Store replica pulling in the punters on iPhone

Why use iTunes when there is an easier option?

If you like tinkering with your free iPhone or iPod touch but get frustrated at the interface on the iTunes App Store, you now have another option. AppleBeacon has been created to take advantage of Apple's affiliate programme that shares five per cent of the revenue from certain iTunes sales with referring parties.

The interface is fast and certainly better than iTunes, but the fact remains that purchases and installing the software on an iPhone still require iTunes at some point.

Users who don't want to browse in iTunes or who have Linux computers, for which the Apple software is unavailable, can now browse the software through AppBeacon's site instead.

Still, it hs to be good to miss all the ads and you can bookmark applications and permanently ignore others. That has to be a bonus.

By J Mark Lytle - Techradar.com

Space Invaders Now On The iPhone!

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away…no sorry wrong one. A long time ago the top game was known as Space Invaders, remember that one? Well now the little invader machines are back as they invade the Apple iPhone.

Yep, you got it; Space Invaders is now available for the Apple iPhone via the Apple iTunes App Store, although for some reason not the American App Store which seems strange as I would have thought the Americans love shooting down invading spacecraft.

Invaders for the Apple iPhone retains the original look and feel of the much loved original version of long ago, and at only $0.99 you can’t complain.

Source – PhonesReview

Lethal iPhone App informs you of fatality likelihood of your neighborhood

Lethal is a practical iPhone app for a change: a nice little program that uses your free iPhone's built-in location services to gauge where you are, then tell you how likely you are to be maimed, mugged, mauled or otherwise maligned.


Let's say you're walking through my neighborhood back in Berlin. It's Prenzlauer Berg, so it's plenty shady: on one street corner, three filthy, mad-eyed hobos roast a baby on a spit over a burning mattress. The gutters are thick with used needles and coughed-up lung tissue. Madly jactitating mad men wrapped in raincoats stained with genetic filth eye you lasciviously from the shadows, singing to you in German about the orifices they can smell. WIndows explode above you, accompanied by screams and buckshot.

But how dangerous is Prenzlauer Berg really? Well, just load up Lethal and it will tell you: a Wildlife Rating of Zero, Crime and Disease bars maxed, and a Disaster Rating hovering around 80, since God's cursed it and all. Good to know for only $1.99.

Source: Boingboing

Win a Playstation 3 - Answer just one simple question!

In the third of a series of fantastic competitions, Gadgets4nowt is giving away a free Ps3 80GB* !

*Or cash equivalent in Amazon vouchers as stock dictates!

The competition is open to residents of the UK, USA and Canada.

No purchase is necessary, the competition is totally free. All you have to do to be in with a chance to win the free PS3 console is answer the following question:

The original PlayStation was a 32-bit fifth generation video game console.

When was it first released in Japan?

A. 3 December 1994

B. 25 December 1994

C. 1st January 1995

Enter the competition here

Good luck!

Firmware 3.0 may bring multi-core capability to the iPhone?

ZDNet, a leading technology site, reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision.

While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, numerous sites have independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone. This should greatly speed up processing for the iPhone and its applications.

Meanwhile, in related new, Imagination Technologies is announcing a multi-core GPU that could be very suitable for iPhone use. Apple, who happens to be an investor in Imagination Technologies, presently uses a less powerful version of their PowerVR GPU in the free iPhone and free iPod touch.

The likely candidate for the new iPhone’s CPU, however, is a derivative of the ARM Cortex A9 multi-core processor. The ARM Cortex has excellent power efficiency (useful for battery life, one of the iPhone’s main remaining complaints), well ahead of Intel’s Atom offerings. Apple appears to be an ARM architectural licensee and their acquisition of P.A. Semi has brought low-power chip design expertise into the company.