Category: Apple

As you may have noticed, I am a bit of sucker for addictive games on the iPhone. First DoodleJump, then Wordcrasher, and now NuoNuo (iTunes Link).

NuoNuo is a game similar to Doodle Jump, but instead of the platforms being there for you already, you need to create them. This is done by simply tapping the screen where you want your NuoNuo to land. The lower down the screen the higher he jumps. It sounds pretty simple, but in reality it is a lot more tricky.

I have been playing NuoNuo for a while now, and I can only get up to about 3000. The NuoNuo also eats acorns and magic mushrooms as he goes up, which gives you a couple of extra points. All in all  a well rounded game, and at a measly $0.99, it should keep you occupied for a couple of hours/days/weeks :)

The other day Mike sent out a tweet about an awesome new game that was being launched on the 11th. Curious I checked out the website Wordcrasher.com to get a better idea of what it was all about

The game called, Wordcrasher (Opens iTunes Link),  is an awesome new word game. Think Tetris meets Scrabble meets Bejeweled. Ok, not that complicated, but something along those lines.

Basically the game drops in various letters through different stages, and you need to complete words from the letters. To get a better idea of what I mean check out this video:

I downloaded the game yesterday, and haven’t been able to put it down. So far I managed to get to level 5, and struggling along. There is also a flood mode, which drops the letters in, but you need to create the words before the water level reaches the top of the screen. You are also able to see global leader boards, and share scores on Twitter & Facebook, using OpenFeint.

The game is on special for this week for $0.99 and then it goes up to $1.99. If words are your friend, I highly recommend this game :)

UPDATE: Myself & a friend have recently started up FiXi which does iPhone & iPad repairs from around the country
Using a dedicated courier service we can collect & return your phone to you wherever you are.
Drop us an email on [email protected] or visit our website www.fixi.co.za for more info

I have yet to experience it, touch wood, and I hope to NEVER ever experience it. The dreaded spiderweb on the iPhone screen. I don’t know if I would laugh, or cry, but the latter sounds more probable.

Earlier today, one of my friends on twitter, asked the dreaded question, “Where can I get my cracked iPhone screen fixed”. I had heard of 2 places in Joburg that do iPhone repairs, but had never (fortunately) had to use them. The 2  places are ifixipods and GMobile Repairs (Gmob). My friend went with the guys at Gmob, and within 20 minutes her phone was fixed and working as new. They actually fix it while you wait !!

The cost to fix it at Gmob is around R1700-R1900. The prices at FiXi are much much lower :)

If you need to give your iPhone screen a makeover, give the guys at GMob a shout. They based in Northriding in Johannesburg, and their contact details are on http://www.gmob.co.za

They chaps at Facebook have updated the Facebook iPhone app, which now includes 2 really cool features.

The first, and probably their most requested feature, is Push notifications,  which will alert you when someone writes on your wall or posts a comment on a photo. There are a couple of notifications which you can choose to have Push notifications delivered for. These can be turned on or off under the Facebook app in your Settings

As you  can see the options are pretty flexible in allowing you to choose which notifications you want to receive.

The 2nd new feature allows you to sync your contact images from Facebook to your contacts on your phone. This is a really cool feature that updates the images used for photos in your contacts with their Facebook profile pic. It also adds a link to the contact of their Facebook profile, which opens directly on the app.

The only “downfall” of this is that the apps uploads your contact names to FB to sync. This isn’t too much a biggie for me, but if you heavily security conscious it may be an issue for you :)

All in all the app seems to have improved quite a bit speed wise, and I’m looking forward to the see what else Facebook has up their sleeve in the next update

I have always been a huge fan of the Pano (iTunes Link)app on the iPhone. I have taken some awesome shots, and have been amazed at its capabilities

Last week I saw a tweet where someone mentioned a new app called AutoStitch (iTunes Link), which does a similar job to Pano, by stitching photos taken on your iPhone together.

The difference comes in, that in Pano, you have to take your pictures within the app, and it only allows you to take a “single row” of images. AutoStitch allows you to take your pictures before hand, and then select which images you want to stitch together. The great thing about Autostitch is that it allows you to take “multiple rows of images”. Autostitch also seems to blend the images together a lot better than what Pano does, especially when shooting a horizon Pano photo

To get an idea of what I mean, I took 2 Panoramic photos I took from a mates house, using AutoStitch and Pano.

You can see by the above 2 images that the AutoStitch images has a much bigger “height” to the pano. This is because I took 2 rows of 7 pictures, while with Pano I only could take 7 pictures across. To get a better idea of how the images look, I suggest clicking on them to enlarge them. The other great feature of Autostich is that it allows you to creat an image of up to 20MP on the iPhone 3GS

So it looks like I may have found a replacement Panoramic photo app, but rumour doing the rounds is that Debacle software is busy updating the Pano app with some cool new features. Can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeves.