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$200 total cash prizes up for grabs – divided amongst four winners

Contest Deadline: Wednesday June 10th, 12:00pm US Central

The other day when I posted about our lovely new site sponsor, AgileMobile, I mentioned that the team at Agile were very keen to run some great contests with us, to reward our readers and Agile users.

So … today I’m happy to kick off the first of those – our first ‘Are You Agile?’ contest, with $200 in cash money prizes to be given out to four winners.  One first prize winner will get $100, one second place winner will receive $50, and two runner-up winners will receive $25 each.

Read on for details on how easy it is to enter for a chance to win …

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Here’s the lovely iPhone game rumor of the week, although to be fair it looks like more than just a rumor.  The gist is that the massively popular Command & Conquer real-time strategy game series is coming to the iPhone soon – according to Planet Command & Conquer:

Apoc has just confirmed on his Twitter page that "Command & Conquer Red Alert for iPhone will be at E3".

Obviously, that doesn’t clarify whether it’s a port, a spin-off, a tie-in, a mix of all three RA games, or something else entirely. It also doesn’t make any mention of pricing details or a release schedule, but at least now we know that something set in the Red Alert universe is heading to iPhone.

Apoc looks legit to me, and if so he is a ‘Community Commander’ for C&C, and he has a recent tweet that is just as described above.  His Twitter page is HERE.

E3 is the game industry’s biggest annual event (I think, it’s really not my area) – and it’s coming up next week, so there should be more confirmations and news on this very soon.  I’d love to see a version of the C&C games come to the iPhone …

Via: Planet Command & Conquer

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Here’s a headline – on a post by Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo – that made me very happy when I saw it:

I liked seeing this a lot because Jesus strikes me as a pretty major Photoshop ninja, so if he finds these shots to be real-looking, who am I to argue? 

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A former pick of the week for me, and one of my most-used Mac and iPhone apps, has just seen the latter, mobile version updated. I had a chance to try out 1Password touch 2.0 [Free - iTunes link], and the new ability to sync Wallet Items, along with an entirely new, very robust way to sync over Wi-Fi, work the way such things ought.

If you loves security, and want the ability to take your super-strong, pseudo-random passwords, as well as credit cars, debit cards, and all that new goodness, with you, give it a try.

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1Password touch 2.0 Now Available

Each week we bring you the biggest stories from around the Smartphone Experts network. We’re changing up our format this week: shorter, bite-sized, yet still delicious.

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Best of SPE, 31 May 2009

QuickOffice has updated their Mobile Office Suite [$19.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone to version 1.2.0. The full list of updates is after the jump, but what caught our eye was this little goody:

• Supports iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5

What’s new

Quickword (Word Processor):

• Predictive text, auto-capitalization, and double-space for a period shortcut
• Find text in a document and search for next or previous occurrences
• Increase and decrease indentation level of bulleted lists, numbered lists, and paragraphs
• Set paragraph alignment
• Increase and decrease first line indentation on a paragraph
• View tables that are too wide for your screen by flicking the table left and right

Quicksheet (Spreadsheet Processor):

• Copy/Paste cells, columns, rows, and cell ranges & formulas are dynamically updated!
• Landscape editing directly into a cell
• Edit directly into a cell in portrait — Just double tap the cell
• New and easy way to build formulas
• Set or remove cell borders
• Add, rename, delete, and reorder worksheets inside a single spreadsheet
• Clear the formula bar contents by pressing X or clear all contents & formatting from the toolbar
• Edit font type and size
• Set alignment within a cell

Quickoffice Files (File Management):

• Auto-bookmarking your last viewed position in documents
• Slide show viewing of remote and local images
• UI improvements

As always, if you try it out, let us know how it works for you!

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QuickOffice Mobile Office Suite for iPhone Updated to 1.2.0

Come this “summer”, iPhone 3.0 — see our walkthrough — will allow iPhone users to enjoy new Bluetooth functionalityincluding stereo headsets, both the A2DP audio and ARCP control protocols. And if you’re a developer, you likely have this functionality already for testing purposes.

A while back I took a preview look at the Motorola S9 Stereo Bluetooth Headset for iPhone 3.0. Looks like they’ve gone and grown up! If budget is less of a concern to you than sound, and you want to enjoy your audio on the go, the Motorola MOTOROKR S9-HD (the “-HD” being the key — and really only — differentiator here!) are something you definitely want to consider (available now from our sibling store at WMExperts).

Note: This pre-review will not be focusing on iPhone 3.0 functionality, which is currently in closed beta. It will concentrate only on the headset itself. However, for those developers needing an A2DP headset for testing 3.0, it’s our understanding this one works well on multiple units, over multiple carriers.

About that -HD

I’m not going to bore you with a re-hash review. This headset, as mentioned above, is almost identical to the non-HD version reviewed previously. The big difference, of course, is the “-HD” itself, and that’s what we’ll focus on here. Starting with: how big a difference is it?

BIG. The bass is bigger, the emersion experience is better, the depth and scope of the sound in general is brighter. They call it SRS WOW HD technology. Given that A2DP will never equal great wired earphones, and great wired earphones will never equal vinyl and vinyl will never equal great live music, as far as stereo Bluetooth headsets go, these S9-HD certainly nail the WOW.

Conclusion

The same sizing and form factor issues plague this headset as did it’s non-HD sibling. If your head doesn’t fall into the comfortable rang, and you want to be able to lie on your back while listening, these aren’t the headset for you. Likewise, if you value price over performance, look at those non-HD siblings. If you want this form factor and sound quality matters to you, these are top of the charts — easily.

Addendum: In the previous review, one of the commenters asked about glasses. I wear glasses, and while all glasses will vary in size and form factor, I had no problem wearing the S9-HD for lengthy periods. Your mileage may, of course, vary.

Pros

• Great sound
• Good battery life
• Light and comfortable
• Well suited for on-the-go use.

Cons

• May not fit all head sizes
• Not well-suited for lying down

TiPb Accessory Pre-Review Rating

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John Carmack has written an update on his Doom port for the iPhone, and he’s continuing the same candor he began with his Wolfenstein 3D post. What are we getting? A classic in almost every sense of the word:

Before I actually started coding on the project, I had visions of adding a lot of modern tuned effects to the core gameplay experience. It would certainly stay a sprite-and-sector based game, but there are many things that would be done differently with the benefit of a GPU and the wisdom of hindsight. Once I began actually working on it, it started to look like a bad idea for a number of reasons. I am trying to not be very disruptive in the main codebase, because I want it to stay a part of prBoom instead of being another codebase fork. While I can certainly add a bunch of new features fairly quickly, iterating through a lot of user testing and checking for problems across the >100 commercial Doom levels would take a lot longer. There really is value in ” classic” in this case, and there would be some degree of negative backlash to almost any “improvements” I made. There will still be a couple tiny tweaks, but nothing radical is changing in the basic play. It would be fun to take a small team, permanently fork it, and make a “Doom++” just for the iPhone, but that wouldn’t be the best first move. Maybe later.

Check out the full post for more on his experiences with iPhone game development.

[Thanks to Icebike for the tip!]

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Doom for iPhone Update

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