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iPrayer Wheel
Category: Entertainment
Released: 07/22/09
Price: $1.99 (Download)


 
Om Mani Padme Hum
ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ
iPrayer Wheel brings the age old ritual technology of the Tibetan Mani Wheel to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that viewing or chanting the mantra of Avalokiteshvara brings great benevolent protection and blessings.
As the Prayer Wheel spins across your screen, you are invoking a peaceful prayer of compassion for all beings.
In fact, just by purchasing and downloading the iPrayer Wheel software you are turning your iPhone or iPod's hard drive in to a very fast Prayer Wheel, sending this mantra out every time it spins around.
iPrayer Wheel moves just like a standard Prayer Wheel as you shake your device, or with the swipe of a finger across your screen.
You can access iPrayer Wheel to purify energy, to clear space or to assist your prayers anytime.

The Dalai Lama has said that digital prayer wheels are as effective as standard prayer wheels

Features:
-an animated Prayer Wheel that moves to the touch or while shaking the iPhone, displaying an accurate reproduction of a Tibetan Prayer Wheel
-Realistic sound effects, including an audio mantra, and a soothing waterfall
-Volume control
-Mantra toggle
-a visually rich environment that takes advantage of the unique features of the iPhone and iPod Touch

http://www.iprayerwheel.com


Languages:
English

Requirements:
Compatable with the iPhone
Requires iPhone Software 2.1 or 3.0






Click here to download iPrayer Wheel on iTunes

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Lexiphanes Greek Dictionary
Category: Reference
Released: 07/06/09
Price: $1.99 (Download)


 
Lexiphanes is a Greek dictionary for your iPhone. It contains editions of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon and Autenrieth's Homeric Lexicon (both now in the public domain, oldies but goodies).

Lexiphanes is really fast, with a slick and modern iPhone interface. It shows you the short definition of a word so you don't need to visit the whole entry. You can bookmark a word and come back to it later.

Lexiphanes can even convert Greek numerals to and from regular (Arabic) notation.

The short definitions feature was automatically generated from the text of the dictionaries. It's not perfect. We need your help! You can make changes and they'll be sent to us automatically.

Please read Lexidium's Instructions sheet carefully to learn how to input Greek characters. You can either turn on the Greek keyboard (new in OS 3.0) or you can use "beta code" input. Both work just fine.

There's a major typo in the title screen. It will be corrected in the next release.






Click here to download Lexiphanes Greek Dictionary on iTunes

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After months of beta testing, and a preview and release date set during WWDC last week, the anticipation over 3.0 has continuously been growing. It’s been a long week (Besides the developers who got the GM June 8th) waiting for the 3.0 firmware to drop. June 17th has finally come and the 3.0 firmware is now available for download via iTunes or a direct download.

Some major features included is this release include: Cut, Copy & Paste, Landscape Keyboard, MMS, Spotlight Search, Voice Memos, Improved Calendars, Internet Tethering, and much more!

So plug in your phone, hit that update button, and enjoy the wonderful features of 3.0!

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Apple has posted up the winners of the Apple Design Awards (ADA), and we have brought you the iPhone specific winners below. With all the exceptional apps being produced and released over the past year, I’m sure they had a hard time choosing the winners. Many apps that have stood out and some of our favorite developers got the win. Here are the winners, with iTunes links available.

iPhone Developer Showcase:

• MLB.com At Bat 2009 v1.0.1 / MLB.com
• Postage v1.0 / Rogue Sheep
• Topple 2 v1.1 / ngmoco
• Tweetie v1.3.1 / atebits LLC

Best iPhone Student App

• Wooden Labyrinth 3D v1.2.1 / Elias Pietil

Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App

• AccuTerra v1.0.0 Beta / AccuTerra

Congrats to all developers that received and award and thanks for the great apps! Can’t wait to see what they have in store for us with the new 3.0 firmware and iPhone 3G S speed increase.

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Apple previously invited developers into a high-volume beta testing for the upcoming iPhone 3.0 Push Notification service using the AP (Associated Press) application. They’ve done it again, but instead have focused their efforts on Instant Messaging and prepared a special, 7-day build of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) in order to stress test the push service:

As a developer actively working with iPhone OS, we would like your help in a private test of the Apple Push Notification service. For this test, we have selected AOL’s AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our server.

The testing of these new notifications have already been through the rounds and screenshots have been submitted showing what exactly the push messages display to the user. This will definitely come in handy for decreasing battery use while still retaining the messages received through an IM service.

Check after the break for a first look at the screenshots

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During the keynote this morning, it was announced casually that AT&T would not be supporting MMS until later this summer and no public plans for tethering plans at this moment. AT&T responded to these complaints and released the following statement:

Regarding MMS:

We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3G S in late summer once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS.  These upgrades are unrelated to our 3G network.  When MMS is ready, we will let customers know.

Regarding offering a tethering plan:

We plan to offer one but we don’t have an announcement to make at this time.

Joe Chandler Executive Director AT&T Corporate Communications

If AT&T is nice enough, they’ll hopefully release MMS capability for free including them as SMS messages. Beta users (for the most part) have been using MMS and tethering flawlessly without paying extra fees, only having the ability to send/receive these messages on their account.

Would you pay extra for MMS? Or how about a tethering plan? I have a feeling many users will be resorting to jailbreaking and altered carrier files for these features.

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iSpazio has posted pictures that they apparently received from a tipster who claimed the shots are from Apple’s development web server and are showing off pages that feature the next-generation iPhone (likely to go live directly after WWDC).

The first image shows of Apple’s Voice Memo application which is set for iPhone 3.0 and has been working wonderfully in the previous 3.0 beta firmwares. What’s interesting, is the images also show a front facing camera, presumably for the rumored mobile video iChat.

The second image shows off 3.0 tethering, however given the homescreen layout, it’s done on 2.x firmware rather than the 3.0 home screen layout. The store.apple.com image also appears to be the same exact layout as it currently is, but with a box reproduced to represent the new iPhone tethering, oddly with a different font than the Apple store always uses. Clearly, this appears to be fake.

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Today Apple released the latest version of iTunes 8.2, which developers have been using over the past few weeks for the iPhone 3.0 beta. As usual, when new software is released, particularly iTunes or iPhone firmwares, the jailbreak community is always weary on whether the update is safe or not. The big issue is ‘Will this update break jailbreaking’? In this case, it appears it has, however @musclenerd claims its unintentional on Apple’s part.

Today’s iTunes 8.2 update changes the way your computer talks to the device. This affects things like QuickPwn and PwnageTool when they try to identify what’s connected. Also, ssh over usb breaks due to same reasons. Fixes are in the works but for now avoid 8.2

If you’re planning on jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch device anytime soon, be sure to avoid the iTunes 8.2 release until the fix is available.

In the act that you’ve already updated, follow the instructions below to fully uninstall iTunes 8.2 from your Mac at your own discretion. Close all instances of iTunes and type the following in Terminal. Do not mistype it and make sure it’s all in one line separated by spaces.

sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DeviceLink.framework /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iTunesAccess.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreFP.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework

Stay tuned for more updates and information from iPIB.

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Apple today released iTunes 8.2 via Software Update. This update adds support for iPhone 3.0 which is expected to be featured at Apple’s WWDC event next week and released very soon. Registered iPhone developers have had access to iTunes 8.2 since late April, when Apple released a new beta of iPhone software 3.0 which was not compatible with the current iTunes 8.1 release.

iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Apple has also released a Quicktime update alongside the 8.2 release, which brings its version to 7.6.2 and adds several security and performance fixes.

It’s great to see Apple is ahead of the ball and preparing for a strong 3.0 release next week. The beta releases have gone smoothly, so I can’t imagine the final release doing any worse. Stay tuned for coverage of the WWDC event, 3.0 software features, and next generation iPhone information during next week!

*iTunes 8.2 is available here or via Software Update

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Apple Insider discovered that apple has tapped Japan’s Asahi Kasei to supply the magnetometer (digital compass) for the next generation iPhone expected for release at WWDC 2009.

People familiar with betas of the iPhone 3.0 software developers kit recently dug up several header files attributed to the Japanese manufacturer in a directory appropriately labeled “compass.” More specifically, the files identify Asahi Kasei’s azimuth sensor No. AK8973, a 16-pin leadless IC package measuring 4mm square and 0.7mm thick, as the chip that will help future iPhone users determine their direction. It bundles a master clock oscillator.

A digital compass will allow for increased Google Street View experience and will also improve turn-by-turn navigation as well as other orientation-based functons, as already evident in the G1. Another great feature would would have the user point their iPhone at an object or landmark, and have the GPS, accelerometer, and digital compass pinpoint that item and present an array of information.

Apparently, the magnetometer is one of three new hardware advances confirmed through discoveries, the others being a better, video-capable camera and a faster, 802.11n WiFi chip.

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