Yea, great. So it looks like the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware isn’t going to be “the” firmware that will play nice with Apple’s forthcoming iPhoneSDK -based third-party applications. With no mention of the iPhone SDK, Apple has gone and released an update to the iPhone’s firmware lineup. It seems like just yesterday that Apple dropped the…
LoJack for your iPhone – stolen iPhones phone home
The iPhone just became a smarter smartphone. With location-based services integrated into the iPhone’s Google Maps My Location feature, the iPhone can theoretically keep tabs on its location at all times. So, Erica Sadun over at TUAW has come up with a veritable LoJack solution for your iPhone. Starting with a jailbroken iPhone, adding a…
Want a free iPhone? Go to Abilene Christian University
Why in the world would the Abilene Christian University need to resort to cheap gadget-giveaway gimmicks to attract a larger freshman student-base? Are they having trouble appealing to the MTV and Hollywood-influenced high school seniors out there for some reason? Well, whatever the reason, ACU is offering new freshman a free iPhone or iPod Touch.…
iPhone Haptic Feedback Keyboard Prototype
The title says it all. In response to all those people that complained about the iPhone’s on-screen virtual keyboard lacking any tactile feedback, Malcolm Hall and Eve Hoggan from the University of Glasgow have come up with a haptic-feedback solution for the iPhone. It’s strictly a prototype and is more a proof of concept than…
Push email finally working on iPhone – Yahoo! Push Email fix brings push to many
When Yahoo! rolled out its push-email service (the only push email service specifically tailored and developed for the iPhone) oh so long ago, we were all a bit disappointed in the push service’s performance. Or, actually, it’s the lack of performance that left us in want of some push email. Well, it seems that Yahoo!…
Gameloft showed first native iPhone game at GDC 2008?
I’m not sure whether this really counts, but during Gameloft boss Michel Guillemot’s keynote GDC Mobile, Apple’s handset was featured in several of his slides. Now, the image above may just be a work of some Gameloft-hired Photoshop master, but we want to believe it’s the real deal. The user interface seems right (i.e. so…
Go macro with your iPhone; and the largest iPhone flash you’ll never use
There are all manner of iPhone camera hacks and attachments out there, but nothing as quite as home-brew as this macro-lens hack. Armed with a dead camera’s lens package, a bit of tape, and some paper-clip creativity, Colin Devroe conjured up this iPhone macro-lens camera attachment from scratch. The macro-lens hack purportedly takes decent up-close…
Sony ICF-ClipMK2 clock radio with a iPhone dock
I’m not quite sure I completely understand Sony. Instead of releasing devices/accessories optimized to work with Sony Ericsson handsets, they keep announcing various “made for iPod” and now “made for iPhone” devices. Weird, don’t you think? Anyway, latest device “made to work with Apple’s products” is the ICF-ClipMK2 clock radio which is one of the…
South Korean CEOs name iPhone as the most inspirational gadget
South Korean CEOs went through Time Magazine’s “Inventions of 2007” to pick the most inspirational gadget on the list. Guess which device got most of the votes? Yap, it’s the iPhone which was favored by 26.4% of respondents — or about 155 CEOs (out of 590). And best of all, the poll was conducted by…
Mailcurve – the refined email service
Mailcurve have announced a new email service for iPhone users, that subscribes to the concept of “refined email” – I could tell you what this is, but the guys at Mailcurve do it so much better: Sending and receiving email on your iPhone is great now… but hundreds of emails arriving on your phone isn’t…