Great news for jailbreakers! The Library of Congress has ruled in favor for jailbreaking AND unlocking. The Associated Press writes:

“Owners of the iPhone will be able to break electronic locks on their devices in order to download applications that have not been approved by Apple. The government is making that legal under new rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a federal law that prohibits the circumvention of technical measures that control access to copyrighted works. Every three years, the Library of Congress authorizes such exemptions to ensure that existing law does not prevent non-infringing use of copyrighted material. Another exemption will allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.

This does not mean though, that Apple will make jailbreaking easier, but they can no longer call it illegal.
Though, the question remained weather jailbreaking would void the warrenty, so Leander Kahney, a blogger with an eye or two on Apple called in and asked, they responded:

“Apple’s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.
Note that they do not say that “this violates the warrenty”, but choose to say “as this CAN violate”.
So, new times ahead? – Maybe.

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We may not have thousands of followers right now, but we hope to make iPhonenewsblog.net a worthy addition to the current blogs with our own style and ways.

We also hope you as readers will participate to the blog, with comments and your own posts and experience.

I hope you join us for this journey! The iPhone 4 is here and more is fast approching. I think we have just begun!

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Have you ever felt a need to just shoot a sheep, frog or a pig high up in the air? Not? That is understandable. It seems kind of impossible.

If you are a  iPhone owner you might start or realize that in the iPhone-world, nothing is impossible.

I came across this game, and thought it was entertaining and fun. I even laughed a bit when seeing the air swollen flying pig and the frog falling fast to the ground.

The game is called Sheep Launcher Plus! Created by Kronos Games * and is available in App Store for $0.99. There is a free edition with fewer features called Sheep Launcher Free.

You can choose between launching a sheep, frog or pig. The deal with Sheep Launcher is to get the animals to fly highest and longest possible. After launching the animal eventually will start falling, what you then have to do is tapping the animal, and it will boost up again even higher. Try to collect the stars to get higher score.

If you miss when trying to tap, your chosen animal will start falling to the ground. Then you unfortunately lose. You will get your score and rating on the screen.

Good luck lunching!

*No sheep, pigs or frogs were harmed during the making of this game.

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Have you ever wondered what kind of personality you have? Every human being is different in both body and mind, but it is possible to categorize people by personality similarities and types. The usual way to test personalities is by questionnaires with a question and different answer alternatives. Then you will be scored based on your answers.

Personality testing is used for many different reasons. In therapy they are a normal tool for the therapists to know how to treat their patients. They can also be used to evaluate staff or potential new staff members, gain self awareness and realization or just entertaining yourself and friends.

Now you can test your personality in just ten minutes on iPhone by using the Enneagram Personality Short Test. The test is created by The Enneagram Institute and has been independently and scientifically validated. The original test is much longer version than the short iPhone edition, but gives a good indication after all.

The model Enneagram uses is to recognize nine distinct personality types. The score on your answered questions will decide what personality type you score the highest on.

Enneagram Personality Short Test is available on App Store for $1.99

It can be useful to know yourself and your personality. Good luck!

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Here is a guy who simply gets fed up with traffic, and decides that it is time to speed things up, so he drags out his iGun…
Watch the video below.

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I have spent many boring hours on the buss, playing Peggle. And have to admit, I have forgotten to push the stop bottom several times because of it…. You will become hooked, and when done playing one level, you just have to play another! It is addictive, you have been warned.

Pop Cap’s Peggle history on iPhone is still news, but the game origins goes way back to the Japanese pachinko with falling and bouncing pinball’s.

The whole point about Peggle is to hit all the orange pegs by aiming on them with a trajectory. You will get ten new balls each level, but green pegs activate bonuses when hit. If you hit the green pegs you will get a special powerthat changes with each level. Powers that will make it easier for the next ball or balls you play. With the help of ten outlandish Masters, each with different powers, you will soon rise to Peggle greatness.

The whole game is full of colours, sounds, music and fun. The funny comments flashing on your screen while loading the game, keeps changing. The next time you decide to play some more Peggle, there will be new and even funnier comments while loading for you.

You can choose from four kind of game modes;

Adventure – the full game mode.
Quick Play – if you want to choose to play a spesific level.
Challenge – different challanges to choose from, like “Score more than 850.000 points over three levels!”
Duel – The two player mode if you would like to compete with a friend.

The game will save itself. Next time, the game starts exactly where you ended last time, but you can choose to start the level from the beginning though. A great feature, because you may get interrupted in the middle of a level, if there is only one ball and on orange peg left, it would be just too bad to have to play the whole level again.

Peggle is a skill building game. The more you play, the better you will get in judging trajectories, considering rebounds and calculating angles. The first impression might be that chance is the biggest factor, but your own skills are the biggest factor here.

Good luck, enjoy the extreme fever when competing a level. Maybe you will become the next Peggle Master?

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I want to recommend three different apps that for me has become very useful, being a girl myself. All these apps are available on iTunes Appstore.

BMI Charter Lite

– Keep a track of where you are on the BMI scale. What is special with this app is the graph that easily show your weight variation tendency over time. Great for everyone actually! Weather your goal is losing weight, keep your weight stable of gain some weight. I myself, am trying to gain some because I am too thin.

Period Tracker

– Well, the name gives a good description of what this app do; keep track on your periods. So you do not have to even think about it! It is great for those who have a stable period. Makes planning for big happenings easier. You can just take a look at the calendar and see when you expect your period in the future.

Last but not least I will recommend:

Daily Count

– this application is a counter, for whatever you want actually. Calories, kilojoules, grams of fat, grams of carbs or protein. It has a few other advantages. I will explain how it works later.

1A) BMI Charter Lite

B)

The first you have to to is create your own password to prevent others from accessing. Then you of have to give som input on your date of birth, gender, height and initial weight (your present weight).

C)

When you press BMI, you will get a graph of your weight, from the time you started using this application. If you only have inserted one weight you will only see a dot wherever you find yourself on the BMI scale. But with two or more inputs it will start look like a graph. I have used BMI Charter Life for almost 300 days, and have had a stable. My own graph looks lika a straight line

D)

If you want to delete your information and start all over again, push Maintenance. You can either choose to reset all your data Excluding the Initial Setting, or you can delete all your data included the Initial Settings.

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I’ve added a function that makes it more attractive to view pictures along with a picture gallery tab. When your asked to view different galleries, or you press on a gallery from the tab above, you can click on “View with PicLens”. And you will get a new window where you can view the gallery in 3D. That is if you have installed the Cooliris plugin for Firefox (and other browsers). See the picture under.

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An jailbreaked iPhone offers a ton of new interessting games and apps. Among these are some jewels, and OpenTTD (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe) is one of these jewels. The game itself is an port of OpenTTD for computer, and is ported by Zodttd. (www.zodttd.com). The game itself requires you to have a jailbroken device.

For those of us growing up with playing the classical Transport Tycoon game, this game will feel familiar and warm. The Open part has greatly enhanced the game expreience, though the game itself on the touch surface requires some getting used to. The buttons are small, and you need to practise aiming exactly at the touchscreen. Though, once you’ve goten the hang of it, the game really pays off.

After a while you find yourself investing hour upon hour on this game, prefaring to play it on the iPhone or iPod rather than computer.

navigating is the easier part, you swipe two fingers over the screen to move, and one to build longer traintracks, roads or whatever. Once you’ve made that awesome network of trains, plains, road vehicles or whatever, you can sit back and relax, watching your money grow fat.

All in all this game is a fantastic game for the iPhone, though needs some getting used to, and might even then be a bit hard to hit all the small buttons. So, I give this game an 7 / 10.

- Karl.

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