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Apr 2, 2010

Electronic Arts Announces Sweet Deals On iPhone Games – Up To 80% Discount

Andy

Electronic Arts, the developer of many popular gaming applications for the iPhone as well as other platforms has announced a Spring Sale on close to 24 of their iPhone games. The sale that has been announced for the Easter weekend and lasts till April 5. Here are the iPhone games...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 7, 2010

Apple Cracking Down on iPhone Apps Built Using App Generators?

Jason

After removing iPhone apps with sexual content and banning Wi-Fi stumbler iPhone applications, it looks like the iPhone App review team is cracking down on “cookie-cutter” applications. “Cookie-cutter” applications are iPhone apps that are built using app generators. App generator provide users with tools to make an iPhone app, even...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 3, 2010

My3G – Jailbreak App Enables 3G For “Wi-Fi Only” iPhone Apps

Andy

iPhone Carriers like AT&T's stand on data streaming applications has not been favorable to a major extent. While that has been a welcome change over the past few months with the decision to allow data streaming iPhone apps like SlingPlayer Mobile and VoIP iPhone apps to work over 3G. We...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 26, 2010

iControlPad: Play iPhone Games With Physical Buttons And Joystick

Andy

We first wrote about iControlPad nearly two years ago. It's a pretty cool iPhone accessory that will help you replicate a gaming console experience on your iPhone by augmenting touch screen controls with actual analog joystick based controls. The accessory allows you to slide your iPhone or iPod touch into...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 18, 2010

Turn Your iPhone Into a Flash Drive With iPhone Explorer

Andy

A lot of iPhone and iPod touch users never really use up all the space available on their device. If you are one of them and would like to double up your iDevice as a flash drive, iPhone Explorer is for you. This is a nifty piece of software for...

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Feb 14, 2010

Schedule Toggling Of iPhone Settings With SBSchedule

Andy

If you own a jailbroken iPhone, you may well be aware of the SBSettings app on Cydia. It's a nifty piece of software that offers a quick way to access your iPhone settings from any application by simply swiping across the iPhone status bar. While this is no doubt an...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 14, 2010

How To Enable Tethering on Your iPhone Using MyWi iPhone App

Andy

There have been quite a few iPhone apps that have brought tethering to the jailbroken iPhone like iPhoneModem and PDANet. But currently the most popular jailbreak iPhone app to enable tethering on the iPhone is MyWi developed by Intelliborn. Here is a step by step guide to install and configure...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 5, 2010

Best iPhone Apps For National Football League (NFL) Fans

Andy

The hottest season of the year for NFL fans is here with less than two days to go for Super Bowl Sunday. We are sure most of you will be glued to your television sets to watch your favorite team in action, but in case you can't then here is...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 4, 2010

AT&T Approves SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone App to Stream Live TV Over 3G

Andy

SlingPlayer Mobile, the application that lets you watch TV on your iPhone or iPod touch will now stream live TV over AT&T's 3G network. This was announced by the carrier in a recently released media statement. This comes nearly a year after the iPhone app went on sale on the...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 1, 2010

How to Force Quit When iPhone App Hangs or Free up Resources Used by an iPhone App

Andy

What do you do when an iPhone app hangs? In older versions of the iPhone OS, namely iPhone OS 1.0 and iPhone OS 2.0, a 'press and hold' of the home button would most often do the trick. It was also a good trick to free up resources used by...

IPHONE APPS

Jan 25, 2010

Reduce Size of iPhone App Icons With Shrink

Andy

If you are anything like me and have several dozen iPhone applications installed on your iPhone, sifting through the numerous home screen pages can be a daunting task. One way you can make your life easier is by adding additional columns to your Springboard so that you reduce the number...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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

Dec 8, 2009

Apple Removes 1000+ iPhone Apps from App Store Following Ratings Scam

Andy

Has it ever happened to you that you are so impressed with an iPhone app after reading through its reviews only to find after purchasing it that your own experience with the app is not even close to what the reviewers said? Folks at the iPhoneography blog have now unearthed...

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...

IPHONE APPS REVIEW

Nov 23, 2009

Apple’s Phil Schiller Says App Review Staff Is Your Friend – How Can App Approval Be Made Better?

Andy

Apple's app approval policies have been in the news quite often in recent times. While the developer community has always opposed Apple's strict and inconsistent approval policies, the noise has especially become louder after Facebook's leading iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt quit the team to make his views known against...

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...

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...

IPHONE APPS

Oct 28, 2009

Google Releases Free Turn-by-Turn GPS App for Andriod; Working with Apple to Bring it to the iPhone

Jason

If you felt that the turn-by-turn navigation iPhone apps like TomTom are expensive then Google has just given a pleasant surprise. They have announced Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 and are working with Apple to bring the Navigation feature to iPhone’s built-in Maps application. Here are some of the...

IPHONE APPS

Sep 22, 2009

Google Brings Push Gmail to iPhone Users

Jason

Google had released Google Sync in February this year, which allowed users to sync Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with their iPhone. Google has finally announced that they’re adding Gmail support to Google Sync for iPhone and iPod touch, as well as Windows Mobile devices. This is amazing news if...

IPHONE APPS

Sep 8, 2009

Apple Removes C64 – Commodore 64 Emulator for iPhone

Jason

We had reported yesterday how it was possible to access the BASIC interpreter in C64, Commodore Emulator for iPhone using a hack. This seems to have got Manomio, the iPhone game developer into trouble as Apple has removed their iPhone app from the iPhone App Store. Manomio has issued the...

IPHONE APPS

Aug 23, 2009

Movement App Makes it Easier for Users to Organize iPhone Apps

Jason

We had reported a couple of weeks back that there was rumors that the next version of iTunes (iTunes 9) might give users the ability to visually organize and arrange iPhone apps within iTunes. If you can’t wait then you should checkout Movement. It’s an application that makes it easier...

IPHONE APPS

Aug 21, 2009

Apple Responds to FCC: We Didn’t Reject Google Voice Application; We are Studying its Impact on iPhone User Experience

Jason

We had just reported that AT&T has responded to FCC’s letter and has categorically stated that they "had no role in any decision by Apple to not accept the Google Voice application." TechCrunch has got also got Apple’s response to FCC’s letter in which they have said that it hasn’t...

IPHONE APPS

Aug 21, 2009

AT&T Responds to FCC: We Had No Role in Rejecting Google Voice Application

Jason

If you have been following the fiasco behind Apple’s rejection of Google Voice related iPhone apps from the iPhone App Store, you might remember that Apple, AT&T and Google were given until August 21st (i.e. today) by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to respond to their letter as they wanted to...

IPHONE APPS

Aug 16, 2009

TomTom’s Turn-By-Turn GPS Application for the iPhone with Voice Navigation Released

Jason

TomTom had announced back in June that their turn-by-turn GPS application for the iPhone with voice navigation was coming soon to the iPhone App Store. MacRumors is reporting that four regional versions of TomTom's much-awaited iPhone app have finally appeared on New Zealand and Australian App Store after more than...

IPHONE APPS

Aug 5, 2009

How to Use Google Voice on your iPhone

Jason

If you have an iPhone and a Google Voice account and were disappointed with Apple's decision to reject all Google Voice related iPhone apps then you will be happy to know that you still have couple of options to use Google Voice on your iPhone. If you have not jailbroken...