Soft Porn is ok with the Apple store as long as its not from the interwebs “..Wobble iBoobs is not rated, and the classic first person shooter, Doom, is rated 12+. However, e-book reader Eucalyptus is rated 17+ because you can search the Internet and access the Kama Sutra.” Really? And now an app called ‘Cannabis’ (which helps you find legal pot stores) gets through. Now I’m fine with this app,… Read More
Using your iphone, blackberry and foursquare to get free food and drinks. If you work at it This is cool. Read this post in TC: Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services The idea is if you go to a place and check in with foursquare enough, you will be rewareded with free food, drinks, services, whatever.. What I like is this idea of tracking and rewarding users that help drive… Read More
Tether your iphone without jailbreak! With some warnings I just read this today on ismashiphone (link).. The posts describe the steps required to tether your iphone 3g(s) IF you are updated to the new 3.0 firmware. Since I use PDANet (paid for it too) I have not tried it personally, but I’m sure there are a few readers who love to have this… Read More
Ultra customize (pimp) your iphone with Supreme Preferences I’m not a big ‘pimping’ kind of guy when it comes to my iphone. In fact, I tend to keep as many thing off it as I can in order to increase speed (I’m the same with my desktop/laptops). However, when I saw ‘Supreme Preferences’ in Cydia last night, I thought I would give it… Read More
I want an iphone keyboard! N97 reviews are depressing Warning, this is more of a rant then anything.. I want a bloody keyboard for my smart phone. There are many thing about the iphone that really pisses me off, but so far, only android comes close to the experience. I was excited about the palm pre till I tried the keyboard.. too small. The… Read More
redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock updated for iphone 3GS It was just a matter of time. I’m not happy that purplera1n was release because it uses a hole that the dev’rs were going to hold on to till 3.1 Since the cat is out of the bag, it does not matter now. So NOW we have to wait for a new hole for 3.1. … Read More
Sick of all the #MJ coverage? Well Budda .. just Budda As some who like to keep the news on in the background, it feels like entertainment tonight in on every channel. I thought I could not deal with one more MJ tribute… till I saw this comic. It’s from sinfest. Great stuff. BTW, thats Obama playing guitar at the end. Ref: for Obama as rock… Read More
Jailbreaking the iphone 3gs – purplera1n This did not take long did it? But the funny thing is that it did not come from the Dev-team, but instead instead from George Hotz. Now this is windows only (sorry mac people) but I’m sure it will be ported soon enough. Now remember this is 3.0, so if you are running the 3.1… Read More
Twittelator Pro vs. Tweetie – FIGHT! Guest post by Kevin Rochowski – @thunderberry Despite it’s enormous popularity, Twitter has no official iPhone app of its own. Developers, seeking to plug this gap, have taken up the challenge to make their own, ensuring that there is no lack of native clients to choose from. Today, we take two of the more popular… Read More
Will the iphone 3.1 update reduce dropped calls? Maybe … I’m not holding my breadth though. Since the 3.0 update, I have had more issues with dropped calls and poor cell performance. I’m not the only one to see it. Since my first post on this issue, I have received quite a few comments from people experiencing the same thing, and tips to help reduce… Read More
Review of Evernote 3.0 and the iPhone Guest post by @thunderberry – Follow him! Evernote has long been the swiss army knife of universal capture. Running on Windows, Mac, the Web, multiple smartphone platforms and of course the iPhone, this hybrid of application and service has undergone multiple revisions in its goal to help you ‘Remember Everything”. Add or edit any note… Read More
Cut and Paste on the iPhone makes Evernote useful.. well more useful I do not use Evernote much, despite having it on my desktop and iphone. However, I REALLY wish I could edit text in the cloud from the iphone, but Evernote just never made it into my workflow, instead I use Google Docs. Well, now with cut and paste being easier to use, I found myself… Read More
Running iphone app in the background on ready for 3.0 with Backgrounder W00t I say, w00t! In case you do not know about running an iphone app in the background, read this.. https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=1451 Remember though, if you are playing digital radio, it will take up power and thus your phone will get warm and that’s BAD for batteries. So make sure you do what you can to… Read More
iphone 3.0 tip #16 With exception to cut and paste, there was not much that I though was really useful in 3.0, but there are a few.. here is #16 Open Link In New Tab In Safari Safari now uses tabbed browsing, like big boys do on the desktops, and this new hidden feature is great. If you tap… Read More
Four Tips to Reduce Dropped Calls for the iphone 3G… again I wrote this article for iphoneLife over 1/2 a year ago. For those who remember before the 2.1 update on the 3G, dropped calls was a continual pain. Well, I’m not sure what the story is; or if its just odd coincidence, I and others have been having issues with dropped calls once we did… Read More
Flash on the Android. Getting closer… This just came through the wires via Cnet.. Marking a departure from the world of iPhone, HTC’s new Android-based Hero phone will also come with the ability to handle Flash elements that adorn many Web sites and powers YouTube video. Adobe Systems announced on Wednesday that its Flash Player will be built into the HTC… Read More
Iphone increased dropped calls after 3.0 upgrade I really do not understand this. But for some reason, I’ve been dropping more calls, and the quality of my calls seems to have degraded. I when I first upgraded, I tried to make a call and it sounded noisy like I had an analog connection. At first I thought perhaps since the baseband was… Read More
How I upgraded my iphone 3G to 3.0 using Pwnage Tool First off, I’m not your typical user, and if you read my blog you would know this; I use jailbreak and LOVE it. However, I also cannot resist experimenting with the iPhone, so once I felt satisfied I heard the jailbreak for 3.0 was relatively stable, I decided to go for it. However, just as an… Read More
redsnow (redsn0w) ready for jailbreaking iPhone 3.0 3G, but NOT 3GS And now we have Redsn0w!! {UPDATE} 3GS is jailbroken also. Link to story. First off, right from the Dev-Team Blog.. Read this… I’m serious!! READ THIS!! Here is the link. REDSN0W PROVIDES SIMILAR FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKPWN. If you want to build custom firmware files with more flexibility it is suggested that you use ‘PwnageTool’ on… Read More
Special #iranElection search filter added to twittFilter I put this together pretty quickly in just a few hours, so I’m sure there are plenty of bugs, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# A problem I have with twitter search during the election is some many RT’ed messages saying the same thing.… Read More