If you liked Asteroids, you will love Meteor Blitz. If you didn’t, maybe not so much. Meteor Blitz is Asteroids for Century 21. Instead of white line drawings against the blank cathode ray background of deep space, we get gorgeous, crystal clear million-color graphics and seamlessly smooth animation. It’s a space shooter game, the objective of which is to blow stuff up before you collide with it or get blown up by hostile ships. Two ghostly joysticks direct the action. The right stick controls speed, boost, and vector; the left controls weaponry and offers a choice of fire, ice or the green stuff that the aliens shot at Will Smith in Independence Day. If you want to play your own audio, go for it. I chose New Morning by Placebo because its ominous, repetitive drone seemed perfect for the visual environment. The rules are simple: if it moves, shoot it, smash it into chunks, then blow up the chunks. Those of you working your way up in a bank or a tech firm will catch on right away. And to complete that analogy, whatever you destroy leaves a corpse in the form of a bright yellow ring that can be used to buy ship and weapon upgrades or to unlock other world environments. At the end of each phase The Boss shows up, and yes, The Boss too must die.
Everything about Meteor Blitz is superb, from the graphics and audio to the BMW I-Drive style control sticks. The problem is, for me anyway, there is no payoff. Destroying stuff just brings more and bigger stuff to destroy. Cool stuff, like space snakes and pointy spacecraft, but after a while I want to land. The default planet is a green, Earth-like place with lots of oceans and continents. I should be able to destroy some enemy ships, pulverize a few meteors, then head for a spaceport bar where I can pound a pint or two of Rigellian Wormhole Ale and maybe start a fight with some of the locals. Bustin’ space rocks constantly just starts to seem like prison. Also, just like Asteroids, the ship remains stationary and the background moves. This almost gives the illusion of flight, but mostly it feels like I’m glued to a point trying to dodge stuff that is coming at me.
Still, Meteor Blitz easily scores 5 out of 5. It’s a brilliant space shooter game and it’s well worth a buck ninety-nine.
Dolphin experience is a strange app. It’s not a bad app, it’s just that there’s not much to do. Basically Dolphin experience is like having a couple of pet dolphins. You feed them, play with them, interact with them, and that’s pretty much it. They never die or get sick, so there is no goal that you are trying to reach. There are a lot of pros to this app, but more cons. I’ll start with the cons.
First off, most apps like this are a lot more fun. The main problem with this app is that it’s too boring. The only things you can do are watch the dolphins, feed them, have them play with a ball, and jump through hoops. Trust me, it gets pretty boring after a while. Another big problem with the app is that there are no directions. You are left to figure out how to do everything by your self. All though there’s not that much to learn, it would still be helpful. For example, the app summary on the app store says that you can perform 18 different tricks with the dolphins, but I only see two tricks that you can do.
Overall, the app lacks involvement. There’s not much you can do but feed, play and interact with them. Now to the pros. One thing I immediately noticed about the app was the great graphics. The graphics are some of the best I’ve seen on the iPod touch. You can also choose from 3 environments to play with the dolphins. And at each environment you can choose from 4 different times of the day to play with them. So really you are getting 12 environments, because each environment is different, at different times of the day. The sounds are great to, mimicking real dolphin cries and water sounds.
The app also loads really fast, which is a surprise because the graphics are so good. Overall though, I think the cons outweigh the pros. There just isn’t a lot to do in this app. You watch them, feed them, and play with them in two different ways. Maybe if you really like dolphins you’ll like this app, but otherwise, I think you’re better off keeping your $1.99.
If you've been looking to tether your iPhone to your laptop or even a desktop computer since the old tethering trick stopped working, you are in luck! A new jailbroken app will now enable tethering on any iPhone (iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3G[S]) on firmware on any 3.1.x firmware.
1. Make sure you've jailbroken. (How do I do that?)
2. Open Cydia, tap on the Search tab at the bottom and type MyWi and tap on MyWi.
3. At the top right corner, tap Install then Confirm. When it's done you'll need to tap on Reload Springboard.
4. Once it's done installing, go to your home screen and find a new application called RockApp. Open it.
5. At the bottom, tap Manage, then tap Rock ID, then Create New RockID.
6. Create a new account.
7. In the What's New tab you should now see an update for MyWi. After you install the update, you will need to do a Soft Restart.
8. Open up MyWi and at the bottom turn on USB and Bluetooth Tethering. Then restart your iPhone.
9. Now open your Settings application. Go to General, Network, and Internet Tethering.
10. Turn on Internet Tethering.
There you go! Now all you need to do is plug your iPhone into your computer and select your iPhone from your list of networks and you should have an internet connection from your wireless data provider.
Please contact your wireless data provider to see if your phone plan covers data charges. Some providers charge substantial charges for this and they may incur while using the guide above.
ColorSplash is one of two simple and powerful photo editing apps from Pocket Pixels, Inc. Like its companion, Juxtaposer, it’s a one-trick pony. ColorSplash converts any graphic to a gray scale overlay that can be swiped away to selectively paint your photo with color. Although it comes with four detailed tutorial movies, using it is nearly intuitive. Choose a color photograph from your library. The photograph is imported into the app, where a grayscale copy is made and overlaid on the original. Then you get to the fun part: pick an area to colorize, tap it, and the gray vanishes to let the true color come shining through. ColorSplash seems to read your mind, stopping the color at the edges of the selection. For details, spread your fingers to enlarge your work and pinch them to contract. An infinite undo tool erases mistakes. Use the accelerometer to instantly change the view to portrait or landscape. Controls at the bottom edge make it easy to switch from colorizing to graying with a tap. A zoom-pan tool turns off the editing functions, but once you get the hang of working in the app it’s easier to just use the two-finger move to pan, and spread or pinch movements to zoom. Both color and grayscale functions can use fader brushes that allow just a touch of color to show through. For areas that show very little contrast with the background layer, tap the red dot and your colorizing brush spreads a red fog that helps you define boundaries. The fog is gone when the finished work is saved. Sessions can be saved to continue later, and finished work can be posted to Flickr, Facebook or Twitter.
Blackra1n released by GeoHotz is the first official 3.x.x firmware jailbreak for Windows and Mac. It is also the first jailbreak for iPod touch 3rd Generation! This is quick one-click jailbreak. No need choose settings or go into DFU or Restore mode. Just plug it in and hit "Make it ra1n" on your computer.
Devices Supported: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G [S], iPod touch 1st Gen, iPod touch 2nd Gen, and iPod touch 3rd Gen
Computer Supported: Windows and Mac
Firmware Supported: 3.1.2, 3.1.1, 3.1.0, and 3.0
Necessary Downloads: Blackra1n and IPSW for your device file
Exceptions: If your iPhone is unlocked (does not use an official carrier), do not jailbreak. iPod touch 3rd Gen is a tethered (what does that mean?) jailbreak.
Downloads
Blackra1n
or
IPSW File
To find you IPSW file, go here.
On the second drop-down bar, find your firmware file that matches with your device. Refer to the examples below.
iPhone 2G- Find iPhone 2G (3.1.2/7D11)
iPhone 3G- Find iPhone 3G (3.1.2/7D11)
iPhone 3G[S]- Find iPhone 3G S (3.1.2/7D11)
iPod touch 1st Gen- Find iPhone 1G (3.1.2/7D11)
iPod touch 2ns Gen- Find iPod touch 2G (3.1.2/7D11)
iPod touch 3rd Gen- Find iPod touch 3G (3.1.2/7D11)
How to Jailbreak
If you are having problems, you may want to wait for the Dev Team's Redsn0w jailbreak but that is coming in an unknown amount of time.
