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iPhone Developers Get Push Notification API

Apple’s just seeded the push notification API to developers through the second beta release of the iPhone 2.1 firmware. What this means to you is that developers can now tailor their apps to receive notifications in the background while it’s not running, something supremely useful for apps like AIM, and to a lesser extent, Twitter…

Tech News Jason Chen

10 Things We Want to See in the iPhone 2.1 Update

The iPhone 2.0 software is pretty good. We like the App Store a lot; it adds a boatload of new functionality to the iPhone. But it’s certainly not perfect. Having used it for a few weeks, we’ve discovered a number of little quirks that we really hope are addressed in the upcoming update. From bugs…

Tech News Adam Frucci

iPhone Hip Holster Recharges Your Battery While Repelling the Ladies

Sheathing something as slick and pocketable as the iPhone in a holster feels wrong to me for many reasons, but this particular holster adds the handy ability to charge your drained batteries with its own rechargeable Li-ion battery back. It’s good for one full charge before it needs to be recharged itself. Handy, and at…

Tech News John Mahoney

iTunes 7.7.1 is Out

No word on what it does besides “improve stability and performance”. Keep in mind that this comes a few days after iPhone app DRM was cracked, so if you’re dabbling in the black arts of app swapping, you probably want to wait til someone else reports on whether this affects that or not before upgrading.…

Tech News Brian Lam

Apple Claims Major MobileMe Bugs Worked Out, Time to Move On

As of yesterday evening, Apple claims the bugs that have plagued the service since its launch have been worked out, including restoring the mail accounts of users that were locked out for nearly two weeks and resolving a new bug that caused devices to drop calendar and contact data when syncing wirelessly. With those issues…

Tech News Sean Fallon

AT&T Will Blast Wireless P2P Users (Or at Least Their Account)

AT&T already caps its data plans at 5GB a month, but they told the FCC on Friday that if they catch you using their mobile broadband network for P2P, they’ll nuke your account. Specifically, senior VP of dealing with the government Robert Quinn said that “AT&T’s terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

White iPhones Are Cracking – How Frequently, We Do Not Know

One report, it’s an anomaly. Two reports, maybe one’s fake. But more and more reports have been surfacing-with photos-of cracking white iPhone 3Gs. So is the white iPhone constructed in an inferior manner to the black model? Or are black iPhone 3Gs just better at hiding the cracks? We’re not sure, and there’s still too…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance Meter

Dynolicious is an all-purpose automotive performance meter, utilizing the built-in accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch to record your driving characteristics. BunsenTech, the makers of the software, claim that it can record 0-60 times within .08 of a second, accurately estimate your current speed and monitor and record any directional G force. The system…

Tech News John Herrman

iPhone Apps We Like: Here I Am Location Sender

The idea of taking your current location and emailing it to one of your contacts is super simple, but super effective. If the recipient opens the resulting URL on their iPhone, it’ll pop open the GMaps app and show exactly where you are, which can then be used as an endpoint for driving directions. We…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPhone 3G Data Plan for Deaf: $50/Month

The iPhone 3G’s data plan for the deaf will be $10 higher than the original, just like it is for everyone else. It comes with unlimited texting, email and web browsing for $50 a month, or $65 for the enterprise flavor (basically if you use Exchange). You have to sign up for a voice plan…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone 2.1 Firmware Hints at New iPod touch

Apparently hidden in the code of the 2.1 firmware we’re anxiously awaiting to make our iPhones less laggy and crashy (and maybe add copy and paste!) is a reference to a new iPod touch model. The current iPod touch designation is “iPod1,1” but there’s a string in the code for an “iPod2,1” which points at…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Voice Dial iPhone App Gets App Store’d

The previously good Voice Dial jailbreak app for iPhone has made its way onto the App Store, complete with $25 price tag. Voice Dial isn’t to be confused with iSpeak, another voice dialing app that will probably hit the App Store sometime. https://gizmodo.com/voice-dial-iphone-voice-dialing-app-costs-money-but-wo-347736 There’s another current SpeechCloud voice dialing app on the App Store, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPhone Apps We Like: Palringo is First Official Multi-Client IM App

Palringo is a free multi-client instant messaging app for mobiles that hit the App Store over the weekend, and it’s the first to officially support Google Talk/Jabber, on top of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, iChat and Gadu-Gadu (if you’re in Poland). You can also use it to quickly send photos from your camera or…

Tech News John Mahoney

John Carmack: Exclusive iPhone Game to be “Graphical Tour de Force”

Probably dismayed by the current smleh state of games for the iPhone, game wizard John Carmack has announced that iD Software is bringing something very special for the iPhone. Knowing that John is the creator of Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, but, more importantly, Commander Keen, you can imagine how excited we are. Yes, that excited. In…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iPhone NES Emulator Adds Accelerometer Support, Brings Tilt Control to Mario

The new version of the popular NES emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch now includes accelerometer control for all games. The implementation is very simple: A tilt is equivalent to controlling input in that direction. This means that tilt control can be used in any game loaded into the emulator, but also that some…

Tech News John Herrman

Pending iPhone App MagicPad Demos Cut and Paste Implementation

This video walkthrough of MagicPad, a rich text editor app that is still pending acceptance into the App Store, is notable for showing the first working copy and paste framework on the iPhone (at the 1:00 mark). Of course, SDK limitations keep the functionality quarantined within MagicPad itself, but its developers, Proximi, hope to use…

Tech News John Mahoney

Defective by Design Douches Take Up Genius Bar Slots to Whine About DRM

Look, I hate DRM as much as anyone. But Defective by Design‘s latest anti-DRM campaign is supremely douchey. They’re calling on supporters to book as many slots as possible at Genius Bars around the world this Friday and Saturday—where people go to get their busted Apple prettywares fixed—to complain about DRM in order to “get…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone App Store Games Hacked – All Apps Hackable

Click to viewApple’s Fairplay DRM, which protects all the applications you download from iTunes, has been hacked. The method for hacking this has actually been around for a while, but has been recently applied to Super Monkey Ball and distributed into the wild. To do this, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone and SSH installed (to…

Tech News Jason Chen

Worker Accidentally Takes Pictures of iPhone Factory (On iPhone)

The covert nature of Apple’s production facilities is generally on par with those of military contractors, but according to one buyer’s report, an iPhone 3G recently came pre-packaged with three photos taken inside an iPhone production facility. While two were blurry, this particular photo came out very well…even if a mass of clear plastic isn’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google Calendar Now Supports CalDAV, Syncs Natively With iCal (But Not iPhone)

One of my personal sticking points for keeping my online life totally synced is now one step closer to being easier-Google Calendar now supports CalDAV and can sync natively with OS X’s iCal without a third-party add-on. But there’s a huge hitch-as of now, I see no way to sync events created on my iPhone…

Tech News John Mahoney

iPhone Developers Get Push Notification API

10 Things We Want to See in the iPhone 2.1 Update

iPhone Hip Holster Recharges Your Battery While Repelling the Ladies

iTunes 7.7.1 is Out

Apple Claims Major MobileMe Bugs Worked Out, Time to Move On

AT&T Will Blast Wireless P2P Users (Or at Least Their Account)

White iPhones Are Cracking – How Frequently, We Do Not Know

iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance Meter

iPhone Apps We Like: Here I Am Location Sender

iPhone 3G Data Plan for Deaf: $50/Month

iPhone 2.1 Firmware Hints at New iPod touch

Voice Dial iPhone App Gets App Store’d

iPhone Apps We Like: Palringo is First Official Multi-Client IM App

John Carmack: Exclusive iPhone Game to be “Graphical Tour de Force”

iPhone NES Emulator Adds Accelerometer Support, Brings Tilt Control to Mario

Pending iPhone App MagicPad Demos Cut and Paste Implementation

Defective by Design Douches Take Up Genius Bar Slots to Whine About DRM

iPhone App Store Games Hacked – All Apps Hackable

Worker Accidentally Takes Pictures of iPhone Factory (On iPhone)

Google Calendar Now Supports CalDAV, Syncs Natively With iCal (But Not iPhone)

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