The iPhone Dev Team has sorted how to unlock the latest firmware Apple has seeded to developers (240d), just a few days after it was released.

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Due to gray’s initial RCE of the baseband, and combined with a neutered bootloader, unlocking recent and future basebands has been reduced to a simple byte search.

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

http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116071

This is the first Handwriting Recognition IME on iPhone. Developed by Hanwang.com.cn for Chinese character input. Latin alphabet is supported too.

http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117831

MobileTwitter is an iPhone/iPod Touch client for Twitter.

Changes:

The Update View has been redesigned and moved. It is no longer on the button bar at the bottom of the screen, but exists on the top right corner of every view. Clicking the “Update” button will slide the update view down over your current view. No more mis-clicking on buttons while going for the spacebar.

Settings view reorganized, with new options

Enable/Disable secure connections. This was enabled by default under the hood, but some users are experiencing connection problems, disabling secure connections may help.

MobileTwitter now automatically checks for new @replies and direct messages, displaying the new number on the button bar for Messages. The “Messages” view has been updated to show this count, and also include the “>” arrow for each menu option. Any new @replies will show up with a blue sphere beside them (similar to MobileMail.app and new messages)

New menu option when tapping tweets: View user’s tweets. This loads the users 20 most recent tweets.

New springboard icon.

Black UI

Manual “Reload” button on each tab

Smaller font for tweets seems to help with fitting all the text in one box hopefully no more trailing “…”s on tweet texts.

Manually reloading a view will now make sure the view scrolls to the top

Public Timeline renamed to “Everyone” in accordance with Twitter.com changes

Many under the hood core changes.

http://blog.npike.net/

Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc … on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

– fixed small problem (repeat glitch at the end) related to FLAC decoder (thanks to ‘vectis’ for the remark/sample clip);
– added suport for FLAC files containing ID3 tags (these are currently ignored) (thanks to ‘vectis’ for the remark/sample clip);
– updated USB mass storage driver;

http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/

This game is similar NOIZ2SA (Yep, another shootemup!). The main menu allows you to choose from four different games modes and 10 levels with-in each game mode. Once you select which game mode and level you would like, just two finger tap to enter the game. You can move your little guy at the bottom by dragging it around. The objective of the game is to shoot the “thing” at the top without getting killed. You can two finger tap to set off bombs (they look more like shields to me!). The game play is smooth and the graphics are sweet!

Thanks to Brooke / http://www.appleiphoneschool.com for the news.

http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/04/14/rrootage-10/

Wiki2Touch is an open source wikipedia server/reader for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch.

Changes:

Template caching works without any change of rights now for firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4, too. If you’ve not modified anything in the past while using 0.60 together with firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4 you will see the articles now displayed much faster once the template is cached.

Support for #expr/#ifexpr parser functions. Have a look at articles like “2008? (the year 2008). Mainly all the links in the head area are computed by the use these new functions.
Preliminary math support: At least the text from the math-tags is extracted and displayed with a gray background for better readability and the math symbol “Pi” is displayed as the Greek symbol. Nothing else.

More than 30 changes for better rendering support. The changes covering smaller issues like to much spaces or line feeds, correct handling of headlines, reference lists and enumerations, up to the support of sometimes very complex templates (i.e. in the English edition articles like “Al Gore” or “George Washington”. And a bug which crashed the server was also removed.

http://code.google.com/p/wiki2touch/

Fring is a mobile VoIP application for iPhone’s.

http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=226

XtenDS allows you to make DS Games with an easy to use interface. All you have to do is combine your creativity, design and graphics skills and create a game with XtenDS 8. Prizes will be awarded to the two top entries.

Prizes:
1st Prize) Playstation 1 with Ridge Racer Revolution Game
2nd Prize) 1 GB MicroSD Card

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

http://www.invisionsoft.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?id=144

This is an early, but working, Asteroids game for Nintendo’s Wii, coded by aksommerville.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps

“GRRLIB Move The Pussy Demo” is a technical demo for Wii showing a picture with a cat, moving on the screen.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/MTP