UPDATE IN RED

Come one, come all folks.  Now is your chance to become popular with the Touchmods team and chance to win a FREE Touchmods Mic or Touchmods headset. 

 That’s right.  You heard me right.  You too could be one of the lucky winners.  

The Touchmods team is looking for some very special coders.  

They will be giving away a Touchmods Headset and two Touchmods Microphones for the best 3 coders.

There is no catch, it is for free.  The only thing you need to do is to download the source-code of the previous SIP-VoIP app and implement any of their requested features.

 You will need to act fast though.  This offer is only good until the end of april.

Here are some of the featured items that are wanted:

- internal Touch Buzzer Control (Andreas?)
- optimization of a compression algorithm in order to save bandwidth (ASM coders?)
- link to the internal Calendar (we have the API, thnx Metabaron)
- circular buffers for Incoming, Ougoing, Missed calls
- implementing similar trick to the “iClarified Volume Boost” hack
- “Disconnecting” button Label similar to “Connecting”
- R+L channels both active (Samuel?)
- using other Speech Codecs (with lower bandwidth needed)
- running two providers at the same time (one for receiving, and one for initiatin’ calls)
- GUI-based volume control inside the VoIP app
- iPhone internal Mic input

If you have any questions regarding the contest, feel free to contact me using my contact form or leave a comment.  

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Just a few days ago I posted about the Touchmods team splitting into two sections to work on the projects.  One for the iPod touch and one for the iPhone.  If you went to the Touchmods site and read their article you may have noticed one thing.

 What is more, we do consider opening the Touch SIP-VoIP version for external developers.

DEVELOPERS, here is your chance. Today the Touchmods team released the 1.1 code for their project.
Lets see what you all can do with it!!  You can find it on the sidebar of their website or you can go directly to the Touchmods Google page and download the code directly. 

  
Enjoy!

[Source] Touchmods Weblog

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It’s true!!  Just not like you are thinking though.  

 Touchmods team announced today that the team would soon separate. Into two groups, that is. Had ya going for a minute though huh?

The team announced today that they plan on making 2 groups. 1 of which develops for the iPhone and one team to develop for the iPod touch. 

Touchmods went on further to say that their software will forever be free!! With this new idea, it is purposed that the Touchmods team will be juggling feats of magic. Working on solutions for everyone.

Read the rest of the story here.

[UPDATE] The words in bold, I have corrected.  I was mistaken and used Software and Hardware.  The corrected words are above.

Sorry Touchmods team for the mistake.   

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The Touchmods team is now giving you the opportunity to, as they say “Hack the Hack”. Quite an interesting terminology however, oh so, appropriate.

Coming soon to the Touchmods repository, you will find a very interesting item.

The surprice is NOT that the App is free and open for all providers, but Samuel did implement a little trick that will disable the SW after using it for two weeks.

Ok folks, it’s time to break out your treasure hunting tools. If you can figure out how to rearrange a couple of certain numbers you can stop the deadline of using the software.
Word is also, that if someone just so happens to post the answer up over there. The post will be left for everyone to see. Educational purposes you know.

See the rest of this over at “Hack the Hack“
Image courtesy to the Touchmods weblog.

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Some of you might remember the report on the XXXL news from the Touchmods team.  This may have let a few people down and thus leading to a small rise in tension levels with some of the readers over at the Touchmods site.  Well now you can cool off a little if you were one of the ones that were frustrated that the app wasn’t totally “free”.  

 The Touchmods team have done it again with their latest news release:  

Well folks, it seems that one of the Touchmods team members, Samuel, went and met with the PjSIP team over at the FOSDEM 2008 convention in Brussels, Belgium today.
If you are not familiar with FOSDEM.

FOSDEM ‘08 is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

According to the Touchmods team, Samuel, went to meet with the PjSIP team over their. Fueled by the Touchmods teams desire to bring total commitment to their VoIP project, Samuel took a presentation and a dream to share with the PjSIP team. See the presentation from Samuel HERE(PDF document)

The fate of the team may well lie in the hands of the PjSIP team. Open Source SIP-VoIP for the iPod touch may not be as far away as everyone thinks. Let’s just be patient and see where this leads.

 Another big thanks goes out to the Touchmods team for keeping everything real.

[Source] Read the rest of the Touchmods team report

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The Touchmods team with the help of a member of their site, made it possible for you to demo the new contact accessibility on your iPod touch/iPhone.

We are happy to announce a tiny App in our repostitory demonstrating how we access the Contacts list on the Touch and iPhone. Feel free to install and test it. An extra black icon will appear on your device, and by clicking on it you can search the contacts and click on a chosen one.

Big thanks to Metabaron, our new member for this hack!

Cheers,

The Touchmods Team

Basically what happens is this little app will show you how the process will work once they complete integrating it with their Sip-Voip app. Currently, this is ONLY a demo folks. What you can do is see just how it will work. The only thing left for the Touchmods team is to integrate the add feature to the app.

Here are some screenshots.

Can’t wait for this to be project to be completed.

To add this via installer make sure you have the touchmods source added and just click on the “Touchmods Contact Demo” listed under the touchmods category.  

[Source] http://touchmods.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/accessing-contacts/

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