Last week, there were various reports of CastCatcher's Internet Radio app being declined by the App Store, because the app ate up too much bandwidth, but it turns out Apple is allowing a (v1.3 update) because it takes up the same bandwidth as other radio apps in the App Store.
Some of the specs:
CastCatcher's Developer decided to shoot over to Mac Rumors to claim that this may be a "mistake" for allowing the app into App Store, but he's more than happy with the results
There are thousands of rejected apps going Apple's way every day, and their choice to reject it may have just been a mistake, but then again, it may have been worthy?!. We don't really know yet, but maybe with all this bandwidth being used, Apple will get sued once again for allowing so much data usage!!
Are you an iPhone Addict? Do you frequently scramble for a power outlet to keep your iPhone alive? Has there ever been a time that you "almost" dropped your iPhone or 3G? If so, then the Incase Power Slider battery case for the iPhone 3G will be your perfect solution!! It's just like a normal iPhone case, with a twist!!. It also doubles the life of your iPhone battery, while the iPhone is in it's case!! Perfect solution for anyone on the go, or constantly checking e-mail!!
This new "battery" case has a built-in 1,220mAh battery, which allows you to recharge your iPhone 3G without cables, including up to 330 hours of stand-by time, 26 hours of your favorite music, 5 hours on your favorite 3G network, 10 hours on any Edge connection, 7 hours video recording, 5 hours 3G internet cruising, and finally 6 hours of WiFi connectivity.
You know how the MacBook Pro has the built in LED charge display? Well so does this case!!, but it's not coming out until November 28th, and should be right around the wonderfully high price of $100. So in conclusion, if you feel like shelling out the money, you'll get an awesome product that keeps your awesome product alive for much much longer!!
Apple has another lawsuit on their hands this morning, because of their defective iPhone 3G, which they have been putting off for a while now, and continuing to sell to consumers worldwide. The iPhone 3G has been having some construction issues, mainly with the plastic backing cracking and chipping around the camera lens, and power on/off button, but Apple has yet to go about fixing these problems.
Koschitzki has claimed that he is "bumped" from the 3G network quite frequently, among various others who paid for the iPhone/service, now to get inferior results.
Many others have reported cracked housings, mainly around the camera lens, and the on/off switch located at the top of the iPhone, which is extremely noticable in the white iPhone 3G. Even though there are faults in the design, and network, AT&T and Apple continues to sell the iPhone 3G without taking the proper action to fix the defective units and service.
Only time will tell what is to come of this....
It looks as though someone on the inside leeked out the news that Wal-Mart and Sam's Club will be selling the iPhone 3G starting December 28th.
A report (the boy genius), has been informed of the Wal-Mart launch with details such as:
It turns out Apple WILL let other's sell their pride and joy, when they were supposed to be strict on just letting AT&T handle these precious tools in the beginning. AT&T will be by little brother (wal-mart)'s side as they launch the 3G, and all employees will have their hands full for a little while!!
Wal-Mart has communicated the following launch plans and execution timeline to their employees:
I personally love my MacBooks, but sometimes get frustrated because it doesn't have that "numeric keypad" on the side, especially when i'm typing in Skype phone numbers, or paying my bills with a credit card!
Balmuda has come up with an amazing software called Numberkey Connect, which you must install on your Mac in order for this to work, and then the Numberkey app is downloaded to your iPhone from the App Store. Their software allows you to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a wireless numeric keypad for your MacBook. They have only released this for the Mac as of yet, but i'm sure it'll be on it's way to Windows in no time!
iPhone 2G Firmware:
iPhone 3G Firmware
iTunes
Pwnage Tool (unlock/ jailbreak using Mac)
WinPwn (unlock/ jailbreak using Windows)
QuickPwn (unlock/ jailbreak using Mac/ Windows)
ZiPhone (unlock/ jailbreak older firmware)
It looks like Apple's lawyers have gone after www.themonkeysball.com, and officially closed it down, as of Nov. 11th. They were facing "mass copyright infringement", by distributing cracked .ipa's (iPhone Applications), allowing users to download these apps for free, instead of going through the App Store to get them.
SBSettings 1.0 has been released with many new updates, and a redesigned interface, allowing the user to *theme* their own SBSettings into what they want.
It appears that the iPhone Dev team has made word of this so called "daemon" underlying in Apple's firmware 2.2 update, giving it the power to possibly stop the iPhone 3G from becoming unlocked!.
It looks as though AT&T is going through with their plan to allow people to tether their iPhone 3G to their computer/ laptop via a wireless connection, but there's a catch. A $30 A MONTH CATCH!!
As of earlier today, the RIP Dev Team has posted the newest updates coming to Installer. This is what's gonna be available in the new version.. Even Though I regularly use Cydia, I'm not sure how this new *Installer is going to fold out upon iPhone users... We can only hope for the best..
After uninstalling MobileInstallationPatch, My phone locked up..and it was an iBrick for a little while...
If this happens to you... FOLLOW THESE STEPS!!
BEFORE WE BEGIN
1.First Make sure YOU ARE NOT Connected via USB to your Mac/PC
2.Make Sure iPhone is OFF (Hold Home and Sleep/Wake button in unison for about 5 Seconds)
Step 1:
Turn Your iPod/iPhone on and LEAVE IT ON for about 15 minutes until the Screen Dims and you see dimmed boxes at the bottom of the screen. BOXES ONLY HAPPEN WITH SOME BOOT SCREENS
Step 2:
Turn the iPhone/iPod OFF
Step 3:
Then Turn it on. (DO NOT CONNECT IT TO YOUR COMPUTER YET) and in EXACTLY 5 Seconds Connect it to your Computer. It should boot up and show your Springboard.
*******NEW*** METHOD 2:
Must have ssh installed
1. turn ipod or iphone off
2. connect cable
3. turn on ipod iphone
4. listen for ding dong (window) or what ever the mac sound is
5. ssh to your ipod iphone
6. goto /var/mobile/
7. rename Applications to Applications2
8. wait 5 second and your springboard will pop up
9. now rename Applications back and restart
I personally had to restore my 2G 2.1 completely because of that MobileInstallationPatch...
Be sure to back up your cydia apps with APTBackup, and Backup everything onto itunes RIGHT NOW!!.... just incase..
hope this helped anyone out!!
Japan is now loving the (i) life, with the new DLP Projector attachment coming to Japan's Apple stores Dec. 1st. Texas Instruments has just released word that this new DLP projector will be able to project up to 8.5 ft away, with an image at 60" !!!..
Well now, I know I've had my fair share of *customizing* my home screen, and trying to get my own custom theme going on, but it never really works out the way I want it to?!
It looks like the Bluetooth feature is almost unlocked for the iPhone, according to the guys at ispazio.net. They recieved an e-mail from a guy claiming to have a project ongoing to unlock the Bluetooth of their iPhone, and then release to public once the bugs are worked out!
Recently, AT&T decided to offer it's customers free wifi at over 17,000 wifi hotspot locations, but it's not that easy. They would have to first "apply" for the hotspot, and get an e-mail from AT&T stating that the hotspot would be available for 24 hours. So in turn, it's actually more complicated to get onto the hotspots than they make it out to be.
Ralph De La Vega (SEO of AT&T), has submitted what he believes to be the future of the iPhone, at the web 2.0 summit on Wednesday. I truly believe this will happen, with just about everything he has said!
"Before the iPhone wakes you up in the morning with its alarm clock, De la Vega says, it will have already loaded all of your daily news feeds onto the phone. It will also have already sent a wireless message to your coffee maker to get the coffee ready. While you’re sitting there drinking your coffee, he says, you might decide that you’d rather read your news on the TV screen; so with a wave of the device toward the TV, de la Vega says, you’ll send your news feeds wirelessly from the phone to the TV for reading.
Now you leave the house, and use your iPhone to lock the door on the way out. You get in the car. The iPhone starts your car. On the way to work, the iPhone continues reading your news to you using its text-to-speech function.
Later on, at your office, the iPhone initiates a conference call between you and two potential customers in Japan. On the call, when you speak English, the iPhone translates it to Japanese so that your potential customers can understand you. When they answer in Japanese, the iPhone converts their speech into English so you can understand them."
I honestly do believe that the future of the iPhone will look a lot like he has stated, if not better!!. I've even been looking for a method to unlock my car via bluetooth!!. Maybe someday!
It looks as though VITO technology has just released their newest astronomy app (Star Walk). It's amazing because it shows everything that's going on in the night sky, without the telescope/ binoculars. Their internal database supports over 9k random objects in the sky, (planets, stars/ clusters, etc..)I believe this app is amazing for just about everyone, from amateur astronomers, to full blown astronomy experts!!. It's kept me busy in my back yard for about the past two hours now, so I figured I'd share it with some other people!! This app uses GPS technology to automatically detect where exactly you are, and determine what the night sky looks like around you!!, it's very "creative". Anyways, check it out, tell me what you think!!!
There is a new mobile blogging app out called iBlogger, which I find to be very useful when I don't have my desktop computer sitting on my lap in my wife's car!!.
All you have to do is download the App from the App Store, add an account (via Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, Wordpress...etc), and you're mobile blogging!!
It's really convenient, being able to access prior posts, and add new posts, all from your iPhone!.
I personally give this a 9/10 because it's designed to intricately, the only fallback is that you cannot upload photo's via Blogger yet!!..
Leave a comment, tell me what you think!
You can take a screenshot of whatever you're viewing, by holding the home button, and clicking the sleep button !!!
Turns out to be pretty useful to me!!...
About 5 months ago, I had a Windows mobile smartphone, and loved to customize/customize/customize, but it started to look old, bulky, and outdated compared to the new iPhone...
Eventually, I started saving up for one (about $300), and looked everywhere, but couldn't find the "virgin" that I had been trying for.... You know, not the iPhone that the 14 year old boy had bought just to hack the system, mod the hardware, and then sell to you *as new*, but that iPhone the doctor bought for his on-call time, but never really used...
That wasn't working out too amazing, so I started searching on www.craigslist.com/ and started finding these classifieds for the 8gb & 16gb 3g iPhone for like $200-$300 IN MY AREA, so of course, I was hounding these people to get the new iPhone 3g, (keep in mind, these things sell for $600-$900 unlocked on ebay), and nobody was ever returning my e-mails..
Suddenly, I started recieving all this spam, and so I started searching for people that had pictures attached, with phone numbers, and FINALLY I FOUND ONE!!!. It was located about an hour away from me, and the rain was coming down pretty hard, so I decided to call the guy, tell him i'd be there in an hour, with $275, and he chose to hold onto it while I was coming...
I just bought this new car, with bald front tires, and took off to get my new iPhone, got up to highway speeds, and went to go around a large turn when my car just kept sliding forward, instead of turning.....so I had to go back....
Finally, I went to my wife's office, borrowed her car, and as I was walking out the door, a guy that i had met 3 months prior came running up (while it's still pouring rain), and said he was selling a new iPhone...so I asked how much, and he said $200....I called the guy I was getting my phone from, told him to sell it to someone else, and bought this virgin iPhone.....and ever since then...I'm an addict!!!
When you buy a used iPhone, make sure all aspects of the screen work properly...and make sure there aren't any dead spots... IT STINKS!!
It's not that hard to get it jailbroken, and unlocked (easy hacks) and when that's complete, use Cydia to install all of the applications that you want...or get free apps from the app store!!!I learned how to cut my bill down, using t-mobile, WAY DOWN, (skype), and learned how to make this thing into EVERYTHING I WANTED..It's my modem for internet (for my computer), my phone, e-mail, mobile internet, youtube device, mp3 player, GPS Navigation unit....AND SO MUCH MORE!!!..In my eyes, everyone should have an iPhone!!!....(with t-mobile)
Hope I helped any *non*believers
Just don't forget to backup your iPhone before restoring, it's a BIG LOSS!!
So, as you all may know, the Dev team is one step closer to unlocking (hack to allow use of non-AT&T sim-cards in iPhone) the 3g iPhone....Whereas many other's have used another method to unlock the hardware, called "SIM Unlock" or "the dirty method".....
Basically, if you don't know a whole lot about the iPhone, or you're new to hacking, there are 2 sides to hacking this device...Firstly, Jailbreaking is where they get into the Operating System (computer side of iphone), and allow us to have write/read access to the file system. This also allows us to install applications that aren't in the App Store!!... Very handy
Secondly , Unlocking is hacking the Cellular side of the phone, and allow to use other types of service providers, besides AT&T...Many users love t-mobile's service!!
The dev team already figured out the Jailbreak side of this process, now we wait while they keep trudging toward an unlocked 3G!!!
Hopefully, Jobs will drop the price of the new 3g right before christmas, and we all can get our t-mobile service on the 3g network with a sweet new iPhone!!!
So, now there is a patch that users can Winscp into their iPhone to allow use of Fring over their Edge/3g data connection...I can't tell you where to get the patch, but here's the instructions on how to use it!!:
1.You must be running a Jailbroken iPhone / iTouch
2.Install original Fring on iPhone via iTunes App Store.
3.Now SSH into your iPhone / iTouch; remember root / alpine
4.Find Fring.app under root var/mobile/applications
5.To find the Fring.app, you then need to click on the most recently installed folder which will be your original Fring and inside should be the Fring.app
6.On your computer, rename the modified 3g Fring .api to .zip; it will now open in winzip or mac compatible unzipper e.g. zipeg
7.Delete the original Fring.app on your iPhone / iTouch
8.Copy the extracted 3g Fring.app from the zip folder across to your iPhone / iTouch either via the WinSCP (PC) or Yummy FTP (Mac).
9.Now you need to set the permissions. This is easy so please do make it more complcated for yourselves. ALL the files within the 3g Fring.app replacement must be set to 755 (Yummy) or 0755 (WinSCP). You should see all the files being altered as it goes through the process of changing the permissions.
When I tried it, it worked immediately after changing the permissions without a reboot but if it does not work then please reboot the iPhone.Good luck everyone!!
Looking to save a few of your T-Mobile minutes ??
Can't stand only having 400 minutes a month with AT&T ??
We have a solution !!! You'll be able to get 10,000 minutes a month.... for $2.95 !!!
Basically, you'll need a Jailbroken iPhone , and we'll set it up for wifi calling !!!
It doesn't matter if you have an iPhone 2G or iPhone 3G .... either way, your iPhone will be set up so you can use it for wifi calling!!!
First off, what we're going to do is go into Cydia , and download (TrickerThreeG, and / or, Voipover3G) ....
Next, you're going to want to sign up with a VOIP service provider.... (my personal preference is Skype, because they have thousands of servers, and it's RARE that you get anything less than perfect calling....) To sign up with Skype, click here!
Now, what you're going to do is download the Skype app, from the app store.... open the app, and type in your account information (username/password) , and from there on out, you should be all set up to make wifi calls with your iPhone !!!
This is BY FAR the easiest way to get your iPhone 3G wifi calling , rolling !!!
MixMeister Scratch-
To get started, all you have to do is pick a song (in your library), play it, select the scratch, and go to town!!. It's pretty cool for being *FREE*, and has occupied my time for about 30 minutes now!!
