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ipod and itunes to go wireless soon?

filed under: media players | mobile tech

Apple September 5 Invitation

The news of Apple’s upcoming September 5th press event has the world abuzz with rumors and speculation of what new goodies will be coming from the iPod folks.

MacDailyNews claims that a reliable (single) source says that new iPods will be including Wi-Fi capabilities, and that Apple could possibly roll out their oft-rumored wireless iTunes store…

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August 29th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

iphone accelerometer hacked?

filed under: hacks-mods | mobile tech

iPhone Accelerometer Hack

A hacker claims to have written custom software which directly accesses the accelerometer on Apple’s iPhone. He’s put together a brief video clip which shows off some really fun use of the motion-sensing capabilities…

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August 28th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

iphone recognizes speech courtesy of voicesignal

filed under: media players | mobile tech

VoiceSignal VTunes for iPhone

The engineers over at VoiceSignal have put together a prototype voice recognition application for the iPhone that makes it capable what I’ve been dreaming that Apple would add to its iPods for years. The demo application, called “VTunes” shows off voice-based selection of songs…

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August 23rd, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

mame running on iphone

filed under: hacks-mods | retro | video games

iPhone MAME Emulator

It was bound to happen sooner or later. A developer going by the screen name Kaisersoze has successfully ported an initial build of MAME to run on Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone version is based on the SDL version of the emulator, which was originally designed to run on Ubuntu Linux…

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August 20th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nintendo game on iphone, without a hack

filed under: mobile tech | retro | video games

nintendo duck hunt on iphone

Sure, it’s old news by now that you can install a Nintendo NES emulator on a hacked iPhone and play classic games. But now, thanks to the hard work of a very industrious web developer, we can play at least one Nintendo classic WITHOUT any special software or hacks…

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August 9th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nes emulator running on iphone

filed under: hacks-mods | mobile tech | video games

Apple iPhone NES Emulator

Now that hackers have started to figure out how to run homebrew code on the iPhone, an early build of an emulator for the classic NES gaming system has shown up on the Google Code website today.

The emulator allows play of games from Nintendo’s 8-bit console using a port of the InfoNES core system…

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August 6th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

the iphone meets the xbox 360 (sorta.)

filed under: media players | video games

iPhone Xbox 360 Skin by DecalGirl

If you happen to have an Apple iPhone and also a fan of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, you can dress up (or is that overdress?) your shiny new iPhone with this new skin from DecalGirl…

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August 6th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

photo of the day: iphone, meet windows

filed under: just plain fun

Windows iPhone Kiosk

Apparently, those iPhone demo kiosks in AT&T stores are wolves in sheep’s clothing…

Here’s an interesting thought: When you turn a Windows XP machine on it’s side, does it become an Apple? Apparently, these kiosks are really running on Dell machines and Samsung displays…

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August 2nd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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