We are reaching the last 20 Tutorials from our “100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series”, a tremendous collection of the most professional Photoshop tutorials aimed at young and not so young photoshop users looking to increase their skills with fresh and easy to follow courses. Finish them as soon as possible because there are 100 Hardcore Adobe Illustrator in the Pipeline and We are getting ready to post the first iLife and iWork Tutorials from a new Video Series almost finished. Feel free to add your comments, considerations, suggestions and more, you are always welcome..
81. Designing an iMac
Here you will learn how to design an Apple iMac from the ground up in Adobe Photoshop.
Go see the Tutorial here.
82. Designing a Black iMac
Some months back before the latest iMacs were released, I was musing as to what a black iMac might look like. Being a Photoshopper, I decided to try making one. After posting it on a blog, the image went viral and started appearing on Mac and technology blogs and my site was inundated with traffic.
Go see the Tutorial here.
83. Designing an iPhone
Design a sophisticated Mobile iPhone using these easy to follow steps.
Go see the Tutorial here.
84. Designing an iPod Shuffle
This Photoshop tutorial will acquaint you with the shape tools, dealing with paths, applying layer styles and dealing with shadows and lighting. This is good tutorial for practicing these techniques.
Go see the Tutorial here.
85. Designing an Apple Remote
You know those cool little Apple Remotes you’ve always wanted to make in Photoshop? Now you can!
Go see the Tutorial here.
86. Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote
Apple has so many beautiful products. Their product designs consistently attain a sought-after status, which distinguishes them as an innovative company. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to make a shiny new apple remote.
Go see the Tutorial here.
87. Designing a MacBook Air
Hello fellow photoshopers! In this 20-step tutorial I’ll be explaining how to make the MacBook Air ad (as shown on http://www.apple.com/macbookair). I’m not going to focus on the end result but I’ll try to explain lots of the tools I used and tell you some of the tricks to make your Photohop workflow easier! As an “Apple fanboy” I really enjoyed doing this and I hope y’all learn something!
Go see the Tutorial here.
88. iPhone Design (Video)
89. Apple Style Banner
This tutorial will teach you how to create and Apple iPod style banner for your own product.
Go see the Tutorial here.
90. Attack of the iPod People
iPod People, iCharacters, silhouettes–whatever you call them, they are those cool people who dance around in the iPod TV commercials and show up in the posters and billboards you might have seen around town and I’m going to show you how to make your own in Photoshop CS (this tutorial will work in other versions but will require some digging on your own to find out how).
Go see the Tutorial here.
MobileMe is a service from Apple that helps you collect all your critical information, store it in a central server (cloud server) and get it delivered to all your previously subscribed devices. MobileMe synchronizes all your business and personal information over the air, instantly and without hassles. It’s ideal for people on the go that need to have access to their information every second.
MobileMe uses a both way sync or push, it delivers your mobile information to the cloud server and once received it updates all your home or office devices, keeping all points updated with fresh information. MobileMe interface is clean, easy to use, elegant and pleasant, a mature interface that offers an easy to use layout.
MobileMe up and Running
At this year WWDC (2008), Apple retooled the .mac service and renamed it as MobileMe, a syncronization service that will have all your devices updated simultaneaously. Your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery and iDisk will be on the Cloud for you to access them whenever and whererver you like it. And the syncronization is among multiple devices, your iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac and Windows PC, the most important thing about MobileMe is that it’s an ad-free service.
MobileMe Features:
Push Email
MobileMe Mail pushes new messages to your iPhone automatically and notifies you when they arrive. You’ll instant notification for new email. On your iPhone and iPod touch, it works with the built-in Mail application. It also works with Mail on a Mac and Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Mail on a PC. Emails are scanned for viruses.
Push Contacts
With MobileMe Contacts, you have all your address book information at your fingertips. Any change to your Contacts and automatically all your devices will be updated-synchronized, giving you more access and control of your information anytime and anywhere.
Push Mobile Gallery
Mobile Gallery provides a destination for your friends and family, you can upload photos from your computer or iPhone to your Gallery and invite people to visit, download and share their favorites, and even contribute their own. It provides fancy and animated views, mosaic, carousel or slideshow.
Push Calendar
MobileMe pushes your calendar information to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. So you always know where you need to be and when you need to be there. You can make changes on one device and MobileMe automatically updates all your other devices, it works with iCal on a Mac and Outlook on Windows PC.
iDisk
MobileMe provides a virtual disk accessible from anywhere and with every browser on the market, it comes with a 20GB combined email and file storage and can be accessed from your Mac OS X Finder. iDisk is the easier and more reliable way to transport your office or personal files and access them on the road.
Prices and Availabilities
MobileMe is said to be up and running today and can be accessed from Mac and Windows computers with any browser, this technology is ready to use with your iphone and ipod touch too and there is not news about support for other mobile devices. MobileMe is a subscription based service with a price of $99 a year for indivual use with a 20GB of combined email and file storage, 200GB of monthly bandwidth and $149 for a Family Pack (4 members) with 5GB of combined email and file storage, and 50GB of monthly data transfer for each member.
Third parties support is unknown and virus or any thread is under Apple control, but the price could be a roadblock for some mac users that were expecting a cheaper price for the service.
Images courtesy of Apple. Used for editorial purpose only.
Mac OS X 10.5 is a speed demon that sometimes needs to be tweaked to get out all its performance in line with what you expect from it, this is a combination of common sense and smart tweaks to achieve the higher satisfaction. There are some sacrifices that we live with in order to achieve a better working environment. Here some tips and tricks to put Mac OS X 10.5 and its horsepower to work for you.
1. Slow Startup
There is a bunch of things that can make your Mac OS X 10.5 startup to be slow, corrupted files, preferences, network lookup, Startup items, Spotlight indexing and more. We will start searching for the perfect tweak to make this great OS to shine for us, here some ideas that We have implemented in order to get the most of our Video Editing computers. Get all the ram your money can buy and follow some of these helpful tips. Your experience may vary, but all of these directions are applied in our Systems, so give them a try. Here the basics:
2. Separate Mac OS from your regular files.
We created a 100 GB Partition for Mac OS X and other Applications. We move our iTunes, Aperture and iPhone Library to a different Partition in order to let the System does its job.The same way, We setup the Photoshop scratching Disk Option in other Partitions. iLife can have its files relocated to other disc too.
3. Kill all your Login Items
Don’t set Applications to start at your login session. It can slow your System response, if you need some applications to start at the same time, just make an AppleScript that opens them, place it at the Dock and a Click could open them immediately.
Remember to stop unused services like Printer Sharing, Web Sharing, File Sharing or iTunes Music Sharing, just turn on those that you really need and use.
4. Reset Open Firmware
Resetting your Firmware can help speed up your System. At the Startup screen press CMD+OPT+O+F, At the prompt type reset-all and then press return
5. Repair Ownership and Permissions
One of the most used tweak to speed up Mac OS X is to Repair Ownership and Permissions, it can be done using Disk Utility or using any other mac os x system utility (Cocktail, Mac Pilot, OnyX, DoktorKleanor, MacJanitor, Panther Cache Cleaner, Blacktree-Secrets and TinkerTool System).
6. Clean up your System Preferences
Check for old and corrupted preferences, use Spring Cleaning option from Onyx to get rid of those unused preferences.
7. Check your network preferences
Normally your System spend a few seconds looking for all your network connections, try to setup those that you really use, if you only have a wireless network, then you don’t need to have an ethernet based network setup available, uncheck it.
8. Your System: Localization
If English is your main Language, then you may not need to have Chinese or Russian version of your System installed. Get rid of all the Localized version of Mac OS that you don’t really use. You can save a lot of space and performance removing those Locatization and their respective versions for almost all your installed Applications. You can use Monolingual to clean them out. Just remove those unnecessary Locatizations. Get Monolingual here.Don’t remove anything from your System if you are not sure about what you are doing.
9. Kill the Dock Animation
Save a little resource killing the Dock animation for opening an Application and Magnification. You can use Onyx and TinkerTool to reduce even more the settings for the Dock.
10. Kill .dmg image and CD/DVD Verification
The .dmg image verification is a pain in the ass, why would you need to have an image verified when opening, if the image is damaged there is nothing you can do, the same thing happens when you burned a CD or DVD the System tries to verify an already burned media, but it doesn’t fix any problem if encountered. Kill these two waste of time and resources features using the Misc Tab on Ony.
11. Open With… Files
If you bring files from Windows to the mac chances are that those files get Preview as the Default application, one way to avoid opening a Photoshop file with Preview is to select the file, press Command+i for the Get Info of the selected file, then navigate down to the Open With section, select from the Tab the Application you want to open this kind of file from now on and click Change All.
12. Check your font files
You make have the System working with damaged or corrupted fonts, a regular check could help you improve your Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop performance. You may disable any font using Apple Font Book or having the Lynotype FontExplorer X application. This is a free download here. Lynotype FontExplorer X may helps you clean your Font Cache and check for those corrupted font installed.
13. Removing Mail Attachments
One Application that helps your System collects garbage is the Apple Mail, I am receiving more than 50 MB of Attachments from people sending you pdf files, fancy powerpoint presentations or even Youtube videos, you can save those important attachments into a folder located out of your System and then select the Message, use the Remove Attachments option from the Message Menu in Apple Mail, this could save you a few hundred megabytes a week.
14. Bluetooth not more
If you are not using Bluetooth, please help the System to work perfectly, the Bluetooth option ON consumes Mac OS X resources that you are not taking advantage of, it is a smart thing to turn it off, you may save performance and battery at the same time.
15. iTunes default
In a smart move by Apple the default place for iTunes is the iTunes Store, if you forget to change it when iTunes is updated then you may do it using Ony, make it points to your music library instead of the iTunes Store.
16. Stop Safari from opening PDF files
It is a mess much of the time, it spends a precious time trying to open the pdf file and you end up downloading it, go straight and get this *&^*^&*&* file into your Download, you can check first if the link you are clicking is a pdf file, if it is a pdf file, press CONTROL+CLICK over the link and choose Download the Linked File from the Contextual Menu or disable the opening option using Ony or Blacktree-Secrets.
17. Stop Spotlight from Reindexing your Disks.
Every update you make or Disk Utilities check your discs Spotlight tries to reindex them resulting in a performance punishment, you can avoid this reindexing telling Spotlight not to index your HD setting them in the Privacy Tab of the Spotlight Section in your System Preferences.
18. Mac OS X Sidebar
Speed up access to your Applications and files placing them into the Left Sidebar, just drop it and with a single click you can open them. It’s faster than placing them on the Dock and the Sidebar doesn’t have the unnecessary animations.
19. Thousands vs Millions of Colors
While the reduction from Millions of Colors to Thousands in your Display Preferences won’t help you get an ultra high performance, it may help a lot in computers with slower video card. This setting combined with other increases your mac performance speeding up the processes and tasks needed.
20. Screensavers - Desktop Background
Screen Savers are beautiful, elegants and give us joy, but sometimes they may screw our computer performance, I don’t remember the last time I use them in a daily basis, you don’t want to see any Screensaver while rendering a 3 hours film or recording a DVD for a client. Kill your screensavers and choose a refreshing monotone background image.
The iPhone has been a hit out of proportion for Apple and rivals and it’s becoming the mandatory platform to program for, so there’s a sense of urgency on programmers and developers to learn to create the next big thing for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Almost all major game developers are rethinking its strategy to include some of their famous games into the iPhone. Here is a little list of the most important Programming Resources that we can find online.
2. Animating a Ball Using An NSTimer
I am going to show you today how you can do some simple animation by moving a ball around the screen. We will not be using OpenGL ES to move the ball. We will simply be using an NSTimer and a UIImageView.
See the Tutorial here.
3. Stanford iPhone Programming Classes Material
Excellent library of PDF based Classes ready to help you master the iPhone Programming.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
Visit and download your favorite ones here.
4. IBM: Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse
Learn to create iPhone Web sites using Eclipse, Aptana’s iPhone Development plug-in, and the iUi framework. See the development of a Javadoc viewer for the iPhone, uncover tips for user interface design, and hear about the future of iPhone application development.
Visit the well documented material from IBM here.
5. iPhone Developers Community at iphonewebdev.com
Developing content for the hottest new mobile device? You’ve come to the right place.
This website is a community of web developers helping each other to create the best possible web applications for the iPhone… the premier platform for portable Web 2.0 applications. Examples here.
Visit phonewebdev.com here.
6. iphoney
iPhone simulator based on Safari helps you fine tune your applications before its final delivering to the public.
Download iPhoney here.
8. Learn How To Develop For The iPhone
Today I’m going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an iPhone to view your page as well as the orientation of the device - whether it be landscape or portrait. To accomplish this we will be using javascript, and some Safari mobile specific CSS tags
Check this well explained tutorial here.
9. iPhone application development, step by step
When Apple announced that the SDK for iPhone application development was going to be (just) Ajax, we were very excited to build an OpenLaszlo application for it.
Check these interesting tutorials for the iPhone application development here.
10. iPhone Toolbox
One of the most complete iPhone resources website on the net, it contains hundreds of well documented tutorials, tips and tricks to make your developing process flow easily.
Visite the iPhonetoolbox.com here.
Learn more, earn more. Remember that we accept your recommendations, any suggestion, express yourself in our Forums or in the Comments Section. Stay tuned for the next 10 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials and don’t forget that starting with the 50s Tutorials will be about a specific theme, advertising, web, movie and so on.
Let’s design a mobile phone advertisement. It’s inspired by mobile phone posters, billboard designs, and magazine advertisements. We’ll be reviewing using Smart Filters and Objects in this tutorial, as well as multiple techniques to create this design.
n this tutorial, it will show you how to create a “Product Labels” in Photoshop. And this demonstrates you how to create a green tea label with a ninja character in background. Of course, you can use the same idea to present your products with different character. And our example is as shown in the thumbnail.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a iPhone advertisement similar to the nano ad with paint dripping under it. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments and i’ll be happy to answer any question.
This is a guide on how to install Linux on the iPhone provided by the iPhone-dev team, follow carefully every step and enjoy your linux iPhone hacking….
These are utility binaries precompiled on Ubuntu 8.10. They require:
- libpthread
- libncurses
- libusb
- libreadline
INSTALLING OPENIBOOT
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1. Put your iPhone in Recovery Mode
2. sudo ./loadibec openiboot-2g.img3
- Or -3g, -ipod, depending on your platform.
3. sudo ./oibc
4. nor_read 0×09000000 0×0 1048576
5. ~norbackup.dump:1048576
- This will create a file called norbackup.dump in your
current directory. GUARD IT WITH YOUR LIFE.
6. install
7. After ‘install’ has finished, type in: reboot.
8. You ought to see the openiboot menu.
BOOTING LINUX
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1. Use the Hold button to navigate the menu. Push the Home button
when openiboot client is selected.
2. sudo ./oibc
3. !zImage
4. kernel
5. !rootfs.arm.ext2.gz
6. ramdisk 3588
7. boot “console=tty console=ttyUSB root=/dev/ram0 rw”
8. sudo ./linux
You should now get a login prompt. Nothing that’s happening will show up on
the LCD automatically, but you can redirect it to the display with the
following command:
The iPhone is a web phenomenon and every major news website is adapting or considering an adaptation to the iphone in order to capture the millions of iPhone surfer outside, but do you know how to design a website especially crafted for the iPhone? If your answer is not, today is your lucky day, here an excellent tutorial on how to get your site up and running in minutes.
MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original, you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a nice side effect, and is not MAME’s primary focus.
It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the original games. All of MAME’s source code is either our own or freely available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs, CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the executable.
Zodttd
psx4iphone, gpSPhone, snes4iphone, genesis4iphone, and OpenTTD.app can be found here.
snes4iphone has been released to beta testers at ZodTTD.com. This build is very special as it marks what is soon to be a trend in the following weeks…performance increases! This is largely due to the great strides saurik made while updating the tools I use to develop with. With some fixes made plus the new toolchain, some users have reported a 50% increase in performance of snes4iphone!
Snes4iphone is a Sega Genesis and Sega CD emulator for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. It is currently available via Installer.app courtesy of the Community Sources at ModMyiFone.com. It is also available at the official ZodTTD.com repo. Manual downloads are being posted and will be available shortly.
They’ve also been working on getting sound introduced into snes4iphone though it’s been an uphill battle. I can emulate and mix the sound, but for some reason it just outputs silence. More work is needed, but it at least is being worked on.
Project Address: http://www.zodttd.com
Tutorial
How to install Zodttd on your iPhone
Download and install ZodTTD.com projects via Installer.app Repo
1. On the iPhone or iPod Touch’s Safari goto this URL (with trailing / )
http://zodttd.com/repo/
2. If Installer.app doesn’t launch it’s because that feature wont work for people without an Installer.app Safari plugin. Instead, add the repo source to the sources list. You will need to launch Installer.app and goto Sources, then Edit, then Add. Add the URL above.
3. You should now see ZodTTD.com projects listed in All Packages and if it’s a newer release, Recent Packages.
The ePSXe 1.6.0 version of Sony Playstation emulator for the iphgone
ePSXe is a Sony Playstation emulator. It has a good compatibility rate and runs very fast. It is also very flexible as it uses a plugin system for sound and graphics and can also support original playstation controllers (using a special adaptor).
I have only recently started to use ePSXe as I normally use Bleem, however I have found out that ePSXe has alot less glitches and is updated far more regularly so I have switched over completely.
I thought long and hard over this tutorial as I knew it would be difficult to write as there are alot of options in ePSXe. Because of the amount of options I found that it is sometimes difficult to put the technical jargon into plain english but I think I have. I hope you like the results.
Downloading
You can find the latest version of ePSXe on it’s homepage here. If you want a friendly frontend for ePSXe then get Epsxecutor from the ePSXe homepage as well.
IMPORTANT! To get the emulator working you need a copy of the Playstation BIOS which you can get at the following link. There are 2 to look for…
1. SCPH7502.bin
2. SCPH1001.bin
You will also need to download some plugins as well to get ePSXe working. Plugins can be got from links below. The ones I recommend are…
CDROM = ePSXe’s Internal CD and CDR Mooby 1.6 (cdrmooby16.zip) for ISO images.
Installing
To install ePSXe you will need a copy of Winzip. All you have to do is to open the zipfile, press the extract button and type C:\ePSXe into to the path area of the window that opens. Use the same path if you want to install the ePSXecutor front end as well.
Bios - Where the BIOS image is stored
Cheats - Place cheat files here
Docs - ePSXe documentation
Memcards - Where ePSXe stores your memory cards
Patches - For game patches to help get copied games running
Plugins - For 3rd party audio / video plug-ins
Snap - Where screen shots are put
Sstates - Where ePSXe stores its saved game states.
To install the bios file you must extract the bios images to the C:\ePSXe\bios folder. You will need a copy of Winzip to extract the file.
You will also have to extract the plugins to the C:\eSPXe\plugins folder.
Installing Games
To play games on ePSXe you will need either the original Playstation CD’s or ISO images of them. If you have the original disk (or copy if your naughty) then ePSXe can play them straight from your CDRom.
If you have an ISO image then you will need the cdr mooby plugin selected and will have to select the image from a file window. As ISO images can be up to 700MB I don’t suggest you store too many on your computer as you’ll soon run out of hard disk space.
iPhone NES emulate your retro Nintendo games
NES.app lets you play Nintendo games on your iPhone. It is a fully functional, feature-rich Nintendo emulator. NES.app uses an emulator core called NESCore, which was forked from pNESx and InfoNES and re-engineered as a highly-portable and high-performance Nintendo emulator core.
In order to use NES.app, you will need ROM images of Nintendo games. ROM images are files containing the dumped instruction code from a physical cartridge. In many cases, you are legally entitled to posess a ROM image of any game that you presently own. ROM images for NES are widely available online, or with the appropriate hardware, you can dump them yourself directly from the cartridge.
Features
Multitouch: Use the directional pad + A + B, or other combinations
Landscape Mode: Turn the iPhone counter-clockwise to play in landscape mode
Zapper Tap: Tap objects on the screen to shoot them
Full Screen: Enlarge your NES picture to the max possible
Save State: Save an instant snapshot of your game and come back to it later
Game Genie: Use Game Genie cheat codes… and many more
NES.app is not iPhoneNES!
NES.app started as a fork of iPhoneNES v0.01, but has been completely rewritten to run very fast, and with many additional features including sound, multitouch support, full-screen, landscape mode, game genie codes, saved games and much more. It now contains zero code from the original iPhoneNES project.
As of recent, stepwhite re-released a much older version of NES.app as iPhoneNES v0.31. I have no idea why, but please be aware that NES.app is in no way affiliated with the iPhoneNES project (which only ever released v0.01 officially). I recommend using the latest version of NES.app instead, which is available below.
ROMs go in /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES (for those of you who don’t read the README).
Source Code
The source code can be downloaded via svn:
svn checkout http://svn.natetrue.com/nesapp
NES ROMs
NES ROMs are widely available on the Internet, and can be easily found using a serach engine. I do not condone the piracy of Nintendo games, however fair use may legally entitle you to download (or dump) the ROMs for games which you presently own, depending on your country of origin.
Download NES.app here
and here
Download the NES emulator + games from here
Please always read documentation before hacking your iphone, it can be damaged and remember Apple doesn’t honored warranty for hacked devices. Got it?
The NES Emulator in Action
Complete information about the NES Emulator
FEATURES
MULTITOUCH
NES.app uses the iPhone’s multitouch sensor to deliver a controller
environment very similar to the original NES controllers. This allows
you to “Run with B”, and so forth. The multitouch programming also allows
you to drag your finger to a different direction or button.
Note: “rolling” your thumb between A & B will allow you to depress both
buttons, just like on the original controller.
ZAPPER
The iPhone’s touchscreen makes for a great way to implement the zapper
gun. Just tap the screen where you want to shoot. Zap-Tap works on many
games including Duck Hunt, Hogan’s Alley, and others, but does not work
at all on the more nonstandard games, such as Chiller and Freedom Force.
SENSORY PAD
Since there is no tactile feedback on an iPhone, it may be more desirable
to play some games with a controller that measures motion, rather than
presses on specific buttons. Activating the ‘Sensory Pad’ option causes
NES.app’s directional pad to track with the motion of your finger,
regardless of where inside the sensory pad you are touching. When sensory
pad is active, the directional pad is replaced with a yellow track sensor.
SOUND
Sound is played through the iPhone’s native interface, allowing you to
hear email dings or accept phone calls while playing NES.app.
FRAME SKIP
Using the frame skip option, games that otherwise might run slightly slow
on your iPhone can be made playable.
An auto-frameskip option is the default, which continually adjusts the
frame skip and frame wait to make your games play as smooth as possible.
FULL SCREEN MODE
Using the full screen option, you can zoom in on your favorite game as
close to “full screen” as the NES aspect ratio will allow.
NOTE: Using full screen mode slows down the display a bit, so your
frameskip will typically bump up by 1, making the game more choppy.
LANDSCAPE MODE
NES.app takes advantage of the iPhone’s tilt sensor and will
automatically switch to a landscape-based view when you tilt your phone
to either side.
SAVE RAM
Games with battery-backed RAM, like Zelda, are automatically saved
to preserve your character data.
SAVE STATE
NES.app can save the state of any game when you exit. Unlike save ram,
which only for certain games with battery RAM, this option allows you to
take a “snapshot” of your game in progress, and come back to it later
right where you left off.
You can choose to start a fresh game from the “All Games” menu, or tap
“Saved Games” and load your previously saved game.
The game state is stored separate from save ram, so if you are playing
games like Zelda, where your game is usually stored to battery ram,
you will not need to save state unless you want to save an exact
snapshot. The save ram from the game is automatically stored
regardless of whether you save state.
TWO PLAYER CONTROLLERS
Although NES.app does not support netplay, you can toggle between
first and second player controllers by tapping the gray bar at the top
of the controller. The controller will change from red to blue to
identify itself as the 2nd player controller. Tap again to switch back.
This is useful for some 2-player games where the players take turns,
and for ROMs like the 1990 World Championship ROM, which requires the
second controller to start.
GAME GENIE
Game Genie was a popular cheat system for the NES. Many cheat codes are
published on the Internet. Up to four game genie codes can be specified
per game via the preferences menu. Load a ROM, then back out into
preferences to edit the genie codes.
NOTES:
Game genie slows down the game slightly, as the CPU is constantly
having to match read addresses with genie codes. This may increase
your auto-frameskip or require a bump if manually adjusting it.
Leave the genie switch “off” when not using it.
It’s also a good idea to turn off full-screem mode if you’re
using game genie.
TIP: For complex codes to start on a particular level, you can
enable the code, then save your game after beginning, disable
the code, and run at full speed again.
PREFERENCES
The following preferences are available by tapping the ‘Preferences’
navigation button…
Auto-Save Game
When active, every game you play will be automatically saved when you
leave the game. You may re-enter the game where you left off by
tapping ‘Saved Games’ from the top of the menu. If you decide to
start a new game, your old saved game will be overwritten.
Swap A/B
Swaps the A/B buttons around. NOTE: The labels do not change, only the
function.
Allow Suspend
When active, this allows you to push the home button, or accept a
phone call from within a game. When you return to NES.app, the game will
continue where you left off. When this feature is disabled, NES.app will
promptly quit instead.
Full Screen
Stretches the game screen to as large as possible, while maintaining
aspect ratio. NOTE: This impacts performance slightly.
Sensory Pad
Changes the directional pad to a sensory pad, which sets the direction
based on finger movement.
Game Genie
Activates any Game Genie codes you have entered at the bottom of the
preferences screen, for whatever game you happen to be playing.
NOTE: Leave this option off unless you are using it.
Advanced Options:
Frame Skip
Allows for manual adjustment of the frame skip. It is recommended you
leave this on ‘A’ for ‘Auto’.
Color Palette
This option allows you to change the color scheme of NES games to your
liking. The following palettes are available:
A: Standard palette, optimized for iPhone
B: Standard palette, unoptimized (used in older versons of NES.app)
C: Original NTSC palette
D: Original PAL palette
CPU Clock
The CPU clock controls the frequency of the CPU during rendering. As of
present best-practice, 339 provides accurate rendering for most games
and is the default. 341 can be used to tweak any games that you might
have a problem with, or if you find a game that doesn’t run using 339
cycles.
Bass Boost
Boosts the triangle wave output (responsible for most basslines).
Debug Mode
Debug mode draws colored rectangles over the hot spots of your game
controller, and also writes a diagnostic log to /tmp/NES.debug for
development.
NOTE: Leave this option off unless you are using it.
Add -DDEBUG to your CFLAGS to build with this option
HOW DO I…
Q. Upload ROMs to my iPhone?
A. Try iPhuc, iFuntastic, iBrickr, or set up SSH on your iPhone
Q. Reset my game?
A. Tap ‘ROM List’ and then tap your ROM again
Q. Adjust my volume?
A. With the volume buttons on the left.
Q. Use the player 2 controller?
A. Touch the top gray bar to switch between player 1 and player 2. The
controller buttons and text will change from red to blue when 2 player
is active.
Q. Press A & B at the same time?
A. In recent versions, you can now roll your thumb from one button to the
middle of both buttons. Both A and B should show up in the active control
window. Sliding your thumb from one side to the other will gracefully
switch between the two buttons.
COMPILING FROM SOURCE
0. You will need to install arm-apple-darwin toolchain v0.30 or above.
Set your HEAVENLY environment variable to point to your iPhone environment.
You will also require AudioQueue.h from Leopart’s AudioToolbox framework.
I cannot provide this. If you own Leopard, locate this file and copy it
into your toolchain includes in AudioToolbox/AudioQueue.h if necessary.
1. Compile using ‘make’
This will create a new NES.app package in ./build.
Upload entire NES.app directory into /Applications on the iPhone and either
reboot the iPhone or run “killall SpringBoard”.
The iPhone should automatically detect the application and add it to the
springboard.
2. Place your ROM files in /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES
You will need to use a tool such as iPhoneInterface, iFuntastic, or SSH
KNOWN ISSUES
SOUND
Occasionally, the sound may appear to play severely lagged; at about half
speed. Rebooting the phone appears to resolve this. This appears to be
related to the sample rate of whatever sound was last played on the iPhone
(prior to launching NES.app) and has only been exhibited in 1.0.x firmware.
PAL VS. NTSC
NES.app supports both PAL and NTSC games, however not all PAL games are
appropriately identified as such in their headers. You can force NES.app to
identify a game as a PAL game by adding the text (E) to the filename
(including the parenthesis). For example: Tetris (E).nes. It is recommended
that you title all of your PAL games in this way, to ensure they are
clocked properly.
NESCORE
NESCore is an emulator core we originally forked from InfoNES, which was left
as a defunct and buggy NES emulator. We’ve since heavily modified and
rewritten many pieces of it, and given it a new birth as a portable LGPL
emulator core.
The NESCore project can be found at http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/nescore/
Step by Step Video Guide to NES Emulator on the iPhone
Guide to NES Emulator on the iPhone and iPod Touch, complete with video tutorial on how to add roms and where to get them. Please remember to have a backup of your information because if you don’t follow instruction you can make your iphone unusable and must repair it with a restore with itunes…
Installation
Roms Downloading
Geting Roms to your iPhone
Adding More Roms
List of the most visited NES Roms Sites for your iPhone
visit at your own risk, desinformado.com is not affiliated with any of them, nor endorsed, sponsored, it is provided as a reference, you must check the legality of downloading any rom, you have been warned.
List of the most visited NES Roms Sites for your NES.app Emulator for the iPhone, download and install following our installation guide to NES rom on your iphone, happy NES emulation. There are thousand of Nintendo Roms available online this is a list of the the sites that provide the most complete roms catalog
There is a new hack in town that let you emulate games for the playstation 1 in your shiny new iphone. It has a good compatibility rate and features save states and a dynarec for added performance.
compatibility list (the list is bigger at the )
Some of the games that are working just fine in the iphone:
Buster Bros Collection Buster Bros Collection Driver Final Fantasy Tactics
Gran Turismo Need For Speed 3 Wipeout 2 Wipeout XL Wipeout XL Xenogears
command and conquer
gran turismo 2
grand theft auto 2
metal gear solid vr missions
final fantasy origins
game:kings field 2
command and conquer red alert
gran turismo
Crash Team Racing
Tekken 3
Idiot guide to PSX4iPhone:
Step 1: Getting the Program
Click this link to download psx4all v0.1.0.
http://zodttd.com/forum/index.php?topic=154.0
Extract it, by right clicking on the archive and clicking “Extract to psx4iphone_0_1_0″. Step 1 complete. Congratulations.
Step 2:Putting the Program on your iPod touch
Now that you have the program, you need it on your iPoT. Just put it onto your iPoT like you would any other program. In WinSCP or TotalCommander, first connect to your iPod. Then, in the right column, locate to the folder called Applications. Drag the folder “psx4iphone.app” into the left column. Let it do it’s thing. Yay, you put it onto your iPoT.
Since this is an idiot-proof guide, I’m putting a tutorial for WinSCP and TotalCommander in here, just in case you don’t know how to use them.
WinSCP
1.) Download WinSCP from this link: http://sourceforge.net/project/downl…irror=internap
2.) Install it and reboot your computer.
3.) Open up WinSCP. For the Host Name, put your iPoT’s IP Address. To find this, go to Settings on your iPoT, click on Wi-Fi, then click the blue arrow next to your network’s name. The IP address is the first thing you’ll see. Put that into the Host Name box. For User Name, put root. The password is alpine. Those are the only ones that work, no matter what. Make sure the port number is 22. The click Save so you don’t have to enter that crap every time you need to connect. Click OK then click Login. That should work, then put it onto your iPoT.
TotalCommander
1.) Download it from this link: http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm
Then download this too: http://t-pot.googlecode.com/files/T-PoT.0.2.zip
2.) Install TotalCommander.
3.) Extract the T-PoT archive.
4.) Open up TotalCommander. Click on Configuration near the top of the window, then click on Options. Click on Plugins from the left column. Click Configure under File System Plugins (.WFX) in the middle. Click Add then find the T-PoT.0.2 folder and the T-PoT.wfx file in that folder and click Open. Then press Ok, and close TotalCommander. Open it up again and find the drop-down menu over the right column that says “[-c-]“. Drop it down and click on the last option, [-/-]. That should bring you to all the files on your iPoT. I highly recommend using this since it transfers large files very quickly.
Anyways, back to the guide.
Step 3: Setting the Permissions to 755
For this, you can use either Squid or Finder. I use Squid. Download it from Installer, then open it up. Touch Applications, then find psx4all.app. Touch that, then find psx4all at the bottom. Touch that, and you’ll see nine green boxes. Make sure that all of the boxes with Read next to them are checked, same with the ones with Exec next to them. There are also three boxes with Write next to them. Only touch the left-most box, then press Apply. That will set the permissions to 755 and make psx4all work.It should look like this:
Step 4: Putting Games onto your iPoT
Open up WinSCP or TotalCommander and get into your iPoT’s files. This time, go down and click on “var”. Then click “root”, then “Media”, then “ROMs”, then “PSX”. Find the ROM you downloaded on the left column and drag it into the right column. This might take a while, so I highly recommend TotalCommander because it’s the fastest way to transfer games. Let it finish, close TotalCommander or WinSCP, then that’s all there is to it. Congratulations, you’ve gotten PSX games on your iPod touch!
Step 5: Getting the BIOS file
You’re going to want the BIOs file for psx4all. I cannot post it in this thread for legal reasons, so I recommend going to www.google.com and typing something like “scph1001.bin download” and clicking on the first result. Something like that One you’ve got that, extract it and put it onto your iPoT in the psx4all directory. Remember, it’s Applications/psx4all.app. Then, go into Squid and and change the permissions of the scph1001.bin file to 755. There you go!
Applications for the iphone and ipod touch are growing like bad grass, faster than you can kill it and every single day you notice new and amazing services, tools and utilities for this new platform. We collected a bunch of them, those that we believe are the most important ones to hang out… In the next part we will add more business related applications. Please notice that some of fthis applications can damage your iphone, a fresh restore could help but act wisely, we are not affiliated with the designers/programmers or vendors of these applications, we only provide this list as an recommendation, we are not receiving any kind of endorsement from their respective owners. We really don’t know them, but appreciate their time.
iPhoneeBooks
Read books using your iPhone! Download books from online repositories, like Project Gutenberg, and enjoy reading them with this nice tool. If you love reading and don’t want to waste your time while waiting for something, just install this little application and read books whenever you have a spare minute. From now on a library of your favorite books will be always at hand.
Voice Notes Voice Notes allows you to record, play and share voice memos. It offers interactive memo recording using your iPhone’s built-in microphone and speaker. With this application you can easily send and receive voice email, it has native support for AMR. The process of recording is very simple. Must have.
MobileChat
Using a simplistic approach, keeping a unified GUI in mind, and using the most light weight methods for executing tasks, MobileChat is the premier AIM Application for the iPhone. In fact, it’s so light-weight and efficient that it runs just about as well on the EDGE network as it does on any WiFi network!
weDict
If you study foreign languages, read in foreign languages, or just love traveling, you will surely find this small application useful. weDict is a light-weight dictionary for iPhone. It supports StarDict’s dictionaries that are also free and available for many languages.
Lights Off
If you are not in the mood to read books or to chat with your friends, try this one. Lights Off is an absolutely addictive puzzle game for iPhone. You should switch all of the lights out. Tapping a light toggles it, along with the four adjacent lights. Once you succeed with switching out, you’ll advance to the next level!
Free FLV Converter
Search and download movies and clips from YouTube, Google Video, and from other online video services using this tool. Free FLV Converter will also convert the movies and clips that you select into the iPhone format. The program will run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista machines.
Videora iPhone Converter Videora iPhone Converter is a free iPhone video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD’s so you can play them on your iPhone. The software, developed by the creators of Videora, can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD’s, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPhone.
SendPics SendPics allows you to email full-resolution photos from your camera folder. Snap a pic and send it by email to Flickr or your favorite photo processor. By default, images that are sent from iPhone are automatically scaled, which reduces their quality. This small utility preserves full quality of your images while sending them from your iPhone.
Sketches Sketches is a native iPhone application that will allow you to sketch a simple diagram, to draw on your iPhone, to add different things to your photos etc. It also has the ability to select pencils and colors, a library of stationery to use for your background, saving your work to the photo library (so that you can synchronize back to your computer), send to mail and undo. To erase your drawing, just shake your iPhone, as if it were an etch-a-sketch!
Free iPhone Unlock http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/ contains guides and tools necessary to unlock your iPhone without any hardware change. This should allow you to use your iPhone with a SIM card from any GSM carrier instead of being locked with the provided carrier. The process of unlocking is described pretty good, there are step-by-step tutorials. Get more freedom for your iPhone!
ClearCheckbook Money Management
With ClearCheckbook Mobile, you can balance your checkbook, manage your finances, view reports on your spending, see where your money is going and more. ClearCheckbook Mobile has all the same great features that ClearCheckbook.com has, except they’ve been specially designed to fit on the screen of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Take a look today and be on your way to full control of your finances!
To use on your iPhone or iPod Touch open the link in Safari: http://www.clearcheckbook.com/mobile/
Mortgage Calculator
A simple mortgage calculator that factors in your loan amount, loan interest, and number of years. Suggested categories: real estate, business, finance, mortgage
To use on your iPhone or iPod Touch open the link in Safari: http://www.mortgagesum.com/iphone/
StockWatch
Want to track your stock portfolio on your iPhone or iPod Touch?
StockWatch is a web-app similar to the Native iPhone/iPod Touch stock application, but with a host of additional features:
- View detailed information (Ranges, Volume, Market Cap, EPS, etc.) for the stocks in your Watchlist.
- Set up a trackable portfolio for any of the stocks you are watching, and see the gain/loss in real-time.
- An additional watchlist toggle that will show you the all-time gain/loss your portfolio.
To use on your iPhone or iPod Touch open the link in Safari: http://iphone.toughturtle.com/stockwatch
Buxfer
Buxfer is an online tool for managing your personal and social finances. It is aimed especially at 20-somethings. With Buxfer, you can upload your bank transactions (or automatically download them), understand where you are spending money, set up budgets, get reminders, and lots more. You can also split dinner bills, groceries, etc. and track how much your room-mates owe! All of this accessible over the web, through an iPhone/iPodTouch or even via email!
To use on your iPhone or iPod Touch open the link in Safari: http://i.buxfer.com/
Bank of America Mobile
Bank of America Mobile Mobile Banking from Bank of America. Do your banking from your iPhone or iPodTouch.
To use on your iPhone or iPodTouch open the link in Safari: Bank of America Mobile
Billing Manager
We spend a lot of time with small business owners, seeing the passion you bring to what you do, whether it’s web design, landscaping, or dog walking. Along the way, we’ve noticed something small business owners definitely don’t love: creating, sending, and tracking invoices. So we created Intuit Billing Manager to take the hassle out of billing, so people can focus on doing what’s really important.
What’s New in this Version
- The newest release of Billing Manager lets you manage your billing on the go. View your customer list and invoices, keep track of payments as they are received, and even process credit cards from your iPhone!
noter
An Offline notes/ to do list! Load the page on your iPhone once and you can use noter offline! noter has been upgraded to include account synchronization! Type up notes, store offline and sync any time with your dBelement account. You can retrieve your notes on any computer or iPhone. Make changes, send to your account and retrieve anywhere.
Jot down quick notes, add items to a to-do list. With a simple, easy to use interface you’ll be off jotting down notes in seconds. Simply open noter and enjoy!
BudgetBuster Daily Expense Tracker
Helps you keep tabs on your daily, weekly, and monthly spending goals. I have a household budget, but it’s the little things that seem to add up — cups of coffee, some books, a snack I didn’t plan on, an extra meal out. These kinds of things ruin a budget! But BudgetBuster, which is always available on your iPhone, will help you stick with your goals. Set up a daily, weekly, or monthly budget, then add expenses. BudgetBuster lets you know how much you’ve spend this period and how much you’ve got left to spend. BudgetBuster will also store your expense history, as far back as you like. Good luck with your financial goals.
Dynamic AI
Powerful reporting and Business Intelligence. Now on your iPhone or iPod touch. Dynamic AI is a completely browser based reporting and analysis application used in businesses around the world.
Users and developers benefit from:
- Fast connectivity to a wide range of databases
- Effective development and administration processes
- User-friendly and flexible ad-hoc reporting
- Flexible and fast drill-down capabilities
- Dynamically assigned rights, roles and features
- Versioning, logging and build-in documentation
SpeedyMarks
SpeedyMarks makes it easy to open and to create visual bookmarks of your favourite web sites on the iPhone. It uses screenshots to show a preview of the stored web sites. Special aid is provided to enter even complex URLs quickly. Search Google, Wikipedia, Digg.com and Amazon.com. Store the SpeedyMarks either in a local cookie or on a server.
Charts
Create and manage charts of everything. E.g. monitor and track your weight, your expenses, your mileage, temperatures or whatever your want.
You can choose between line, bar and pie charts, different chart color schemes and email the data and the chart to yourself for backup and further processing.
Google iPhone Applications
Google announced the release of a new iPhone application that integrates its multiple services into a single interface, making it easy for iPhone users to find, use and switch between Google search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and more. To use the application, iPhone users simply point their web browser to http://www.google.com.
To accomplish this, Google is taking advantage of browser technologies (like AJAX) that made Gmail and Google Maps possible on the desktop. In supporting these advances in web technology, the iPhone’s Safari browser not only delivers an excellent mobile Internet experience; it enabled our product and engineering teams to create an optimal Google experience on a mobile device.
WirelessDMS
WirelessDMS from Matrix Logic Corporation allows you to access the documents and content in your Open Text eDOCS DM (formerly Hummingbird DM) document management system from your iPhone.
You can see your recent edits, search, view and email documents in your DM system from anywhere, anytime! Never be stuck without your documents again.
43 Actions
Quickly add new actions, organize in contexts and projects, set due dates; get your daily or weekly agenda by email; add new actions via Jott.com, Twitter.com or by email; mark active/next actions; check off and archive finished tasks; customize the color scheme; export a backup (in XML-format) for safekeeping.
TSheets Time Tracker
A free web-based time keeping system for tracking time against project/job codes. From your phone it allows you to easily clock-in and out, manage project codes, and see totals for the day. The desktop version is feature rich with full reports, easy drag-and-drop timesheet management, PTO tracking, and a rich user interface. TSheets also offers a business version with everything needed to track and manage time for all your employees.
Thingamalist | The online list maker and organizer
Allows users to create, save, send, and share lists. Not only can you manage your lists, but also receive electronic coupons on items in your list. Thingamalist is partnering with local businesses to bring you the best shopping incentives.
Sendvite
An online portal to send email invitation to your friends, and families from iPhone and Web. It is free to join. You can track your invitations, send eGreetings and support for SMS Alerts. No Advertisements.
AOL Money & Finance on iPhone
As your complete source of free stock quotes, AOL Money & Finance is the leading investment research site on the web. Get comprehensive stock information for all of your favorite companies in an easy to read format- right on your iphone! In addition to stock prices, AOL Money & Finance has real-time streaming news from over 3,000 sources and robust charting tools. Round out the package with in-depth research data from the top sources in the industry. AOL Money & Finance allows you to quickly analyze your next investment while you’re on the go.
Zimbra
The Apple iPhone can be used to access Zimbra Collaboration Suite using IMAP/POP3, Safari, and iSync. It can also access Zimbra Collaboration Suite with Exchange, using the IMAP protocol for retrieving mail. It does not currently support Exchange ActiveSync or “over the air” syncing due to limitations on the iPhone. Unlike Apple Mail 2.1.1 on OS X and ActiveSync 5+ on Windows Mobile Phones, the iPhone will accept multiple Exchange accounts that can be used with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite server.
Heap CRM
A customer relationship management (CRM) application should make your life simpler not more complicated. Heap is designed to be simple. It has simple functions like messaging, calendars and contacts; but it ties them all together so you can see the relationships between these items. You can easily run reports on this data, or if you wish, export the data. Heap does what you need then gets the heck out of your way.
Newsgator Mobile for iPhone - Full-featured, mobile version of Newsgator’s online offering. Great for users of the MacRSS client, NetNewsWire, which automatically syncs to the service.
iPhoneiGTD - App for access of projects being tracked via the Mac client iGTD. The only catch is that your iGTD data needs to be synced with .Mac in the first place.
TeleMoose- A front-end for Amazon.com optimized for the iPhone.
Google Reader- An interface for popular web-based RSS reader, Google Reader, nicely optimized for the iPhone.
iZoho- An iPhone front-end for the web-based office suite Zoho. The iPhone version lets you do everything you might do on your computer, including viewing and editing docs, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Gas.app - Enter your zip code and this app will find you the cheapest gas in town (USA only).
MyMetar - A “weather bookmarking service” which allows you to bookmark your local METARs, TAFs, and radar images.
iPhoneTravel - Searches directory travel.ian.com just in case you need to book flights, hotels, and cruises from your iPhone.
Listingly - A list making application with a great UI. Integrated word recognition and the ability to print lists make this an indispensable resource, especially for making shopping lists on the go.
NYTimes River - Cuts out the clutter on the NYTimes website, just delivering the news in an easily readable format.
CheapMF - Out shopping? Not sure about prices? CheapMF can help. It’s a utility that searches Amazon.com for prices on specified products in order to help you make educated shopping decisions.
Expense View - Allows you to import your spending data into your iPhone on-the-go.You can then access your data at home and see exactly how you’ve been spending your money. It’s even equipped with graphs and categories for the organized spender.
iActu - Newsstand like interface for reading news headlines from various Newspapers.
iBloglines - Another iPhone-optimized RSS reader, this one, with the Bloglines service.
Belfry SciCalc - A nicely implemented scientific calculator for the iPhone.
TV Forecast - A personalized TV-guide optimized for the iPhone.
WIF, INTERNET AND NETWORK
GOOGLE MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR THE IPHONE
Google announced the release of a new iPhone application that integrates its multiple services into a single interface, making it easy for iPhone users to find, use and switch between Google search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and more. To use the application, iPhone users simply point their web browser to http://www.google.com.</
