Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Wow, it seems like only a few weeks ago our very own Mike Schramm was telling us about Flick Fishing, a new fishing simulation game from Freeverse. They’ve let us know that version 1.2 of this great game will be available soon in the App Store (click opens iTunes – note that version 1.2 may not be available yet).

What goodies did Freeverse pack into the latest incarnation of this US$0.99 bargain? The list is extensive:

There are lots of iPhone app discounts to be had for the remaining 3 hours of the day (that’s ET — different developers may trigger the return to regular pricing at different times, although I believe ‘official App Store time’ is PT), but two in particular caught my eye as excellent temp-free apps, and probably worth their regular prices as well.

Houdah Software’s ACTPrinter addresses a longstanding challenge for the iPhone: how to easily get PDF files or other printables onto the device without having to email them to yourself. Using a driver on the Mac side to wirelessly ship the printed doc across to the device is a delightful approach to the problem, and from what I’ve seen it works like a charm (you can judge for yourself via this screencast). Such a bargain! ACTPrinter is normally $0.99.

Call it the Touchable Penguin. OK, the touchscreen drivers aren’t there yet, but the simple, scrolling shell output of a Linux kernel running on the iPhone represents a big achievement for the iPhone Dev Team and dev lead ‘planetbeing.’ The build is far from complete — no wireless networking, no sound, no writeable support for the NAND flash memory — but it’s still very cool, and the effort involved was substantial (the team had to reverse-engineer the iPhone’s boot loader so they could write their own).

Having a working Linux kernel on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touch handhelds might seem frivolous, but imagine the ability to run other touch phone OS platforms on top of an iPhone (like, perhaps, Android)… very tempting. You can see more of the rationale behind the Linux-on-iPhone project here, or you can skip to the second half of this post to see the video.

[via Engadget & Erica]