Archive for October 23rd, 2008

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Book : The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook

October 23, 2008

A book upon iPhone programming (besides Apple’s great documentation) was released October, 15 : The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK. It is available for Safari Books Online subscrivers. It contains 384 pages (see the chapters list and some samples at Safari Books Online).

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iPhone : JellyCar, MazeFinger & iBall3D

October 23, 2008

Among the new free games for iPhone on the AppStore, we notably find : JellyCar (from the same authors as Trace, the principle is used here to move a car), MazeFinger, PacMan Lite (only one level), and iBall3D (classic labyrinth game with 3 completely different levels/environments).

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X-Plane 9.0.3 : instruments and ILS navigation

October 23, 2008

A 9.0.3 update to X-Plane (iPhone version) is available. We can read the full new features description (and see new screenshots) here. The map (added in the settings pages in version 9.0.2) now provides NAVAID frequencies, and we can display an instruments panel (full screen), in order to set an auto approach (ILS).

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iPhone Bugdom 2 & Nanosaur 2 : weekly rebate

October 23, 2008

Pangea Software provides this week (ends tomorrow) a huge rebate on Bugdom 2 (-75%, only 0,99$) and Nanosaur 2 (-50%, now only 1,99$). Updates are also available : Bugdom 2 version 1.0.2 (improved controls, minor bug fixes and performance enhancements), Enigmo 1.2 (small performance improvements, and now the savegames are stored on the OSX user Documents folder when synchronizing the iPhone).
We can also download a strategy guide for the 10 levels of Bugdom 2 (maps, hints).