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Category: News

  • AT&T Looking to Offer $100 Femtocells?

    Sweet mother, AT&T might be looking to suck just a little bit less by offering femtocells to end users for as little as $100. As a reluctant AT&T user I would be willing to drop the extra $100 to improve my cell reception around the house.

    According to a report floating around the internet, AT&T has plans to move up to 7 million femtocells acquired from UK-based firm ip.access. Of course, as the story inevitably goes, nobody is admitting to anything.

    Couple the rollout of femtocells with AT&T taking over wireless hot spots at all Starbucks locations (formerly managed by T-Mobile) and suddenly AT&T has a nice little framework for a fraction of the normal deployment costs.

  • Run Facebook Chat in the Sidebar [Firefox]

    I could care less, but Facebook launched their GoogleTalk clone chat utility the other day. And apparently, just like GoogleTalk you can run it in the sidebar in Firefox. Woot.

    The upside to this is now you can chat with all your friends without having to open up Facebook, and you’ll be free to browse other websites while chatting.

    To add the Facebook chat to your Firefox sidebar, press Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up the Bookmarks Organizer.

    Go to Organize -> New Bookmark and type the following address: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

    Also mark the box that says “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”.

  • 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.
    Images Required
    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…)

  • iPhone SDK Beta 4

    Hot on the heels of their earnings call, Apple released the fourth version of the iPhone SDK beta. The SDK now supports OpenGL ES for the iPhone simulator.

    The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.

    You can grab the update by logging into the iPhone Developer Center and clicking the download link.