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Sumo in the Apple Store!

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:01:27 +0000

We’re working on fixing the last TubeSock bug (a crash on PowerPC Macs with Tiger) but our only working PowerPC Mac died last week. After hours of digging through a half-dozen boxes of DVDs looking for a Tiger set that would install, I gave up and signed up for an appointment at my local Apple’s Store’s Genius Bar. The Genius, Alex, hooked the PowerBook up and NetBooted from a drive that had installers for every OS version. (NetBoot is very cool, I’m going to have to steal that idea for the office.) While the OS was installing, I checked out the new iPod Touches. And guess what I found:

Apple has put Sumo! on some of the iPhones and iPods in each Apple store. That’s so incredibly cool.

Sumo! Reviewed

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:10:45 +0000

The folks over at Touch Arcade were kind enough to review Sumo! for the iPhone. And they liked it! TouchArcade previews and reviews iPhone/iPod Touch games and is a great resource for any iPhone gamer.

iPhone Sumo! 1.0 (and 1.0.1)

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:23:30 +0000

Sumo! for the iPhone is here! Well, technically, not here, but on the App Store.

Sumo! is a game previously made for the web (at www.theblip.com, our previous company) and later re-made for Palm OS. We’ve gussied up the graphics and made ourselves a little iPhone game.

Sadly, because it’s surprisingly hard to have beta testers, Sumo! 1.0 had some bugs — a couple pretty bad ones, too. We fixed all we could find and uploaded a new build last night. If you’ve already downloaded Sumo!, look for the 1.0.1 update in the App Store today.

911 Is No Joke

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:35:26 +0000

Hey lardass! I see you’re working out with your new iPhone! So, what’ll you do if the old ticker kicks and you’ve only got three hand motions left before you black out? Not such a cool phone now, is it? Hmmm?

Yeah, we thought of that. Here’s a one-click dialer for emergencies — just poke the button and you’ll be talking to the fuzz. Seriously, don’t press the button unless you want to be talking to 911. You have to press the button a second time to confirm, but it’ll call right after that. To cancel, press the Home button.

Note: to use this, you’ll need to know how to install third party software on your iPhone. Update: Ste said he’ll add this to his source feed, so you should be able to use Installer.app to install it directly on your iPhone. You can get Installer here.