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IPHONE APPS

May 21, 2008

FlyTunes brings Video and Audio Podcasts to your iPhone in addition to Internet Radio

Jason

FlyTunes one of the popular iPhone web apps which brought internet radio to the iPhone and iPod Touch has just got better. They have recently added video and audio podcasts, a new user interface, and a customizable channel guide to their iPhone app. Checkout more details of the iPhone web...

GUIDES

May 19, 2008

iPhones sold as refurbished unit reveals previous owners personal data

Jason

Refurbished iPhones might be a good deal for the new owners, but it might come as a rude shock for previous owners to know that iPhones they had sold and now available as refurbished units might still contain their personal data. Zdziarski, the iPhone hacking genius and also the author...

IPHONE APPS

May 17, 2008

Native iPhone App – Band brings a range of Musical Applications to the iPhone

Jason

The iPhone hacking community has already brought us as a range of musical applications to the iPhone. First it was PocketGuitar - a touchscreen guitar, then iAno - a touchscreen piano and finally folks at MooCowMusic had released Drummer which turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a drum pad....

IPHONE

May 12, 2008

SingTel to sell iPhone in Asia; confirms Apple’s shift in strategy

Jason

SingTel has announced that it will sell Apple's iPhone in Singapore, and through their subsidiaries in other parts of Asia. This is in addition to Mexico-based America Movil announcement last week that they will "bring the iPhone to its Latin American operations later this year" and Vodafone's and Telecom Italia's...

IPHONE

May 11, 2008

iPhone Hacks News and Rumors Roundup, 4th May – 10th May 2008

Jason

Checkout the weekly (4th May - 10th May 2008) news and rumors roundup on the iPhone from here at iPhone Hacks and also from around the web that did not make it here after the jump. As you would see from the articles posted here at iPhone Hacks and around...

IPHONE APPS

May 9, 2008

Killer Native iPhone App: OrbLive – Watch live TV on your iPhone

Jason

When it comes to cool factor, OrbLive has to be one of the coolest native application for the iPhone. Orb Networks has just released a native Orb client making it possible for you to watch live TV, Internet TV, and webcams on your iPhone or iPod Touch. We no longer...

IPHONE

May 5, 2008

Pre-release version of iPhone firmware 2.0 reveals Chinese Handwriting Recognition Feature

Jason

The pre-release version of iPhone firmware 2.0 has revealed another gem of a feature. Wretch.cc is reporting that Apple has included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) in the pre-release version of Apple's iPhone firmware 2.0 included in the latest Apple iPhone SDK Beta 4 (Build 5A258F) which is...

IPHONE APPS

May 5, 2008

iPhone App – Remote Buddy streams iTunes Music, Video and Movies to your iPhone

Jason

If you find the 8 GB or 16 GB on your iPhone too less then you might want to checkout this iPhone application called Remote Buddy. Remote Buddy makes it possible to stream compatible iTunes media such as music, video and movies on your computer directly to your iPhone. Remote...

IPHONE APPS

May 1, 2008

Set Video as your iPhone’s Wallpaper with Native iPhone App – vWallPaper

Jason

You might have changed the background image or wallpaper of your iPhone to give it a personal touch, but what if you could set a video as your iPhone wallpaper. Would you be interested? If "Yes" then checkout vWallpaper, the latest native iPhone application that lets you do exactly that....

GUIDES

May 1, 2008

How-To: Backup the iPhone, Restore from a Backup & Delete a Backup

Jason

One of the most common (and obvious) recommendation before hacking the iPhone is to backup the iPhone so that if things go horribly wrong you can at least restore your iPhone to avoid losing any of your settings such as sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences...

IPHONE

Apr 22, 2008

Apple’s Patent provides details of Instant Messaging iPhone App and also reveals MMS, GPS & Video Conferencing features

Jason

We have all been waiting for a native instant messaging application for the iPhone and based on a patent filed by Apple it appears that we might see one soon (probably its high time as well). The patent has not only reveals Apple's plans to release the Instant messaging client...

ACCESSORIES

Apr 19, 2008

iPhone Tip: Reduce iPhone’s GSM Buzz with Dock Extender Cable

Jason

If you are frustrated with the GSM interference from your iPhone when its near a pair of speakers and the iPhone tips mentioned here have not helped fix the buzzing sound then here is another solution which you could check out. I found some good explanation for the buzzing noise...

IPHONE APPS

Apr 13, 2008

Twinkle – iPhone Twitter App adds Location Feature

Jason

If you are a Twitter addict and liked MobileTwitter, the native iPhone application which I had reviewed few days back then you should also checkout Twinkle, another native Twitter client for the iPhone that has been recently released. Twinkle has couple of additional features that got me interested. The two...

IPHONE APPS

Apr 9, 2008

MobileTwitter – Native Twitter Application for the iPhone

Jason

I had written an article on the options users had to use Twitter, the popular social networking and micro blogging service on their iPhone. At that time I had mentioned that "having a choice is always good and in case you are addicted to the fast-paced social network then you...

IPHONE APPS

Apr 5, 2008

iPhone Games – Quake 3 Arena Ported to iPhone

Jason

I have some exciting news! Folks at HermitWorks are claiming to have ported Quake 3 Arena, one of the most popular and my favorite first-person-shooter game to the iPod Touch (and so should be possible even on the iPhone). If you don't believe it, you can checkout the impressive video...

UNLOCK

Mar 31, 2008

ZiPhone 3.0: New version of Popular tool to JailBreak and Unlock iPhone Released

Jason

I had written about iLiberty an easy to use application to jailbreak, activate and unlock iPhone. If life was not good enough in the iPhone hacking world, Zibri has just released the latest version of ZiPhone v3.0, an extremely popular tool for automatically jailbreak and unlock the iPhone which new...

UNLOCK

Mar 30, 2008

iLiberty: Easy to use Application to JailBreak, Activate and Unlock iPhone

Jason

ZiPhone developed by iPhone Hacking genius Zibri has been a very popular application to jailbreak and unlock iPhone. iLiberty is another application that has been built to jailbreak, activate and unlock your iPhone, so all those facing an issue with ZiPhone could give iLiberty a shot. Update: I just tried...

IPHONE

Mar 30, 2008

iPhone News & Rumors Roundup

Jason

I have been trying hard to bring you folks news on the latest iPhone Applications, Hacks, How-to JailBreak iPhone, How-to Unlock iPhone & other iPhone related News but the pace of activity has been so hectic that some did not make it here @ iPhone Hacks. As the objective of...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 24, 2008

NES App: First Native iPhone Application for iPhone firmware 1.2 “Aspen” Released

Jason

I had reported last week about how iPhone hacking genius Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski had figured out a way to get the unofficial native iPhone applications to work with iPhone firmware 1.2 "Aspen" with minimal code changes and by modifying the headers. As a proof of concept, Zdziarski had also got...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 21, 2008

Native iPhone App: iBooter – iPhone Diagnostic Tool

Jason

iPhone hacker Niacin has released iBooter, a native iPhone application which has an interactive console for iBoot (the Apple Bootloader) and can run it on Linux, MacOS, Windows without iTunes installed. iBooter is definitely not for the faint-hearted as it is an iPhone diagnostic tool similar to iPhuc which can...

UNLOCK

Mar 12, 2008

iPhone Dev Team JailBreak & Unlock iPhone Firmware 2.0

Jason

The iPhone Dev Team has achieved the unthinkable, after released a video to demonstrate a method to Jailbreak iPhone via iTunes and then revealing some interesting details about their "Pwnage Project", today they have gone a step further by revealing that they have hacked the iPhone firmware 2.0 beta that...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 11, 2008

iCopy brings Copy & Paste feature to the iPhone

Jason

One of the most obvious features missing in the iPhone is the Copy and paste functionality. We have seen some interesting videos like the one here on how this should be implemented. However since Apple did not mention it in the announcements made last week, there is little hope to...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 8, 2008

Native iPhone App: MxTube allows you to Download and Save YouTube videos on your iPhone

Jason

The fix provided by iPhone Hacks reader SpikeyMickey303 for the YouTube problem on jailbroken iPhone seems to have worked well for most iPhone hacks readers (thanks SpikeyMickey303 once again for the excellent step-by-step guide) but a few readers have reported that they are still facing an issue. I stumbled upon...

IPHONE

Mar 6, 2008

In-Depth Coverage: Apple reveals details of their much awaited iPhone SDK

Jason

Apple today revealed exciting details of how developers can develop official native iPhone Applications for the iPhone at the much awaited special event today at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. Developers will be able to develop applications using the same native APIs and tools that Apple has used to build iPhone...

IPHONE APPS

Mar 5, 2008

Native iPhone Application: Give your iPhone running Firmware 1.1.4 a Face-Lift with Customize

Jason

I have seen quite a few comments from iPhone Hacks readers since the release of iPhone firmware 1.1.4, on how they would love to get Customize, a native third-party iPhone application, to work on their Jailbroken iPhone. Surprisingly and my apologies I had not even reviewed the native iPhone application...

UNLOCK

Feb 29, 2008

ZiPhone 2.5: Single-Step Method to JailBreak & Unlock iPhone Firmware 1.1.4 Released

Jason

It was earlier today that I had mentioned about the ultimate method to jailbreak iPhone 1.1.4 which the iPhone Dev Team were planning to release soon. But you need not have to wait as iPhone hacking expert Zibri has just released the latest version of his tool, ZiPhone 2.5, to...

UNLOCK

Feb 26, 2008

iPhone Firmware 1.1.4 for Bug Fixes Released – Simpler method to Jailbreak iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 also works with Firmware 1.1.4

Jason

iPhone Firmware update 1.1.4 is out, the sixth firmware update since iPhone's launch. Based on initial reports the firmware doesn't seem to unlock any new features and is more for "bug fixes", however the good news so far has been that you can still Jailbreak iPhone running firmware 1.1.4 using...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 21, 2008

Touchpad App – Access your Computer using your iPhone as a Wireless Remote Trackpad

Jason

It has been quite an amazing journey since the launch of the iPhone thanks to the iPhone hacking community who have developed some awesome iPhone applications like PocketGuitar and iAno developed for the iPhone. The exciting thing is that iPhone developers seem to coming up new ideas for great new...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 18, 2008

iPhone Web App: Save Web Pages with iWebSaver for Off-Line Viewing on your iPhone

Jason

Folks at iWebsaver has figured out an ingenious way to save web pages to your iPhone or iPod Touch for off-line viewing. They have been able to achieve this by converting the entire page to a data URL. This makes iWebSaver an ideal iPhone web application to have if you...

IPHONE APPS

Feb 17, 2008

Native iPhone App – iAno turns iPhone into a Touchscreen Piano

Jason

We have already seen the wonders of iPhone's multi-touch user interface with native iPhone Applications like PocketGuitar which turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a touchscreen guitar. If that wasn't impressive enough then you got to check out iAno - the newly released native iPhone application that turns your...