Flick Fishing from Freeverse software is a fun and challenging fishing game that will appeal to just about anyone. Choose from several locations, ranging from a beginner fishing hole to deep sea environments, and make sure to open your tackle box to pick the right bait for the job. When you’re ready, flick your iPhone to cast your line. Beautiful living environments set the perfect scene as you wait to get a bite. Once a fish takes the bait, reel it in slowly–you need to watch your line-tension meter so you don’t snap the line. You can fish casually at several locations or you can participate in tournaments. You also can play against your friends on the same network. With several locations, dozens of varieties of fish, and numerous types of bait, this game offers great replay value. Complete with fun music and excellent sound effects, Flick Fishing is a lot of fun and one of the best and most polished games available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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PocketGuitar ($0.99) was one of the first apps I bought for my iPhone, because I play the guitar and it seemed like an interesting use of the touch screen. The app shows a few frets of a six-string guitar, letting you play realistic-sounding chords and strum by swiping your finger across the strings. You can twist the iPhone to bend notes using the accelerometer and you can change the fret size to better accommodate your fingers.

These features alone were amazing enough for the app to make my list, but Pocket Guitar also offers a multitude of settings and effects you can play around with to get different sounds. You can choose from electric acoustic, classical, electric guitar, muted guitar, bass, and ukulele. Your effects include distortion, delay, and chorus, and any combination of those to find the perfect sound. With added details like the ability to "hammer-on" notes, switch to left-handed guitar, and the ability to play along with your iPod’s music library, this app is a must-have for guitarists, even if it’s just for the gimmick of having a working, authentic-sounding guitar on your iPhone.

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Apparently the classic Mac game “Dark Castle”, in its entirety, hacked to work with touch screens.

Activating the easter egg takes a bit of work, but if you’re keen to play this classic game, just follow the steps below:

1. On your main menu screen, press the Settings button
2. Choose Brightness
3. Turn OFF Auto-Brightness and set the brightness to the lowest setting.
4. Go back to the main menu and press the Music button
5. Hit the Playlists option at the bottom of the screen five times.
6. Go back to the main menu and view the Calendar.
7. Skip to November 28, 2011 and view it by the day. Scroll down all the way to the bottom.
8. Rotate the entire iPod in a clockwise motion for seven full rotations. Be careful not to tip it to the side or the gyroscope may not detect the motion, and you’ll have to start from step 1 all over again.
9. Now, without leaving that screen, restart your iPhone/iPod by pressing and holding the standby button on the top of the unit until a slider appears that says “slide to power off”. Slide it and wait for the unit to shut down.
10. Restart your unit by pressing the standby button again.
11. You should now see the Dark Castle icon in your list of applications!

Don’t be surprised if you have to try this a few times before you get it to show up. Be especially careful with #7… that’s where I had the most trouble. Also, make sure to play the game in landscape mode, as it was originally intended for old-style computers. This tip has been tested in firmware up to 1.1.1.

Just see the video…

The iPhone Bluetooth Project has made some significant headway in enabling Bluetooth capabilities on the iPhone.

According to an iSpazio report, MeDevil and others working on the iPhone Bluetooth Project (http://iphonebluetooth.tk/) have made some interesting progress. Through an application, developed by MeDevil, and the terminal, they were able to search and find two other Bluetooth devices (a Sony Ericsson phone and an hackintosh) from the iPhone.

Here are some details on what they have achieved:

1. We have been able to initialize Bluetooth in objective-c, linking to apples private frameworks, through only reverse engineering.
2. We were able to talk in raw Host Controller Interface code, i.e. close to binary communications, using only POSIX functions that are available in any standard C library.
3. To do that we had to initialize the BlueCore6-ROM type integrated circuit found on the iPhone 3g over a UART transport, formulate HCI packets and read the response.

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