Rage for iPhone and iPad available as a free download

id Software, one of the most famous gaming companies ever, which made their fame with the Doom and Quake series of games, now offers their latest iOS games Rage HD and Rage for free for a short time. This two games are shooting games meaning you wont have to think too much, instead arm yourself, point and shoot the damn zombies, beasts and other evil creatures! Just what you need when you come home after a hard day of work or study. This game isn’t yet available on other platforms like PC or consoles so you can enjoy it first on your iOS device. To remind you the game first appeared on Apple iOS in November of 2010.

LinkedIn launches their upgraded iPhone app

Best business oriented social network in the world, LinkedIn has just launched an upgraded iPhone app for users of their social network. One of the main differences is that this upgrade works incredibly faster, perhaps even ten time faster than its predecessor. In addition, they have at the same time released an HTML5 based web app for other mobile devices accessing their website. LinkedIn claims that their main goals and efforts are pointed toward these features: Updates, Inbox, Groups and You.

Kindle Cloud Reader launched by Amazon

Amazon has just launched their cloud reader which will enable their users to enjoy in any book among their incredible huge collection of more than 900,000 ebooks. Users will be able to access this large collection of books directly from their browsers on almost any device including: iPad, Mac (using Safari browser) or PC running Windows or Linux ( through Chrome browser). So far iPod Touch and iPhone are not supported.

Jailbreak tweak: Speed for Maps on iPhone introduces speedometer for maps

One of the best map related apps in the smartphone world is the one available in iOS world as a native iOS app. But one of the missing features with it is that it lacks a speedometer. But again thanks to jaiblreaking and jailbreak app developers we have another great solution and improvement. Speed For Maps ia a new jailbreak tweak which is available for all iPhones which are on iOS 4.x.x and solves that problem. When you install this tweak, it will add an indicator for speed in the bottom of the screen when you use the Map app.

Jailbreak tweak: UploadEnabler for Mobile Safari

Here is another fabulous jailbreak tweak this time comng from less known app developers H. Samara and Bassen N. This tweak meddles with your Safari web browser and enables you to upload any kind of file with your iPhone or iPad browser. Uploading is for some reason by default disabled within Apple iOS which can be quite cumbersome if you need to download or upload some important file. Luckily if you jailbreak your iPhone with RedSn0w, PwnageTool or Sn0wbreeze, you can use UploadEnabler to help you uploading files to the web. It works for iPhone’s on iOS 4.2.1 and higher.

New ball themed game launched in the App Store

Despite its name this isn’t your usual sports themed game. “A Game With Balls” is more of a strategy game which works on both iPhone and iPad. In this game balls will be your opponents and your goal is to brush them aside with your cannon. They will fail from the sky and you will have to perfect your shooting and calculations of physical reactions by balls which can destroy your little cannon.

Crowdsourcing app for iPhone: TaskRabbit

Crowdsourcing is one are which seems to steadily grow in last couple of years. According to Wikipedia: crowdsourcing means outsourcing tasks, which earlier were done by employees to an group of people or community. Many big companies are already emplying this concept and now we have the same idea applied to individuals life. With TaskRabbit you will be able to outsource tasks which you can’t do for yourself due to your schedule or any other issue encountered. The tasks can be as small as walking your dog, delivering groceries, doing your laundry or anything similar. For a small fee you will be able to finish all this and more while focusing your attention to your own priorities.

Blobster, a coll new platform game for your iPhone or iPad

Coming from a well established gaming company Chillingo, Blobster looks like a new success in the realm of platform games. Made attractive by beautifully designed graphic and intensive gameplay, here is another great time waster in the tradition of Angry Birds. You are to avoid different dangers like water hazards, traps, giant spikes, various enemies and obstacles while you try to save the world of Blobtopia from the evil forces and achieve victory over your arch enemy, the mighty Blobzilla!

iOS app for remote controled toy

Helo TC is a new remotely controlled helicopter which is driven by an iPhone app. Remotely controlled toys aren’t anything spectacular, but to control your toy, a helicopter in this case with your iPhone or iPad is something new and intriguing. One of the best things with this toy is its relatively small cost as it costts only $55.
Your kid will be able to play with it inside, and you wont need to worry about any dangers as it can only fly for 78 minutes and it doesn’t have any video recording capabilities.

Jailbreaking, yes or no

There have been many comments and rumors on the possibility of a new, 3G based over the air update which could completely prevent jailbreaking. Seems that many people do not understood what jailbreaking is about and why it is good for everybody (including Apple) to have this option available.

Here is why jailbreak is good and useful:

Jailbreaking stimulates innovation