Fly Tunes a new streaming radio web app that listen to online radio through your Mobile Safari browser. It will give you access to over 375 channels of music, news and sports radio all from you Touch.
iPhone Atlas has posted an article about their favorite remote/streaming App for iTunes and the iPod Touch. They have reviewed many of these types of programs and have come to a verdict on which application they think is the best. Remote Buddy was their choice and includes streaming music, movies and other content to the iPhone or the iPod Touch.
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.
The major disappointment to developers when the iPhone SDK was released was how it has many unexpected limitations including how a 3rd party application terminates when closed. This means when you are using an application and want to take a phone call, when you answer the phone the application quits, does not store any data in memory and can not run in the background. This will result in opening the application again and start all over.
Yes you read correctly Adobe has officially made comments about bringing flash to the iPhone and iPod Touch. They have said they have downloaded the SDK and found a plausible way to deliver this into the devices.
Norbsoft has now released an eBook reader designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The reading process is called “iReading”. The “iReading” is available at: http://iphone.norbsoft.com/.
People now have the SDK in their hands are reading up in the rules, regulations, and restrictions. They have noticed in the Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iPhone that there are more restrictions then originally expected. The following is a excerpt from the Human Interface Guidelines.
“Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits. It’s important to make sure that users do not experience any negative effects because of this reality. In other words, users should not feel that leaving your iPhone application and returning to it later is any more difficult than switching among applications on a computer.”
This could raise questions on how Java and AIM will work on the application. Many people have tested it stating that is works just like Apollo IM on jailbroken devices. This could mean for now it is just a design guideline and not an overall restriction. However, another possible restriction for Suns Java platform is another line in the guidelines…
“An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.”
It will take time to see what Sun and other companies will do as the June release date approaches.
[Via iPhone Buzz]
Although this isn’t a story about the iPod Touch, it is about Apple and multi-touch. Apple has just revised a former patent showing a curved desktop screen that will utilize many existing and future gestures.
Pocket Video (PV) has announced a Mobile Broadcast Receiver that is compatable with the iPod Touch. It will turn any Wi-Fi enabled phone or media device into a mobile television. Apparently the device decodes a digital TV signal and makes it viewable on mobile devices.
Cre.ations.net has posted the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak. This will allow you to jailbreak your iPod Touch running firmware 1.1.3. The process is quite simple but not has easy as the JailbreakMe method for previous software versions.
Complete instructions after the jump
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