Right. We’re still waiting on Apple to release the next iPhone OS on us and Zibri has already released an updated ZiPhone utility. The new ZiPhone 3.0 brings with it a handful of bug fixes and new plug-in support. ZiPhone is the simple, one-click (well, it takes a few clicks, but who’s counting?) jailbreak and…
WebKit gets perfect score on Acid3 web standards – iPhone Safari and S60 web browsers will be even better
Webkit’s developers have been working to make their little darling of a rendering engine the fastest and most standards compliant solution available. And, it looks like the investment has paid off. Webkit has announced that their Webkit core scored a perfect 100/100 score on the Acid3 web browser standards compliance tests. For the purposes of…
iPhone SDK beta 2 now available
I’m not sure whether to classify this as a good or a bad news for iPhone developers. On one end, the SDK beta 2 adds new functionalities and developers should be able do much more. For instance the new beta of Xcode 3.1 now includes iPhone-ready Interface Builder. Then again, weekend is coming and this…
Microsoft mulls iPhone application development – MS Office and voice recognition for iPhone
Microsoft may not have cashed in on the initial iPhone hype, but that doesn’t mean the behemoth tech company doesn’t have plans to milk the cash cow from Cupertino. Upon reviewing the recently released Apple iPhone SDK and Apple’s announced support for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft says it is seriously considering a push into developing applications…
RIM announces BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse
At EclipseCon, RIM announced a BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) plug-in for Eclipse to enable Eclipse developers to create and test robust mobile apps for the BlackBerry platform using the familiar Integrated Development Environment (IDE). In addition, the Canadian company also announced that it has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation. Key benefits of…
Google releases APIs to work with iPhone
Ahh, Google and Apple. It’s nice to see these two tech innovators continuing to work together in harmony. Google has just released a set of APIs in their GData Objective-C Client Library that will allow iPhone developers to use Google APIs alongside Apple’s APIs in the iPhone SDK. Of course, all applications written in Objective-C…
HTC Star Trek gets the Windows Mobile 6.1 treatment
While the rest of us mere mortals will have to make do with screenshots and videos of the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.1 UI, an enterprising ROM-cook over at xda-developers forum has installed the not-yet-released Windows Mobile 6.1 OS on an HTC Star Trek smartphone. Apparently not content with having Windows Mobile 6.0 on the Star…
Apple may ban development of music player application for iPhone
Talk about lockdown. In a move that should make anti-trust litigators foam at the mouth, Apple has reportedly banned the development of any music player application for the iPhone. The new iPhone SDK apparently restricts applications from accessing iTunes functions, effectively prohibiting developers from accessing the iTunes music library or expanding on the iPhone’s music-player.…
Apple iPhone has hidden screenshot utility – who knew?
Why were we fussing around with third-party screenshot utilities all this time? Probably because there wasn’t anyway to enable the hidden screenshot function in iPhone firmwares v1.1.3 and after. Well, thanks to the work of RipDev, we have news that the hidden screenshot functionality is a simple matter of editing /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist. Screenshots can be taken…
Adobe working on Flash for iPhone
There’s been a good amount of talk about Flash hitting the mobile space recently, and it looks like the iPhone will get to taste some sweet, sweet Flash support soon enough. Adobe CEO Shanatanu Narayen has announced that Adobe has begun developing a Flash-solution for the iPhone, using Apple’s official iPhone SDK. “We believe Flash…