Daniel Leivers is a Software Engineer and iPhone App developer from Worcester, with apps in the App Store such as myPSN, myCOD5 and myKillzone.

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Sam Gibbs: What made you become an iPhone developer? What was the original spark that you thought, there’s not an app for that, yet?

Daniel Leivers: Pretty much! I was sat in a pub waiting for a friend to arrive and wanted to see if he’d actually finished playing Killzone 2 or not. Later that night we also wanted to see who had the better Killzone stats so two apps actually came out of that night! Really I’m just writing apps that I find useful and hopefully other people do too.

Of course it wouldn’t have happened at all without the support of my wife (who also happens to be a graphic designer – all the logos and graphics are her work!)

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Apple made sure that Google wouldn’t get any app Store love for its Voice service.  The app was banned and that was it… gloves off, first punch thrown.  Well, Google responded with a haymaker:

Just point your iPhone to http://m.google.com/voice and give it a try.  Any iPhone users out there who would like to let us know how it works, please post a reply!

[via Consumerist]

Some traditional family board games translate well into the modern era in digital format, some simply don’t. Monopoly was one of the first traditional table games to make it to a computer and it’s done fairly well over the various platforms it’s graced, let alone the iPhone. There’s always been a game that I used to love playing but have never before seen move into a digital format and that’s Connect 4. Now thanks to EA, Connect 4 has graced the iPhone with all it’s chip dropping goodness.

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Today we’ll be having a peek at a space station trading game similar to games such as Lemonade Tycoon and other fixed platform trading games. Kaloki Adventure from Ninja Bee, the folks behind some successful XBLA titles, is a deep space station management and trading game based around a young upstart of a protagonist.

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Have you played EA’s ‘Monopoly Here and Now’ and thought, that’s not the Monopoly I remember? Well, EA have now released the original Monopoly for iPhone and iPod touch, so you can relive your childhood days as ruler of the London property market on the go.

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Fancy a bit of pocket blasting fun? Well today we’ll be looking at another game from the venerable Handmark games studio Astraware, Police Range. As the name implies it’s a game based around blasting targets in a Police shooting range, a nice simple premise that really fits the form and function of the iPhone and iPod touch.

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The BBC send out a press-pack once a month, that normally just includes viewing statistics and other mundane stuff like that. Of course those looking to see what the uptake of BBC’s iPlayer normally find useful stuff in there but the last one included a special gift (.ppt) for the rest of us, two images of an iPlayer iPhone app as seen above. OK, so the BBC has had an iPhone optimised iPlayer stream and webapp since March 2008, but this beauty of a screen shot shows downloads and streaming right within the app. Using data on the app will probably be limited to WiFi, as shown in the picture, but if it’s got a similar download system to the desktop app there’s nothing stopping you downloading and taking your fave programs on the road.

As leaks go, one from the BBC themselves is pretty conclusive, whether we’ll actually ever see the app I guess rests on whether Apple shows it some love or not. UK users, watch this space.

[Recombu Via Pocket-Lint]

UPDATE: Looks like the Beeb is denying it.

When two tech giants clash, even those on the periphery will feel the tremors. The recent banning of the Google Voice App from the iPhone App Store and subsequent investigation by the FCC has spotlighted a few major issues in the emerging mobile world.

Is this REALLY something the Government should be getting involved with? What are your thoughts?

This is not a joke. But it should be.

Are you a forgetful boyfriend? Can’t remember to put important dates on your iCal on your mac or in the Calendar App on your iPhone?  Do you forget to tell your girlfriend compliments?

Well worry not, dumbass, because “there’s an app for that.”

Introducing the Girlfriend Keeper app.  This app, when turned on, can send compliments via  text messages or emails to your girlfriend so you can go back to those other things that matter more. Depending on what you set your relationship level at, you can send messages like:

“I just drove by a brown barn and it reminded me of your eyes.”
“Did you know we started dating 37 days and 8 hours ago?”

Now, of course this is just a humor app.  But it is real.  If you really get this app for the purpose of keeping your relationship steady, then you are doing it all wrong, sir.  But if you get this app and it really works on your girlfriend, please tell us by using the contact form on the right side of your screen.

Girlfriend app – $0.99 – [iTunes Link]

Have you been craving some NFL action on the go but Field Goal Frenzy just wasn’t enough, then Gameloft might just have something up their sleeve for you. Coming soon to the App Store (unless Apple has some beef with it, you never know these days), NFL 2010 promises to be the first ‘full football simulation’ game on the App Store and will feature ‘full team rosters’ so you’ll have the option of playing with your fave NFL franchise. Slated to be available by the end of the month for an unknown price (likely to be around the $6 mark).

Hit the break for some action shots.

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