Traveling overseas? Still want to use your iphone for calls? Enter Fring I just did a post when I first installed Fring, but it dawned on me, this could be quite useful for those traveling overseas. A friend just crossed the pond and was looking to still use his iPhone. I looked into various solutions, but short of a 3rd party SMS service via jailbreak, I… Read More
Fring – VoiP and IM chat on the iPhone About time. I downloaded this, singed into my skype account and give it a shot. The sound quality was not all that great, but usable. Fring is NOT a jailbreak app so that means anyone can use it. The app is free in the app store, so I would grab this if you ever use… Read More
iBowl on the iPhone – iphone vs. wii? ok, so I saw a few tweets about this and decided to give it a shot. And I have to agree, this is pretty cool. Kinda like the wii in a way. I like that I can curve the ball by twisting the iPhone towards the end of release. Now the only downside. I can… Read More
Politics and the iPhone – The new Obama app I was quite impressed with this application when I first loaded it up. Basically, it’s the perfect tool for any field organiser or volenteer to get involved with the campaign. But more importantly, it indicates an understanding of the way people (mostly 20 and 30 somethings) are interacting with information and each other. The iPhone… Read More
Flash is still coming to the iphone… wait for it.. wait for it.. Keep waiting…. From flashmagazine At the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems Paul Betlem, confirmed that Adobe is indeed developing a Flash Player for the iPhone. However, Apple calls the shots as to when it’ll be available. Well, this is not telling us anything new. We already… Read More
shopping for an iphone cradle and remote control Seems like everyone is getting iphones now a days including my brother. At least around here. An iphone is not for everyone and pretty soon I will post up a list of reasons NOT to get an iphone.. But this post is about something he just bought. Its a doc for the iphone with a… Read More
PDAnet (aka NetShare) is out. Its time to tether When NetShare first came out, I did not download it because … bah, I do not remember why not. However, once it was pulled off the app store, I really wish I did. I do not need tethering that often, in fact, I only rememeber wishing I had it once, but in the jailbreak world,… Read More
Review of Path Tracker as an iphone bike computer I did a survey of the various navigation apps out there and decided to give Path Tracker a try. It was only 99c. Path Tracker is not like TrackThing where you get a graph and stats on the iphone. Instead, data is uploaded to a website as with GPS Tracker. Except I never could get… Read More
issues with intelliscreen and iphone lockup I really like intelliscreen, and after a few updates was ready to buy a license. What I have noticed however, is a conflict with the iphone digitizer (touch screen) and intelliscreen at initialization. Over time, the iphone digitizer would respond slower and slower and at one point, would not respond unless I restart. I turned… Read More
Caution: an email offering free iphone apps could be a virus I have not seen this myself, but I thought I would spread the warning anyway. Anytime you see an email offering free stuff, odds are your going to get something for free, but not what you expected.… Read More
Windows QuickPwn 2.1 is out Yup. Go get it Windows users! Supports 2.1 firmware with the unlocking and jailbreaking of iPhone 1st generation (2G) device. Supports the jailbreaking of iPod Touch 1st generation device and iPhone 3G. Your device will need to be upgraded to 2.1 ( using iTunes 8 ) before running this application. It does NOT support the unlocking of iPhone 3G… Read More
0xE800002E….Error when updating an app on the iphone A friend of mine was having this problem and found a thread discussing it here.. Ok so I first saw an issue with this after upgrading to the latest firmware on my iPhone. In the past I could update my apps through my iphone then transfer to iTunes later now I cannot update AND it… Read More
intelliborn’s intelliscreen is fixed for iphone 2.1 I loaded it last night and it worked for me. IntelliScreen is one of my core apps. Cant leave home without it. To install IntelliScreen on 2.1 2.0/3G Firmware: * In Cydia, choose the Manage tab * Choose “Sources” and then “Edit” and then add http://intelliborn.com/cydia * Goto Sections tab, and choose the System category,… Read More
My top 5 jailbrake (pwn) apps for the iphone When I jailbreak my iphone, here are the first 5 apps I install straight off. 1) Unix tools (esp. SSH and Terminal) . If you have to ask, you do not need it 2) Videorecoder – The only bummer is this app does not work on 2.1 right now. I use QIK for now. Its curious… Read More
Did the iphone 2.1 update reduce dropped calls? Not at first.. I’ve talked about this before, using the iphone field test to get numbers instead of bars to see what kind of reception you are getting on your phone. When I checked my phone before 2.1, I used to get -99 to -107 db on my couch. Once I updated to 2.1, I was still getting… Read More
GPS before and after 2.1 update using TrackThing while bicycling I said I would take a ride on Friday, and I did. I just have not had time to write anything up till now. I took a short ride with trackthing lite on before the iphone 2.1 update and after hoping the GPS will work better and my graphs would be more stable with less… Read More
Not all jailbreak apps may work on iphone 2.1 This is something to take into account when upgrading to 2.1 Some of my jailbroken apps do not seem to work correctly. Videorecorder3G does not load at all and IntelliScreen seems spotty at best. I may have a conflict, (I have a feeling it could be Categories; although the jury is still out on that)… Read More
Need a direct download link for quickpwn 1.1? Here you go.. I’m not sure if the interwebs pipes are stuffed, but bittorrent is having a tough time finishing my file.. So I did a bit of searching and found this link.. http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/file/146 I still have to double check the bitsum, so you should double check too.… Read More
cartoon of steve jobs saying ‘hello’ in Russian during 2.1 update Ok.. Not sure what it means, but alright. This cartoon popped up briefly on my iphone during the 2.1 iphone update. After some looking around on the web, I think it says “hello”. I have a few friends who speak Russian, I’ll have this double checked …… still loading 2.1 however ….… Read More
Jailbreak for iphone 2.1 already out! WOW! I’m really getting sick of how the phone will sometimes lock the screen on me after a phone call, forcing me to reboot. I’ve complained about this I do not know how many times. Almost enough that this morning I thought, perhaps I will sacraficed my jailbreak apps just to fix it. ANNNDDD.. They already… Read More