The iPhone v1.2 OS firmware that’s been running on the iPhone SDK’s emulator and a few iPhone hackers’ handsets has been spotted with location logging capability. Positional data from cell tower triangulation and WiFi hotspot locations are apparently recorded and logged in the iPhone OS 1.2. iPhone Atlas found evidence of the location logging, and…
Dual-boot your iPhone with multiple firmware versions!
Talk about cool. We’ve all heard of dual-booting desktop and laptop computers with mutiple OS’s. There’s nothing cool about dual-booting on desktop computers – heck, I used to triple boot my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. But, what about dual-booting your iPhone? iPhone developer/hacker extraordinaire, Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski, has…
Run a web-server on your Android mobile phone with iJetty
No, Android isn’t yet commercially available. But, if it were, you could be running your web-server straight from your Android handset with an Android port of the Jetty open-source web-server. Called iJetty, the Android version of Jetty allows any Android handset to use the Java app to run their very own mobile web-server. Webtide’s developers…
Apple iPhone SDK downloaded 100,000 times!
You may like it or not, but iPhone keeps getting most of the media attention. Today Cupertino folks announced that a total of 100,000 SDKs were downloaded. It’s only fair to say not all of these people will actually ever make an iPhone application, but the number is impressive nevertheless. As a matter of fact,…
What’s wrong with the iPhone SDK… and how to get it fixed
The iPhone SDK is great. I’ve talked it up enough in the past few days that it should be quite apparent that I think the iPhone SDK will bring a new wave of development for the iPhone’s Mac OS. Still, the glaring problem with the iPhone SDK is that the development platform is limiting iPhone…
Google preparing sample apps for Android; WikiNotes released first
Nothing helps developers in their learning the “secrets of the trade” like the good ol’ example apps. Google knows that hence they’ve started assembling Google Code repository called “apps-for-android” where interested developers will be able to grab sample apps’ source code. The first application called WikiNotes is already there, and we guess in the coming…
iPhone SDK: iPhone emulator uses iPhone OS v1.2 firmware (codenamed Aspen); to be released?
The iPhone SDK includes an iPhone emulator that makes it easy for iPhone developers to test their code without having to risk corrupting a real-life iPhone. But, while the rest of us mortals will have to be satisfied with the current iPhone v1.1.4 firmware, the iPhone emulator gets to play with a newer, unreleased version…
Make iPhone web-apps with iPhone SDK
That’s right. Now anyone can code a web-app for the iPhone. The new iPhone SDK includes a new version of Dashcode that makes it easy develop web-apps for the iPhone. The interface includes preset styles that we’ve all come to associate with the iPhone. You can start off with the default browsing screen template (you…
Sun working to bring Java to iPhone – true mobile computing for enterprise and otherwise
Following hot on the heels of Apple’s iPhone SDK announcements, Sun has jumped into the fray and announced that they’ll be making sure that Java plays nice with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The company famous for championing the standardized Java Runtime made the announcement after taking a look at the iPhone SDK. Upon investigating…
A few minor changes in store for iPhone v2.0
It’s not like there isn’t already enough to get excited about with the next revision of the iPhone firmware. We’ve got the iPhone SDK going final, enterprise support (Microsoft Exchange), and the Apple AppStore to look forward to. What more could Apple possibly have in store for us? Minor changes and not so minor changes…