Hijinks Inc.

Category: Apple

  • Adikus grabs Pool cue, doffs money hat.

    In a sudden and somewhat surprising move, indie developer Adikus has taken their aptly titled Pool sim for the iPhone and iPod Touch to the consumer market. With the upgrade to version 2.1 they have added a $9.00 price tag.

    Adikus has recently partnered with RiP Dev, a software dev and distribution house. From their website:

    Since the game continues to evolve and be improved, it is now being distributed by RiP Dev (www.ripdev.com), one of the largest software houses for the iPhone.
    Adikus.com will continue developing the game while RiP Dev will provide the customer support for it.

    Adikus’ only other project is a Backgammon port for the iPhone, which is currently still a freeware release.

  • VLC Hits the iPhone

    Heck. Freakin’. Yes.

    VLC is one of the greatest pieces of media playing software around and it has been successfully ported to the iPhone!

    Currently vlc4iphone is only been released to a select group of beta testers (ie. people who’ve given this guy money), but hopefully there will be a more public beta release soon.

    Codec support is limited to MPEG / MPG, AVI, MP3. However, the developer (zodttd) is planning on adding support for FLAC, OGG, and is also looking into supporting VCD, DivX, WMA, WMV.

  • 10.6 Snow Leopard

    Word on the street is Apple is already hard at work on Snow Leopard, the successor to Leopard.

    According to sources:

    Snow Leopard is currently on track to come out during next January’s Macworld, and it will not contain major OS changes. Instead, the release is heavily focused on performance and nailing down speed and stability.

    Snow Leopard will be an Intel only release.

  • 3G iPhone Scandal

    Supposed 3G iPhone Maybe scandal isn’t the right word, but it comes close.

    TUAW is reporting not only that the supposed leaked iPhone picture shown to the left is real, but that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will not be shipping at WWDC. Okay…does this mean the firmware upgrade won’t be available right away from existing iPhone users, but that it will still be shipping on the new 3G iPhone?

    If the leaked image turns out to be real, what are your thoughts?

  • Free iPod touch (for students)

    Looks like the rumors were true! Apple announced today that they will be offering students a free iPod touch or iPod Nano with the purchase of a Mac computer (Mac Mini excluded of course).

    My question is simple, why would you ever pick an iPod Nano over an iPod touch?