A new version of IntelliScreen has been released — latest version is 2.32. As you can guess, one of the most useful apps for the jailbroken iPhones is updated to sing along the latest iPhone firmware, 2.2. In addition, the new version of iPhone’s unofficial “Today Screen” can now work alongside popular Google Calendar syncing…
Google Mobile iPhone app steps over Apple’s AppStore rules
Apple has drawn some serious fire of late for their seemingly random iPhone AppStore application rejections. Apple supposedly doesn’t allow applications that make un-supported API calls, like the one that Google’s Google Mobile iPhone app uses to detect face-proximity for its voice-search feature. Google has been reported to be using an undocumented API to call…
Apple Forced to Pull the Plug on ‘Misleading’ iPhone 3G Ad in UK
Apple has breached (for the 2nd time) advertising code for making misleading claims about the iPhone. As a result, the misleading ad for the iPhone 3G has been banned in the UK. The ad in question claims that the iPhone can access the internet and download content ‘really fast’. The Advertising Standards Authority in the…
OpenTable comes to iPhone AppStore!
iPhone apps are all about making compartmentalizing mundane daily tasks into niche-applications that actually make those tasks a bit more fun. Take, for example, the prospect of making a dinner reservation at the tapas bar down the street. First, you decide where to eat. Next you look up the restaurant on Google Maps and call…
MacBook Pro: the five-minute fiddle!
OK so the MacBook Pro (MBP) might not strictly be a Mobile Device (to be fair it depends on your definition of ‘Mobile’), but it’s going to get an FMF (five-minute fiddle) anyway! So Mr. MBP arrived last night, to rapturous applause, looking absolutely stunning – the entire package, even boxed looks great – and…
Rocketship Apple: docking with Planet Apple imminent!
Yep, that’s me – flying at speed away from the world of Windows, and heading for Planet Apple. And yet an exciting development occurred yesterday – the MacBook Pro arrived! (In case you wonder what on earth I am talking about, click here, here, and here). Yes, the MacBook Pro 15”, fully-loaded with a STACK…
Follow-up: iPhone 2.2 fixes Mail and Safari….?
Those of you regular readers will remember I wrote a short piece on whether 2.2 SW fixes the Mail and Safari apps, as the ‘release notes’ said it would. Well after some intensive usage, I am inclined to say NO and KINDA – that being related to Mail and Safari, respectively. I’ve not had any…
Problems with iPhone 2.2 OS
With the iPhone 2.2 OS having just gone live, users are no doubt flocking to iTunes for the iPhone OS update that boasts Google Maps Street View, voice call and email enhancements, and a refreshed iPhone Safari UI. Of course, iPhone 3G users looking to preserve their older baseband firmware in hopes of a future…
Blip.tv embedded videos now compatible with iPhone!
While Adobe works on porting their Flash 10 client to Android and other ARM-based smartphones, Steve Jobs is still adamantly keeping Flash from ever hitting the iPhone or iPhone 3G. Without an official Flash solution on the iPhone, many embedded videos are out of reach for video-consuming iPhone users. Today, Blip.tv is changing the game…
Apple Sued for iPhone Patent Infringement… Here We Go Again!
In what seems to be a never ending lineup of lawsuits, this time around Apple is being sued for patent infringement. This time, real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors have brought a suit against Apple Inc. claiming that a technology used by the iPhone to browse websites infringes on their patent. The lawsuit…