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DIY Cameraphone Zoom and Lighting Lens [DIY]
While this particular how-to is built for an iPhone, the idea can be easily used (or adjusted) for any phone with a camera. For this project, you'll need a jar lid, a suction cup, and some old camera lenses—generally, if you're a camera buff, you may have some scrapped cameras around that you...
Fring Puts Free VoIP Calling on Android [Downloads]
iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Fring is a free download, now for Android along with iPhone, Windows Mobile, a...
Monday, Nov 16
Remains of the Day: Breaking EULAs Is Surprisingly Illegal Edition [For What It's Worth]
The writer asks why, in an age of virtualization software, endlessly-evolving smartphones, and powerful webapps, more workers can't choose their own computers and gadgets. Good question. The answer, it seems, is IT control—both the understandable and neurotic forms. [Wall Street Jou...
Friday, Oct 9
MapQuest Navigator Brings Cheap Turn-by-Turn GPS to the iPhone [Downloads]
iPhone only: Mapquest Navigator is a new turn-by-turn application for the iPhone that brings GPS to your phone on a budget. The question is: When will Google Maps do the same? MapQuest Navigator [iTunes App Store via MapQuest Blog via Gizmodo]
Thursday, Oct 8
Patch: iPhone Releases OS 3.1.2 Update, Fixes a Few Bugs [Updates]
Apple has just pushed out an update for all iPhone generations in the form of iPhone OS 3.1.2. Don't expect any major feature updates in this 241MB download, but do expect a few fixes to some...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Tungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling Simple [Calendars]
If you're looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you'll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.
Saturday, Aug 8
Top 10 Tricks for Making Your Playlists Rock
6. Share music with friends and coworkers If you hear someone with a killer tune playing from their own hard drive, they can usually be cajoled into sending a copy your way. But what if they've brought that track in on their MP3 player? Grab a copy of DoubleTwist for Mac or PC, hook up their phone...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Opinion: Hands On with iPhone 3.0's Best New Features [Screenshot Tour]
Camera/Photos tweaks: Your Camera and Photo apps both saw some minor but cool feature updates. Pictured, you'll see that the Camera app now sports a tiny thumbnail of the last picture you took that, when tapped, takes you to your Camera Roll. When you're sending, copying, or deleting photo...
Wednesday, Jan 28
The Five Best iPhone Apps for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Here's our list of five apps that make tracking, remembering, and motivating your resolutions easier than willpower alone. All of them (except RunKeeper) run on both iPhones and iPod touch models. That's our flight of five apps, but we want to hear what free or paid iPhone/iPod apps work fo...
Thursday, Dec 11
Opinion: Most Popular How-To Features of 2008 [Best Of 2008]
When the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software update hit devices this summer, users were thrilled that they could enjoy Apple-approved third-party apps on their hardware—but that doesn't mean they don't want to have their cake and eat it, too. Our guide to jailbreaking your iPhone running 2....
Tuesday, Dec 2
Best New and Improved Software of 2008 [Best Of 2008]
What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic "jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved applications for your iPhone...
Monday, Nov 3
Best Android Apps to Boost Your Mobile Productivity (So Far)
Turn any MP3 on your phone to a ringtone without touching your desktop with Ringdroid. Using the app you select the start and end of your tone on a song timeline, and preview it before you save. (That sound you hear is iPhone owners eating their hearts out while they manually sync ringtones fro...
Friday, Sep 19
QuickPwn 2.1 Hits Windows
Mac users got their QuickPwn on a week ago for iPhones running the latest 2.1 software update, and now the latest version of the iPhone-jailbreak tool is also available for Windows. Happy jailbreaking! [via]
Thursday, Jul 24
Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 on Windows with Winpwn
If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version of the iPhone jailbreak tool—c...
Monday, Jul 21
Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 with PwnageTool
As per the very helpful Mac OSx86 blog: People with old iPhone V1 (2G) will need to download this firmware from Apple : iPhone 2.0 (5A347) firmware for 2G (10121)People with new iPhone V2 (3G) will need to download this firmware from Apple :
Tuesday, Jul 15
Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free
Now any time you update your contacts from Address Book, just head to the Sync Now option in your menu bar. Once you do that, check out your contacts on your iPhone and you'll see your newly synced info automatically pushed to your iPhone. Nice.
Tuesday, Apr 15
Opinion: Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone [Feature]
Now that you've got that, start up your FTP client of choice, enter the IP address as you server, and use root for your username and alpine as your password. Once connected, navigate to the Applications folder (just above the root folder). That's where your iPhone and iPod touch keep all of th...
Friday, Mar 21
Opinion: Jailbreak Any iPhone or iPod Touch in 45 Seconds [Feature]
Quit iTunes. (This may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good practice.) Choose the option that applies to you: iPod touch jailbreak or iPhone jailbreak. ZiPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your iPhone or iPod touch will be officia...
Thursday, Jan 3
The 20 Best iPhone and iPod touch Applications [Feature]
Last week we showed you how to install third party apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, and since then a new firmware preview has leaked its way to the 'nets with saucy new features that—once released—may tempt you to abandon your jailbreak for the newly introduced features. Fact is, until the...
Monday, Oct 29
Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch with One Click
Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you've been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install Ap...
Tuesday, Sep 25
Google Calendar and Google Reader are now ... [Mobile Webapps]
Google Calendar and Google Reader are now iPhone (and iPod Touch) friendly and Gmail has also undergone a graphical user interface overhaul which looks great on the iPhone, too. Thanks, Ian!
Monday, Sep 3
Install Third-Party Applications on Your iPhone
In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple. Today I'll show you how to download, install, and manage t...
