EAF has bought me an iPhone 4 32 gig.

Now, I'm an apple noob (fucking hate apple to be honest but I NEED this phone for video calls due to the nature of my business - filming - and being able to go on youtube to showcase my work.) so I have a lot of questions:

1.) Is there some way to put my .mpeg files (1080p) of my videos ONTO the phone so I don't need to use up my cap everytime I want to show my work? Do I have to do it through iTunes?

2.) I've gotten angry birds (just because it's funny heh) but I'd like some GOOD games - are there any good JRPGs? Final Fantasy style? Or any serious games? I mean, I don't want to buy crap. I want cool shit. Not really sold on Fruit Ninja etc - I want games that will last a while not just be novelties - I KNOW they're only $1.19 or whatever but if you factor in 1000 of these little fuckers, that IS a thousand bucks. Get me?

3.) Any advice on photography apps? I'm a filmer and photographer so yeah.... BEST apps/free apps and why?

4.) Anything else will be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance people! :)

5.) Almost forgot - I saw some dude on the tram the other month playing Tony Hawk 2 and he said there's a Playstation app or is that just jailbroken? If there's some way to get that can you tell me how? I would love to play Wild ARMS and stuff like that again on the iPhone!

6.) P.s. Any possibility of or ARE THERE GOG game apps on the iPhone?

:)

1) I don't think you can put mpeg files on the iPhone (at least, not with a stock iPhone). The iPhone reads only Quicktime format movies, so you'd probably have to convert your mpegs to whatever the quicktime files are called.

2) Chaos Rings is a pretty good RPG (it's made by Square Enix), but it costs considerably more than the standard price ($10? Not sure)

3) can't answer this one sorry

4) Getting some reference apps is always nice when you are traveling. I personally use dictionary, translator, currency, and tourist applications because I travel a lot.

5) Jailbreaking/Unlocking are easy enough to do on your own. Just google it and you should be set. Make sure you read the instructions and the versions carefully though.

6) I know Duke Nukem 3D is available as an iPhone app. Not sure about anything else though.

Looks awesome!

But there seems to be two versions, Chaos Rings and then Chaos Rings *symbol*???

Should I get the first one and then the second when I complete the first? Is the second one an expansion? Or what?

Well...sorta depends. Chaos RIng Omega (that's the symbol) is a prequel story-wise, so if you want to experience the story in order then you should probably start with that.

For games, 100 Rogues is a sweet little roguelike, and Space Miner is nifty chillout asteroids clone with a bit of humor. Those two hooked me for a good while.

There are quite a few good games really, but having a tough time remembering them atm. I know Galaxy on Fire 2 has some great feedback, but is pretty costly. Mirrors Edge was pretty cool to play as well, although I never got around to finishing it since I am usually borrowing the device and don't own one myself. Recently grabbed Wolfenstein RPG as well, which so far has been fun, but still pretty early on.


Some random stuff there anyways.

I know there's a Heroes of Might and Magic III app in the works, though I think it's still in beta or some such. As for other games, I've never found one that's not a casual game.

VLC was pulled from the App Store because the FSF or someodd wanted to make an example about how Apple's TOS and the GNU license could never be together and jazz. So you can convert your video to .mov (which you should already know how to do) or jailbreak your phone and install VLC from Cydia. I personally don't recommend jailbreaking because—despite the cool perks—reliability takes a nosedive and I am not going to sacrifice my business for some emulators.

Zenonia is a good JRPG series (in my opinion.) I wouldn't call Sword & Sworcery JRPG but it is pretty spectacular. Rolando is a fun platformer. Forget Me Not is a love letter to Pac Man. I could go on...

Do you mean still photography or moving picture style? iMovie, LlamaSlate and FreeTime Pro are all very handy for quick & dirty film production. For stills, I use PhotoForge and it's probably about as nice as photo editing on a phone can be.

ATM the Playstation emulator is only available for jailbroken devices.

There are indeed some GOGs: Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword, Earthworm Jim, Gobliiins, Myst, Raptor, Riven, Simon the Sorcerer & Simon the Sorcerer 2 are all available in the App Store. If you jailbreak, you will also have access to DOSPad and ScummVM.

Camera+ is very, very good.

Sorting the drek on the app store is a nightmare.

Full budget, long playing titles are relatively new to the store. Mostly I think, because the ios devices capable of doing them justice aren't in the majority yet. This is especially true for 3D accelerated games. The store is dominated by 5 minutes and forget titles.

There are a couple of sites that deal with reviews of games. My preferred is TouchArcade. Mostly because it seems to have clicked with a few ios developers. They regularly source there for beta testers and its there you'll get regular news on free/price dropped games.

Currently on my ipad 2 I have Perfect Cell, War Pinball HD, Slayer Pinball Rocks HD, War of Eustrath HD, Sword and Sworcery (more an art experience than a game), Death Rally, Puzzle Quest (I buy this on every damn platform, sad), Puzzle Agent, Great Little War Game, Neuroshima Hex, Inotia 3 (ugly but fun), Eternal Legacy (I wouldn't have but it was on sale).

I would have bought the Sam n Max series but I already have this on Steam. I really hope adventure games take off on the platform, I'd love to see ios versions of the Phoenix Wright series.

As for camera/video. The perfect title for you is no longer available on the app store. The developer was bought out and it was removed from sale. They claim it will return 'soon'. It was a video server, cloud host and local device downloader in one. Zumocast.

You could set up a local server for wi-fi as well as upload videos/pictures/music to their service, run the client on your ios device, stream from the server with automatic ios friendly conversion and also save the converted file to your ios device for watching later.

The closest thing to it now is Air Video, but it does not (yet) have local (ios device) storage and playback, its purely great at streaming over local wifi or internet. Its still under active development.

Until Zumocast or something like it returns, you'll probably have to use Handbrake to down convert your mpegs to mp4 format. There are other Upnp/DLNA clients on the ios platform but few if any allow local saving of converted video.

There are thousands of gimmic still-photo touch up apps, I haven't really tried them as I have filterstorm pro (ipad only). Basically adobe lightroom on the ipad. iOS 5 is releasing in a couple of months time, which brings basic photo management to the in built photos app that you can't get rid of (annoying).

Final Fantasy Tactics is on the way to ios (still), at the moment the only FF title on the app store is FF3.

I had high hopes for the ios as a gaming platform after all the press, but it hasn't gotten there yet. Gameloft's titles are all clumsy clusterfucks and they're the premiere ios platform developer (copying the shit out of real console/pc games). Instead I just use the ipad 2 primarily for ibooks and sketch apps. I love Notes Plus for handwriting and Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro (better than the higher rated but simpler Procreate).

I use Calibre on my computer to convert ebooks to epub format, drop them into itunes and then sync them over to the ipad. ibooks does a great job with pdfs too.