Free Custom iPhone Ringtones using only iTunes
Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected songs please use this method). This method has been tested and works with iTunes 7.7.1 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware. To create custom [...]
published yesterday, 1 day 3 hours 27 minutes ago
Where did NetShare go?
I recently wrote Null River to inquire where the iPhone application NetShare went (For those of you not familar with the NetShare story: NetShare is an iPhone tethering application that allows users to use their iPhone’s internet connection on their personal computer. It was originally posted in the application store on August 1st, was [...]
published yesterday, 1 day 6 hours 3 minutes ago
I Am Rich: Proof that Apple doesn?t do any quality control with the App Store
What more can I say, the fact that this application is live in the App Store proves Apple couldn’t possibly do more than have a drone sitting in a cubicle hitting “Approve” on new apps for the App Store. I present to you I Am Rich. I think the big problem here is that Apple has touted [...]
published on Tuesday, the 5. August 2008
Sun Posts StarOffice 9 Beta For OS X
Sun Microsystems posted a beta version of StarOffice 9 today (based on OpenOffice). The 183MB download gives you a disk image that contains an application you just copy into your Applications folder (no icky/cumbersome installer). Upon first launch, it prompts you to read the license agreement and asks for some basic user information. Unfortunately, it [...]
published on Tuesday, the 5. August 2008
iPhone OS 2.0.1 Available With a Truckload of ?Bug Fixes?
This evening Apple made iPhone OS 2.0.1 available via iTunes. Frequently Apple doesn’t include a lot of information on what software updates actually fix, but this could be on of the most cryptic of all. This update simply says the update includes “Bug Fixes”…247MB of “bug fixes” to be exact. Now that isn’t an additional 247MB of space [...]
published on Monday, the 4. August 2008
iPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone
With this I’m assuming you have a bit of familiarity with the iPhone SDK - you can download it for free from Apple’s site, and follow along here. We’re going to build an RSS feed reader for a simple feed (from The Apple Blog, no less). Let’s get started Open Xcode and choose the “File” menu, in [...]
published on Monday, the 4. August 2008
Forum Activity: August 4, 2008
Shapes and CSS? Cuil - can it tackle Google? Trouble getting the iPhone 3G How to clean un-used downloaded items Yet another Macbook vs. Macbook Pro thread…
published on Monday, the 4. August 2008
Software Updates & New Release Highlights For Week Ending 2008-08-02
Apple’s Security Update and iTunes minor update received the bulk of the attention this week, but there were a few other post-worthy items as well: Sequence - 1.0.1 - The now $19.00USD innovative screen capture utility fixes a bug in video compression. I had not noticed the “é” in the name now (I believe that came [...]
published on Monday, the 4. August 2008
Find a carpool buddy with Carticipate
With gas prices costing an arm and a leg these days, people have found that carpooling is a great way to cut down on costs. Trouble is, it’s not always that easy to find a group of people that are traveling to your general destination. Thankfully, with the iPhone’s location aware capabilities and the release [...]
published on Sunday, the 3. August 2008
Copy + Paste Coming Soon To An iPhone Near You?
This weekend was the 2nd annual iPhoneDevCamp held, mostly, in San Francisco. iPhoneDevCamp is a 3 day event where iPhone/iPod touch developers get together to learn and develop with other developers and this year seems to have churned out one of the most highly requested features for the iPhone and iPod touch. Andrew Mager posted a [...]
published on Sunday, the 3. August 2008