squimmy has been busy at work on a game called iCopter. It’s lovingly ripped off from the helicopter game you all probably know.

http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48225

If you’re a fan of Chinese Chess, head on over to iPhone Cake and check out some of their offerings. Their Installer source is: http://iphonecake.com/src/all

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

http://www.iphoneskinning.com/2008/03/chinese-chess.html

The main objective of WeSpot is to try to spot the differences between the two pictures. Easy peasy premise but the game is actually quite challenging.

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

http://www.iphoneskinning.com/2008/03/wespot-can-you-spot-the-difference.html

KARAJAN is an easy to use music and ear training application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords and scales with detailed statistics. At the moment there are three built in instruments, more will come in further versions.

Every musician who wants to improve his/her pitch recognition skills. KARAJAN is a good friend for first year music theory students whether they are in junior high, high school, or college, but it is also very useful for every hobby musician.

Because KARAJAN is free, fast and you can use it everywhere where your iPhone or iPod touch is with you. No desktop or labtop required anymore.

Features:

Intervals
Chords
Scales
3 build in instruments
3 levels
Detailed statistic function
Reverse play
4 different play modes

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

http://www.holeg.de/index.html

A new app called Capture has been released. This utility is used to capture the screenshots on the iphone. It saves the files to camera roll (var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE).

http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63391

Guitarist is a virtual instrument for your iPhone.

Features:

* Unique “hammer-on” metaphor simplifies solo playing by removing the need to independently fret and pick a string.
* A complete guitar fretboard (including open strings) to the 15th fret.
* Multi-touch. Up to 5 strings can be played at once.
* Each note is a separately recorded sample, for maximum quality.
* Animated strings press down at your touch for visual feedback.
* Acoustic guitar patch included, with more options available in a later release.
* On-screen keyboard navigation allows you to easily move up and down the fretboard.
* Left handed stringing option.
* Various guitar tunings available with more to follow.

http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63371

iCopy is the first application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to copy and paste text and URL’s between web pages. You also have the option of emailing copied text or URL’s.

http://www.biocow.com/iCopy/

Quote:

The dev team has been using dual-booting to jailbreak the iPhone for several months now, however now that several more advanced techniques have been developed (many of which are still private), I thought it apropos to release this cool hack for those who would like to dual boot multiple versions of the iPhone software (or other OS’s) from their handset. It’s a neat little hack that I think might be useful for developers playing with 1.2.

[Read the full article at it’s release page]

http://iphone-dev.org/s5l8900:dualboot

Waves is a small toy for your apple iPhone or iPod touch. You can select a predefined image or your own wallpaper and you can touch the screen to generate some wave effect over the image.

http://gnese.free.fr/iPhone/Waves/

PuzzleManiak is a port of the marvelous Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection on Nintendo DS (originaly). All 27 games are ported on NDS: Tents, Dominosa, Mines, Bridges, Light Up (aka Akari), Pattern (aka Picross), Net (aka Netwalk), Untangle (aka Planarity), Sudoku (aka Solo), Galaxies, Slitherlink (aka Loopy), Blackbox, Mastermind (aka Guess), Map, Filling, Solitaire (aka Pegs), Sixteen, Fifteen, Slant, Rectangles, Netslide, Samegame, Unequal, Flip, Inertia, Twiddle and Pyramid (adaptation of Cube).

Release notes:

Version 0.2 is out, with 17 games integrated: Tents, Dominosa, Bridges, Light Up (aka Akari), Pattern (aka Picross), Net (aka Netwalk), Untangle (aka Planarity), Galaxies, Loopy (aka Slitherlink), Blackbox, Guess (aka Mastermind), Map, Slant, Rectangles, Netslide, Samegame, and Flip.

It had been successfully tested on iPod touch 1.1.1 and iPhone 1.1.3.

Todo list (should be available in version 1.0):

– Integration of all 27 games (10 remaining)
– Daily Challenge availability
– Scores sending

http://www.puzzlemaniak.com/blog/?p=250