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Buy an iPhone without AT&T contract

March 22, 2009

AT&T officially announced that customers will be able to buy iPhones without having to commit to a 2-year contract starting 26th of April. The pricess for the non-commitment plan will be: $599 for 8GB iPhone $699 for 16GB iPhone While there is no commitment, the iPhones will still be locked to AT&T. Also the pricing [...]

iPhone Tethering Tutorial

March 21, 2009

We wrote yesterday that iPhone OS 3.0 was rumored to support tethering, here are the instructions to set it up over Bluetooth: Open the Terminal (It’s in /Applications/Utilities) Type this line: ls ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Carrier Support You probably don’t have this folder. If you do, skip to step 6. Type this in the Terminal: curl -s [...]

Provide Internet access to your PC/Mac through iPhone

March 19, 2009

The feature known as Internet Tethering, which means you can use iPhone to provide your PC/Mac with your iPhone’s internet access, is said to be available within iPhone OS version 3.0. The developer of the iPhone game lights off, Steve troughton, uncowered in a tweet that he got access to the option: Here is the [...]

Features of iPhone OS 3.0 are announced

March 18, 2009

Apple has announced the features of the new iPhone OS today in a Keynote. While the developer version is available, 3.0 will be in customers’ hands in summer. Here are the new features that the new OS will bring. Some features are API’s which will let developers take advantage of them, such as: Paid applications [...]

How to Copy&Paste with iPhone 3.0

March 16, 2009

Kevin Ross of Digg confirmed that copy&paste ability would come with the new iPhone software (version 3.0) during the Diggnation event in SXSW in Austin, Texas. Kevin described the functionality, such that upon double tapping, a magnifying glass would appear like it did before, but there would be two quotes on each side. By pulling [...]

Colorize Photos with fun iPhone Application

March 14, 2009

ColorSplash turns your photos into greyscale and lets you give color to only specific parts of the photo. By doing this you can emphasize a small section of the photo very effectively. Because it works with your finger, it’s not very sensitive, but it’s definitely worth giving a try. After colorizing your photos you can [...]

Cydia Store now open

March 13, 2009

The competitor to Apple’s closed and tightly controlled App Store, Cydia Store, has recently opened. It works on only jailbreaked phones, so that constitutes a complicated process for most users. With Cydia Store, developers of jailbreaked apps can also charge for their products. The advantage of Cydia’s App Store is that it hosts applications that [...]

Yelp: Location-based suggestions for eating out and having fun

March 12, 2009

The mobile version of Yelp is a polished mobile application of the popular desktop site, which lets you find restaurants, bars, clubs, cafes, banks, drugstores and service stations near you. The best aspect of Yelp is that you can vote on businesses and leave short comments, so it has a community tied to it as [...]

Luxury iPhone through Jewelry

March 11, 2009

Apparently we now have something more ridiculous than the “I am rich” application (which by the way did nothing and costed $999). Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson has created the world’s most expensive iPhone by replacing the home button with a 6.6 arat diamond, remaking the case out of solid 18-carat gold, outlining it with white [...]

Tweeter Application for iPhone got approved despite naughty words.

March 10, 2009

Countless applications were deprived of access to the iTunes App Store because of their “questionable” content, an example being the South Park video app. Apple’s policy states: “Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive, or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in [...]

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