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iCosta is system integerated input system for iPhone. This release is version 1.0.3, which supports iPhone with firmware 1.0.x, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. It works on iPod, too.

New features introduced by this release:
1. Improved association char dict.
2. Support firmware 1.1.2 from this release.
3. Candidate popup, you can move the finger in candidate area to change selection, now.
4. Restructure the publish system, the source for Installer (apptapp) is http://iphone.freecoder.org/rep/ now. All input methods are collected in category Localization, the package name and description is much more meaningful.

Currently, it provides PinYin (simplified and traditional), WuBi86(simplified), WuBi98(simplified) and Cangjie(traditional).

Though only Chinese input methods are supported at the moment, iCosta system has no limitation built in. It is easy to add new input method if it uses english letter only for encoding and there is no copyright or patent trouble.

The team accepts donations from TaoBao and PayPal.

Customize is a suite of customization tools for the iPhone.

Changes:

Added a button to toggle hiding applications.
Added ability to choose number of icons on the dock.
Added “preset” capabilities, which allow quick reordering.
Fixed bug that caused crash on iPod Touch.
Fixed bug that caused crash on startup.

Block Puzzle, a new native iPhone game from Soneso has shown up on Installer from the STE repository. The main objective of the game is to move the red block out of the box with 3 varying levels of difficulty.

Thanks to http://www.iphoneskinning.com/ for the news!

This application basically parses your SMS messages and displays all mms notifications. Selecting one logs you into viewmymessages.com without having to type in the random message id and password.

This is an very alpha applicat, use at own risk!

NSB finished the first cut at a port of Classic Empire to the iPhone. It can be downloaded at: http://ixionstudios.com/files/iEmpire.zip

This is currently a straight port of the VMS version of empire from way WAY back, so some of the features from the more modern versions aren’t included.

“UO gpSP Kai” is an unofficial enhancement of exophase’s Gameboy Advance emulator gpSP.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org and http://www.e-lation.net for the news.

Mollusk has release a new Pocket PC game. It’s still a work in progress, but can be already downloaded.

Description:

Pipes is a classic in the puzzle world.

Select one of the 6 difficulty levels (actually 12 as for each you can activate wrap mode, making it MUCH harder…) and try to light up all the flowers…

Turn the pipes by clicking on them, and try to bring water throughout the whole board in as little time as possible.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

DGGC92 comes up with some Lua stuff. playPSP contains 2 programs – a pong game and a pixel fixer.

maxthebest comes up with his second homebrew application, this time it’s a Fibonacci calculator. It allows you to compute Fibonacci number on your PSP and saves it under ms0:/fibonacci.txt

maxthebest updated his security application from yesterday.

Changes:

Corrected the speed of the letters (I slowed it down because it was way too fast!)
Changed the name of the password file : now it doesn’t really look like a password file
Corrected (At least it wortks on my PSP) the bug of the theme, which hid the password in the xmb
Now the prx checks if there is a password file or not, if there isn’t, the prx doesn’t ask the password anymore.
Now the password is encrypted in the file (not very hard to uncrypt but that’s enough for your brothers or children…)