Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D – iPhone Wallpaper

I made one of these for myself last week and figured that you guys may like some too. These are retina display formatted and were made mainly to be used as the home screen background opposed to the lock screen background. I added a little horizontal bar that houses your page navigation dots and kept the backgrounds minimalistic so that they wouldn’t appear cluttered under your icons. Here is what my home screen looks like with Hyrule field beneath it.

An Ocarina for the iPhone

Ocarina of Time 3D – EB pre-order bonus

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – New Trailer via TwitVid

Zelda: Ocarina of Time coming to VC Monday

Ocarina of Time almost a FPS


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Friday, April 15, 2011

[iOS] 2D Boy bringing World of Goo to iPhone, will launch for 99c for limited time

[iOS] 2D Boy bringing World of Goo to iPhone, will launch for 99c for limited time [Image: game-news-image-2011-8ce539836535e35df3e...b9b9f0.png]
You say that you want another platform to play World of Goo on? Well, 2D Boy have good news for you then. They are bringing their smash hit, World of Goo, to the iOS platforms.

2D Boy have said they have submitted the game to Apple for approval, so it could be available any day now. To make it that little bit more tempting to pick up straight away it will be launching for a bargain 99c price. After 24 hours has gone by, the price will creep back up to the still justifiable $2.99.

It will require you to own an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 if you plan on picking it up for your phone or will require a 3rd generation iPod Touch if you plan on getting it for that. As an added bonus, if you already have the iPad version then you get the iPhone version for free.

Written by: Kyran Morrison


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

[iPhone] Final Fantasy III Hitting the App Store

Yesterday, 06:46 PM (This post was last modified: Yesterday 06:52 PM by LemonManX.) [iPhone] Final Fantasy III Hitting the App Store [Image: game-news-image-2011-f2f582638dbe0ae7fcb...6879b5.jpg]
Already finished Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II on your iPhone? Want some more Final Fantasy to play through? Well, Square have good news for you then! They have announced that they will be bringing Final Fantasy III (the Japanese one, not Final Fantasy VI) to the App Store for iOS.

The only thing that was clarified was that it is unknown if they are referring to the classic NES version or the DS remake that came out a few years ago. It will be interesting to see which version they take.

It is slated for release in Japan during March, hopefully we won't have to wait too long before we hear a date as well.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Enjoy Blu Ray/DVD/Video with iPhone, Android, HTC, Moto, Nokia, MP4, etc.

Enjoy Blu Ray/DVD/Video with iPhone, Android, HTC, Moto, Nokia, MP4, etc. Nowadays, there are a number of media portable players emerging and enriching our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, mobile phone and so on. Meanwhile you also need converting during many formats. Here I will introduce the way to convert Blu Ray to iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, MP4, AVI,WMV, mobile phone etc. Blu-ray and some portable media players will be introduced for you before understanding how to convert Blu Ray to iPod, iPhone, MP4, AVI, mobile phone etc.

Blu-ray DVD, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience. Blu-ray is currently supported by about 200 of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer, recording media, video game and music companies. The format also has support from all Hollywood studios and countless smaller studios as a successor to today's DVD format. Many studios have also announced that they will begin releasing new feature films on Blu-ray Disc day-and-date with DVD, as well as a continuous slate of catalog titles every month.

iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones. An iPhone functions as a camera phorne, including text messaging and visual voicemail, a portable media player, and an Internet client, with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. There are four generations of iPhone models, and they were accompanied by four major releases of iOS (formerly iPhone OS). The original iPhone established design precedents like screen size and button placement that have persisted through all models. The iPhone 3G added 3G cellular network capabilities and A-GPS location. The iPhone 3GS added a compass, faster processor, and higher resolution camera, including video. The iPhone 4 has two cameras for FaceTime video calling and a higher-resolution display.

Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper is a professional Blu-ray Disc Ripper to convert Blu-ray and common DVD discs to HD video including HD AVI, HD XviD/DivX, HD MP4, MOV, HD WMV files and all the video formats MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, etc. This Blu-Ray Disc Ripper can also extract audio from common DVD and convert it into MP3, AAC, M4A and so on.With this Blu-ray ripper, you can preview the movie before Blu-ray ripping, clip any segment from the whole movie, snapshot the moving pictures in preview, customize video quality, video size, audio quality and audio channels, convert Blu-ray files in batches, automatically shutdown the computer after converting has been finished, etc. For more information and free download, see
Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper - Blu ray disc Ripper, Backup/Rip BD/DVD to MP4, AVI, etc.

Then, the steps following are to introduce how to use Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper, and convert Blu Ray to iPod, iPhone, MP4, AVI, mobile phone etc.

Step 1: Install Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper
Step 2: Load Blu-Ray Disk
Click "Add" button to add a Blu-ray disk or common DVD.
Step 3: Choose an Output Format
Click "Profile" combobox to choose your desired format.
Step 4: Start Ripping
Click "Start" button to start ripping.
Note:It will take a long time to rip Blu Ray Disk, and please be patient for waiting, or you can just leave your computer alone after selecting "auto-shutdown" function in "Settings" of “Tools”.
Here are more tips shown as follows:
1.Preview the Input Disk
You can preview the input disk by clicking the "Preview" button to get a general idea of the converted effect in advance.
2.Clip the Movie
Click "Begin" and "End" buttons to clip your favorite segment to rip, and much of your time is saved.
3.Adjust the Output Effect Freely
The program supports batch processing, and only if you click the "Select All" button to select all the files, the files can be converted automatically one by one.

Now you can enjoy your favorite HD movies whenever and wherever with Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper, and you can decrypt and Backup your Blu-ray Movie Disc. However, if you want to convert video and audio files during all popular formats, Nidesoft Video Converter is OK for you.

It is powerful video conversion software which could convert video and audio files during all popular formats and supports very comprehensive video formats, including DVD, VCD, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, 3GP, Zune AVC, PSP MP4, iPod MOV, ASF, etc. You can get more details from:Nidesoft Video Converter:Convert video mp4, avi, MPEG, WMV each other.

For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1:open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load video files.
Step 2:Select a output format or profile
Step 3:Click the “Convert” button
In Addition, Nidesoft Video Converter could support all of the popular multimedia devices. It works as: iPod Video Converter, Zune Video Converter, PSP Video Converter, Audio Converter, etc. All conversion processes are very easy and fast with the best quality.

Now you could enjoy Blu Ray DVD, Common DVD, or Video file with your portable players or mobile phone easily with Nidesoft media converter tools, Certainly, you can learn more information from Nidesoft DVD Ripper, DVD Converter, Video Converter, DVD to iPod Converter, rip DVD to MP4, MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV. And free download any software there to have a wonderful experience now.


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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Enjoy DVD/Video with iPhone 4G, Moto Milestone2, Android, HTC, Samsung, MP4, etc.

Enjoy DVD/Video with iPhone 4G, Moto Milestone2, Android, HTC, Samsung, MP4, etc. With the development of technology, several of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. Now, several of the most popular

iPhone-In many ways, the 3GS is a mirror image of the iPhone 3G; externally there's no difference. It's inside where all the changes have happened, with Apple issuing a beefed-up CPU, new internal compass, larger capacities for storage, and improved optics for its camera. More to the point, the release of the 3GS coincides with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0, a major jump from previous versions of the system software featuring highly sought after features like cut, copy, and paste, stereo Bluetooth, MMS, tethering, video recording, landscape keyboard options for more applications, and an iPhone version of Spotlight. It's important to remember that real-world use will be a better judge of the iPhone 3GS' endurance. The large color display, frequently switching between different applications, and heavy 3G or GPS use will drain the battery faster than just making a call. As it's difficult to develop an accurate benchmark for testing battery life while multitasking, your experience will vary widely depending on how you use your iPhone 3GS. There are quite a few things you can do to maximize battery life, but we recommend using Wi-Fi over 3G whenever possible, limiting GPS use, and dimming your display's brightness. The 3Gs is the first iPhone to show the percentage of battery charge on the Home screen.

Moto Milestone 2- Like its previous incarnations, the Milestone 2 is a bit of a handful at 116x61x14mm and 169g. The front is dominated by the 3.7-inch, 480x854 pixel capacitive touchscreen which has a sliver of touch sensitive buttons beneath it in standard Android style: menu, home, back and search. Around the sides are volume rocker, shutter button and uncovered mini USB power/sync port. On top there's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a power/screen lock button. It's running the very latest 2.2 version of Android, which adds a few style and functionality tweaks including the ability to turn the handset into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot for use with up to five other devices (included here, but it kills the battery). There are seven home screens on the Milestone 2 version, each of which can be populated with widgets and shortcuts in the usual Android way. There's also a neat little bar at the bottom of the screen which displays a series of dots to show you which screen you're on. We were impressed by Motoblur when it first appeared on the DEXT, with its ability to pull together all our Facebook, Twitter and email alerts into a single stream and hold them in the cloud so they could be accessed anywhere. But we were perplexed when it was unaccountably left off the original Milestone, for reasons best known to Motorola.

It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players?

Now I will introduce you an all in one solution. Only one program will help you solve all your questions, that is Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite. This program consists of two wonderful software: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter. Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can get movies and music from any format files. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.

You can free download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Video Converter from this link:
Nidesoft DVD Ripper - Best DVD Ripper, DVD Converter, Rip DVD to AVI/MP4/MPEG/DIVX

Then I will introduce you how to get movies and music from DVD and other video files with this powerful program.

How to get movies and music from DVD?

Step 1: you may open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “DVD Ripper”, then you may get the software Nidesoft DVD Ripper.
b.Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c.Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.

After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2:Nidesoft DVD Ripper has powerful functions that enable you edit your video during conversion. You may use the functions below to make your perfect video.
Merge:A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop:you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.
Effect:Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect.
You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.
Trim:as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment.
Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle:Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Note: If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if your portable player is PSP, choose the profile “PSP Video MPEG-4 (*mp4)”
Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start the conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

How to convert video or audio files to some formats which your player supports?
You can free download the Nidesoft Video Converter from this link:
Nidesoft Video Converter:Convert video mp4, avi, MPEG, WMV each other
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1:open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “Video Converter”, you may get the software Nidesoft Video Converter.
b. click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.

c. EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2) Effect: You can select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3) Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4)Options:
Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate to customize the output video's quality.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
d. Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.
e. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. At last, we strongly recommend to to try Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper,which could convert Blu-Ray disc to many video and audio formats. And, if you have any questions, please visit Nidesoft Studio homepage to get more details information of the products.


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Friday, February 4, 2011

Enjoy DVD/Video with iPhone 4G, Moto Milestone2, Android, HTC, Samsung, MP4, etc.

Enjoy DVD/Video with iPhone 4G, Moto Milestone2, Android, HTC, Samsung, MP4, etc. With the development of technology, several of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. Now, several of the most popular

iPhone-In many ways, the 3GS is a mirror image of the iPhone 3G; externally there's no difference. It's inside where all the changes have happened, with Apple issuing a beefed-up CPU, new internal compass, larger capacities for storage, and improved optics for its camera. More to the point, the release of the 3GS coincides with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0, a major jump from previous versions of the system software featuring highly sought after features like cut, copy, and paste, stereo Bluetooth, MMS, tethering, video recording, landscape keyboard options for more applications, and an iPhone version of Spotlight. It's important to remember that real-world use will be a better judge of the iPhone 3GS' endurance. The large color display, frequently switching between different applications, and heavy 3G or GPS use will drain the battery faster than just making a call. As it's difficult to develop an accurate benchmark for testing battery life while multitasking, your experience will vary widely depending on how you use your iPhone 3GS. There are quite a few things you can do to maximize battery life, but we recommend using Wi-Fi over 3G whenever possible, limiting GPS use, and dimming your display's brightness. The 3Gs is the first iPhone to show the percentage of battery charge on the Home screen.

Moto Milestone 2- Like its previous incarnations, the Milestone 2 is a bit of a handful at 116x61x14mm and 169g. The front is dominated by the 3.7-inch, 480x854 pixel capacitive touchscreen which has a sliver of touch sensitive buttons beneath it in standard Android style: menu, home, back and search. Around the sides are volume rocker, shutter button and uncovered mini USB power/sync port. On top there's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a power/screen lock button. It's running the very latest 2.2 version of Android, which adds a few style and functionality tweaks including the ability to turn the handset into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot for use with up to five other devices (included here, but it kills the battery). There are seven home screens on the Milestone 2 version, each of which can be populated with widgets and shortcuts in the usual Android way. There's also a neat little bar at the bottom of the screen which displays a series of dots to show you which screen you're on. We were impressed by Motoblur when it first appeared on the DEXT, with its ability to pull together all our Facebook, Twitter and email alerts into a single stream and hold them in the cloud so they could be accessed anywhere. But we were perplexed when it was unaccountably left off the original Milestone, for reasons best known to Motorola.

It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players?

Now I will introduce you an all in one solution. Only one program will help you solve all your questions, that is Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite. This program consists of two wonderful software: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter. Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can get movies and music from any format files. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.

You can free download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Video Converter from this link:
Nidesoft DVD Ripper - Best DVD Ripper, DVD Converter, Rip DVD to AVI/MP4/MPEG/DIVX

Then I will introduce you how to get movies and music from DVD and other video files with this powerful program.

How to get movies and music from DVD?

Step 1: you may open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “DVD Ripper”, then you may get the software Nidesoft DVD Ripper.
b.Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c.Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.

After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2:Nidesoft DVD Ripper has powerful functions that enable you edit your video during conversion. You may use the functions below to make your perfect video.
Merge:A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop:you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.
Effect:Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect.
You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.
Trim:as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment.
Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle:Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Note: If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if your portable player is PSP, choose the profile “PSP Video MPEG-4 (*mp4)”
Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start the conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

How to convert video or audio files to some formats which your player supports?
You can free download the Nidesoft Video Converter from this link:
Nidesoft Video Converter:Convert video mp4, avi, MPEG, WMV each other
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1:open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “Video Converter”, you may get the software Nidesoft Video Converter.
b. click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.

c. EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2) Effect: You can select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3) Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4)Options:
Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate to customize the output video's quality.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
d. Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.
e. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. At last, we strongly recommend to to try Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper,which could convert Blu-Ray disc to many video and audio formats. And, if you have any questions, please visit Nidesoft Studio homepage to get more details information of the products.


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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Wii and iPhone related injuries skyrocket - The Drum

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Wed 12 Jan 2011

They may have been must have gizmo’s this Christmas but both the Wii and iPhone have left many of their owners nursing painful injuries, according to the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM).

Osteopaths have reported a 70% surge in patients reporting to their clinics presenting symptoms of arm, shoulder and neck pain after over exerting themselves over the festive break. Many were also left nursing headaches after spending their extra leisure time over the holidays sat in front of the screens.

Wii tennis appears to be a particularly dangerous pursuit with many novices picking up the racket without first having performed the appropriate warm ups and stretching exercises, said osteopath Manoj Mehta.

But it isn’t just videogames at fault noted Mehta: “Indivduals on iPhones have their neck bent to one side and are flexed forward and that builds up tension. People ignore it and then they wonder why they experience pain during a day to day activity.”

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