Archive for January, 2008
Testing the iPhone’s fake GPS
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Odds and ends, Troubleshooting, iPhone
Mac|Life has a pretty neat breakdown of just how the iPhone’s faux GPS work (or doesn’t work, depending on the situation). Long story short, the Locations feature is pretty darn close– unless you really do need GPS. On average, it seems like triangulation put the [...]
Fraggles and Farscape come to iTunes!
Filed under: iTS, Video, iTunes, Apple TV
OK, this is cool. Starting today, properties from the The Jim Henson Company are coming to iTunes. The complete first seasons of Farscape and Fraggle Rock are available now for $1.99 an episode. According to the company’s press release, the entire series should be available on the site in [...]
Deutsche Telekom has sold 70,000 iPhones
Ever since the launch of Apple’s iPhone last year, it has been gaining popularity in different countries. It could be because of the growing number of applications being developed for the gadget or just plainly because of the iPhone’s cool factor.
As of this writing, Deutsche Telekom has been able to sell 70,000 units of [...]
UK iPhone users to see better value service plans
Filed under: iPhone
Amongst a general re-shuffling of contract pricing, O2 has announced that iPhone customers are going to be getting a better deal on their contracts. The UK contracts were, at launch, notably slim on both calls and texts when compared to other O2 packages. Whilst the higher price was due in part to the [...]
iPhysics v1.0.1
More Apple iPhone homebrew joy coming right for you, and this time it’s about iPhysics, the highly-addictive game from R4m0n that gives players their very own physics engine to play, mess or muck around with. And with a very cute visual style, too!
So, what’s new with iPhysics? Here’s a direct quote from its official website:
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Steve Jobs reassures recovery for Apple investors
Though Apple’s shares took a US 377.5 million dip this early into 2008, Steve Jobs sent out words of encouragement to Apple employees. The CEO remarked that the losses the company incurred were caused by outside factors far and beyond the company’s own significance and that investors who continue to stay with the company [...]
iJailBreakMobile v1.0: over-the-air updater for iPhone, iPod Touch
Things are moving pretty fast on the iPhone Jailbreak scene as evidenced by the newly-released iJailBreakMobile 1.0, an over-the-air updater for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
iJailBreakMobile is perhaps the easiest app of its kind to use. It doesn’t require the use of a computer, so operating system problems are basically nonexistent. This also fixes [...]
iJailBreak 0.4.1 - 1.1.3 compatible, now supports Leopard
A new build is out for iJailBreak, the iPhone and iPod Touch utility that allows you to add third-party applications to your unit. iJailBreak v0.4.1 is now compatible with firmware 1.1.3 and also features support for the Mac OS X Leopard.
It must be noted that iJailBreak requires your unit to have a jailbroken 1.1.1 or [...]
