Tips, Tricks and Hacks for your iPhone

Conor sent us a note about the new game from Redwind Software. They’re coming from a .Net background, and this is their first attempt at Cocoa Touch and the iPhone, and it seems from the video they’re embracing the differences whole heartedly!

Movie Challenge is a trivia/quiz style game at its core, but so much more when examined in detail. Rather than the simple question after question after question, leveling up to meaningless levels that seems to be the norm in most trivia games on the platform we have strived to provide more. There are multiple categories, multiple game types, accelerometer action, touch screen drag and drops, power ups and the list goes on.

If you’re a movie trivia buff and you decide to meet this challenge, let us know how you do!

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Quick App: Movie Challenge for the iPhone

In similar fashion to the patent for a today screen, Apple Insider is reporting Apple’s new filing shows a way of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone’s display even though the phone is locked with the backlight not turned on. Apple seems to be paying attention lately to alerts/notifications and that is great news!

Apple proposes the implementation of a dual backlight system, where a secondary, low-power backlight system would be positioned behind the primary backlight system. The always-on light provided by the secondary backlight system could then be projected through one or more transparent or semitransparent regions of the primary backlight system to reach the display even when the primary backlight is turned off.

The lack of a feature similar to this is one of the current iPhone’s biggest complaints. You leave your iPhone on a table and you walk out of the room for 5 minutes… during that time you get a email or missed call… you get sidetracked and don’t turn your phone on… you never know that a message is waiting for you. No blinking LED, no second audible alerts (unless it’s a SMS message), nothing. That is a major gripe that I hear over and over regarding the iPhone.

So as soon as this is actually a reality, it will give the haters one less reason to complain. It’s just too bad we will all have to wait until a future iPhone to see this feature.

[Via Apple Insider]

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Patent Watch: Always-on iPhone Status Indicators

Odessa, Ukraine - Readdle today rebrands its A.I.Disk application as OneDisk to reflect its wide usage as iPhone and iPod Touch connection link to multiple online file storage services at once. Also, OneDisk improves iWork documents support and provides new file management capabilities.

The OneDisk is an iPhone application that lets people access documents on the MobileMe iDisk and other online storage services, transfer them to iPhones and iPod Touches, view on the go and even share with friends and colleagues. OneDisk has a built-in file viewer that supports a number of formats including MS Office and iWork documents, PDF, TXT, HTML and others making OneDisk extremely versatile. Also, any document that is stored in OneDisk can be sent by email to anyone in the world.

“Firstly, when we aimed to help MobileMe iDisk subscribers connect to the iDisk from their iPhones and iPods, our application was widely adopted by users of Box.Net and MyDisk.se. More surprisingly, it appears that many MobileMe subscribers are extensively using other online storages at the same time. As a result, we decided to rename A.I.Disk to OneDisk, because this name better describes its actual usage”, explains Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO.

OneDisk in comparison with A.I.Disk has improved iWork documents support and new file management capabilities. Now the users can compress documents into zip archives to reduce iPhone disk space usage or before sending them via email, as well as rename files and folders directly on their devices.

Pricing and Availability:
OneDisk is available for $7.99 (USD) and available exclusively at the App Store.

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Founded in 2007, Readdle aims to provide iPhone and iPod Touch users with high quality applications that are missing in a standard application set. Flagship company offerings are ReaddleDocs, a complete document and file management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch and OneDisk is an iPhone application that lets people access documents on the MobileMe iDisk and other online storage services. Both applications allow people to transfer documets to their devices, view them on the go and even share with others. Copyright 2007-2008 Readdle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Apple has posted a new version of the iPhone user guide, which includes several additions related to iPhone OS 2.2. These include instructions on Google Street View usage and more.

Some excerpts:

• “If you’re taking public transit, the overview screen shows each leg of the trip and the mode of transportation, including where you need to walk. The top of the screen shows the time of the bus or train at the first stop, the estimated arrival time, and the total fare. Tap to set your departure or arrival time, and to choose a schedule for the trip. Tap the icon at a stop to see the departure time for that bus or train. When you tap Start and step through the route, detailed information about each leg of the trip appears at the top of the screen. “
• “Turn Auto-Correction on or off: Choose General > Keyboard and turn Auto-Correction on or off. Auto-Correction is on by default.”