First Monster Hunter game in iPhone platform is now available in App Store at US$4.99 .

The well-known game, titled Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting, features 3 types of weapon, ‘Sword & Shield’, ‘Dual Sword’ and ‘Great Sword’. Also, 40+ weapons & 13 armors are available for forging ( forging needs items collected from boss ). Elements in original game title are preserved, such as dodging, breaking boss’ body parts, various status effects, items, achievements, etc. Boss is from Monster Hunter 2, instead of the latest version of Monster Hunter, Monster Hunter 3 in PSP.

Also, the game supports multi-play via Bluetooth. Players can co-op to kill bosses. We recommend this game.

My friend’s iPhone 3GS ( iOS 4.3.3 ) is just jailbroken yesterday using redsn0w. After standard jailbreaking procedures, all App Store apps cannot be opened ( once launched , crash back to Springboard ) while original iOS apps like Camera & Phone remain normal .

The solution is : try to download a free app from App Store . After launched the newly downloaded free app , all apps become normal again .

iMac, MacBook, and other iOS devices (such as iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch) that directly damaged by the Japan earthquake are eligible to have free repairs, offered by AppleCare. This offer however excludes iPod Classic, iPod Nano & iPod Shuffle and only applies to the area covered by the Ministry of Health’s Disaster Relief Act.

Apple offered a series of services since Japan earthquake, including providing a free Softbank phone in replacement of lost iPhone in earthquake & allowing free long distance call from U.S. to Japan.

But you have to act quick, because this promotion will ends on 30th June.

Hello programmers , if you are interested in stepping into app development industry, these stats may help you decide which platform you should go. iOS & Android are the most popular platforms, Windows Phone 7 followed. WP7 is still young in terms of its API coverage, hardware support and development environment. For me, I am an iOS developer, as the IDE tools and iOS API are very complete ( though sometimes tiny bugs in API can be annoying ). Make your decision now, or it will be too late. Read more for more statistics.

Though there are much more apps in Apple’s App Store than Android Market, there are more Android free apps in Android Market than in App Store. There are 134,242 free apps for Android users, while iOS has only 121,845 free apps.

Yet , figures are just numbers. Apple did a good job on screening the quality of new apps, while Google is still weak in this part, causing a lot of low-quality apps appearing in Android Market. To truly overtake Apple to be the smart phone apps’ conqueror, Google’s Android must put more effort on the whole app production workflow, such as cleaning their Android SDK and the approval process.

Here is a list of Apple iOS firmware (IPSW) official direct download links . We are actively updating the links . Links for iOS 4.3.1 , 4.2 and lower is coming soon .

How to restore / update firmware of your “iDevice”?
After downloading the desired firmware below, you can shift-click (PC) or option-click (Mac) the Restore or Update buttons in iTunes. A file dialog will open and let you choose the downloaded ipsw-file. (Your browser may change the ipsw-file into a zip-file. In that case, just rename it to end in .ipsw and iTunes will accept it.)

Google Search app in iOS is going to replace Google Mobile App to become primary app of Google. The old Google Mobile App was criticized to have too little functions, due to the constraints of Apple App review process. Now, the new app, Google Search App, focuses on search functions. Download using the QR code above.

Many iPhone 3GS users reported that after they installed the latest iOS 4.3 to their phone, the response time of phone significantly decreased.

Personal WiFi Hotspot vs Response Time ? make a choice before considering upgrade.

Apple released iOS 4.3 one day earlier. iOS 4.3 is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. iOS 4.3 is now available in iTunes. Just hit the “Check for Update” button after connected your device to iTunes. For jailbreaker, please hold. There’s no jailbreaking tool released yet. Stay tuned in raptor.hk for latest news for jailbreaking iOS 4.3.

Hey, where is my FaceTime ? I can’t search it in App Store !