Remember those good, old days when creating an iPhone ringtone was as easy as renaming a song in your iTunes library to a “.m4r” extension and then syncing it back with your iPhone? No? Well, trust us when we say that iPhone ringtones were never easier (or free-er) to create. That is, until iTunes 8.…
PwnPlayer – The iPod alternative for jailbroken iPhone
If, for whatever reason, your iPhone or iPhone 3G’s iPod music player just isn’t cutting it for you, PwnPlayer could be just the thing to cure your music-blues. The PwnPlayer jailbreak application allows the user to play back music from a directory on the iPhone, search through music libraries, supports Coverflow view, and has screen…
France to get Iron Man Blu-Ray with iPhone features
Remember when we told you about NetBlender’s BD Touch technology that promised to bring interactive Bluray player controls to your iPhone and iPhone 3G? Right, well, it looks like the French release of Iron Man on Bluray Disc will be using NetBlender’s BD Touch technology as part of the “Remote Haxey” application for the iPhone…
RIM Working Hard on BlackBerry Media Sync for the Mac
If you run a Mac, chances are you are aware of the lack of BlackBerry syncing, app loading, backup and other basic services that are available to all working on PC’s. Frustrating to say the least. Looks like RIM is finally going to step up to the plate. RIM has been working hard to bring…
Japan’s Softbank Mobile gets first major corporate iPhone customer
Softbank Mobile has recently scored its first major corporate customer for the iPhone in Japan. It’s a management and technology consultancy firm called BearingPoint. BearingPoint’s idea is to help its consultants improve the productivity and enable them to get information more easily. For that purpose, the company has ordered “at least 1,000 units” of the…
Apple Reaches Goal of Selling 10 Million iPhones in 2008… Three Months Early!
I had to admit, when Steve Jobs and Apple stated their goal was to sell 10 Million iPhones in 2008… I considered that quite a lofty goal. I mean, there’s so much competition already out there in the marketplace, and you know that the other big-wigs are going to be out to get Apple… releasing…
eWallet iPhone Application – Keep all your account information handy with your iPhone
In our push to converge all sorts of devices and daily activities into fewer and fewer gadgets, we seem to have overlooked the wallet. With memberships to all kinda of organizations, accounts at all manner of institutions, and multiple identification cards, our wallets are brimming with pieces of plastic and paper taking up space. Chalk…
iPhone 2.2 OS to feature Google Maps Street View and other goodies?
When it comes to “openness” there are few tech companies (if any) more secretive than Apple. With their iPhone developer NDA recently lifted, however, Apple might be turning a new leaf – “might” being the operative word here. For now, things are business as usual for the locked-down iPhone maker. The latest iPhone 2.2 OS…
Apple’s iPhone 3G is second best-selling US mobile phone, No. 1 US smartphone
In a move that takes a page straight out of Motorola’s RAZR playbook, Apple has rocketed to the top of the US sales-charts with their iPhone 3G. According to NPD, Apple has seen its iPhone 3G become the No. 2 best-selling handset in the US. Motorola’s RAZR V3 still takes top billing as the overall…
Use web-apps without Safari on iPhone 2.1 OS
Web-apps promised to make native mobile applications a dying breed. But, with web-apps requiring a constant wireless connection and the need to run within a mobile web browser, native applications are still running strong. But, with the iPhone 2.1 OS, Apple has taken the first step to making web-applications just as powerful and convenient as…