Iphone News Focus

Shazam Reaches Over 1.5 Million Downloads Now

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:41:06 +0000

We’ve previously neglected to mention Shazam [App Store] here on MacRumors. Today’s announcement by the company that over 1.5 million people have downloaded the iPhone app seemed like a good excuse to finally post something about the app. “The Shazam iPhone application has had a phenomenal user response both in the number of downloads and the number of tracks [...]

Beejive Instant Messenger for iPhone

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:40:22 +0000

Those of your waiting for a better Instant Messaging client may want to look at Beejive’s new instant messenger for the iPhone and iPod Touch. BeejimIM [App Store] is a full featured client which offers the following features, as listed by the developer: General Features - Reliable and efficient networking: be connected 24/7, and it’s gentle on [...]

iPhone Game Of The Week

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:48:43 +0000

This weeks featured iphone game is Bubble Trouble In theory that is a relatively simple iphone game. You need to find at least three colors/shapes that are touching and once clicked they vanish. whether you’re able to visit on a group of more than three you can obtain combos and earn more points. The object of [...]

Fon 11 social iPhone utility

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:26:01 +0000

Fon11 is a social, phone utility that lets you connect with the people you would normally call, SMS, or IM. Using Fon11 you can tell your friends whether or not you are busy, are out of town, or dying to meet up. You can share your whereabouts and see who is in your neighborhood. It’s fun. [...]

Synchronica Offers Microsoft Exchange Support for iPhone

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:22:19 +0000

Synchronica Offers Microsoft Exchange Support for iPhone (news/software/synchronica-offers-microsoft-exchange-support-for-iphone-20070716272)July 16, 2007Synchronica plc has announced that Mobile Gateway 3.0 supports over-the-air synchronization amoung Microsoft Exchange and the Apple iPhone. Original post by Interns

First Karaoke prototype in your Apple iPhone: TuneWiki

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:15:12 +0000

Recently in Installer’s repository has arised new utility — TuneWiki. This application is an alternative musical player for your iPhone. What TuneWiki can do: 1. It can find by name the author and the name of music track, its text on their software server;2. Together with the music track’s text TuneWiki loads timing (when what line of [...]

Official Apple iPhone Developer University Program, Stanford Participates

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:48:47 +0000

Apple announced details of an iPhone Developer University program to allow higher education institutions provide courses on iPhone and iPod touch programming. The University Program provides a wealth of development resources, sophisticated tools for testing and debugging, and the ability to share applications within the same development team. Institutions can also submit applications for distribution in the App Store. The program is available to [...]

Shazam Reaches Over 1.5 Million Downloads

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:47:58 +0000

Just my type

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:04:34 +0000

Typing on the iPhone may not be as poor as we expected, but I think even the best iPhone typists among us will agree that it’s nowhere near as fast as typing on a full keyboard (I mean, ten fingers versus two thumbs? No contest!). Still, whether you’re curious to see just how speedy you [...]

ToughSkin from Speck to be shipped Worldwide

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:13:11 +0000

Speck has just announced that they have added another product that is similar to their recent cases specially made for the second-generation iPhone. The latest product from Speck that is a rugged and an ultra-durable case for the 3G iPhone is called the ToughSkin. If you want to see more photos of Speck’s latest [...]

PaceCalc is now available for the iPhone

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:21:22 +0000

Because of the software development kit distributed by Apple Inc. early this year, tons of developers were able to create their applications that would work for the first and second generation iPhones and can work with the iPod Touch as well. Users may download various kinds of applications that would make their device more personalized. [...]

How To Create A WebClip Icon For Your Site

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:17:27 +0000

This is a good tip for those of you who design web sites and applications geared toward the iPhone. Dan Dickinson posted instructions for creating the icon for your site that shows up on the springboard when someone creates a web clip for it. Create a 57×57 PNG.Name it apple-touch-icon.pngThrow it in the root folder of [...]

Is Apple iPhone the main target behind Microsoft-Yahoo! Pact?

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:10:55 +0000

The technology market is afire with news of Microcrosoft acquiring another giant Yahoo!. But industry experts find it hard to consider it merely an acquisition bid for just the money coming from advertisements. Besides benefitting from Yahoo!’s online capabilities, they believe that ‘Microsoft has had more success with mobile operating systems than in mobilizing its [...]

German branch store will offer iPhone

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:52:57 +0000

So we can’t tell you quite yet who’ll be official carrier for the iPhone in Germany, but we can say where you’ll be able to buy it from. A major branch store chain, Karstadt, has announced that they’re hoping to get the handset in by Christmas, in a report that as yet we’ve neither had [...]

A Trio Of Holsters For The iPhone

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:21:44 +0000

From the geniuses at iLounge.com comes a review of 3 holsters for the iPhone, and quite stylish I might add! A snippet: “Holsters haven’t been popular—or even available, really—for past iPods, but they’ve become incredibly common for the iPhone.” So, what do you think? Would you ever consider putting you iPhone in a holster? Do you think [...]

iTunes Ringtone Hacking, a.k.a. how to convert your songs into ringtones for free

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:33:42 +0000

So shortly before the big Apple event a couple days ago there was a company that released the program iToner for $15, with that program you could turn any of your songs into ringtones for your iPhone. next the big Apple event came and Apple announced that feature would be built into the new version [...]

WaterField iPhone Cases: debatable style

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:46:25 +0000

We try to be positive about most things here at MY iTablet - after all, there’s no accounting for taste, particularly when it comes to aftermarket accessories like cases and those dangly Hello Kitty charms you see on people’s cellphones. But missed opportunities in good design are vaguely upsetting all the same, and I must confess [...]

KingdomGame iPhone Game

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:05:13 +0000

A browser based game, pitting you against hundreds of other players, online in a real time ongoing strategy game. You can build new buildings; attack and spy on other Kingdoms; build diplomatic relations through the embassy; buy and sell goods at the market.. - all while you work towards the ultimate goal of being the [...]

iPhone sales get beaten as Samsung Soul U900 sold 1 million units in a month

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:11:04 +0000

A massive sale was given by one of the mobile phones of Samsung, the Samsung Soul U900, making them hit the jackpot during the first month of its release. The Samsung Soul U900 beat the iPhone from Apple Inc. as it sold one million units in the first month alone. In United Kingdom, the Samsung Soul [...]

Apple Inc. is Confident of the 10 million-iPhone target

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:36:02 +0000

The news of Apple’s probability of missing its announced target of 10 million iPhone sales in the year 2008 has created as much ripples in the technology world as had its prior announcement of the target a few months back. The confusion and the speculation was a result of the falling stock prices, as stocks [...]

Review: Belkin Slim-Fit Case for iPhone

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:24:01 +0000

With the overflow of iPod case analysis, Belkin has introduced its new product the $30 Slim-Fit Case for iPhones. As a slide-in-case the Slim-Fit Case does not let the user to use the iPhone while in the case. But rather it offers a protective holster for storing the phone when not in use. With that [...]

Apple Event Scheduled for September 5

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:48:49 +0000

Apple Event Scheduled for September 5 (news/apple/apple-event-scheduled-for-september-5-20070830321)August 30 , 2007By: Christopher Meinck (http://www.everythingiphone.com/contact/christopher-meinck/)Apple has sent out invitations to choose members of the media to attend a special event September 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Original post by Chris Davies

Calories Burned Calculator web app

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:56:50 +0000

How many calories might you burn if you jogged for 30 minutes, or walked up and down stairs during your work break? Choose a category of activities, then enter your weight and the number of minutes to estimate how many calories you’ll burn. Compare the result to the same amount of time sitting quietly. The [...]

Rumored Details of AT&T’s iPhone goods Plan: the iPlan?

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:26:20 +0000

Though reason would dictate that we’ll all take in the real specifics of the iPhone details plan in the next few days, one of the more dependable rumor mills - the Boy Genius Report - released data indicating that the iPhone documents plan AT&T Wireless plans to offer might be called the “iPlan”.Regardless of the name, [...]

Two weeks in with the new 3G iPhone

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:14:30 +0000

I was on holiday when the 3G iPhone was released and was only able to get one a couple of weeks ago and at £159 for a 16Gb version it is a bargain in comparison to the first one. Two weeks in and now I am seriously wondering whether it was worth upgrading at all. While [...]

Amazon launch iPhone portal

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:48:57 +0000

The list of iPhone-friendly websites continues to increase, with online sales heavyweight Amazon developing a sliced-up portal for Apple’s rinky-dink cellphone. Visit the traditional www.amazon.com page on your iPhone and you’ll be prompted to jump to their new site. (more…) Share This Original post by Chris Davies

Fring VOIP on the iPhone

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:39:10 +0000

Fring released a new mobile VoIP application specifically for the iPhone, which is designed to be used via WiFi connection. This application allows users to chat and enable presence with other Fring users as well as a plethora of other IM clients ranging from SIP to Skype. With this application, the iPhone is now capable of [...]

New iPhone ads…

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:03:45 +0000

According to the guys at AppleInsider… New iPhone ads have arised on Apple’s website… A blurb: “Here’s an concept,” Apple suggests in the first ad. “Instead of carrying an iPod and a phone, why not carry an iPod with all your favorite music and your favorite movies in your phone?” Apple’s specialty seems to lie in subtle, [...]

VoiceSignal boost you to order your iPhone about

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:21:58 +0000

Over at The Giz, opening the mailbag each day is just like Christmas dawn - who knows what goodies there might be in Santa’s sack! Today they’ve been blessed with a video from mobile speech-recognition specialists VoiceSignal, who are flaunting their latest software for Apple’s iPhone. (more…) Share This Original post by Chris Davies

JP Morgan retracts Kevin Chang’s prediction of iPhone Nano

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:43:30 +0000

It’s never fun retracting something you or someone that works for you wrote. JP Morgan had to issued a note retracting Kevin Chang’s earlier projection about a near term iPhone Nano. According to TUAW’s exclusive report, the company now says that the majority of Chang’s assumptions seem to have come from a review of the [...]

Will Apple Inc. have a hard time dominating Asia?

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:20:29 +0000

On July 11, at least 22 countries will be releasing the second-generation iPhone in their markets. The second-generation iPhone, also known as the 3G iPhone, is two times faster yet half the price of the original iPhone sold a year ago. But will Asia fully embrace this new smartphone? Because the 3G iPhone would allow the [...]

Video suggests how iPhone copy & paste might work

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:22:55 +0000

Since Apple have shown that they can quietly unlock functionality under our very noses (how many were perturbed to see a “Send to Web Gallery” button seem when working with photos?) there must be some hoping and praying that the next covert unveiling is something every other smartphone user takes for granted: copy & paste. An [...]

Review- Latest Natural Leather Belt Pouch for Apple iPhone

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:28:59 +0000

iPhone have already proved its worth and is evident from the feedback of satisfied customers. These phones are giving a tough time to the palm tops available in market today. Apple iPhone is not that cheap but is a must have gadget in today’s world. If you own one it becomes your responsibility to protect [...]

Fixes for out-of-order text (SMS) messages under 1.1.3

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:05 +0000

Several readers have reported that, after installing the iPhone software/firmware 1.1.3 update, SMS (text) messages are displayed out of order. That is, a conversation intended to appear thusly: User1: HiUser2: How are you?User1: Fine.instead appears thusly: User1: HiUser1: Fine.User2: How are you? Apple has now acknowledged this issue in a Knowledge Base article, which says the problem [...]

Mobispine News Reader

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:52:47 +0000

Mobispine is a news reader for your iPhone. Find, bookmark and read news that matter to you. - With Mobispine you can Find, Bookmark and Read news that matters to you- Over 200,000 local and international sources- Search and explore categories- Fast iPhone environment & experience- Collect your favorite news in one place and read more [...]

Send Songs Via newsletter With Your iPhone

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:39:43 +0000

An application called Song Sender has just been released. When you run the application, it reads your entire library, creating a list of the music on your iPhone. whether you tap on a song, the screen will fade out and give you a list of options: Play the song, stop playback, send to e mail, [...]

X-Plane Story: Working 16-Hour Days At Apple Headquarters

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:31:57 +0000

Laminar Research, the developers of X-Plane 9, have posted about the intense experience of porting their popular flight simulator from within Apple’s headquarters in the days leading up to the “Let’s Rock” media event held on September 9th. X-Plane 9 [App Store Link] was recently released for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the $9.99 game has [...]

Recalls iPhone 3G USB Power Adapter

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:30:22 +0000

Apple has issued a recall on the USB power adapter included with the iPhone 3G. Apple has received reports of the metal prongs breaking off of the adapter and remaining lodged in power outlets, creating the risk of electric shock. According to Apple’s support article on the recall, the adapter was included with every iPhone 3G sold in the US, Japan, [...]

Jaadu VNC 12-Hour Sale [Over?]

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:29:52 +0000

Jugaari’s Jaadu VNC [App Store] application is having a 12-hour sale. The price of the app is normally $24.99 but until about 12 noon Eastern time, the app will only cost $4.99. Jaadu VNC was formerly known as Teleport VNC which we previously covered. Jaadu VNC is a VNC client that allows you to control your Mac or PC [...]

iPhone Games ‘Trism’ Makes $250,000 in 2 Months

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:28:56 +0000

Trism developer Steve Demeter revealed at a conference that he had generated $250,000 in income from his popular iPhone game since its launch on July 11th. Trism is a gravity based puzzler which generated some press ahead of the App Store launch. Trism presents the player with a playifeld populated by colorful, triangular tiles or “trisms.” The rows [...]

‘Lightsaber Unleashed’ Now Available

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:27:42 +0000

The official remake of Phonesaber is now in the App Store as Lightsaber Unleashed [App Store]. The new app plays off the name of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed which was released for iPhone as well as other platforms earlier this week. The developers of PhoneSaber were approached by Lucas Arts due to concerns about [...]

Apple iPhone Considering ‘At a Glance’ Notification Screen

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:26:58 +0000

A recent patent application from Apple reveals that the company is considering adding a proper “At a Glance” notification screen for the iPhone. The proposed screen would allow users to quickly jump to the desired notification simply by pressing on the corresponding notification. At present, the iPhone’s notification lists is a list that disappears when the phone is unlocked. This [...]

Got $173? Start building your own iPhone!

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:38:05 +0000

iSuppli has released a report stating the estimate amount of how much did Apple spent in making the second-generation iPhone. According to the report, the 8GB model of the 3G iPhone would only cost as much as $173. It will be sold in the market for $199. On the other hand, the 16GB model of [...]

Top iPhone Wallpaper Websites

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:43:46 +0000

Iphone does not need any introduction. In case you are an iphone user and want to have that exclusive and different wallpaper on your geeky device soon after it’s all for you! Here is the list of few websites and resources on World Wide Web from where you can download wallpapers for iphone. Everything from abstract [...]

On-the-fly iPhone theme changes with iSwitcher

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:36:26 +0000

There’s a growing number of fan-made themes for the iPhone which, whether you’ve been keeping up with Jailbreaking your handset and generally tweaking it, have offered plenty of options for personalisation. However, one thing lost so far has been a way to flip amidst themes while away from your computer; imagine the horror at pulling [...]

Does the camera of the 3G iPhone needs improvement?

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:19:01 +0000

An interesting article from the Ars Technica talked about the possible result if Apple Inc. would decide to improve the number of megapixels of the 3G iPhone’s camera. According to the article, this might lead to a worse picture quality instead of the other way around. Some people agreed that Apple Inc. retained the megapixel [...]

Enable App Hiding on your iPhone

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:51:37 +0000

TUAW reader Ian Donaldson discovered that the SBEnableAppReveal preference allowed you to double-tap hidden applications to reveal them–and double-tap them again to re-hide them. I decided to see whether I could extend that behavior to other applications. After a bit of examining, I discovered the SBIsRevealable preference in the three keynote applications: YouTube, Safari and [...]

Create iPhone ringtones from iTunes previews

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:15:40 +0000

Today’s iPhone hack-du-jour uses iTunes preview files for ringtones. As you probably know, iTunes freely offers short audio samples of its entire library. You can easily download these samples from iTunes and install them onto your iPhone as custom ringtones. Since your iPhone is authorized to your detail, you’ll be able to play back these [...]

Clock-in or Clock-out to work using your iPhone

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:46:47 +0000

Another application will soon be used in the second-generation iPhone. Before the smartphone goes on sale, TSheets announced a web application meant for the iPhone – the timeclock tracker. Tsheets allows the iPhone user to clock-in and even clock-out of work even if they are not physically present in their office. This gives the professional [...]

DNAmail allows email exchange in iPhone

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:26:56 +0000

The company called DNAmail has announced recently that their services and products can now be used by the 3G iPhone owners. More often than not, DNAmail offers its services to the small as well as medium enterprises. The company aids them in increasing the features of email tools that are web-based as well as the [...]