Recently, one poster (Mike) brought it to my attention that he could not find the tutorial to jailbreak his iPod Touch. I’m guessing this happened during one of the design phases that MashingKeys went through earlier this year, but regardless – the articles have always been around and should be easy to find if you use the search function. I’m currently revising the original iPhone jailbreak post, but the instructions are still accessible to everyone on this site. To help our friend Mike out, if you still can’t find the iPod Touch article, it’s right here. Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

Browsing the web during downtime I came across youtube today and found a few videos of people playing music on their cell phone. I’m not talking about mp3’s or fancy music video, all you need to do that is a proper phone and a proper connection. I’m talking about the cell phone pianists who can play everything from Mary had a little lamb to Yoshi’s theme. I thought that was fantastically neat, and obviously a useless skill that one must have! so I have compiled a small list of songs that I know for sure works, and are fun (and makes sense, because when you play a song that doesn’t make sense, people look at you as if you’re.. well, retarded, and no matter how use to it I may be, I still don’t like it) The hardest thing is to list these songs in a way that’s easy to the eyes and make this article look nifty.. and of course if you have a song that should be on this list, post it, I’ll make sure it’s added!! Click past the jump to see the songs.

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Just to start off, by no way are we promoting gang activity or violence.

we don’t want you to lead a hard life and end up as a brilliant prison inventor.

I do think that we’ve all had our stages of “I’m actually cooler then you think I am” during school, and we learn a lot of useless things that only give us “street cred”. Girls are lying when they say they don’t like the bad boys, because the reality is, who doesn’t like a little action in their day to day routine?

One of the many things I picked up during my years of growing up was the tag alphabet. Now Let me throw out this disclaimer, this set of alphabet serves no other purpose other then “to look cool”. It’s more like a fancy font of letters that is, unless you can read it, undecipherable. By no means should you use these letters to tag up bathroom walls with messages like let’s meet at someone’s house, or, it’s time to jump soandso under the flag pole after school, the stash is hidden in locker 420… Stacey’s mom is hot…. etc. If you’re going to use it for that stuff… well anyway. So browsing through the web I’ve found numerous pages on how to draw graffiti bubble letters, and personally, I think those bubble letters are “neat”, but sometimes you just need something practical to get your message through. and especially when you’re trying to get your message down and get out of dodge before whoever the authority is is coming after you. Plus, I’m one of those people whose artistic side never cooperates. I can draw fine when it comes to doodling, 3 am insomniac attacks, but never when I want to convey something, and especially not when I’m ducking teachers in the bathroom. So I thought it’s time to pass on to the next generation of hoodlums just how to convey messages in plain English (maybe a few slang) in an artistic yet practical way.

I’ve included two messages and the alphabet itself. The first message says mashingkeys.com and the second is the phrase “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” to show you all the alphabets.

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Call me a Japan-o-phile, because I am, and one thing I can’t get enough of is the lush colors they use in their traditional arts. yeah it might not be saying much since we’re talking about a game here, but the only game that has done this style of art before is Okami, and okami was very detailed and beautiful.

There’s alot to be said about this Muramasa though, Muramasa was a famous sword-smith that founded the Muramasa school and created blades , Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook said taht Muramasa “was a most skillful smith but a violent and ill-balanced mind verging on madness, that was supposed to have passed into his blades…” his blades were believed to hunger for blood and to impel their warriors to commit murder or suicide.

When there’s already that much story to just the name, it’s gotta be a good game!! upon further reading it is said that it’d only take about 7 hours for a normal play through per character, but there are 3 endings per characters and over 100 different swords to collect.

Another thing to note would be that this isn’t a first release just in the US. this game has previously been released in Japan, and some modifications has already done to improve game play. smells like a success, if it’s been tried and proved to be good enough for Japan to let it out of it’s nation, and improved? and it’s on Wii? I’m ready to play!!

AT&T has announced that they will launch MMS for the iPhone on September 25th.

We know many of our iPhone customers are eager for an update on our rollout schedule for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). We’ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches – and that launch date is: September 25 for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers. MMS will be enabled through a software update on that day.

We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One. We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end.

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Bains Software has announced the release of their first iPhone app: instaplaylist. instaplaylist is the universal remote for music. It allows users to quickly create a playlist of YouTube music videos from their iPhone or iPod touch and enjoy them on any computer on the same WiFi network.

The videos play on the user’s computer while they control playback from their iPhone. Videos continue to play even if the user exits instaplaylist or turns off their iPhone.

With a tap of their finger, the user can:
* Play/pause
* Jump to the previous/next video
* Add and remove videos
* Reorder their playlist
* Adjust the volume
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Czech based Mad Finger Games has introduced Samurai: Way of the Warrior 1.0, their new action game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities, Samurai features intense hack and slash combat with beautiful, stylized graphics and a compelling story line. Offering different combo attacks, players battle enemies from village to village in a feudal 16th century setting. The game also offers a special Dojo gameplay mode where players can sharpen their skills to master the art of the sword. Read the rest of this entry »

Toughturtle has announced the release of a new and enhanced version of StockWatch, their popular financial iPhone and iPod Touch App. The newest version of the App features full-screen (landscape orientation) technical analysis charts with a variety of customizable overlays and indicators, as well as, the addition of line, bar, and candlestick graphing styles. Additional new features in StockWatch 4.04 include security code locking, overall portfolio summaries, and manual quote refresh.

“The new additions to the App have been very well received and we think they make the it even more full-featured and attractive to all types of investors.”, said Todd Barnes, Lead Developer, Toughturtle. “There are other portfolio and investment tracking Apps on the AppStore, all with their own strengths and weaknesses, but StockWatch definitely gives you the best bang-for-the-buck.”

StockWatch is the perfect App for investors to keep an eye on their favorite stocks, track their portfolios and holdings, and much more. With an easy-to-use and traditional iPhone/iPod Touch user interface, you will have all your investments and research tools just a few taps away. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Readdle has announced the immediate availability of Cannons, highly anticipated pirate-themed puzzle game, on the Apple App Store. Cannons extends boundaries of a classic iPhone puzzle game with addictive story driven gameplay, three action packed game modes, an innovative ship upgrade system and worldwide scoreboard.

Cannons is a story about treasures to be uncovered, sea battles to be fought and enemies to be defeated. As a captain of the Invincible player links on-board cannons and burning torches using rotating tiles with fuses. Firing several cannons at once grants bonuses and coins that can be spent to upgrade the cannons and make a stronger shot with sparkling bang. Read the rest of this entry »

Bare Bones Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Yojimbo 2.0, a significant upgrade to the popular, easy-to-use information organizer. Yojimbo 2.0 makes it easier than ever to add and categorize, plus search for and retrieve information items.

“Yojimbo 2.0 makes it even easier to capture information items, which is hard to imagine, but true,” said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software. “The Tag Explorer provides a major new interface for working with tags, which are the primary organizational mechanism for many people. The new Quick Input Panel represents a remarkable advance forward. Every addition in Yojimbo 2.0 contributes to the quest for a digital junk drawer that is powerful yet effortless to use.” Read the rest of this entry »