pho has released a virtual keyboard techdemo for Nintendo’s Wii.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_vkeyboard-0-1_1036847

This application allows you to read large Text (.txt,.text), Palm Doc (.pdb), Mobipocket (.pdb,.prc,.mobi), Plucker (.pdb), HTML (.htm,.html), and FB2 files quickly and efficiently on the iPhone. This application lacks many of the advanced features of ruBooks or Books.app, but it can quickly load and display large text files that currently cause Books.app or other UI Text View/Web View based apps problems.

Note: Books.app http://code.google.com/p/iphoneebooks/ and ruBooks http://colel.info/rubooks/ provide a formatted display of text and images with hyperlink support, fonts, colors, etc. If you are willing to break up your book into smaller chapters they may also be options.

Changes:

Adds a first pass at search … it always searches from the current position and the search term will be at the start of the text if it is found.
Click on the Magnifying glass to get the keyboard and search field
click on the text area to make the search/keyboard go away without having to do a search
Type in your search text and select, SEARCH. The last search string is remembered, so you can do multiple searches with a few clicks.
If the string is found, the text window will appear with the found text at the start of the page.
If the string is not found in the remaining text,a message will appear above.
Fixes (I hope) rotation issues when you have a dialog/alertsheet displayed
Finally fixes the GBK/GB2312 encoding issue … make sure you select “GBK/GB2312/CP936 (Simplified Chinese)” for encoding … (EUC) won’t work. I put it at the top to make sure people notice it.
New cache files and icons … Cache files are stored in Unicode, so as long as it was read in properly once, you can change the encoding and they will still be read in correctly. The down side is that if you set the encoding wrong and read in a file, the garbage is stored in the cache, so you’ll have to change the encoding, delete the cache file, and reopen in order to make a cache file that is valid. If a file has a cache file, only the cache file will be visible. I’m debating whether or not this is a good idea … let me know if you have an opinion.
Holding down vol key will scroll once, wait and then repeat quickly if you keep holding down the vol key. The initial pause is to “de-bounce” the key and prevent multiple scrolls from one press
First pass at being able to turn volume button scrolling on/off
Vol buttons will always control volume when not on the text screen. When on text screen vol buttons will only scroll if turned on via the settings page (set to off, line, or page scroll)
“Title/Info” page now displays the percentage rather than the file name. The file name is now displayed in a smaller font above the “title/info” bar.
New icon thanks to the incomparable Wolfgang Kurtz – Thanks!
Added back the “Ignore Single LF” option. Warning: This can really slow down smooth scrolling up if there are not many LFs in the doc. If you use it, make sure there really are a lot of Line Feeds that need to be stripped, or consider using the page up/down taps instead of scrolling. I’ll try to improve the performance of scrolling up with this option, but there are a lot of other high priority issues, so for now just turn it off if it annoys you.
Localization fixes
New Localizations Greek (Pericles), French (pieroxy), German (Wolfgang), and Russian(?????? ????????)
Fix Right Margin – text should more or less go to the screen edge (depending on pad and char width)
Fix font size 32 drawing bug is now fixed
Better (or at least different) rules for breaking long lines
Fix case where text in a block would sometimes disappear

http://code.google.com/p/iphonetextreader/

D.K. of Secret Alpha Base has released a runner up of the recently released platformer game “Kaiten Patissier”.

The download is rather hughe with 15 MB, a download is available in the PDRoms GP2x Download sections too (see: //files/gp2x/ ).

http://maglog.jp/alpha-secret-base/Article317768.html

This is a generic engine for simulation of Game & Watch-like games, created by Hitnrun, starting with ports of the Madrigal Game & Watch Simulators ( http://www.madrigaldesign.it/sim/ ), with permission. It is designed to run anywhere SDL is available, with emphasis in handheld machines.

As for the Madrigal simulators, the simulation is aimed to be as close as possible to the real machine, simulating on-off, ACL mode, time modes, etc. Alarm and chrono modes only display default data, as there is not enough motivation for its simulation. Currently missing but in the TODO list is hiscore keeping.

Changes:

– 3 more games – CONDOR, PANCAKE and ROLLER COASTER

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,73,2587

Use two Wiimotes and an infrared pointer to make an interactive whiteboard. This is a port of Johnny Chung Lee’s Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote to the Nintendo Wii.

Video tutorial: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbe7XGsvQ1M

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/WiiWhiteboard

The game is almost identical to the original, with same levels (10 random out of 100 available), except here you cannot use the stylus for obvious reasons, but it can take advantage of the wiimote! The goal of the game is to make the frog jump over all the tree trunks. You can use the Gamecube pad, the Wiimote, or the Wiimote d-pad. The only avaiable direction the frog can move are forward, left and right (no diagonals), with no jump distance limit! Remember that the frog cannot jump backward, and pressing B on the Wiimote (or A in the Gamecube pad) to restart the level! Clean the stage to go to the next level (they are 10) or press (+) or START to go to the next one. This trick is only avaiable if you make the so called “konami trick” (you know what is that, don’t you?) at the titlescreen, (with the exception “B” and “A” button are mapped to (-) and (+) on the Wiimote).

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Scogger

Chui has ported “Humphrey” an Allegro game over to the Dreamcast.

Humphrey is our story’s protagonist, and you must help himp to paint the floor of all his house’s forty rooms. To paint each floor tile you must step on it, but try to do thid withouth falling on a hole, die becouse stepping on electrified floor, and not becoming mad if any of your fans touches you! To avoid this, your best resource are your jumping skills: Humphrey can jump long distances and even maneuver on the air while jumping. Jumping like a mad flea is usually a good tactic, if you have a bit of care with the poisonous flies that wander arround, that is! Luckily enough, you will find various special tiles that will help you a lot if you get them.

Thanks to http://www.dreamcast.es for the news.

http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/

A simple web-server for the Wii. Still is very early stages of development and at present can only display a built in test page.

Changes:

Front SD html only, loading support XD (finally !!)

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Wii_Web_Server

This application allows you to read large Text (.txt,.text), Palm Doc (.pdb), Mobipocket (.pdb,.prc,.mobi), Plucker (.pdb), HTML (.htm,.html), and FB2 files quickly and efficiently on the iPhone. This application lacks many of the advanced features of ruBooks or Books.app, but it can quickly load and display large text files that currently cause Books.app or other UI Text View/Web View based apps problems.

Changes:

Adds a first pass at search … it always searches from the current position and the search term will be at the start of the text if it is found.
Click on the Magnifying glass to get the keyboard and search field
click on the text area to make the search/keyboard go away without having to do a search
Type in your text to search fo and select, SEARCH. The last search string is remembered, so you can do multiple searches with a few clicks.
If the string is found, the text window will appear
If the string is not found in the remaining text,a message will appear above.
You can supply guesses as to what you think the other new icon is for 😉

http://code.google.com/p/iphonetextreader/

iPray native Prayer Times, Athan/Azan and Qibla direction software for iPhones and iPod touch (previously known as iAthan). Get daily prayer (salat/salah/namaz) timings for your local city along with Qibla direction, distance and athan (azaan/azan) now on iPhone and iPod Touch!

http://www.guidedways.com/mobile/ipray/download_ipray.php