All articles tagged , Fun, Games, Humor, iPhone, iPod touch

Street magic amazes people because they are totally caught off guard. Unaware and with no expectations, the street audience is the ripest kind of prey for the close up illusionist. We’re all familiar with the magic antics of Criss Angel and David Blaine (well, when David Blaine used to do magic instead of pretending he’s a goldfish or trying to catch pneumonia in a block of ice). Since most of us won’t be walking around with cards or other magic props, but will usually have our iPhone or iPod touch, these clever magic tricks from TouchTricks.com are ideal for the magician in all of us. The Touch Tricks Series are created by professional magicians to be performed specifically on the iPhone or iPod touch.

When you think about it, these mobile devices are the best way to perform a trick because you really don’t have to work very hard to get someone’s attention. You know how it is when you pull out your iPhone in a public area and curious people begin to crane their heads over to get a peek at your magical Apple device? This is the perfect time to seize an opportunity to amaze an unsuspecting voyeur with an incredible magic trick. Touch Tricks Volume 1 is a set of four professional grade magic tricks for your iPhone or iPod touch, designed so that the non-professional magician can make jaws drop. We’ve had these babies on our iPhones for two weeks and have had a great time with them. Trust us, these are wonderful tricks that you will have fun with over and over again as you astound your friends, family, colleagues, and yes, even strangers. These tricks work on a normal iPhone or iPod touch (no hack or jailbreak is required). Read on to learn more about each trick and how you can get them for your very own iPhone or iPod touch.
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Here at Touchtip, we truly appreciate beauty, like the sexy design of the iPhone, or the female form. Playboy magazine, the procurer of lovely airbrushed women, has been delivering the goods to us for over 50 years, starting with print, then on the web. And now Hef, never content to be late to the party because he is the party, brings his bunnies to the iPhone and iPod touch. Gone are the two-creased centerfolds and in their place are digital images of Playboy girls for your pinching pleasure on your touch screen interface. Playboy’s new iPhone-optimized web experience contains some interactive features that’ll keep your sweaty fingers tapping well into the night. Read on to find out what Hef and company have in store for you, including a link to download some tasty wallpapers for your iPhone and iPod touch.
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The life evolution of iPod touch jumps the track and produces Chumby, the platypus of web-enabled touch devices. Like a forbidden mashup, the unholy communion of the iPod touch and the popular bean-filled footbag has produced a quirky new breed of web-enabled touch devices that make you say WTF as you fall hopelessly in love with its cuddly charm. Chumby is about the size of a cup of coffee and makes a perfect bed mate for your night stand, or even a desk pal at work; always within sight and just a touch away. Chumby’s squishy, Italian leather body features a color touch screen, audio, and built-in Wi-fi all running on a Linux-based operating system with Adobe Flash. Chumby comes loaded with widgets that deliver Flickr photos, weather, stocks, sports scores, news, internet radio, video, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email, and on and on and on. Heck, you can even play games with Chumby, and not just hacky sack, either. Find out more about Chumby after the jump.
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Sure, we know that web portals are soooooo nineteen ninety-eight, but we also know that the iPhone age is breathing new life into these destination sites, especially when they are optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Take myijump.com for example. At first glance this looks like another iPhone portal site offering a convenient starting point for web surfing from mobile Safari. However, a deeper dive into myijump reveals a virtual cornucopia of web sites and web apps that are all optimized for the iPhone or iPod touch. The web apps are all categorized under tap-formatted buttons designed for the touch interface. With games, entertainment, news, sports, social networking, productivity, free iTunes music, and more, you will find something for everyone here making myijump.com worthy of a web clip on your device.
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In today’s news roundup, we look at an interesting Apple patent that seems to show a new, smaller iPhone in the form of a clamshell design. Take a look at the sketches in the patent and decide for yourself. Is this the iPhone nano, or something else? We also hear strong indications from Adobe about a new version of Flash specifically created for the iPhone and iPod touch. There’s also talk of another huge deal between Apple and the big music companies which would give customers unlimited access to the entire iTunes library for a subscription fee. And finally, Gartner reverses its stance and tells enterprise IT that the iPhone 2.0 is enterprise-ready for the big company mobile work force. Read on to get all the details on this story and more.
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Wow, things are happening so quickly. It’s only been a week since Apple officially released the iPhone SDK and already we are getting reports of new hacks and apps for iPhone 2.0 before it’s even here. Nobody is sure how the application landscape will look in June when the App Store opens for business, but one thing is certain, it will be interesting to say the least. Read on to find out about the latest news on the SDK downloads, iPhone hackers, and games slated to appear on an iPhone or iPod touch near you.
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Get the Mountain Dew ready because soon you will be up all night, tea-bagging deathmatch opponents on your iPhone or iPod touch playing the latest mobile games from id Software, the makers of Doom and Quake. In a post on Slashdot, id Software’s John Carmack spoke highly of the iPhone SDK and hinted toward native iPhone games from his company. This news comes less than a week after Electronic Arts announced their commitment to Apple’s new mobile platform for gaming and even showed off a demo of Spore, Wil Wright’s highly anticipated game, running natively on an iPhone.
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When we’re not busy dishing out the best tips for your iPhone or iPod touch, we can sometimes be found inside a Halo 3 team slayer skirmish delivering the uber-pwnage to unsuspecting noobs. Halo 3 is our guilty pleasure, giving us a chance to burn off pent up work-related stress. And although we try never to mix business and pleasure, something like iHaloStats comes along and forces us to break our own rules. If you play Halo 3 on Xbox Live and own an iPhone or iPod touch, read on. Otherwise, move along, there’s nothing here to see.
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