HGFB wrote:I played a remake on the PC last year and straight away bought it on the iPhone. It's the Roguelike experience but streamlined into a fun minamilist package. Really nice graphics on this new one too.
Agreed, Fargoal on iPhone is sublime, the developers did a great job with enhancing it without changing the core look and feel.
Apart from the annual sports game rehashes, I don't think I've ever seen a game get better with each subsequent remake quite like this.
Got a bit of a problem here: had my 3G nicked on Monday night so called O2, got the SIM blocked and picked up a replacement SIM from them yesterday lunchtime. I popped the SIM into the GF's old 2G and waited for it to activate (which it did just before lunch today) and sync'd my last backup from the 3G onto it. All the data is there, all config, all applications but whenever I try to launch any given application is just silently crashes back to the springboard. I've done a restore twice now and resync'd a few times with no change.
Any suggestions?
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I also just tried installing a 'new' app directly on the phone and that fails to run, too.
If you can use this in emails and texting which you can could be an immediate buy for me
Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow.
by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on Dec 8th, 2009
Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category.
I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Nuance also provides the speech recognition engine for MacSpeech Dictate on the Mac platform.
To dictate on the iPhone you just launch the app, press the record button, and start talking. Your dictation can be a brief sentence, or a much longer treatise. Once the text has been created from your speech, it's possible to email it, send it as a text message, or put the result in your clipboard. After recording your message, you can edit the resulting text before you send it off for others to read.
It's pretty slick! When you record your message, it is quickly transmitted to Nuance servers where a speech recognition algorithm is run against your data. The resulting text is returned to your iPhone very quickly; my informal benchmarks showed that it took about a second for text to be processed on a Wi-Fi network, and less than 5 seconds over 3G. You'll need a data connection for the app to work, but having this speech-to-text capability is going to be very important to a lot of people, who will find all sorts of uses for it.
I tested the app for about a week and found the accuracy to be very good. Accuracy diminishes if you are in a very noisy environment, as I found when I tried some dictation while being driven down the interstate. There were a few errors, but they were easy to correct. To add punctuation to your text, you can say 'period', 'question mark', or 'new paragraph,' and Dragon Dictation adds the appropriate punctuation.
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There's a similar (free) dictation app out for Symbian phones - Vlingo. Tried it expecting it to be utter crap but it actually bloody works! Dragon have been great for dictation software for years so this could be very nice
Well as far as I can see pacman CE on the iPhone is exactly the same as the XBLA - they just need to get the online scoreboard on it. Love the missions too.
