How to make your own free iPhone dock
Apple didn’t get rich by writing a lot of cheques, or by giving something away when it could charge for it later. Even when that something would mean your iPhone wasn’t left kicking around on the computer desk, getting scratched up and knocked off.
All we get from Apple is a poxy little USB cable, while Steve Jobs and Tim Cook sit on a mountain of sweet-smelling cash, rubbing coins on their faces and smoking roll-ups made from £20 notes that they lit with a £5 note – all because we went out and bought a dock for our iPhone that should have had one included in the box!
Where was I? Oh yes – picking my iPhone up off the floor.
But no longer. I decided to learn by Apple’s thrifty example and made my own iPhone stand from recycled cardboard.
That’s right, Cook! How do you like them… Apples. Hmm, he probably likes them quite a lot. Not the best sting I’ve ever administered to The Man, but you get the point.
Apple’s got enough of your money, dear punter, so Pocket Gamer‘s here to save you a few quid and show you how to make your own iPhone/iPod touch stand.
You’re very welcome.
Here’s a plan for your new stand. It’s A4 landscape size, and gives you all the dimensions so you can measure out and draw the flattened iPhone stand on a piece of cardboard.
Limited edition GTA IV Microsoft Points card revealed
Play.com has revealed a special Microsoft Points card worth 1600 Microsoft Points will be released next month. The Points card, printed with a Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost & Damned design will be a limited edition, released on Friday 13th February 2009.
If it looked anything like the above, you’d be lost and damned!
Grand Theft Auto to Wii? Is Nintendo changing its demographic?
Nintendo forums are alight at the moment with the possibility of the largest "grown-up" franchise in video gaming coming to a Wii near them.
Nintendo of America’s president, Reggie Fils-Aime has appeared recently on US television, discussing the possibility "Nintendo has done all it can to persuadeTake-Two Interactive Software to bring the Grand Theft Auto franchise to Nintendo consoles, and it is now up to the third party publisher to decide whether Rockstar Games’ immensely popular series will appear on Wii."
Despite commentators here on iTWire down playing the concept, it does start the imagination buzzing as to the possibilities of the Wii-mote in such a title.
Imagine being involved physically in a street brawl, or needing to actually get the ignition started on a recently "jacked" vehicle. Immersion rules on the Wii and it will be titles like these that can exploit the concept further, especially for a more adult audience.
Still we will need to wait and see what eventuates – we will know more come 2007′s first quarter. In the meantime it is refreshing to note that publisher Take-two did indeed pledge support for the Wii back in June this year.
Lets hope that it is titles like GTA, and Bully (Canis Canem Edit In Australia and Europe) and the ilk that can expand the Nintendo Wii image from the toy profile it tends to hold now. The future is looking bright with a strong software line up already available.
Source ITWire
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