Mirror’s Edge is flat-out fun. More than any other game I’ve tried on the iPad so far, it shows what the potential for gaming on the platform can be. The basic mechanics of the game are simple: you control Faith, sending her running over the city and through tunnels to, well, do something that clearly has The Man unhappy. Whatever, the story is secondary. You control the game with a series of simple gestures – swipes left, right, up, and down – with the occasional tilt here and there. There are no health indicators, ammo bars, or anything else to get in your way.

I think it’s a great game for iPad because you can perform these swipes without covering up half the screen – you can always see the action and it really does feel pretty immersive.

The game is relatively simple to beat in story mode, but there’s plenty of extras to keep you in the game – including speed runs, going back to find hidden bags, and even a multiplayer option. It’s a little pricey at $12.99, but it’s addictive enough that I’ve lost a solid two hours to the game just toda. It’s only through great force of will that I was able to stop playing long enough to write this quick take.

Source: The iPhone Blog

Here is a video with Producer Stephanie Morgan showing som of the gameplay!

Here are all the solutions for Crazy Machines for the iPhone

Solutions For:

Chapter 1

01. Easy Start

02. A Hard Shove

03. The Red Ballon

04. Building Ban Zone

05. Magic Wheel And Coins

06. Scissors

07. Dunking

08. Zeppelin and Rocket

09. Walls and Explosions

10. Nitro Flasks

Chapter 2

11. Transmission Box

12. Jack-in-the-Box

13. Clear the Path

14. The Billiard Ball

15. Dunking Two Times

16. The Big Drop

17. Cannon Fire

18. Headwind

19. Toast Hoop

20. Breakfast Music

Chapter 3

21 Bouncing Ball

22. In the Circuit

23. On Ball Contact

24. The Laser Route

25. Crate Drop

26. Forget Nothing

27. skittish clown

28. Much Ado..

29. Brain Game

30. Legendery Gateway

Chapter 4

31. Everything Round

32. For the Music!

33. The Route to the Goal

34. The Circuit

35. Fireworks – Crate

36. Explosive Toast 2

37. Gravitation Game

38. Band Wheel

39.  Zeppelin’s Misflight

40. Packaged Light

Chapter 5

41. Gear Wheel Maze

42. The Big Drop 2

43. Balloon Blasting

44. Chemical Balls

45. Crate and Wheel

46. Windy Crate

47. Faster Basketball

48. The Clown And Chemistry

49. Walls

50. Two Paths

Crazy Machines is an adaptation of the award winning PC and Nintendo DS franchise with the same name, the game allows you have all that challenging fun on your iPhone and iPod Touch . This type of game is not new to the iPhone platform, there are others like, Enigmo and Fantastic Contraption , the letter being a highly addictive game that had incredible success.

Your aim in Crazy Machines is to setup contraptions in such a way that you complete the tasks given to you by the wacky Professor. Crazy contraption gives you freedom in achieving your task , you are given a certain number of items that you can link together in one continuous gizmo.

The designers give free rein to your imagination and unleash the most incredible of chain reactions!
The tasks are complex and vary from simple : get a ball to a designated location to more intricate ones like : have a billiard ball drop onto a lamp switch and turn it on. This, in turn, will shine through a magnifying glass to light a candle, which in turn heats the boiler of a steam engine, which drives a windmill, which blows a basketball through a basketball hoop, and so on and so forth…!

“In the secret laboratory of the crazy Professor, players have to solve various tricky experiments. Several half-finished machines the professor invented a long time ago have to be finished. The aim is to trigger a chain reaction to complete the processes the Professor forgot decades ago. For every challenge, players have a limited number of elements at their disposal. Not only must players race against time to complete the tasks, but also deal with varying gravitational pulls depending on whether you find yourself on earth, the moon or in outer space!”

At the beginning of the game you go through a series of tutorial missions that are very clear and quickly take you through the basics of the game.

Crazy Machines has two modes , a puzzle one in which you go through the 50 levels one by one and a “Construction Kit” one. In the construction kit you are given free hand in devising your own levels . You are put in front of a blank board and you have at your disposal the entire arsenal of 70 elements that you can place , the only boundary is your own imagination. A great plus that the designers could add in future updates would be to allow you to share these levels online and challenge your friends with them.

Controls:
The controls are touch based and very intuitive , everything you need is where it should be. In addition to this you can move the button side bar by dragging it either to the left or the right side of the screen.
You add elements by opening a menu in the side bar and taping on it. Once it is on the board if you tap it again a menu pops up around it, this allow you to change its angle , position and many more. You also have a play button that starts your contraption , if the task isn’t achieved taping it again resets the entire gizmo.
Features:

-50 challenging levels.
-Over 70 elements to build with.
-Helpful tutorial to get you started.
-Construction Kit – Create your own Crazy Machine!
-Award System – Build up your Construction Kit with new unlocked parts.
PRO’s:
- Challenging and fun game play , highly addictive
- Nice graphics, sounds and visual effects
- Construction Kit mode gives you a nice chance to put your mind at work

Price:

It is available at the App Store for 2.99$
App Store Link

GamePlay Video:

According to the Apple Store, the company’s $100 Bluetooth headset has been discontinued. Does this mean Apple’s planning on rolling out new stereo-enabled Bluetooth headsets with A2DP compatibility for iPhone 3.0 and iPod Touch?

It’s not a product that we’d really kept tabs on, refreshing its store page every 10 minutes to note whether or not it was still for sale. But according to the MacRumors forums, Apple pulled the plug late last week. I actually don’t know of a single person who used the headset (which is probably a testament to its quality or lack thereof), so this discontinuation is probably not the greatest loss to humanity.

2. If iTunes does not detect your iPhone then you will need to put it in DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode.

3. Browse the Summary Tab,

Mac Users,

Hold down Option and press the “Restore” button

Windows Users,

Hold down Shift and press the Restore button

4. Now browse the folder where you have the iPhone firmware. Select the firmware & hit the restore button and cross your fingers for 5 minutes.

5. Ignore error message like 1011, 1013, 1015 (Actually the firmware 2.2.1 is already successfully installed)

6. Use QuickPWN 2.2.5 to Jailbreak iPhone Firmware 2.2.1

Steps to put iPhone in DFU mode

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.

2. Turn iPhone off.

3. Hold power and home together for 10 seconds (exactly).

4. Release power but keep holding home until the computers beeps (observed on a PC) as a USB device is recognized.

5. A few seconds later iTunes should detect your iPhone.

Please Note :- If you encountered with error message like 1601, 1602, 1600 or anything else then try putting the
iPhone into DFU mode and try again.

Last night Scott Fall showed the new features of iPhone OS 3.0 – new generation of iPhone OS.

The new features are:

• System-wide Cut, Copy and Paste feature
• Stereo A2DP Bluetooth streaming is on (not available to iPhone 2G)
• System-wide landscape keyboard
• A system-wide search Spotlight is added now including Mail, Calendar, Notes, iPod and web
• There’s now MMS support (not available to iPhone 2G)
• Turn-by-turn navigation (but only with third-party maps)
• You can forward and delete individual messages
• Notes can now be synced with iTunes
• WiFi auto-login for hotspots
• Bluetooth peer-to-peer connection with file exchange and remote control (over Bonjour only)
• Safari gets password login manager
• Support for YouTube accounts and YouTube subscriptions
• New action button in Photos lets you choose multiple pictures to attach to a mail message
• There are Voice Memos, which can be edited, cropped and shared using email or MMS
• Calendar gets Exchange support and will be able to sync with Google and Yahoo calendar services
• Stocks app will be getting news stories and stock details
• iPod gets shake-to-shuffle function
• Anti-phishing tool in Mobile Safari
• Increased number of supported languages
• Parental Controls are extended to movies, TV shows and App Store content
• Detailed Calls Log with call durations
• iTunes store account creation
• Proxy support
• Live video and audio streaming
• Tethering is now supported (but available optionally)
• Voice recording
• Camera displays last taken picture in lower left corner – just as in existing Snapture app

Much more opportunity for iPhone developers

“Advance preview of what we’re building.” This is, what Apple says about their next big event. Apple is going to present the next big step towards the “perfect iPhone” – iPhone OS 3.0 – on tuesday, March 17, 2009. There is no detailed information about the event yet and we don’t expect a release of 3.0, but maybe Apple is going to show the world something really big. Maybe they show us Copy & Paste, video recording, multitasking or something completely different. And what about Steve Jobs? Maybe this event will be his big comeback!!! We don’t really know, what is going to happen, but we know, that this is going to be a huge thing, so mark this date in your calendar and follow one of the livetickers around the web!

It is now clear – Telenor will begin selling iPhone in Scandinavia soon!

Telenor announced today via a press release that the company will begin selling iPhone in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in ruling next few months

There were no specific details in the press release directly. Well, it was in the press release:

Telenor has signed an agreement with Apple to sell iPhone 3G in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the coming months.
More information is published at a later date.

So far, there is no information on subscription prices or exact delivery time.

But it is an undeniably good news because it becomes a larger subscription option for iPhone owners, and probably more attractive offers and lower prices.