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WeMJ, also known as Chinese traditonal Mahjong (Ma jiang, 麻将), released by Weiphone dev team offically. In the game you are given 13 tiles for a hand. When your turn comes, you draw a tile and discard one. Your goal is to make four melds and a pair, or “head”. To install the game, you need add Weiphone dev team’s offical source: http://app.weiphone.com/installer to your iPhone’s Installer.
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“entropic” from HandBrake forum wrote a little tool called “Muxo” to add subtitles to mp4, so your iPhone can play with soft subtitle. Muxo is a small Mac OS X cli-tool that adds subtitle tracks to existing mp4 files. Now, it’s in a really early stage, and the tool only reads srt files. You can direct download the tool: Muxo 0.3.3 from here or from my mirror.
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Anonymous reporter told TUAW that according to code found in the latest firmware release, Apple is working on a new iPhone application called iControl. Like Apple TV and other remote controllers, it would allow the iPhone to connect wirelessly to local iTunes libraries and browse through and play media from those sources.
TUAW is told that a media navigator will allow you to view videos, play podcasts, listen to music and even support shuffle playback. The screenshot shown here shows some of the localizable strings for the iPhone-based application. There’s obviously no timeline for release, but since the SDK event back in February, it’s been rumored that Apple would release some official iPhone apps of their own, and iControl might be the first.
Later, same person told TUAW a new XMPP framework has been spotten in the latest iPhone firmware. XMPP refers to the open source standard developed by the Jabber community for instant messaging. Remember back in March when Apple announced it would support native instant messaging? In a nutshell, it looks like Apple’s new iPhone-based chat will be built on Jabber/XMPP.
Unfortunately, we’re told that this XMPP support remains in a private framework and will not be available to 3rd party SDK developers. Apple has made a strong commitment to sand-boxed development, allowing developers little access to the underlying OS and frameworks. Single-purpose apps like games should thrive in this development environment while less bounded utilities like social networking apps may struggle–or at least have to depend strongly on web-based servers.
Awesome! DreamCatcher just released another new version of iPhone Video Recorder today. This time, you can setup brightness option. You can upgrade it to 1.1.8 throught Installer from your iPhone.
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TuneWiki is a free and easy to use music player that currently supports the iPhone/iTouch and PC which allows you to listen to your music while scrolling the lyrics of the song real-time. Never again will you wonder what the words to “that song” are! TuneWiki is only possible because of the community effort since YOU, the users of TuneWiki will have control of all of the content available to the community. Users are able to add/edit the lyrics to songs and syncronize them. Please join the TuneWiki community and help put lyrics where they need to be, alongside the music.
“TuneWiki Is the Karaoke-Like Lyrics App Apple Must Include in iPhone.”, reviewd by by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo.com.
Now, TuneWiki 2.2 is on the Installer, install or upgrade it!
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DreamCatcher released iPhone Video Recorder first version some days ago, now, they upgrade it to 1.1.6 today. In this new version, you can setup some audio encoded options. You can upgrade it to 1.1.6 throught Installer from your iPhone.
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HWPen for iPhone is updated to 1.0.1 beta today. The application is developed by Hanwang Technology Co. Ltd.( leading company of China in the fields of research, development, and manufacture of diverse intelligent pattern recognition technologies). This is the first Handwriting Recognition IME on iPhone. Developed by Hanwang.com.cn. Chinese multi-character and Latin alphabet input are supported now. You still can install or update from Installer’s source: http://iphonecake.com/src/all.
iPhone Video Recorder from DreamCatcher is released today.
iPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance . With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, or send it out by email as you wish.
Due to the great consumption demand on iPhone CPU for dynamic encoding, it is hard to maintain a high frame rate on the fly encoding. Therefore, we turn to a postponed encoding method. You may record now and encode the recording later. The video data is already on your iPhone’s disc, and you may resume encoding when you are convenient. Besides, we offer a few more encoding methods for customers to choose from. On the fly encoding is also available and the sound is good yet the frame rate will be reduced considerably.
Install trial version or buy it:
Download iphonevideorecorder.pxl, and install it on your iPhone. Or add iPhone Video Recorder source http://www.iphone-recorder.com/install2 to your iPhone installer.
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Apple released iPhone SDK build 9M2165 beta 4 today. “The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.”, says by Apple Developer Connection. Full release notes you can find here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html
Some new features and information reported by TUAW readers:
New beta build is called 5A258f
SDK download is 1.15 GBs
Firmware sizes about 200+MB each for iPhone and iPod touch
Code signing is now ENFORCED by Apple.
SDK no longer uses the Aspen code name for the simulator.
Audio Toolbox got a big load of new stuff
NSXMLParser support
UIFont is re-done with ascender and other professional font support that has been long missing
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.
Aidan Malley wrote in AppleInsider:
Apple has built in hooks for iPhone GPS features that aren’t possible with the current hardware, according to a third-party plug-in support for Aperture 2.1, Apple this week has released the Software Development Kit (500KB) for the photo management software.
The platform lets programmers write code that adds new features for editing and exporting images handled inside the program.
A number of extensions from outside companies have already been made available on Apple’s developer site for Aperture.
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