Current ORP Bounty: $1,515.

Update: All right; ORP the Bounty Hunter here… Dashhacks will put $1,000 towards the bounty, and should you want ORP on the iPhone as much as the next guy (or girl to be politically correct), then feel free to donate using the PayPal button below. The first person to deliver a working ORP iPhone client takes home the whole she-bang — $1,000 + all donations.

Are you a developer? Do you have skills? What about a PS3: you have one of those? If you answered yes to all 3 questions then boy, do we have something for [one of] you…

Dashhacks is putting out a bounty… Be the first to port Open Remote Play (ORP) to the iPhone, creating a fully functional touch-enabled ORP experience, and get paid $1,000 CAD. That’s 10 cold hard Canadian brown skins.

The heavy lifting is already done… Check my main man, Dashhacker; he’s got the key to success over at the Open Remote Play project page — code and all.

Bounty rules and stipulations:

1. Open Remote Play is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2; you must agree to that.
2. We’re paying $1,000 CAD via PayPal; sorry no cheques, money orders, or wire transfers.
3. Upon completion your final code will be committed to the ORP SVN repository.
4. You must email your final entry to orp@dashhacks.com.
5. After we test & confirm the first working client, we will announce the winner, which will effectively end the contest.
6. Feel free to email orp@dashhacks.com with any questions or concerns.

All right… You good? Good. Be the first — it’s success and nothin’ less.

svn checkout http://open-rp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-rp

Related links:
open-rp project page | dashhacks | ps3-hacks

While Apple may have brought the PDA market into the 21st century it seems to have forgotten to bring along some of the staples for user interfaces that we have all come to expect. Copy and Paste has been around in the computer world since 1974 and has been essential ever since, yet Apple felt for some ungodly reason that it wasn’t necessary for the iPhone? After much complaining from it’s users Apple finally caved and announced they would be implementing copy and paste in future implementations of the iPhone System Software, however it is not a priority and they are in no big hurry to get it done.

In steps OpenClip.org a open-source, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing a 100% Apple iPhone SDK compliant cross App framework for implementing copy and paste functionality as an interim solution until Apple’s copy and paste is implemented. All that is required now is for App developers to implement OpenClip within their Apps!

Thanks to friend of the DashHacks network Leif for alerting us to this.

You can now “take back your iPhone 2.0″ with the new Customize App 2.1.1 for iPhone firmware 2.0 users. For those of you new the iPhone scene, Customize is the defacto standard for using and creating iPhone themes. You can install Customize via Cydia or do it the good’ol fashion way yourself by downloading it from our iPhone downloads section under ‘Homebrew’ or follow this direct link: Download Customize 2.1.1

Notice for 1.1.4 Users
If you are on 1.1.4 then DO NOT upgrade to Customize 2.1.0 You must stay with Customize 2.0.x. The newer version will not work with 1.1.4. I will continue to support the 2.0.x versions for some time, until most users have upgraded to Firmare 2.0.
Best, Spicy

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Today we were sent an e-mail from Agilemobile.com announcing the release of their two new native iPhone apps. These aren’t for Apple’s App Store but good’ol iPhone homebrew, you can find and install them via Nullriver’s Installer.app. Messenger is located in the ‘Network’ category, Forces is located in the ‘Games’ category.

Agile Messenger is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for mobile phones and provides a seamless connection to the public instant messaging networks of ICQ, AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and XMPP. Features include Agilemobile.com’s multi-media messaging technology which enables users to send instant image, video, and voice messages from mobile to mobile and mobile to PC. In addition to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch platform, Agile Messenger is already available for Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60, 80, 90 and Symbian UIQ.

Agile Forces is truly a next generation mobile game and a great example of what the future of mobile multi player gaming is going to look like. Agile Forces is an online multi-player war strategy game. Players are able to challenge other players from all over the world through Agilemobile.com’s matchmaking server or play in single player mode. This game features complex war strategy scenarios in both single player and multi-player mode, stunning graphics and over 100 challenging levels to keep the player occupied for months.

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