I still remember the first dictionary that my parents gave to me – a big thick green book with the words MERRIAM WEBSTER splashed all over it. I was in third grade, and I thought that it was the coolest book I’ve ever hard. We were required to have it in school, but [...]

Today I received an interesting email from Alex Winston whose company has been developing a virtual joystick application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
It’s a prototype that allows Wolfenstein 3D to be controlled from a second device connected up using a crossover audio cable.

If the SDK wasn’t reason enough to convince you to purchase an iPod Touch (or iPhone), then perhaps this is. Game developers HermitWorks have successfully managed to get a version of Quake 3 arena running on their iPod Touches with only a few modifications of the code (which is Open Source now, in case you [...]