebook friends using Facebook connect. After submitting his application and having it approved by Apple, Joe realized that his application had a bug in it. He fixed the bug he found and resubmitted it, and Apple approved the update. After submitting this update Joe realized that there was another bug for new users so he submitted another update for the Chess Wars app. Unfortunately this time Apple did not approve his application. Due to the iPhone OS 3.0 update, his Application did not work for users and Apple did not approve the updated working version of his application so he got negative reviews. Unfortunately these negative reviews will stick there and may affect future sales of his application.

It’s been more than 6 weeks and Apple has still not approved Joe’s application. A few days ago, Joe Stump decided to make a blog post about it which got posted on TechCrunch. The post on TechCrunch got a lot of attention and I believe that caused Apple to contact Joe recently.

An Apple representative contacted Joe yesterday morning and told him that his chat interface looks similar to the one in the iPhone SMS client. You can argue that there are other applications like Tweetie that have a similar interface, but Tweetie also has an icon next to the speech bubbles and it’s less shiny. Apple suggested to Joe that he make his chat bubbles more square and “less shiny”.

I think this is a ridiculous reason for Apple to reject an update for an application. I hope that Apple takes steps to improve their App Store review process. Right now not too many developers are happy with it!

What Facebook 3.0 is missing!

Hans — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:29:24 +0000

Today Apple finally approved the Facebook 3.0 iPhone app in the App Store (as of this post it still says version 2.5, but it’s actually 3.0 if you download it). If you’re a Facebook user, you will like using this application. The main features of the Facebook 3.0 iPhone application include the ability to upload videos (iPhone 3GS users only), a built in web-browser, full photo management, and a lot more other features that were missing in version 2.5

Facebook 3.0 is still missing some features that I know many of us would like to see. Here are just some features it’s missing:

Push notifications support – This is a huge one! Joe Hewitt, the developer of this application has promised to include this in his next Facebook 3.1 update.
Videos - Facebook videos currently cannot be played, but YouTube videos can. Facebook will need to come up with a format compatible with the iPhone.
Groups

What feature would you like to see when Joe Hewitt releases Facebook 3.1? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Facebook 3.0 iPhone App Released!

Hans — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:27:20 +0000

The much anticipated Facebook 3.0 iPhone app has now been released and Facebook addicts can download it from the App Store! About a month ago, Joe Hewitt, the developer of the Facebook iPhone app made an update on Facebook saying that Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone was coming. On Sunday, August 16, Joe Hewitt was finally done with the development of the Facebook 3.0 iPhone Application and he submitted it to the App Store for review. Unsurprisingly enough, Apple spent over two weeks approving this application and kept many users impatient! Read on below to see the new features of the Facebok 3.0 iPhone application. There is no push notification on Facebook 3.0, Joe Hewitt says that this feature will be added in the Facebook 3.1 iPhone App update.

What’s new in the Facebook 3.0 iPhone App?

iPhone 3GS users can now upload videos
Built-in web browser: All links can be viewed without leaving the Facebook iPhone App!
The ability to zoom in to photos.
Full photo management. You can create/delete albums, delete photos/photo tags.
Photos can be uploaded to any album
Profile Picture can now be changed.
View upcoming events and RSVP See your upcoming Events and RSVP
View your friends’ birthdays your friends’ birthdays
The ability to view pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
Write/read your friends’ notes
You can like posts or photos.
See the same news feed on the Facebook website
All of your friends’ friends and pages can be viewed
View your mutual friends
Easy searching for people and Pages
Make friend requests
Become a fan of Pages
Quickly call/text your friends
Create shortcuts to favorite friends/Pages
You can sort friends according to first or last name in settings.
Chat friends are sorted alphabetically.

Download Facebook 3.0 for iPhone

If you’re already using Facebook you can update your app through the App Store, or you can click here to download Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone.

Loving the new Facebook iPhone App? Share your thoughts on it in the comments!

Deposit Checks from iPhone with USAA Deposit@Mobile

Hans — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:11:40 +0000

Whenever you get a check, you always need to go to your bank to deposit it. USAA mobile plans to change that with a new update to it’s free USAA mobile iPhone App. USAA Mobile has 7.2 million customers, and out of these 7.2 million customers one million use the USAA mobile iPhone app to manage their bank account.

USAA plans to update it’s iPhone app to allow depositing checks through your iPhone. With USAA Mobile’s Deposit@Mobile feature, customers can simply take a picture of their check from the iPhone and deposit their checks to their bank account. In most cases the check is depositted immediately. Customers don’t need to take the check to the bank, and USAA suggests that they void the check or discard it. USAA Mobile is the first and the only bank to have this feature.

You can see a demo of the USAA Deposit@Mobile feature in the following video:

[via NYTimes.com]

iTunes Store Now Available in Mexico

Hans — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:54:17 +0000

The iTunes store and the App Store are both officially available in Mexico now! Hola Mexicans, and welcome to the iTunes store.

The iTunes store in Mexico features Mexican artists including Paulina Rubio, Vincente, Fernández, and Zoé and a wide range of interneational artists including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and many more. Most songs are priced at 12 pesos and albums at 120 pesos.

Download iTunes 8.2.1 in Mexico

The iTunes Store in Mexico is available for both Mac and PC users. iTunes 8.2.1 can be downloaded from http://www.itunes.com/mexico. iTunes purchases require a valid credit card number and a valid billing address or an official iTunes Gift Card.

[via Apple]