Gizmodo reported early this week that Apple may be using software to perform additional automated checks on all new App Store submissions during the app review process. Google Mobile lets you search the Web using your voice in a way that is technically off-limits to iPhone developers, according to a report. Apple (App Store) A …
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Recently, I removed my iPhone e-mail accounts so I could troubleshoot a problem with the Mail app. But when I reinstalled the accounts, I found that I wasn’t able to delete messages from one account’s in-box. The account in question was a POP3 account used to retrieve messages from my spam e-mail filtering service. It was sending and receiving e-mail …
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The Commodore 64 emulator application for iPhone was pulled from the App Store by Apple in September for leaving its BASIC interpreter intact and accessible via a backdoor hack. This week, the app has returned after some major rework by its creator, Manomio. C64 no longer contains the BASIC interpreter and Commodore 64 ROM files, since Apple originally rejected the …
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Last week, we received comments from Intel regarding an iPhone sync glitch with certain PCs that use a new Intel P55 chipset and Windows 7 64-bit. On Friday, motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology, a popular motherboard maker for PC hobbyists, issued a BIOS update that resolves the problem for some of these users who haven’t been able to sync their iPhones. …
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Apple’s iPhone 3GS introduced video recording, trimming, and sharing by adding a higher quality camera and iPhone OS 3.0. These new features introduced a simple way to edit videos, but they won’t be replacing iMovie on the Mac–the phone’s video-editing capabilities are far too simple, since all you can do is simple trimming and no special effects. ReelDirector (iTunes link), …
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One of the best Mac OS X tools in my arsenal of iPhone utilities is Ecamm Network’s PhoneView, which lets you retrieve your call history, export contacts, play and save voice memos, search and save SMS messages, play and export music, download photos, and create, edit, and save notes. It even lets you use your iPhone as a disk drive. …
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iPhone OS hacker GeoHot released Blackra1n RC3 Tuesday, an updated jailbreak and unlock utility for the Apple iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch. This version provides true carrier unlocking for iPhone OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07 by taking advantage of at+xemm crash exploit discovered by ih8sn0w. The Blackra1n jailbreak process installs a new app–called Sn0w–onto an iPhone. It unlocks your iPhone, …
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iPhone OS hacker GeoHot has announced the successful creation of an iPhone unlock for the iPhone OS 3.1.2 baseband. The new app called, Blacksn0w, will allow iPhone users to use their phone on non-Apple sanctioned carriers. You’ll have to wait a bit though, since the application will not be released by GeoHot until November 4th, 2009. GeoHot, “To clarify, I …
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Apple released iTunes 9.0.2 today an update that included additional improvements to app sorting for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In early September, we offered a bug fix for arranging apps on iTunes after the release of iTunes 9.0 and later that same month Apple released iTunes 9.0.1. Progress was made in squashing some of the bugs we found, but …
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Do you consider the iPhone’s app-sorting option tedious? Tired of fussing with app sorting in iTunes 9 because the number of apps you have exceeds the display capacity of your iPhone? If you answer yes to either of these questions and you are using a jailbroken iPhone, keep reading. According to a iClarified, you might want to take a look …
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