Monthly Archives: June 2009
iPhone Print Anyone?
Here is something that – when you consider the crazy rush to develop iPhone Apps, and the massive popularity of sites like Vistaprint
(in the top 1000 sites on the web) – is quite surprising. There are no decent iPhone apps related to printing or business cards or from the big printing companies.
The big print companies, after all, do huge promotions – like the one illustrated to the left! So why haven’t they developed Apps for us?
Don’t get us wrong! There are hundreds of business apps – and a few of these offer some printing related service (more of this below). But we discovered that most of the apps that offer printing-related or business card-related benefit get the thumbs down from users – with most rating them a 1/5!
How to make iPhone videos sparkle with iMovie
If you read my recent post about taking movies with the iPhone 3GS, you probably noted that I talked about the lack of editing capabilities on the iPhone with the exception of trimming the beginning and ending of your videos. What if you want to edit your movies, add titles or effects, or combine a bunch of short iPhone video clips?
Several of the comments left by TUAW readers asked the same question, and it’s so easy to do that I decided to whip up a quick tutorial showing how this works. You probably have a tool on your Mac that can do the job for you with just a few clicks, drags, and menu selections. iMovie is the perfect easy tool for creating full feature films (just kidding) from individual scenes shot with the iPhone 3GS video camera. Here’s how to do it.
How to make iPhone videos sparkle with iMovie originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Talkcast reminder: Potluck night tonight
Our weekly interactive podcast goes live at 10pm Eastern this evening, and it’s going to be a potluck night on the show — you bring whatever you want to talk about, and we’ll bring our own casserole of TUAW news from the last week. We’ll definitely talk about the new iPhone 3GS: how fast it is, how Find My iPhone really can help you find your iPhone, five things you might not know about the phone (if you didn’t read that post yet), and, errr — how fast it is. The speed is such a big story we’ll talk about it twice!
Plus, you’ll probably hear us wax poetic on how much we love the mini, and we’ll talk about our “stickiest” iPhone applications — apps we just can’t help but load up that “one more time.” Should be a lot of fun — definitely tune in and join us at 10pm Eastern this evening over on TalkShoe.
To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, or you can try out the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the “TalkShoe Web” button on our profile page at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VOIP lines (take advantange of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. Talk with you then!
Guide (step-by-step): Jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 using Redsn0w 0.7+ (Windows)
This Guide is for iPhone 3G and Redsn0w version 0.7, 0.7.1 and 0.7.2
It also applies to iPhone 3GS and Redsn0w version 0.8 (the steps are the same).
The iPhone Dev Team released updated version of PwnageTool for Mac users and Redsn0w for both Mac and Windows users to jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0.
Here is our step-by-step guide to jailbreak iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 using Redsn0w for Windows users. We will publish one for Mac users shortly.
An important preparatory step before jailbreaking your iPhone 3G is to take a backup of your iPhone. Please refer to this article for more details.
As with any hack, please proceed with caution as jailbreaking your iPhone could void it’s warranty.
Here are the step-by-step instructions on how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G in order to use the iPhone OS 3.0 using redsn0w for Windows
Step 1: Create a folder on your desktop and name it Pwnage.
Step 2: Now download redsn0w from
Don’t try this at home (iPhone underwater at the pool)
Or at the pool, or at the beach. It seems a French fellow was proud of his new iPhone 3GS and was taking pictures around the pool when the sort of inevitable happened. Yup, in the drink. Amazingly, the iPhone survived the underwater ordeal, and even recorded [YouTube link] the trip. Allegedly.