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Apple Has Developed A “Full-on Solution” To Multitasking In iPhone OS 4.0

iPhonehacks — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:00 +0000

Folks at AppleInsider are reporting that iPhone OS 4.0, which is expected to be released in June will finally allow third party iPhone apps to run in the background. Multi-tasking is one of the most requested features by iPhone users. AppleInsider clai...

iDongle – Standalone Tethered Booting For Your Jailbroken iPhone

Andy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:22:17 +0000

The new iPhone 3GS models with updated ROM do not allow users to perform the traditional full jailbreak. As a result, there may be instances when the user may be required to perform a tethered jailbreak everytime their iPhone crashes or reboots. This c...

iDongle Solves Tethered Jailbreak Issue

Mike McKinnon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:19:28 +0000

A new hardware solution for the tethered jailbreak has been announced over at www.myboyfriendisageek.com. It is called the "iDongle" and it is a small device that plugs into the 30 pin dock connector of your iPhone or iPod Touch. It solves the need to get home to your computer to re-jailbreak, if your device crashes or reboot on the go.

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

Kelly Guimont — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Hacks, iPhone

Warning: If you are baffled by people who think dismantling technology is fun, and completely fail to understand the excitement of building robots to battle other robots, this post may not be for you. Just so you know.

On the Make: magazine blog, they recently posted a piece about the evolution of a project. It was an iPod remote from last year that has gone from a "start and stop" only device to a full featured remote. It is a lovely piece of tech, powered by Arduino hardware. Arduinos are open-source circuit boards and software you can use to develop interfaces with all sorts of electronics.

I remember reading the first post about this remote last fall and being interested in where he would take this project, mostly because I love seeing what people do with Altoids tins. I have to admit hooking one up to a giant "Easy" button for my car never really occurred to me, though.

I really like the idea of building my own remote; partly so I can say I did it, but also because it would be a nicer way to get my iPod or iPhone (depending) working nicely with my car stereo.

Honestly I only understand about half of what he's talking about in this article, but I'm good at following instructions and I am reasonably handy with a soldering iron, so this doesn't look completely unreasonable. If I do end up building one I'll be sure to post all about it for you. In the meantime, have you built an unholy alliance between your Roomba and your iMac, or any other variety of Mac Tech Mashup? Tell me about it, I'd love to see what you all can do!

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Adobe Demos Flash On HP’s Upcoming ‘Slate Device’; Takes A Dig At Apple

Andy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Should Adobe Flash be made available on touch screen devices like the iPad? This is one question to which we will never receive a definitive answer. While there is obviously a case for incorporating a ubiquitous software platform like Flash on the iPad...

Banned Wi-Fi Stumbler iPhone App WiFiFoFum Released On Cydia For Free

Andy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:16:34 +0000

Once again, the App Store's loss has turned out to be Cydia's gain. A week after Cupertino removed Wi-Fi stumbler applications like WiFiFoFum, WiFi-Where and yFy Network Finder from the App Store, Aspecto Software, the developer of the WiFiFoFum applic...

iPad UI Theme for iPhone and iPod touch

Mike McKinnon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:19:37 +0000

An awesome new theme, for jailbroken iPhones has been announced, over at the iPodTouchFans forums. It is a full UI theme, mimicking that of Apple's newest device, the iPad. It is currently in public beta, and is close to being released.

Apple Cracking Down on iPhone Apps Built Using App Generators

iPhonehacks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:01:23 +0000

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 buil...

Make Your iPhone Any Capacity or Firmware, With “Fake About Screen”

Mike McKinnon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:55:24 +0000

A new tweak has been released in Cydia, called "Fake About Screen". It allows you to set whatever firmware, capacity, serial number, etc, that you want, making your iPhone look like a future version of the Apple device.

Toggle Between Last Two iPhone Apps Running On Your iPhone With LastApp

Andy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:12:45 +0000

Applications like ProSwitcher and Multifl0w have offered jailbroken iPhone users the ability to multitask between applications. However, if you have to toggle between just two iPhone apps, here is an application that will make the process much simpler....

InfiniBoard – iPhone App To Enable Vertical Scrolling On SpringBoard (video)

Andy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:25:15 +0000

Remember Infinidock - a nifty tool for jailbroken iPhone users that enables horizontal scrolling on the iPhone dock? Now chpwn, the developer of Infinidock and other jailbreak iPhone apps like ProSwitcher has released another useful application that wi...

Windows Phone 7 Series Theme for iPhone

Mike McKinnon — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:56:25 +0000

A new theme for iPhone, mimics the look of the yet to be released Windows Phone 7 Series. This theme, created by yours truely, is a free download from Cydia, and is available right now! You can find it under the ModMyi repository.

WiFiFoFum, Former App Store App, Shows Up in Cydia

Mike McKinnon — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:38:37 +0000

As you may or may not know, Apple has begun removing all WiFi stumbler apps from the App Store. Well, one developer, Aspecto Software, has turned to the dark side, to get their App out there. "WiFiFoFum, is now available for free, in Cydia.

Steve Jobs: iPad Won’t Tether To The iPhone

iPhonehacks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:04:05 +0000

If you were hoping to buy Wi-Fi only version of Apple’s iPad and tether it to the iPhone then we have some disappointing news. A long time Apple fan from Sweden sent an email to Apple to enquire about iPad tethering, and he received an answer from no...

Infiniboard for iPhone to be Released in Cydia Today!

rorypiper — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:33:21 +0000

Chpwn, creator of Infinidock, and Proswitcher, will release his newest mod for the iPhone and iPod Touch today! It is called “Infiniboard”, and gives your iPhone’s springboard the ability of vertical scrolling.As you can see in this screen shot, there are icons behind the dock. Not sure sure how many rows we will get, but [...]

Apple Bans Wi-Fi Stumbler iPhone Apps – Blames Use Of Private APIs

Andy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:04:57 +0000

After purging the App Store off iPhone apps with sexual content and rejecting apps with "minimal user functionality", it appears that the Apple App review staff have now been eyeing the Wi-Fi stumbler applications. Folks at Cult of Mac have noted that ...

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

Andy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:38:09 +0000

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 V...

Push Doctor Fixes Push Notification Issue On Hacktivated iPhone For Free

iPhonehacks — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:27:54 +0000

One of the known issues with a hacktivated iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0 or later is that the Push Notification feature doesn’t work. The iPhone Dev Team had released a fix to resolve the issue back in July, but it had a major flaw. There is finally s...

Guide: Push Doctor Fix for Push Notifications on Hacktivated iPhone 3.1.3

Taimur Asad — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:08:56 +0000

If you have activated your iPhone through an unauthorized carrier (aka hacktivation) on iPhone 3.x, then your Push Notifications functionality in most cases will be broken. Even if you have tried getting it to work through “PushFix” via iPhoneil available in Cydia, it wont work as that fix uses a single shared certificate for all users who have installed it. This causes battery drainage and huge use of cellular data access.

Steve Jobs Uses a Jailbroken iPhone 3.1.2?

Taimur Asad — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:49:43 +0000

You’d think that Steve Jobs would be running the latest unreleased version of iPhone OS on his iPhone but according to an email received by a 9to5Mac user from Steve Jobs, he seems to be running iPhone OS 3.1.2. His iPhone is listed as iPhone Mail 7D11 in the email header which means that he is running iPhone 3.1.2 instead of iPhone 3.1.3, let alone running the latest unreleased firmware.

iControlPad: Play iPhone Games With Physical Buttons And Joystick

Andy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:52:36 +0000

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 acces...

Can An iPhone OS Layer On Top Of Mac OS X Bridge The Platform UI Differences?

Andy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:56:41 +0000

Technology companies have for long focused on just the three media platforms - TV, computer and mobile phones for customers to consume content. While tablet devices are not exactly new, a renewed focus on the fourth platform is now beginning to happen ...

Gull1hack iPhone Jailbreak Tool is Fake by Design

Taimur Asad — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:40:07 +0000

Gull1hack and Blacksn0w V2 by the Gull1hack team has now been confirmed as fake by the iPhone Dev-Team. A Release Candidate version of Gull1hack was released the other day which was supposed to jailbreak all iPhone and iPod touch devices on the new bootrom untethered.

Apple Patent Provides Interesting Insight On How Users Will Be Able To Control iPhone With Finger Swipes Over Camera

iPhonehacks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:27:25 +0000

If you thought the purpose of iPhone’s camera was to take photos then think again. Folks at Patently Apple have stumbled upon an interesting Apple patent that involves using the iPhone camera to detect finger swipes across the camera lens coupled wit...

Appls Briefly Adds New “Explicit” Category For App Store Submissions; Then Removes It

iPhonehacks — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:46:15 +0000

There were reports that Apple has added a new "Explicit" category in the iTunes Connect system for App Store submissions, which indicated that Apple might reinstate over 5000 iPhone apps with sexual content that were recently removed from the App Store...

Camera On Next Gen iPads To Come With Flash And Zoom?

Andy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:03:22 +0000

There have been plenty of rumors in the past few weeks that have indicated a possible presence of a front facing camera in future generations of the iPad. Earlier this month, folks at a repair company revealed the presence of a dedicated camera slot in...

Gull1hack to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS New Bootrom Untethered? (video)

Taimur Asad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:20:21 +0000

A group of hackers are claiming to have found an exploit which will jailbreak iPhone 3GS with new bootrom and it will be untethered. The exploit appears to work not only in iPhone 3GS models with new bootrom, but also in all iPhone and iPod touch models.

Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.2 SDK Beta 3; Then Pulls the Update; Reveals More References Of Camera

iPhonehacks — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:32:24 +0000

Apple had released the latest beta version iPhone OS 3.2 to developers of its iPhone Developer program. But has immediately pulled the update without any explanation. This was the third beta version of iPhone 3.2 SDK. Earlier beta versions have already...

Apple’s Cost Of Developing A4 Chip For iPad Estimated To Be $1 Billion

Andy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:04:01 +0000

Back in April 2008, Apple acquired Santa Clara based Semiconductor company PA Semi and used the acquired technology to launch A4 - the ARM based mobile chip that is now used on the iPad. The A4 mobile chip with its 1GHz processing speed is touted to be...

Blacksn0w V2 to Unlock iPhone 3GS New Bootrom?

Taimur Asad — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:49 +0000

Folks behind the Gull1hack tool are also said to be working on a new unlocking tool dubbed Blacksn0w V2 which according to them will ultimately unlock the new iPhone 3.1.3 05.12.01 baseband on iPhone 3GS with new bootrom. I for one wont believe them until they come out with more proof of concept screenshot and videos.