We are nearing the end of February and are definitely towards “the last week of February”. This means if the SDK is on time is will come out in less than 10 days.
Controversy over at Touchmods.net, our favourite iPod Touch VoIP hack site. Marian and the team promised an “XXXL” software announcement at the end of January, stoking the fires of expectation, and this week announced that, following a donated iPhone from French ADSL provider Free.fr, they’ve coded an iPhone VoIP application locked to that ISP’s service. Called Siphon, the app is included as a part of Free’s ADSL package, which of course means you have to live in France to be able to order it. Unsurprisingly, many Touchmods readers are frustrated that a) this is an app for the iPhone, not the iPod Touch and b) the potential userbase is very small; Touchmods promise to release an open version, compatible with iPhones and the Touch and unchained from Free, but that will apparently be “time-limited”.
Wikipedia might get contrary press arguing that it’s content isn’t as accurate as, say, Encyclopedia Britannica, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a fantastic resource and a great way to lose an hour or two following link trails. Now you can have such fun on your iPod Touch (or iPhone, for that matter) whether in the doctors’ surgery, on the train or in a cave, thanks to Patrick Collinson’s guide to installing the full English or German versions onto your PMP.
On Monday Findly Design announced the new release of it popular application iPod Access. The update brings the software up to version 4.2 and is now usable with the iPod Touch.
If you are new to iPod Access it is basically a music and video transfer application. It will allow you to display and sort all of your songs and videos on your mobile device. It can be used to add songs, videos, and podcasts directly to the iTunes Library, rename files and clone playlists into iTunes. It is a free upgrade and only $19.99 to purchase for the first time.
Looks like the SIP-VoIP team over at touchmods.net have been busy. Last we heard, v.1 of the software that allows the iPod Touch to be used as a VoIP phone via its WiFi connection had launched, and the guys were busy putting together microphone schematics and parts lists. Now, there’s a pretty healthy list of 25 compatible SIP-based VoIP services - including the popular Gizmo Project and Asterisk - and they’ve just sold out of their first batch of 1200 microphone adaptors, priced at $45 a pop.
FlyTunes is an satellite radio type of service and can work without satellites or additional hardware. It is said to offer users a more personalized radio-like experience, with thousands of channels of digital music that will work regardless of a wireless connection.
Using your iPod Touch as a home automation control is no unfamiliar topic here at Apple-Touch, but if you’ve already invested in a system like Mainlobby by Cinemar then you’ll soon be able to use your PMP as a whole-house media and environmental remote thanks to the software’s built-in web server.
With each Apple update of the iPod Touch firmware crippling most of the third-party hacks, it can be difficult to balance a beautifully tweaked PMP with the latest official functionality. Thankfully the talents behind much of the unofficial software are even more efficient than Apple; hence this upgrade of the popular Customize app to firmware 1.1.2-compatible version 1.20.
Nikotalkie is a Push-To-Talk (PTT) app originally for the iPhone, which took advantage of the persistent, unlimited data connection to bypass SMS message costs and instead send instant voice notes between handsets or direct to an email address. There’s also a Windows desktop version and even low-cost VoIP functionality (although the basic PTT service is free), but up until now no version for the iPod Touch. With Marian’s work on a plug-in microphone accessory, however, the team behind Nikotalkie has steamed ahead porting it to the PMP.
UK bank Nationwide have announced today that they’ve formatted their internet banking site so as to be directly compatible with the Safari browser on the iPod Touch and iPhone. Apparently that gives the organisation the heady title of “UK financial services organisation open to the widest range of browser formats”, likely to be good news to the 37-percent of UK adults who regularly use an online banking service.
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