We’ve just added a new theme to the Hijinks Repo, courtesy of one of our readers.
MonochromeSketch by Ed is now online, just refresh your sources to get it to show up.
Category: Apple
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iMac Refresh Due Next Week?
Geeksugar is reporting that Apple is set to unveil an update to their iMac lineup as early as next week, and other industry insiders seem to agree. The ever modest folks over at Geeksugar were very quick to point out that they did correctly predict the last MacBook/MacBook Pro refresh, so this has to be legit…
Details of what the update includes are merely speculaive at this point, but it would seem logically that they would include the new Penryn processors, as well as larger hard drives.
Guess we’ll find out for sure Tuesday.
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Shame On Facebook
After posting on how to run Facebook Chat from your Firefox sidebar, I got to thinking about the other potential usages of popout.php. More specifically, using it as a browser based chat client on the iPhone. Sadly though, Facebook has neglected to allow iPhone/iPod touch users the ability to run Facebook Chat from Mobile Safari. Lame!
Anyhow, with my limited programming skills I’m toying with a way around this, but don’t expect any miracles since I don’t really plan on using Facebook Chat all that often.
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Creating a Theme for the iPhone
Reader Ed sent me a message on Facebook asking how to go about creating a theme for the iPod touch/iPhone. Here’s a quick tutorial.
First, an overview of what images you’ll need to create.
As you can see listed above, you’ll need to create Dock.png, StatusBar.png and Wallpaper.png. As well as an Icons folder. It should be noted that none of these are absolutely required, you can easily make a theme without a Wallpaper.png, etc.Create a folder named after your theme, then store the files listed above in said folder.
More details after the jump.
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Hijinks Reviews: Tris
Pros: Touch screen controls actually improve this game. Closest to a perfect Tetris port if we ever saw one.
Cons: While easy to use, at the very high levels the touch controls aren’t quite as fast as the old D-pad.
Developer: Noah Witherspoon (Two Finger Play)
Version Reviewed: 0.6
Platform: iPhone and iPod Touch
Ever since the days of playing Tetris on my old black and white Gameboy I’ve held a special place in my heart for blocks falling from the sky. And interestedly enough, I haven’t seen anyone make improvements to that D-Pad and A and B buttons I used all those years ago. I can honestly say that I didn’t expect to see a good Tetris port on the iPhone/Touch. Not that I didn’t expect to see Tetris, but I thought they would try to overlay buttons on the screen (a’la Yeti3D) and things would just get awkward. Thankfully, they didn’t. Full review after the jump. (more…)