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ACCESSORIES

Jan 8, 2010

Yet Another Physical Keyboard Add-On for iPhone Unveiled

Andy

With an increasing number of options being made available to use physical keyboards with an iPhone, you can call this a mini-industry of sorts. First, we had iPhone hackers wiring up their iPhone to a physical keyboard. Then we had iTwinge, which lets you attach an actual Blackberry-style keyboard to...

IPHONE APPS

Jan 3, 2010

How to Use a Bluetooth Keyboard with Your iPhone

Andy

Remember the BTStack Keyboard app? We had recently written about this application for jailbroken iPhones that lets you connect and use a physical Bluetooth keyboard to type on your iPhone. This tutorial will walk you through all the steps in order for you to start using a Bluetooth keyboard to...

GUIDES

Jan 3, 2010

How to Set Custom Incoming SMS Alert Tone On Your iPhone

Andy

Presently, non-jailbroken iPhone users cannot customize their incoming SMS alert tone. But if you have a jailbroken iPhone, you may follow these steps to customize your SMS alert tone . Please note that you need to have OpenSSH installed on your iPhone. If you do not have it already, check...

GUIDES

Dec 29, 2009

Fix for Cydia Crashing Problem

Andy

A simple Mac-Roman encoded character in one of the packages file distributed via Cydia yesterday (December 28) caused a persistent crashing problem. The problem was with macciti/zodttd's source though the actual reason for the crash is believed to be Cydia's problem with decoding the characters. A message posted on the...

IPHONE APPS

Dec 26, 2009

GlovePod iPhone App Lets You Change Music Tracks With Volume Buttons

Andy

One of the big problems with touchscreen phones is that they can sometimes be difficult to work with during winters. While you will have to inevitably remove your gloves while typing or surfing, simpler things like changing a music track can also be difficult if you are wearing gloves. There...

IPHONE APPS REVIEW

Dec 20, 2009

Turn Your iPhone Into a Universal Remote Control With Rē

Andy

The annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that is scheduled to be held in a couple of weeks from now will see an interesting exhibit from Portland based NewKinetix called the Rē. Rē is an IR based universal remote control plug-in accessory for the iPhone that can substitute every other...

CARRIERS

Dec 15, 2009

Is Blaming Apple’s iPhone for AT&T’s Network Woes Justified?

Andy

Earlier this week, we had written about New York Times journalist Randall Stross' article that blamed iPhone's 'air interface' as the reason behind the network woes AT&T subscribers have been facing. Randall's article concluded that though AT&T is getting congested, things are worse than what it should be because of...

IPHONE APPS

Dec 14, 2009

iTunes Bug: Users Notified of iPhone App Updates Even After Updates Are Downloaded

Andy

We had been noticing this lately ourselves and folks at TheiPhoneBlog have now confirmed it. There appears to be a bug with iTunes that causes iPhone apps to show that they have new updates available even if none exists. You can view the bug if you log into the App...

CARRIERS

Dec 13, 2009

Defects In iPhone to Blame for AT&T Network Woes?

Andy

There are two kinds of iPhone users - Those who think they have the best handset on the worst network and the others who think that a good carrier like AT&T has had to suffer simply because the users of the best smartphone have all been using up its bandwidth....

IPHONE APPS

Dec 8, 2009

AT&T Releases iPhone App to Let Subscribers Mark the Patchy Spots

Andy

We recently wrote about a Consumer Reports survey that ranked AT&T as the worst among the big four wireless carriers in the US. Apparently, AT&T is already taking steps to address their shortcomings. The company has now launched an application on the App Store that enables users to notify AT&T...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 29, 2009

DIY Instructions to Increase iPhone Camera Zooming

Andy

The native camera app on the iPhone is very basic to be honest. There are a lot of iPhone apps in the App Store that let you take better pictures and those that offer a lot more functionalities not available on the native app. However, there is nothing like doing-it-yourself...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 26, 2009

Multi-tasking A la Palm Pre On iPhone With Multifl0w Jailbreak App

Andy

One of the most popular app among jailbroken iPhone users is Backgrounder - the free app that allows you to multitask; a feature almost omnipresent among smartphones but something that remains unavailable for iPhone users till date. Now here is another iPhone app that improvises on Backgrounder to create a...

GUIDES

Nov 24, 2009

New Malicious Worm Attacks Jailbroken iPhones Using Known Vulnerability

Andy

After two worm attacks on jailbroken iPhones, one would have expected the vulnerable iPhone users to have reset their passwords. Unfortunately, a lot many still have had their jailbroken iPhones with the root password unchanged as a third worm attack is now being reported. And this time, it is far...

GUIDES

Nov 17, 2009

How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone

Andy

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone. Requirements...

GUIDES

Nov 16, 2009

How to Change Your Jailbroken iPhone’s Root Password

Andy

The recent spate of worm attacks in the past week has brought the focus on the importance of your root password. Unlike feature phones, smartphones like the iPhone run on operating systems, which very much like our computer have administrator privileges. It is hence that when the hackers get access...

UNLOCK

Nov 15, 2009

How to Jailbreak And Unlock your iPhone With Blackra1n And Blacksn0w On Mac

Andy

If you are looking to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone, here is a tutorial on how you can do it with Geohot's blackra1n software. This tutorial is for Mac users only. If you are a Windows user, you may read the corresponding jailbreaking guide here. Some important points to note...

UNLOCK

Nov 15, 2009

How to Jailbreak And Unlock Your iPhone With Blackra1n And BlackSn0w on Windows

Andy

We had recently written about the release of Geohot's iPhone jailbreaking tool Blackra1n. Here is a short tutorial that you might find useful in using these tools to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS on your Windows PC. Some important points to note before we start: Hacking...

IPHONE APPS REVIEW

Nov 13, 2009

UnderCover iPhone App Helps You Recover Stolen iPhone

Andy

For those who remember,'Find my iPhone' is a feature offered by Apple to MobileMe subscribers that lets them to recover lost or stolen iPhones. Now a Belgian based company named Orbicule has launched an iPhone app that does the same thing and much more. The 'Find My iPhone' feature lets...

GUIDES

Nov 12, 2009

Yet Another Worm Exploit On Jailbroken iPhones That Steals Personal Data

Andy

Close on the heels of the iKee virus attack that rickrolled jailbroken iPhone users earlier this week comes yet another worm that exploits the same security hole - just that this one is much more dangerous. A Mac Security software development company, Intego has revealed that the worm called iPhone/Privacy.A...

GUIDES

Nov 10, 2009

Identity of iKee Hacker Who Rickrolled Jailbroken iPhones Revealed

Andy

The identity of the Australian hacker who had 'rickrolled' jailbroken iPhones with the 'iKee' virus is now revealed. It is 21 year old Ashley Towns from Wollongong, Australia. Ashley, who is a student at TAFE, says he had created the virus merely as a prank and to make people aware...

UNLOCK

Nov 9, 2009

Jailbroken iPhones Hit With ‘RickRoll’ Worm

Andy

If you are one of those users who had jailbroken their iPhones but did not care to change the default password after installing SSH, you might want to do it now. A new worm has been infecting those jailbroken iPhones that still carry the same default 'alpine' password. As such,...

GUIDES

Nov 8, 2009

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS Update for iPhone Syncing Problem

Andy

A few days back, we had written about a problem faced by some users who had trouble syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9 on Windows 7. We are now hearing that a solution to the problem has been found, at least for some of the users. Gigabyte Technology has released...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 5, 2009

New iTunes Updates Lets You Manage More Than 180 iPhone Apps

Andy

In September when iPhone OS 3.1 was released, Apple also introduced an App management feature for iTunes, which let you manage iPhone apps on your iPhone Home Screens directly from iTunes. One of the issues with this iPhone app management feature was that it only displayed the 180 iPhone apps...

GUIDES

Nov 3, 2009

iPhone Syncing Problem Reported With Intel P55 Powered Windows 7 Computers

Andy

A lot many iPhone users have been reporting on the Apple Support forum that they have been facing trouble in syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9. The root cause of this issue is yet to be resolved, however, based on the complainants' computer configurations, it is doubted to be an...

IOS

Oct 18, 2009

How to Jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.1.2 Using PwnageTool 3.1.4

Jason

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.4 for iPhone OS 3.1.2 few days back to allow users to jailbreak their iPhone and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone. This step-by-step guide will show you how to use Dev Team's PwnageTool 3.1.4 courtesy folks at iClarified....

GUIDES

Oct 16, 2009

iPhone Users Receiving MMS With Incorrect Sender Number

Andy

Quite a few reports are doing the rounds that the MMS messages sent from the iPhones are reaching the recipients with a wrong sender number. In all of these cases, the recipients received the MMS message intact; however the displayed sender number was of some other random AT&T user. According...

IOS

Oct 12, 2009

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Fixes Random Shutdown or Coma Mode Issue Observed in iPhone OS 3.1

Jason

iPhone users were facing many issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1. It was probably one of the reasons why iPhone users didn’t upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1. Wired reports that Apple has confirmed that the “coma mode” bug has been fixed in iPhone OS 3.1.2, which was released last...

IOS

Oct 3, 2009

Step By Step Guide to Upgrade Jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 Using PwnageTool 3.1.3

Jason

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.3 for iPhone OS 3.1, which added support for iPhone 3GS so that users can upgrade their jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone. This step-by-step guide will show you how to...

IOS

Sep 20, 2009

Apple Actively Investigating Poor Battery Life Problem Reported in iPhone OS 3.1?

Jason

One of the problems reported by users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 has been poor battery life. According to folks at TheiPhoneBlog, Apple is contacting users who are reporting the problem and asking them for more information. They're also sending these users an unsigned profile to enable battery...

IOS

Sep 19, 2009

Step By Step Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.1 using PwnageTool 3.1

Jason

The iPhone Dev Team had warned iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users who had jailbroken and/or unlocked their iPhone to avoid upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 a day before it was released and had asked them to wait for them to release the PwnageTool. iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1...