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Clippy, the impressive jaibreak iPhone app which brought the missing Copy and Paste feature to the iPhone had a few limitations.It was not possible to copy text from SMS messages and email using Clippy. You could copy only one item at a time using Clippy unlike ?Clipboard which allows you…
Support for Adobe’s Flash is one of the most requested features by iPhone users since its launch. Therefore it has not been surprising to have heard tons of rumors and speculations about Flash coming to the iPhone like this, this and this one.However, so far it has been a case…
Victor Agreda over at TUAW has reported a problem that everyone should be careful about before updating their iPhone with the latest firmware update using iTunes.His warning message:”Turn off Airplane Mode before updating your iPhone firmware”It looks like Victor is not the only one who puts his iPhone in Airplane…
A group of crackers had claimed to have hacked Apple’s DRM on Sega’s Super Money Ball for the iPhone and many more iPhone games few months back. We never saw that coming as Apple’s FairPlay DRM has been used for so many years to protect content sold on iTunes stores.At…
In December 2008, Gmail Labs had released Gmail Tasks, the lightweight to-do list manager which had turned out to be quite popular. Google has just released an optimized version of Gmail Tasks for the iPhone and other mobile devices. Michael Bolin, Tasks engineer at Google explains the reason for developing…
Push Notification Service was supposed to be Apple’s solution to allow iPhone apps to run in the background. It is one of most requested features by iPhone users along with copy and paste and support for Adobe’s Flash. Apple had announced that it would be available to iPhone users in…
We have heard rumors about the next generation iPhone and based on Phil Schiller’s, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing statement to David Pogue of New York Times at Macworld 2009, it is speculated that it will be released in June as per Apple’s natural product timelines. Mark…
The iPhone has already been used to control R/C car, iRobot’s Packbot, Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), iPhone Lego NXT Robo, turned into a walking robot and dog treat dispenser. Do you have a fish tank? Want to control it from anywhere in the world from your iPhone then you should…
We have already seen jailbreak apps such as Cycorder which brought video recording and Snapture which brought professional features such as Digital zoom, delay timer etc to iPhone’s very basic camera app.ClearCam is the latest iPhone app which is set to add more zing (actually megapixels) to your iPhone’s camera….
You might have heard that Google launched a new feature in Google Maps called Latitude that allows users to share their location with their friends and family.The feature is available on mobile phones as well as iGoogle gadget on the computer. You will be able to track your friends on…
The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Leapord that Apple released earlier in the week prevented Mac from recognizing iPhone in DFU mode, making it impossible to jailbreak and/or unlock it using PwnageTool or QuickPwn. The iPhone Dev Team had provided some fixes for the DFU problems which needed some…
Support for Adobe’s Flash is one of the most requested features by iPhone users since its launch. iMobileCinema, a jailbreak iPhone app has just been released for iPhone firmware 2.2 which allows playback of flash videos embedded in web pages on your iPhone. iMobileCinema is a Safari plugin which allows…
When I decide to buy something, I often wander around the Internet to search for product information, user reviews and compare the price among major online stores. I not only like to take an informed decision while buying something but also want to be sure I get the best deal….
The iPhone Dev team who are planning to release the much awaited software method to unlock iPhone 3G on New Year’s eve have just broadcasted a live demo video of an iPhone 3G being software unlocked with yellowsn0w (name of their project to unlock iPhone 3G) via Qik. You can…
The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Leapord that Apple released yesterday prevents your Mac from recognizing your iPhone in DFU mode, making it impossible to jailbreak and/or unlock it using PwnageTool or QuickPwn. The iPhone Dev Team believes that it is due to a kernel bug rather than a…
iPhone’s Safari browser is one of my favorite iPhone apps and easily the best mobile browser I have used by a long distance. However, even if if you ignore the crashes (which have reduced but not gone away post iPhone firmware 2.2) it is far from being perfect in terms…
France’s competition authority has ruled that Apple must immediately cease its relationship with France Telecom’s Orange where it has exclusive rights to sell Apple’s iPhone in France and allow other local carriers to offer the iPhone to its subscribers. The watchdog has cited that Apple’s exclusive arrangement with Orange poses…
If you are an Apple fanboy then you might have already heard the bad news. Apple announced yesterday that Macworld 2009 will be the last time they will exhibit at Macworld Expo. The news got even worse when Apple announced that Steve Jobs will not be delivering the last keynote…
iPhone firmware 2.2 gave iPhone users the ability to create and view messages with Emoji icons. But it was available only to iPhone users on Japan’s SoftBank network. There are couple of ways to enable it: use the hack that an iPhone developer had figured out or install Emoji app…
Visual Dial which is available on the App Store and Callme which is available via Cydia for jailbroken iPhone are two iPhone apps that are aiming to bring the missing speed dial feature to the iPhone. The iPhone apps allow users to add their friends photos as speed dial icons…