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FreeVerse is very excited of their success in the development of iPod Touch and iPhone games. They have been creating and coding games since the first iPhone SDK beta was released in Marchand have now released some public screen shots.

The first game Flick Sports is very similar to Wii Sports on the Wii and is planed to launce in June…

“Using the iPhone’s unique flick/pinch feature, we’re working on Golf, Bowling, Soccer, and Baseball (to start). Fun, colorful and quick, these will be ideal games for a modern mobile platform.”

Another game they are working on is called Wingnuts MotoRacer is a motorcycle native game for the iPod Touch which is also be released in June…

“Ah, the wind in your hair, the bugs in your teeth and the open road stretching out in front of you! Using the iPhone’s cool accelerometer, (you know, that doohickey that knows when your iPhone is sideways or not), you can steer your motorcycle to victory in this wild racing game. Awesome characters and a touch of humor, its a Freeverse game after all, will add to the fun.”

They are very excited about their involvement in the development of native Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch and say many new titles will be on their way. If you can not wait for the June launch of iPod Touch version 2.0 then FreeVerse has posted some Web App games on their site, click here to visit the online FreeVerse iPhone game collection on your Apple Touch device.

NetBlender recently announced a new technology called BD Touch, that connects to the iPod Touch and iPhone and allows the use Blu-ray disc streaming directly from your Blu-Ray player. It sends the information via Wi-Fi and will work with all BD-live enabled devices such as the Sony PS3.

BD Touch enables transfer of digital copies of movies from Blu-ray disc menus, real-time movie details and Blu-ray disc titles, incorporating this data into games using the iPod Touch as a controller.

“Having spent the past decade building interactive video products we are thrilled to bring together two of the most interactive consumer products ever created with BD Touch,” said John Harrington, NetBlender CEO, in a statement. “We began R&D on integrating the two devices right after I experienced the iPhone Multi-Touch interface for the first time.”

They development started when the iPhone SDK was released in March and will continue in R&D until June when it is said to be released. To check out videos and get more information visit the NetBlender Site.

An App called SIP-VOIP is a VOIP software available on jailbroken iPod Touches and the iPhone. Unlike other VOIP applications it has been confirmed to work on both of Apple’s Devices.

Their plan was to make a VOIP compatible with the iPod Touch to bring an iPhone like experience to users without access to the iPhone. Check it out and tell us what you think in the comments.

Ever since the iPhone SDK rollout people have been wondering just how powerful a gaming platform the iPhone will turn out to be. We saw some impressive demos at the rollout event and, the ARM processor powering the iPhone and iPod touch runs at nearly twice the clockspeed of the Sony PSP. But what of 3D hardware? How deftly can Apple’s new mobile platform push the polygons?

Based on the recently demonstrated port of id’s Quake 3 to the iPod touch, the answer is: rather deftly, indeed. And as for control, the integrated accelerometers seem rather up to the challenge of delivering precise control to this classic first-person shooter.

Have a look at the demonstration video. It’s a fluid framerate throughout which says much about just what the iPhone platform will offer game developers and game players, alike.

Fabrizio La Rosa has released iSynCal 6.0, an application that allows the syncing of iCal calendars between multiple Macs (using Apple File Sharing), multiple users on the same Mac, and between a Mac and an iPod. This removes the need for a .mac account to perform iCal syncing. iSynCal requires Mac OS X v10.3 or higher and iCal v1.5 or higher.

New in this release:

• Now fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”
• Dropped support for 10.3. Mac OS X 10.4 or later is now required, but iSynCal can still sync calendars between a Mac running 10.4 or 10.5 and another running 10.3 or 10.2.
• # Smart Sync also synchronize calendars deletions (a new option is available in the sync Options drawer)
• Many other “under the hood” code changes and optiomizations

Credit goes to “The Lone Stag” for these instructions:

1. Restore your iPod to firmware 1.1.4
   • Plug in your iPod and run iTunes.
   • When your iPod shows up in iTunes, click the restore button
     • This will erase everything on your iPod, but you can sync it later
   • Do not restore from a backup
2. Download ZiPhone
   • Download ZiPhone
   • Click on the downloaded file and let it install
   • If it doesn’t install, you need to download and install this .net microsoft file
3. Run ZiPhone
   • With your plugged in iPod and ZiPhone running, click Jailbreak (the second action)
   • Wait a minute, and your iPod will be jailbroken with installer on your home screen.
4. Get it Running
   • In installer, go to the Install tab, click all packages, and install BSD Subsystem
   • To get the January apps, go to the sources tab and click edit, and add http://ipodtouchmaster.com/files/repo.xml
   • In the Install tab, go to iPhone 1.1.4 Applications and install iPhone 1.1.4 Apps
   • Add the source
   • In Installer, go to Install, All Packages, then install BossTool
   • Once installed, click home and let the iPod refresh
   • Click BossTools, Free Disk Space, then Relocate Fonts
   • You can then uninstall BossTool in Installer in the Uninstall tab
5. You are done
   • Sync with iTunes and enjoy your Touching
   • Keep reading ipodtouchhacks.com to see what the next steps are and what you can actually do now with your hacked device.

* Update: http://www.ziphone.org/ for latest ZiPhone.

Ziphone has updated it’s jailbreaking method to work with any version of iPod Touch. It jailbreaks it automatically and takes about a minute. You must be on firmware 1.1.4 in order for this to work. If you have any music on it, it will still be on it after the jailbreak, and Purchased music actually works on it.

Windows:
ZiPhone 2.6b for Windows

Mac:
ZiPhone 2.6b for Mac

If this doesn’t work, then do a manual restore (hold power and home until it turns off, keep holding until it says connect to iTunes) and restore to version 1.1.4 and try again.

Make sure the first thing you install is BSD Subsystem, so you will be able to run your apps.

A new iPod Touch has been released with an increased capacity of 32 gigabytes. The price is set at $499.

That’s right folks, the ipod elite team have succesfully downgraded and jailbroken the 1.1.3 iPod Touch Firmware! Below there are two videos showing the procedures.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YakjwxB3nQU

The source mentioned in the video below is http://ipodtouchmaster.com/files/repo.xml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7PsJXI0fg

Good Luck and enjoy!

Steve Jobs announed at his Macworld keynote speech, that Apple will begin selling applications for the iPod Touch. They are: mail, stocks, weather, maps + chapter/ lyric support (new). You may recognize these apps from the iPhone, which is great, except that it’s going to cost iPod Touch owners $20 to get them. Unless of course you’ve jailbroke your touch.