iPhone SMS hack not patched?? After 6 weeks? When this story first broke 2 days ago, I though; well they are going to release a patch pretty soon given that the vulnerability is going to be released today at the black hat hackers meeting. Well, guess what I read in CNET? Apple new about this for 6 weeks!!! Are you kidding me? From… Read More
iPhoneDevCamp! You know you want it! Yup, almost time for another iphonedevcamp. What? You did not go last year? What’s wrong with you? If you have an iPhone and have ANY interest to building or help build what everyone will see either at the end of this weekend or the end of the year, this is the place to be. So,… Read More
Still want Google Voice? Get it for free via Cydia (jailbreak) They said yesterday that they would put it on Cydia and last night, ‘poof’ it appeared. I downloaded the app and it seems to work fine so far. So go get it already! Do not know what I’m talking about? Well Google Voice was submitted to the Apple Store, which was personally approved last April… Read More
Apple kicks Google Voice out of the iPhone bed. It never seems to end… Apple rejected Google Voice and removed GV Mobile from the app store. This is really a pain because I JUST got a work blackberry and will need to start managing my communication a little better. Being able to do that from my iPhone would be perfect. Seems Apple (read AT&T?)… Read More
Alternative to iTunes is here!! Oh wait.. Spotify is only in Europe As I’ve said before, I do not like iTunes, so I have been waiting for a good replacement. I REALLY hate that I cannot make changes to my playlist unless I’m connect to the ONE machine that has my playlist. Bollocks! There have been many I’ve played with, but I knew about Spotify (a Swedish… Read More
Twitter is the new business card I ran out of business cards a few months back and never bothered to get more. As such, I find myself in a spot when people ask for my card. Normally I take theirs and intend to email them when I get home. However, as with business cards since as far back as I can… Read More
Augmented Reality Apps for iphone not coming till 3.1. Gezz Read this in the LA Times. No Augmented Reality Apps till iphone 3.1 comes out. Why? Because part of what make this work is a function called ‘camera viewer’. This is a ‘restricted’ function and we should be playing with it. But, when 3.1 comes out, we can! huh? What difference does that make? Sure… 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Twitterrific fix is now available. When the Twitpocalypse kicked off 2 days back, (story here) I figured most major apps would have been ready for it. I was wrong. I also figured, well, there will be a fix in 24 hrs. Wrong again. Its Sunday night and I finally saw Twitterrific after I manually refreshed updates. I installed the update and… Read More
Twitpocalypse claims more iPhone victims then I would have guessed Its not like we were not warned or anything. I knew this was coming 2 weeks ago. Twitpocalypse is twitters version of Y2K where the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. This afternoon, I spend all of 10 min fixing the db in twittFilter to handle the changes and all good. (lux… Read More
How cool! A Stencil Interface Template for iPhone apps Just saw this in Gizmodo. How cool is this? Now, according to Gizmodo, there are only 100 of these, so go get it. Here is the link. www.designcommission.com The template is 16.95 USD which also includes the Zebra mechanical pencil seen in the pic. They also have a pdf you can download which has 3 prints of… Read More
Notes from WWDC2009.. HTML5 and Video I’m not going to go over everything, you can find that anywhere.. I’m instead going to look at a few things that I think are really interesting… HTML5 support! Why is this so important? HTML5 is like having flash lite without the plug-in! (I still wish I had flash though). But take a look at… Read More