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iPhone Games Most people still fumble when trying to figure out how much of a tip to leave at the end of a meal, especially when they are in a group and everybody decides to split or worse pay individual amounts. While the iPhone and iPod touch both have built-in calculators that can make bill splitting and tip calculation easier, neither one makes these tasks as simple as they could be.
Although tip calculation seems simple, we strongly preferred applications that calculated tips using the bill’s pre-tax subtotal rather than the grand total—calculating from the higher post-tax number can result in unnecessarily higher tips that may quickly wind up costing you more than the app itself. Moreover, we preferred applications that didn’t just
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iPhone Games For just $0.99, TightWire provides endless entertainment and a fair share of heart-pounding moments. Your goal is to help the character cross the wire (strung between skyscrapers) and avoid plummeting him to the ground. The game is accelerometer-based and tests just how steady your hands are. Not only is the concept fun and original, but the graphics have also garnered quite a bit of praise. TightWire proves to be the perfect balance of thrill-seeking, humor, and solid gameplay.
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Apple has just released iPhone OS 3.0.1 to fix the SMS vulnerability which was revealed by researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner yesterday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. They had claimed that a security vulnerability in the iPhone's SMS messaging system could allow hackers to in theory...
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Researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner claim that they have found a security vulnerability in the iPhone's SMS messaging system which could allow hackers to in theory "take over every iPhone in the world". It occurs regardless of hardware revision or which version of the iPhone OS is running. They...
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While not game related, we thought it'd be good to let you know that Apple had released a security update for the iPhone that fixes a particularly serious security vulnerability.
All iPhone customers are recommended to update and this simply involves plugging your iPhone into iTunes and updating.
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Xio Interactive's Mino [App Store] has all the gameplay of Tetris (and all the other associated clones) with one distinct advantage: Really cool real-time 5-player internet multiplayer.
At its core, Mino is the same line-clearing game you've been playing for years with two basic single-player game modes, standard and glacier. Standard mode offers a straightforward version of Tetris but with the addition of the "slow" button at the top of the screen. As you clear lines the bar on the right side of the play field slowly fills up which controls how long you can have the "slow" mode enabled. It's kind of a cheesy feature, but it has saved me
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