Category / All Things Apple
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Busted Wide Open
I couldn’t resist. With all the talk about the SDK and how the 2.0 iPhone firmware had been hacked, I’m back in the fold of the hackers by jailbreaking my iPhone. Everything…
March 18, 2008 -
Extended Battery Life
Because of Apple’s legendary silence (lack of communication), the burgeoning iPhone developer community is wondering aloud why Apple isn’t allowing background apps to exist on their phone. Mike Ash has a great…
March 16, 2008 -
iPhone 1.1.3 Bits
So I restored my phone and upgraded to 1.1.3 with the hope that the upcoming SDK will bring many of those back in the fold. However, before I restored, I had already…
January 23, 2008 -
Remote Buddy for iPhone
On a lark I was surfing around looking for any kind of iPhone supported Keynote controller app and did I come across something highly cool. It’s called Remote Buddy. I literally had…
December 12, 2007 -
iPhone Update 1.1.2
There appears to be absolutely no new features except to remove your third party apps and to close the jailbreak loophole. No thanks.
November 9, 2007 -
Leopard Dock Shadows
Every dock icon automatically gets a cast shadow that is in perspective with the dock when it’s positioned at the bottom of the screen. But hang on. I just noticed something kinda…
November 1, 2007 -
Unchained
The “instant jailbreak for iPhone” does indeed work. You have to hand it to those iPhone hackers. They not only used the Safari TIFF exploit to get in, they offer a way…
October 29, 2007 -
The Back of Steve’s Mind
From a NYTimes article: The Apple development team worried constantly that the approach might fail during the years they were creating the iPhone, he said. “We all had that Garry Trudeau cartoon…
October 22, 2007 -
Insanely COOL!
Steve has made the right PR and business call by setting everyone’s iPhone developer alarm clocks for February 08. In some weird way, if this 1.1.1 update had never turned out to…
October 17, 2007 -
Get ‘Em While They’re Hot!
The new directory is live and I just noticed two interesting web apps on this page: Free SMS app? Um I wonder how long AT&T will let that remain available for downloading?…
October 11, 2007