Exchange contact between iPhone and Android with Bump I was not a big fan of Bump because I do not like the way I have keep track of who I contacted and the I could only connect with other iPhone users. Well that’s over. I just read this on TC,in addition to some cool new features like better Facebook integration and something called… Read More
iPhone suddenly losing battery life? Could be your email Just under a week ago, my iphone’s battery life took a nose dive!. It would be out of power in 3 to 5 hours instead of keeping over 80 at the end of the day. My first thought was I had some rouge apps running in the background. I turned off backgrounder.. Still dying. Killed… Read More
How to change your SSH password on the iphone There are more reports of hackers mucking around with jailbroken iphone where SSH is on and the password has not been changed. So again, for all you jailbroken iPhone users out there, change your password, or as I do, keep SSH off. Here are the instructions. If you want to thank me, a Guinness would… Read More
Wanna buy 87 iphone apps, and the company that goes with it? Ebay baby! I get some odd press releases now and again, but this one was interting. Seems that Brice Milliorn has had enough with his little iphone app making enterprise and wants to sell it off. Fair enough. The twist here? EBay! Normally, I’m shopping for Christmas gifts, or used computer stuff, or oddities here and there. … Read More
Blackra1n RC3 has unlock as well as jailbreak for iphone 3g and 3gs Its still RC keep in mind, but according to the site, unlock is in place. I have been holding off on upgrading from 3.0 till I was sure I could unlock. Now I have no plans to unlock from AT&T, but I always want to be sure I CAN if I need to. So it… Read More
A new Blog with a list of iPhone press releases As well as having my own blog here, I also write for iphoneLife magazine. As such, I get quite a few press released that are iphone related. Most of the time, I delete them unless there is something that catches my fancy. But then I thought, I should post these for other people. So I… Read More
Blackra1n returns tethering for iphone jailbreakers I use PDANet so I’m unaffected by all this, but I saw this on TC’s mobile crunch and felt compelled to share. 🙂 Now again, as I remind my readers every time, there is a difference between jailbreaking and unlocking. {UPDATE: the newest version RC3 now has unlock as well as jailbreak. I have not… Read More
Hackers breaking into a jailbroken iphones and how to stop them Saw this story via CNET. I was a bit concerned till I read how the hack was done. A bit of background information though, seems a hacker got in to a few jailbroken iphone running T-Mobile in the Netherlands. Basically, it puts a message on your phone saying you have been hacked and to learn… Read More
iphone app from Oracle that looks like its from a startup. Oracle has a new iphone app that looks ok. In the promotional animation, a business man is flying to Paris, France to give a presentation. Great. Often, and I can attest to this, you have to use cash for things because your card is not always accepted. So, this application called ‘iReceipts’ seems like any… Read More
A firefox browser in iphone? Perhaps not, but what if… Om Malik from GigaOm started a rumor (and I only say rumor to be safe) that Mozilla is planning something for the iphone. Now the first thought is; “Hey! Firefox on the iphone! ” Yeah. As sweet as that would be, and you bet it would be sweet because the browsing experience on the iphone… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
Text message (SMS) to voice on the iphone My nephew Jared turned me on to this app. DriveSafe.ly is still in Alpha and only on jailbreak at the moment. At some point they will release it via the app store, but without backgrounder, I’m not sure how useful it is. The app is simple enough; every 5sec or 1min it checks for new… Read More
Augmented Reality app Layar is finally on the iPhone! Just saw this via a tweet. I’m going to load it play with it later, but here is the link. http://layar.com/layar-is-in-the-iphone-app-store/… Read More
New iPhones have current jailbreak exploit blocked So what does that mean? Well in short, the exploit that has been used in the rain series is now closed. Basically the new crop of iphones you get off the shelf cannot be jailbroken. This includes BlackRa1n if I understand the TechCrunch article correctly. (I still need to research this a bit more). If… Read More
Realtime collaboration on the iphone? Enter Adobe Connect mobile. This is great news, and WAY faster then I expected it. Right now, there is not a solution for real time collaboration for mobile devices, and given limitations of screen real estate , memory and CPU power, its not surprising. The great part about flash, is how easy it is to build modules and swap… Read More
Google search options spotted on the iphone Just showed up today, at least I noticed it today. When you do a google search on the iphone, you now get options like on the desktop. Its not full featured, meaning we still do not have an advanced option, but still, bit by bit, google is providing a rich experience through the mobile web… Read More
Photo editing with Photoshop on the iPhone This just came out today. Its pretty fun. You can edit a photo, crop, apply a filter, etc.. Pretty cool really. You can do the basics that you would expect: cropping, changing exposure, convert to black and white, change contrast. There are some basic filters too; sketching, blurring, image border, I like the rainbow filter,… Read More
Flash on the iphone! Its finally here!! Mostly Straight from the web site! I will update as I learn more. * I just tried one of the apps, and it works great. And that is not surprising because is coco, but still, anytime you go from one language to another there are risks. But so far, so good. 3 of the demo apps… Read More
More Augmented Reality apps for the iphone; Wikitude and Cyclopedia RWW broke a story with new AR apps for the iphone. I have not downloaded and played with them myself, but they look great, and its the next level of AR (for the iphone, since Android has had this for a bit) that we have been waiting for. This is a ‘killer app’ for AR… Read More
Stitcher, digital radio for the iphone, gets an update I use Stitcher anytime I’m on a long drive. Normally between SF and Sacramento. What I like about Stitcher is the number of offerings, but mostly because its the only place I can get BBC radio, short of downloading a podcast, which I will not do. So today I got a press release saying they… Read More