Is the next generation of iPod Touches getting a camera upgrade? But not only the camera but as well as a integrated microphone. Tech sites all across the web believe so. According to Wired.com:
A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.
This is really not suprising me as I could see the iPod touch getting this soon. Why? Well because when you think about it iPod touch owners are held off from purchases in Camera Apps, or applications such as Skype because users would have to buy yet another $30 Headset with mic. I'm sure Apple would like some more money coming in with iPod touch users now being able to purchase more apps.
What else could the microphone mean? Well the iPod touch could also be getting the Voice Control feature as well. This would not be a iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 3rd gen only exclusive feature.
Last year the iPod touch 2nd gen came out around Sepetember, we can only wait and cross our fingers to see what Apple has planned for us.
In this video I look at the Lady Gaga Tap Tap App, try saying that 5 times fast!! haha Enjoy the Demo and video thanks SUBSCRIBE and rate 5 stars please
If I remember too I'm going to try and do a post weekly on Apps that go on sale and post them here. The ones that are of most importance will be the popular apps that are normally like 10 dollars and such.
Also a app I recommend if your a penny saver is: App Miner
App Miner helps save you every penny you can on Apps, if you have room in your iPhone I say download its pretty useful
This post is just to tell you that the price has dropped yet again saving you only a buck but hey in this recession it counts right?! haha Enjoy and check out the review below
Who ever would’ve thought that the Terminator would be on your iPhone? Not me, I first saw that it was coming out and I was like wow, this is gonna be awesome! Well I got the app and played with it. Did I Like it? Let’s find out what I thought about it.
Look/Feel of the app:
From looks it’s really cool. I saw the trailer that was put out by gameloft and thought wow this is gonna be better then Hero of Sparta which I loved btw! So obviously it was much anticipated for me. I did like the graphics work that had been put into the app because it was a little bit better than hero of Sparta all of the T-“x” looked amazing and pretty real, I know its probably the best that the iPhone can get graphics-wise.
Storyline:
Whoever wrote the storyline for this, pretty much shouldn’t be working with games anymore. I love terminator but Holy Jesus was this game short! It seriously can be beaten within a day if the time is put in. It took me a total time of 60 hours or less last time I checked (this was on and off play every other day at like 30 min each session). I mean I can pretty much remember the whole storyline just thinking about it. It was decent and I guess makes sense being at the $6 price, because Hero of Sparta was longer and of course $10. Of course as the game goes on your get harder T’s and stuff.
What Do You Get To Do?
In the game you have a gun and a button to shoot it pretty much. If you’ve ever played H.O.S (Hero of Sparta) I’m sure you remember that you got all these cool weapons and got to do all these attacks where you’d weaken them, then you would have to hit a series of buttons to do a special combo attack. Not with Terminator, you just get a gun, sometimes 1 or 2 more special ones and kill the robots who really aren’t that hard when you just shoot their heads off (main point I know) but make it a little more challenging.
Another part of the game you get to use machine guns already built but it’s only like 5 or so times in the whole game. But it is only used to clear out certain parts and areas where there’s a lot of robots. In one part where you fight the Harvester you get to drive a car and shoot the machine gun as well. It was probably the most entertaining part of the game.
There’s also little parts where you get to do “hacking” YAY!.. not so much, its called hacking but all your doing is passing the ball over the green circuits and getting the ball in the hole. You pass over the red you start over, simple right?
Also, when you beat the first normal difficulty you get to play as The Terminator but more as a Arnold terminator where your still fighting with the Resistance (good side for you non-termies LOL). I also liked this, good one game loft
How does the game run?
HOLY SON OF A GUN is there lag in this thing! I swear every time I started a new level there was lag or slowness of it. Sometimes I died just because the screen didn’t register my taps! My god I hated that so much. If anyone has a difference experience please lemme know. I free’d memory up, rebooted my phone nothing helped. I hope there’s an update to fix it cause I was pretty mad about the game all in all. There was one part where it totally messed me up, ill post a screenshot along with the others but it’s not gonna make much of a difference because I could just have done it but I didn’t. I was walking around and it froze for a little then started back up again but as if I was still moving in a certain direction. Talk about wanting to pull your hair out lol. It should’ve been a 3 dollar app.
My conclusion?
Well I loved the graphics, probably the best next to need for speed underground, but Idk if it needs to be played on a iPod touch 2nd gen (it has a higher processor than the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G) or what but im not joking when I say it did lag a lot. With a update with a fix yes worth it, especially for the crippled storyline, but that and the slowness was the only problems. I did love the extra difficulty to play as the Terminator as well =D
This application review is on a Cydia App called Supreme Preferences. If you just read the first sentence and have no clue what cydia is, you my friend are missing out. You need to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch. Now instead of making the 234,453,455,534 post on how to jailbreak I’ll just put a link on the video how-to, its simple don’t be scared.
Supreme Preferences gives you about twice the power of settings on your device, from your phone to your calculator application. It gives more options to change the stock applications as well as some cydia ones. You can change your safari settings, mail, iPod, everything.
Let’s start off by saying the app and the changes your allowed to make to them.
Well Supreme Preferences, when installed, gives you your own section in the stock settings applications. It also changes the icon to a more noticeable settings icon. Supreme preferences allows the Push option to give you anywhere from 1 minutes to 30 minutes, then hourly, 3 hours, 6 hours, every 12, daily, and the stock manually one. From there, there are no changes in anything else. The rest of the settings are in supreme preferences.
When you click on supreme preferences, you are giving the following options to change:
Applications
Home
iPod
Mobile Substrate
Status Bar
System
And About
When you click on applications, you are given options for
Mail, Calendars
Phone + SMS
Photos
Safari
App Store
+ More
In the mail setting, not much is added but disabling the background mail process that is automatically set, Phone and Mail are the only ones that are constantly running on the iPhone. Signature is there as well as allowing customization of how many messages you want, you click and the keyboard comes up to allow the user to enter in whatever number he/she pleases. And Calendars are just there for options for when the user’s day is to begin and end.
Phone + SMS pane allows EDGE editing and international assist. International assist automatically adds the correct prefix to the US numbers when dialing from abroad. Dim in call, which should be set, and Lock after call which is pretty nice. For SMS, options for compose new Message, Show the SMS preview, and a SMS alert, not too much here. Photos is the same as the stock settings that are given because not much can be changed. In Safari“Find in Page” is an option that adds a bookmark to work as the “find” you would on your mac or PC. Animated Images are also a switch as well as shrink images to fit, and display images. For the App Store settings all that’s there is to save the password for either App Store or the iTunes store so you don’t have to enter it everytime. This is great, but also bad if you have the friends that don’t know what they’re doing and while you were playing rockband they charge up to 30 bucks in apps installing and buying. So think about it before you hit that “On” switch.
In More you are allowed to switch Calculator settings, restore, and for Maps you can have Live Search and Show Traffic On/Off. In stocks you can show percentages and YouTube just shows what you last searched for.
In Home settings you are allowed to change the Home Button to any application you choose, maybe you text a lot so have the Home Button set to texts, Maybe you take pictures a lot so set it to Camera, have Cydia? Any Cydia apps and app store apps are available as well as your own custom ones. You can also disable the Apple Boot Logo. I’ll have a tutorial on how to change your boot logo coming up soon. You can also hide the battery on charge and choose to reflect the dock icons.
iPod is basic, it’s most of the same settings that you get in the stock settings.
In Mobile Substrate you get Hide Icon Labels and Prevent App Deletion which is great if you sometimes have lag on the home screen and you start tapping every and you hit the X button.
In Status Bar you get to change your carrier name, change the color wheel (loading) have fake time shortcuts, change the time to say something else and also a big thing is to have you Wi-Fi, Signal, and battery percentage in NUMBER format instead of pictures.
System, our last and final pane comes with options to control brightness which was just updated, auto dim, auto lock, custom dim and lock, and whether to disable it or not. You can also have it disable respring so that no apps such as winterboard resprings and so the user manually does it. It then gives you options for keyboard which is stock as well. And then gives you Logs for power, disk space and cannot open apps.
There’s also a touch pane but I refuse to test, as it says messing with it could result in restoring your device, and I don’t have time for the risk, the about tab just gives info on the Application
Be sure to follow on twitter for more application and news on my blog @iRockish
Terminator Salvation is a game by gameloft, look at my two previous posts about it you can find information there. The main idea about this post is to tell you guys that the price dropped from 10 bucks to 6, save about half right now, and buy it.
A review on my part is coming up, I have not fully played the game to tell you but it is worth 6 dollars in my opinion
This app review on a twitter application called “Twitterboost”. The application for your iPhone/iPod Touch is $1.99 in the App Store. It’s a nice little application for all the twitter freaks out there!!! Lol like me.
Twitterboost has a nice-a** logo in my opinion lol. Looks like an eagle or big a** bird, but still has a nice clean look, the application has that same nice look too. When you first open it up you have to put it your twitter user info. Then what it does is takes your info and finds other people that have the same information or interests as you. So for me, it found a lot of tech related people, and some other ones that didn’t really “fit me” but hey! Every automated search thing has little mistakes right?
There is no lag with it, it gives you the username and picture of the person and at the bottom it gives you an option to either follow that person or hit next to go onto the next person if you don’t like them (meanie!). Now there is one thing, it only lets you choose from the people who are using twitterboost or at least that’s what I’m getting. Cause I only have about 30 people to choose from and every time I go in there I get the same people so I go in there every 2 weeks or so. When you hit follow you are automatically taken to the next person.
The app inside is blue, take a look at the screenshots. It’s a nice sleek interface just like that icon. I got the application because I was new to twitter and needed to try and get some followers and try and find other people that are like me. I got about a good 15-20 people from this application
My verdict? If you are new to twitter or need some new people to follow, I say purchase but if you have time on your hands I say just use the search engine on twitter.com and go from there. I think this app would sell more at just $0.99. But oh well, if the app goes on sale I’ll report it here, or follow me on twitter to see!