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A few minutes ago, we explained you how to set up Find My iPhone on your iPhone 4. Technically, the newly free Find My iPhone only works for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 4.2. There is however a trick to make this work on older devices.

The funniest part is that Apple is even telling you how to bypass their own rules… Read More

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I’ve been having problems loading Cydia for a couple of hours now. After asking around on Twitter, it appears that I’m not the only one. Every time I launch Cydia I get an error message telling me it was unable to load Cydia.

With the recent release of iOS 4.2 and knowing that Cydia wasn’t working properly with iOS 4.2.1 GM, it’s not unreasonable to think that Saurik might be working on updating the homepage of Cydia… Read More

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Earlier today, Apple released iOS 4.2, or more precisely 4.2.1. Every time we have a new software update, the questions come back. When can we get a jailbreak? For what models? Tethered? Untethered? Can I unlock? You know the drill.

The Dev Team wrote a blog post a few minutes ago updating us about the status of the jailbreak and unlock for iOS 4.2.1. Here are the most important points: Read More

written by pmwalters

iPhone hacker P0sixNinja just posted an update on Twitter saying his GreenPois0n jailbreak should be updated to support the recently released iOS 4.2.1 within a few days. According to his words, the jailbreak will be tethered or semitethered, whatever that means.

Earlier today, the Dev Team also gave us an update about the iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak and unlock saying they were working hard on it. Things look pretty good and it seems everyone will be able to get a jailbreak relatively soon. Older devices like the iPhone 3G and 3GS will most likely even be untethered and unlockable… Read More

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Tower Defense games, whether you like them or not, are about as ingrained in iPhone lore as it can get. Since the whopping success of Fieldrunners, countless tower defense games have popped into the store… some good and some not so good.

Epic War TD certainly isn’t in the not so good area, but it definitely isn’t in the top tier of the genre. Starting the game, it looks like a slightly more complex version of a typical fixed path tower defense game. The basics are all there, such as the standard waves of enemies, a fairly typical unit tree (machine gun cannon, missile tower, laser tower, slow tower, etc.), and money that is dished out for unit kills, but Epic War gets a little fancy with the rest.

The most difficult thing to understand about Epic War TD is the strange enemy resistance tree. By hitting a little inconspicuous button that looks like a target, you see a huge screen overlay with all the enemies and their resistances to different towers. Instead of just giving towers set amounts of damage dealt, each enemy unit takes damage differently. The obvious goal of the developers is to make each wave count, forcing you to really pick what you build and upgrade (the tower upgrade tree is quite extensive) between each wave. The problem that you run into is that the resistance tree is all organized by enemy unit picture, and it’s not exactly easy to tell the enemy units apart. All of them resemble each other, making is frustrating to really plan things out. For the record, the idea of enemy resistance is solid, but its implementation is sloppy, making the game look less polished than it could.

Also tough is the difficulty, which is extremely tough. Like other tower defense games, Epic war starts you with a set number of units that you can let get through, but that number is all you get for the entire game. There are only four levels to get through, but the levels are really set up for you to fail. For example, level two, even on the medium difficulty, doesn’t give you enough starting money to perfect. No matter what you do, you will get tagged with 5-10+ units getting through, and that is frustrating. To counter this, each level you beat gives you the option to play a little minigame to give you some lives, but the minigame really just distracts from the game itself, and could probably be eliminated altogether.

It goes without saying (again) that certain parts of Epic War TD were frustrating, but it does get quite a bit right. The tech tree really is well done, the weapons are all well thought out and function well, and the enemies (other than their bland appearance) are well thought out. Epic War TD just lacks a level of polish and balance that differentiate it from the genre heavyweights. The developers promise big updates in the future (more levels, retina display updates), but as is it will probably only cater to the most hardcore tower defense fans.

[ Epic War TD is a post from 148Apps ]

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