Archive for April, 2008
Custom “Stealth iPhone” from ColorWare
Filed under: iPhone
If you’re willing to go the extra mile (and paycheck) to customize your gadgets, but you’re not a big fan of the flashy ColorWare colors that we’ve covered before, the new custom edition matte black iPhone (Stealth iPhone) may be the ticket.
ColorWare has been making drastic hue adjustments on iPhones for a while [...]
Muxo adds soft subtitle support for iPhone
Filed under: Video, iPhone
Over on the Handbrake forums a contributor has released an interesting tool called Muxo that allows adding soft subtitles to MP4 that are supported on the iPhone. Soft subtitles are those that can be turned on and off, rather than being actually encoded into the video with tools we’ve mentioned before like [...]
Rumors: Apple working on iTunes controller for iPhone
Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone
An anonymous tipster tells TUAW that according to code found in the latest firmware release, Apple is working on a new iPhone application called iControl. Like Apple TV and other remote controllers, it would allow the iPhone to connect wirelessly to local iTunes libraries and browse through [...]
StreetFlow v0.8
In this day and age, it’s pretty easy to find dining establishments anywhere in a city - it’s finding the good places that are pretty much governed by chance, or trial and error. Thankfully, the Apple iPhone can help us in that department, with the assistance of a very neat and very awesome homebrew application [...]
Apple celebrates 5 years of iTunes Store
Filed under: iTS, iTunes
On the iTunes Store (iTunes link), Apple is celebrating 5 years since the original iTunes Music Store launched on April 28, 2003. Each of the last five years (2003-7) is marked with bestsellers and staff favorites (conveniently arranged for you to add them to your own collection). Clearly in a glowing mood [...]
gpSPhone v1.8.0 Beta: Cheat code support added
Developer ZodTTD is sending word that version 1.8.0 Beta of the gpSPhone Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for use. This new build will carry improved sound quality, and more importantly, support for GameShark and Pro Action Replay.
Those having trouble clearing titles like, say, Megaman Zero 4 without [...]
Patent suggests additional Nike+ functions
Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family
Apple and Nike have sold millions of those tiny little transmitters that fit inside running shoes, as well as the receivers that attach to iPod nanos. Casual runners and former couch potatoes enjoyed them (yours truly included), but more serious runners lamented the lack of certain features, most notably a heart [...]
Get widgets for your iPhone from Widgetbox
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
My name is Lisa and I’m a widget junkie.
I love having widgets of all kinds on my iMac — even things like the Ski Report (I live in Florida), ESPN (it’s not football season), and Flight Tracker (I rarely fly). I even have similar ones (though Apple calls them webapps) [...]
