How to Find the IP Address of Your iPhone

Its a pretty simple procedure to find the IP Address of your iPhone but you will need to do this anytime you want to SSH into your phone. Follow the instructions below to get started.

Step One
Press to select Settings from your SpringBoard



Step Two
Press to select Wi-Fi from the Settings menu.



Step Three
Press to select your network if it isn’t already selected. Then next to your network name press the blue circle with the arrow in it.



Step Four
You will now be displayed your iPhone’s IP Address!

share your iphone music with friends

Simplify Media, the iTunes plugin that lets you share your entire music library over the internet, now works with iPhone and iPod touch. Unlike similar applications, Simplify Media does not use Safari to stream music. This allows you to surf the web while you and your friends listen to your iTunes library from anywhere you have Wi-Fi access.

To install Simplify Media, you will need a Jailbreak iPhone or iPod touch with the AppTapp Installer. Then go to AppTapp and look for Simplify Media under the multimedia category. When you run it you will need to sign in with your Simplify Media username and password. Download the desktop version of the software for Mac or PC to create your free account. Be sure you have a Wi-Fi connection because EDGE won’t cut it. And you might want to check out the iPhone demo at the Simplify Media web site.

The iMatrix makes Your iPhone as a Barcode Scanner

Well, there is now an application available to capture data points through the iPhone’s built-in camera. It’s called iMatrix. If you have jailbroken your phone and have been updating through installer.app, you may have already had a chance to try this application out.

According to the application website: “Application can: open web link via Safari, add contact in your Address Book, add event to Calendar, add new note to Notes, and initiate new e-mail or phone call. “

What applications can you see this being used for?

The Best iPhone Game:Labyrinth 0.4

Labyrinth was one of the best games created for the iPhone, it made good use of the phone’s accelerometers and showed the true potential of 3rd party apps for the iPhone. Unfortunately, the popular game was recently updated by its developer to v1.0 adding a timer (which was way too quick) and a demo only version…meaning that now the game was not free anymore.

The new version adds some new features like calibration and probably fixes some bugs…but the full game costs $7. If you think its worth it…go ahead and buy it, if not then we got your piece of cake! Download Labyrinth v0.4 and follow the following instructions to get it working :

1. Extract the zip file to your Desktop

2. Open WinSCP and connect to your iPhone via SSH

3. Go to the root/Applications folder and Drop the extracted folder in there

4. Next go into the Labyrinth.app folder and right-click on the file labyrinth and set permission to 0755

5. Reboot your phone

Bill Clinton is also a iPhone user

You’re standing in line when Bill Clinton, former US President, walks by with his Secret Service escort. Quick! What do you do? (1) Shake his hand. (2) Share a quick joke about Arkansas’s night life. (3) Ask him to sign your iPhone.

If you’re B. Ioffe, the answer is 3. He writes that President Clinton shared that he is an iPhone owner; Steve Jobs fixed him up with an iPhone for his personal use. This of course demands the question: If ex-Veep Al Gore is on Apple’s Board of Directors, why didn’t he snag his old buddy an iPhone himself? Or, as Ioffe writes, at least a prerelease 3G version.

via http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/21/bill-clinton-iphone-user/

A Christmas Game For iPhone

Christmas is approaching, and what better way to wile away a minute or two than with a virtual snow globe? The kind folks at Pop Art created this iPhone Snow Globe that one ’shakes’ by changing the orientation of the iPhone.

It’ll amuse you for a moment, and it is free so why not? That’s what the holiday season is all about, right?

Change what happens when you double-click the iPhone’s home button

By default, the iPhone allows you to trigger the following actions when the home button is clicked: go the Home screen (Springboard); go to phone favorites; go to the iPod function. Wouldn’t it be great, however, if you could double-click the home button and trigger an automatic launch of Safari, the dialing of a specific phone number, or a blank email message? A new native application dubbed “iPhoneHome” makes it possible.

To install the program: launch Installer and install iPhoneHome from the “Utilities” section.

Once the program is installed, launch it and tap the “Change App” button. You can choose the dialing of any phone number, the creation of a blank email, the launching of the camera or any other application installed on your iPhone to be automatically effected when you double-click the home button (with your iPhone on and awake). Click “Save and Quit” and the change will take place.

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/12/21/change-what-happens-when-you-double-click-the-iphones-home-button/

iPhone Cannot Display Negative Temperatures

If you happen to live in a very cold area within the United States, don’t bother using the weather application on your iPhone. The weather application does not display negative Fahrenheit temperatures and just replaces them with 0F. If you’re using Celsius, the application for some reason displays negative temperatures. This was pointed out by a person in Alaska who posted on the Apple discussion boards.

I live in Alaska. The temps here have all been below zero F or more than -18C but the weather reported on the iPhone never goes below zero F. right now it is -13F and going to Yahoo says this but the iPhone shows 0F.
Currently in Nome, Alaska it’s a chilling -18F, yet the iPhone displays 0F. Hopefully Apple fixes this bug in the next update as it’s getting pretty darn cold here.

Using iPhone Safari over WiFi is DNS sensitive

Since I got my iPhone I’ve been really enjoying its slick user interface and ease of web browsing, but I started to notice that Safari was for some web sites loading pages very slowly. In fact for some web sites Safari would not load pages at all.

I found that if I switched WiFi off I could load these stubborn pages no problem over GPRS/EDGE. I thought I had found the iPhone Achilles Heel; WiFi browsing was just not all that it was cracked up to be. I could browse these web sites just fine using Firefox or IE on my Sony Vaio Laptop over the same WiFi connection. It had to be the iPhone that was at fault.

Resetting the Safari cache, cookies and history made no difference. I tried turning off Javascript too, to no avail.

Now my WiFi network router is an old Buffalo unit I’ve had years. I wondered if it was somehow not compatible with the iPhone, but it supports 802.11g so why should that be the case? Most odd.

I started going through the configuration for the WiFi router one setting at a time and considering how it might affect the iPhone differently to my Laptop. Nothing jumped out at me, until I got to the network settings.

No DNS information!

My network looks like this: Broadband Router –> CISCO Firewall –> WiFi Router –> PCs/Laptops/Consoles etc (either using WiFi or hard wired into the WiFi router).

Once I had filled in the IP address of the Broadband Router into the WiFi Router’s configuration, it resolved my problem. Safari on the iPhone was browsing any web site I liked at full speed.

I’m curious to know why none of our WiFi laptops or Nitendo Wii etc have had a problem with this, but I guess the iPhone is just very sensitive to DNS information.

So If you are experiencing slow page load times in Safari over WiFi on your iPhone, double-check ALL the DNS settings throughout your network.

via http://www.timskipper.net/blog/internet/using-iphone-safari-over-wifi-is-dns-sensitive/

iPhone Cord Finder

Whether you’re learning guitar or you’re a skilled player in need of a quick reference tool, you now have a super-fast library right in your pocket. Say goodbye to leafing through books and making sense of confusing programs - our chord library does it all with one click. Easy to read, easy to select - chords as user-friendly as your iPhone or iPod Touch.

To use on your iPhone or iPod Touch open the link in Safari:
http://www.waterstoneguitars.com/chords/

Use iPhone To Control PC

NC on the iPhone is a thing of beauty, allowing you to view the screen of and control your Mac or PC. Unfortunately, solutions up to this point have been clunky: Web-based monstrosities that respond poorly even on a fast WiFi connection or native applications that are error-prone when attempting to scroll around the screen or perform any worthwhile control. Now VNSea, a native iPhone VNC client extant for some time, has matured to the point where it is usable.The change in functionality that affords this new-found usability seems insignificant: “double-tapping on the system status bar will now switch back and forth between the normal active mode and the view-only mode where you can scroll with a single finger (but cannot click or type).” However, after you’ve accidentally tapped the “send” button on an incomplete instant message or accidentally closed a window for the tenth time, the value of an easily accessible, one-finger navigable interface becomes clear.

VNSea can be setup via the following steps:
Download, install and configure a VNC Server for your Mac or Windows PC
Get your iPhone ready for unofficial native apps (jailbreak) if you haven’t already.
In Installer.app, find VNSea in the “Network” category and install it.
Launch VNSea and tap the “+” button on the “VNC Servers” screen.
Enter any name for the session, then enter the IP address and password you configured for your Mac or PC VNC Server, then tap “Save.”
Back on the “VNC Servers” screen, tap the session name you just created and you should be automatically connected.

Using the client takes some practice, but remember that tapping the top of the screen (near where your iPHone displays the current time) will toggle between interactive and pure scrolling mode. When you’re in scrolling mode, move around with one finger and pinch-zoom to expand or contract the image. When you’re in interactive mode, tap once to click on items and use two fingers to scroll.

Real iPhone GPS Module in Development

PartFoundry is working on an actual GPS module to plug into the iPhone’s dock connector. At present, the hardware is still under development and the software interface is primitive. It is able to pull longitude and latitude coordinates from the GPS module and then display it on Google Maps.

A YouTube video is also available demonstrating its current functionality.The product is not expected until February 2008 and they do plan on placing it in a stylish plastic enclosure. It will require a Jail Broken iPhone and software will be open source.

Apple iPhone Already Leads Windows Mobile in US Market Share

According to a report by Canalys, the iPhone has grown massively in market share in North America. The study took a look at smartphone market share for Q3. The results show that in a surprisingly short time, the iPhone has managed to push it’s way into second place at 27%

Smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and Palm OS are all behind the iPhone. Worthy of note is the fact that Symbian did not publish a findings report on their home page detailing why their awesomeness this year. According to the chart, their numbers are far lower than the iPhone’s. At this rate, the iPhone is likely to overtake the forerunners soon.

Cool iPhone games : BlackJack and Spy Hunter clone

Up until now, most native iPhone games, excepting some great emulators (NES and Gameboy Advance), have been less than entertaining. There are two relative newcomers, however, that beyond showing off the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer potential for gaming are actually fun.

The first is iBlackJack. All you need to know about this game, aside from it being blackjack, are: double-tap to hit, swipe down to double down, swipe right to stand. It works like a charm, and has some of the most polished graphics we’ve seen yet in any native iPhone application. If only this game were linked to an online gambling site; we could be losing hundreds from anywhere!

The second is a Spy Hunter clone called “ContraSense”. All you need to know about this game: It’s Spy Hunter, and you tilt the iPhone to steer. This title, though very simple, gets kudos for its excellent use of the accelerometer and genuinely fun gameplay.

Both of these titles are available under the “Games” section in Installer.app

Thanks http://www.iphoneatlas.com/

iNdependence v1.3 is released for jailbreaking 1.1.2 iPhone

iNdependence version 1.3 was released yesterday with the new ability to jailbreak iPhones running software v1.1.2. The software requires that you start with a downgraded iPhone at version 1.0.2. It will then allow you to upgrade to a jailbroken state using the latest iPhone software version.

This latest version of iNdependence hasn’t been tested using an iPhone that came pre-loaded with version 1.1.2 so it’s unknown if those phones will work. If you have one of these phones, let us know how it goes!

Myspace To Create iPhone Client

Social Networking website Myspace, has been working on an iPhone optimized version of their page to provide easier access for Myspace addicts users. The mobile iPhone version of Myspace will include optimized profile pages, notification, and touch friendly buttons specifically for the iPhone. I’m sure come SDK time, these companies will be signed with Apple and be allowed to create applications for the iPhone that don’t require Safari.

iPhone Video Recording?

iPhone developer Drunknbass has been working amazingly hard for some time now getting video recording working on the iPhone. I’ve been following his effort and seeing him struggle with some major obstacles. It’s not a simple thing. There are issues about capturing the data and producing output in real time. And here, sometimes events outpace us. I was hoping to post a real video with this write-up but since the software has already been leaked, I decided to go ahead and write about what currently exists.

Drunknbass’s program is groundbreaking. It records 5 seconds of video at 10 fps and then immediately plays it back and proves that usable video capture is possible.

Read more about his work and visit his website at monsterandfriends.com.

Google Picasa now iPhone-optimized

Google is on an iPhone roll. A week after revising the way its mobile-optimized home page is displayed on the iPhone, the company has introduced an iPhone-optimized version of Picasa, its software and Web-based tool for uploading and organizing digital photos. From the Google Mobile blog:

“After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you’ve uploaded to Picasa Web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends. Or you can click on Slideshow, sit back and watch the pictures scroll. You can also search for photos in your album or through community photos. Finally, with one of my favorite features, you can view your friends’ albums through favorites.”

Essentially, the new Picasa works like Apple’s own photo viewer on the iPhoto, albeit without the slick swiping function. When in full-screen view, tapping a photo brings up arrows on either side than can be used to browse back and forth between images.

You can browse either your own photos uploaded with the Picasa software (Mac or PC) or search and browse community photos.

The site can be accessed on your iPhone at: http://picasaweb.google.com.

Killer App: ProRemote iPhone Remote For ProTools

This has to be one of the best iPhone apps ever written. It’s the first one I’ve seen that fully realizes the possibilities of touch surfaces as specialized control interfaces. The app is ProRemote, and it converts your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless control for Pro Tools LE with realtime feedback.

Gizmodo got a chance to speak with the creater of the app, Alex Lelievre.

“ProRemote will be going into beta next week,” Alex told us, “currently the server is Mac only but will be an easy port to Windows later on (one thing at a time!) It is nearly feature complete now and runs on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches.”

While the beta will be released next week, the final version “won’t ship until Apple releases their native iPhone SDK and I can convince them to certify the software. So hopefully sometime in late February I hope to have this released.”

“By the time I have gotten up and walked over to my console 10 times to adjust the levels, I no longer want to play music. This software allows me to control my rig from the drums or my guitar setup and hopefully keep the music flowing.”

The remote system consists of three pieces. The first is the iPhone, providing the user interface and real time display of audio signals and timecode. This connects to the server installed in the computer running ProTools, using a proprietary protocol over TCP ports 8183 and 8184. The server talks to Pro Tools using a MIDI driver in the same machine.

Alex says he has tested the app over AT&T’s network, so if you really wanted to, “you can control your rig from anywhere in the world that has internet or EGDE”

Currently he’s asking US$150 for the app (a small price after purchasing ProTools).

iSpit - Small & Easy HTTP Server

Robota Softwarehouse, the creators of SysInfo and Screenshot, this time bring us an application called iSpit to use as a portable HTTP server, providing sharing of files from your iPhone. This app provides the simplicity of all the other iPhone apps with just turning the server on or off, and pointing your browser to 192.168.0.2. Once on the page you’ll get a list of the filesystem on the iPhone.

While there are other HTTP servers for the iPhone, iSpit is definitely among one of the easiest to set up and get going. iSpit can be obtained via installer.app with the Ste Packaging source.

Flash on iPhone: Ask Apple

After an Adobe Support Engineer was asked when the iPhone and iPod touch would support flash on Mobile Safari, a response concluded that the wrong company was being asked. It doesn’t look like an update with Flash is near, but possibly a member of any of the iPhone dev teams can hack it up.

I personally think that Google bought exclusivity of flash video’s for YouTube on the iPhone, taking away any thoughts of flash for Safari on the iPhone, not allowing you to browse other flash video websites other than YouTube. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. There is flash somewhere in the iPhone as it’s running the YouTube app, but not being used for Safari. Hopefully Apple has future updates with the iPhone allowing Flash to run with Safari.

How to fix “Low disk space” error with third-party iPhone apps

If you’re using an iPhone running software/firmware 1.1.2 or iPod Touch and have installed several iphone third-party applications, you may begin receiving an error message that states “Warning: You are running out of disk space. Please delete some photos or videos,” even though there is still significant storage space on the device.

Here’s what’s actually happening: the iPhone (or iPod Touch) places a low, artificial size limit on its /Applications directory, which is reached after installing a number of third-party apps. In order to get around this problem, you need to store your Applications in the Media directory, where much more space is allocated. To do so, follow this process: Warning: If you don’t type these commands exactly, you may put your iPhone in a state where it repeatedly reboots, potentially forcing a restore or interaction via SSH (discussed at the end of these instructions):
Make sure you have at least 500 MB of free space on your iPhone/iPod Touch (via the indicator on iTunes).
Through Installer.app, download and install “Term-vt100,” located in the “System” category (if you don’t have enough space to install Term-vt100, delete some applications temporarily).
Launch Term-vt100 from your SpringBoard (home screen).
Type the following commands exactly on your iPhone’s keyboard, paying particular attention to spacing and capitalization, and press return after each:
cd /
cp -pr Applications /var/root
mv Applications Applications.old
ln -s private/var/root/Applications /Applications

Your Applications should now be stored in the Media (/var/root) directory. You can check this by typing the commands:
cd /
ls -la
Among the listed entries, you should see something like the following:
rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin […] Applications -> private/var/root/Applications
This shows that your /Applications directory is symlinked to /private/var/root/Applications
Now restart your iPhone or iPod Touch. If everything works normally, launch Term-vt100 again and enter the following commands to delete your old Applications folder:
cd /
rm -rf Applications.old
If something goes wrong, and your iPhone/iPod Touch repeatedly reboots or there are no icons on the SpringBoard, do one of the following:
SSH into your device (if you have OpenSSH installed — see “Manually installing applications” on our Applications page for more information on how to SSH into your device) and re-enter this command: ln -s private/var/root/Applications /Applications
Restore your iPhone/iPod Touch using iTunes and try again (third-party applications will be lost).

Thanks http://www.iphoneatlas.com/

AudioAmp: Fix iPhone’s low Ringer Volume

One of the complaints of the iPhone has surprisingly been iPhone’s low ringer volume. It seems to be well below the standard, in terms of volume, established by other mobile handsets.
Most of the users have blamed iPhone’s tiny speakers to be the culprit of this problem. However I had reported that the culprit in fact could be the audio itself and not the speaker and you could use a hack to fix this problem.

However, Erica over @ Tuaw had figured out that the Celestial framework folder (/System/Library/Frameworks/Celestial.framework/) had a Maximum Volume property list. She had observed that adjusting the Default -> Default value up to 0.99, up from 0.7 had boosted the iPhone’s speaker volume.

iPhone hacking genius Nick “Drudge” Penree has apparently made use of this iPhone tip from Erica to develop a native iPhone application which will do all the work for you and thus save you of all the hassles. The iPhone App called AudioAmp is available as a package in Installer.app.

Playstation games on the iPhone and iPod Touch!

My very first build of psx4all for the iPhone & iTouch worked! You gotta love when the first compile for a program works!

These images won’t reflect how the release will look. Also ignore the data in the debug information at the top, as it’s not accurate.

What can you look forward to in the first release of psx4iphone? Depends on how the beta testing goes. I will be working on the existing dynarec (cpu emulation) quite a lot to improve performance as it will be required. The screen scaling and screen placement will be drastically improved over the above images. Memory card support will work, and save states might work. Sound will be implemented as well. The interface/gui will be very similar to gpSPhone’s just with 4 hard buttons instead of just A+B, and L2 and R2 buttons. A rough estimate would be about 75% of games will be compatible. With such a large library of games, this may or may not include your favorite game. Performance will have to be increased about 25% to get a good portion of games running smoothly. This can be done.

I will be contacting those who donated to me (for gpSPhone and psx4iphone) when a beta of psx4iphone (also works on iPod Touch) is available. If there’s a large amount of beta testers and the demand is there, it could be within a matter of days.

via http://www.zodttd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60:psx4all-news-playstation-has-arrived-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch

Apple increases iPhone purchase limit to 5

Apple has now increased the number of iPhones users can purchase through the online Apple Store to five from two, presumably in anticipation of holiday sales.

We previously reported that Apple was limiting iPhone purchases to two per customer, stopped accepting cash and gift certificates for iPhones, and apparently tracking how many iPhones each customer is purchasing.

Some users were getting around this problem by simply creating new accounts with the online Apple Store (which apparently will allow usage of the same credit card).

Other users were asked to sign a “no resell” form in order to purchase more than two iPhones.

AnySim Devs Release Source Code

AnySim has always claimed to be open source from the start, but the devs had never released an official source code. After endless waiting, not only can the devs work on it, but hackers and programmers from all around the world can also work on it, greatly improving it’s code and compatibility with the iPhone.

The Anysim source code can be found at http://code.google.com/p/devteam-anysim/. Hopefully we get a 1.1.2 unlock as the current devs are having a real hard time getting it unlocked.

MMS on iPhone

It seems as if all the iPhone dev teams are adding everything Apple forgot, maybe that was their plan, but this time Suavphisticated from ModMyiFone has created a MMS application for the iPhone. The application is currently in heavy development with lots of bugs. This is only the first beta version released and the dev team is still in progress on it. Currently it does not work with AT&T as your iPhone data plan does not include MMS messaging. If you are on another network with an unlocked iPhone, there is currently no MMS recieving.

This application can be obtained by adding the repository http://modmyifone.com/installer.xml to your sources list, and then updating the refresh on installer.app.

Tabulate adds Safari “tabs” to iPhone and iPod touch

Now here’s a clever trick. Inventive Labs Gadgets has designed a Safari bookmarklet that adds “tabs” to your iPhone browsing experience. Just drag their bookmarklet into your Safari bookmarks bar, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch. (Make sure you’ve selected Info > Web browser > Sync Safari bookmarks in iTunes.)

Once synced, open a web page and then choose Tabulate from your iPhone bookmarks list. A small orange icon appears at the top-left of the screen. Next, tap on any link. The three-button control window shown here appears.

Tap on blue to open the link in the current tab, green to open the link in a new tab (i.e. a new Safari page, in iPhone terms), and orange to add the link to the list of flagged links to open later. The flagged items appear in orange at the top-left of the screen.

So how does it work? Not too badly. It’s a little annoying opening the bookmarklet for each page and sometimes the javascript “took” better on some pages than others. That being said, I found it very useful to have around and it’s staying in my permanent collection of iPhone javascript bookmarklets. Good job, Inventive Labs guys!

Rumors: Is iPhone firmware 1.1.3 about to debut?

TUAW reader Josh Zeller tipped us off to this electronista post suggesting that a big firmware upgrade is about to bow, bringing voice recording and disk mode to the iPhone. If true, these major features would be welcome additions to the ever-growing iPhone user base. On the down side, every firmware upgrade comes as a roadblock to the third-party application community, requiring a new jailbreak. And yes, this would require a new jailbreak despite the possible disk access. Apple traditionally only grants access to the media portions of the unit’s onboard storage.How much do we believe this rumor? Apple has been good about bringing out firmware upgrades every few weeks, so if you wait just a little while, pretty much any firmware upgrade rumor comes true. As to the voice and disk details? These rumors have appeared for nearly every major firmware update–so eventually they may just be right… if you wait long enough.

A better iPhone 1.1.2 jailbreak (for both Mac and Windows, simpler)

Folks at iPhone Atlas have posted a method, which they claim is somewhat easier to JailBreak iPhone firmware v1.1.2 which will work on Windows and Mac thanks to the work carried out by the iPhone Elite dev team.

The process apparently also does not require any third-party utilities other than what is included in the package from Conceited Software.

Links and more details to JailBreak iPhone firmware v1.1.2 available after the jump.

Before you go through the process, do note that though folks at iPhone Atlas claim that the method is simpler, however they do highlight that the process is still somewhat complicated. It is also quite lenghty as it is a 23-steps process.

So if you have iPhone running on firmware v1.1.1 then I would recommend that you stick with it for now.

This method is essentially for all those who have bought a new iPhone with firmware v1.1.2 or accidentally upgraded their virgin iPhone to the latest version of iPhone firmware and would like to install native third-party iPhone applications.

I have not tried this out to confirm whether it works or not, so if you are planning to check this out remember you will be doing so at your own risk. You need to also ensure that you have access to Wi-Fi connection on your iPhone to try it out:

Please find below the 23-steps to JailBreak iPhone v1.1.2 courtesy iPhone Atlas:

Download the iPhone 1.1.1 firmware/software package, and after it is downloaded, make sure it still has the extension .ipsw and not .zip. Rename it if necessary (the correct name is iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw).
Put iPhone in recovery mode (hold the sleep and home [on the top of the iPhone] buttons simultaneously until the screen goes blank, then release the sleep button but keep holding the home button until a screen showing an iTunes icon and a USB cable appears).
Launch iTunes if it isn’t open. You will receive a message that says “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode”
Do not restore the iPhone at this point
In iTunes, select your iPhone from the left-hand pane (source list) and click the “Summary” tab. Hold down the option key, then click “Restore.” Select the 1.1.1 package you just downloaded. You’ll receive the error message “1015″ indicating a failure to restore — this is normal.
Download the iTunes 1.1.2 jailbreak folder from Conceited Software.
If you are using a Mac, double-click jailbreak.jar in the file you just downloaded. If you are on a Windows system, double-click the file windows.bat. Click the “Boot from Recovery” button. This should force the iPhone out of recovery mode.
This process can take several minutes. In our case, the progress bar never finished, but the proper process occurred — if it works, your iPhone screen will go completely black and the device will power off. At this point, you should hold down the power buttonfor several seconds until the device restarts. If 10 or minutes have gone by and nothing has happened (the recovery mode screen, with an iTunes icon and a USB cable, is still displayed on your iPhone), try disconnecting your iPhone and reconnecting it and trying again.
You will no see the “Waiting for Activation” screen, but your iPhone won’t activate.
Slide to unlock your iPhone, and launch Safari.
Navigate to www.jailbreakme.com.
Go to the bottom of the page and tap “Install AppSnapp.”
You will see the “Downloading Programs” message and a spinning progress indicator.
At the end of the process, your iPhone will be jailbroken under firmware version 1.1.1, but you won’t have access to voice services yet.
Slide to unlock your iPhone. You will see the “Installer” icon on your home screen. Tap it.
Tap “Install” at the bottom of the screen, then tap “Tweaks 1.1.1″
Scroll down to a package called “OktoPrep” and tap it, then tap the “Install” button in the upper-right corner.
In iTunes, select your iPhone from the source lift on the left-hand side. If it prompts you to restore your iPhone from backup, you can do so (by pressing the “Continue” button), after which your iPhone will reboot and again try (and fail) to activate.
With your iPhone selected on the left-hand pane, click the “Summary” button a the top of the window. You will see a message stating “A newer version of the iPhone software is available (1.1.2). […]” Click the Update button (not Restore). Your iPhone should receive the 1.1.2 update, and eventually activate in iTunes.
[At the end of the process, you might see an error message indicating that the iPhone could not be restored because of an “Error 1602″ or similar. If so, follow the instructions in this Knowledge Base article to re-install iTunes. You then, unfortunately, have to start the process all over again.]
After the installation of firmware 1.1.2, Installer will vanish from your iPhone — this is normal.
Go back to the folder you downloaded from Conceited Software and again run the jailbreak.jar file on a Mac or the windows.bat file on a Windows system. This time, check the “Install SSH option” then press the “Jailbreak” button. This process takes several minutes — do not perform any other operations on your iPhone during this process.
Your iPhone will reboot several times. When you’re done, the Installer application should now be on your screen and the iPhone should properly activate. Consult our Applications page for information on using Installer.

If you have tried this out do share your experience for the benefit of fellow readers.

New Google UI For The iPhone

People have wanted this for a while and it’s finally here. Internet search firm Google has launched an iPhone-formatted version of its home page. American users who visit google.com from an iPhone are now redirected here to a new web site. Navigation tabs at the top of the page now guide the user to Gmail, Calendar, Reader and other features.

Other changes include cleaner formatting for the iPhone such as larger fonts, tables and better vertical orientation to eliminate the need for horizontal scrolling. The site should also work properly on the iPod touch, but this appears to be restricted to American visitors at present, as accounts suggest that Canadians are not being redirected.

‘iPhone’ Is Fastest Rising Search Term

Google reported today that the term “iPhone” topped a list of fastest rising search terms in the U.S. in 2007.

“iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said Marissa Mayer of Google, an Internet search engine. “It didn’t exist.”

iPhone was also top ranking on a worldwide list. Other top-performers were social networking sites, TMZ.com, and “Transformers.”

via http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/

Rumors:3G iPhone apparently delayed

Either things aren’t going to plan in Apple’s product development lab, or the company’s PR people are working overtime; Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. Inc, is quoted as saying that the second-generation (e.g. 3G) iPhone has been pushed back “from the March/April time frame to mid to late summer” [via MacNN]. It comes not long after AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed that Apple would be releasing a 3G iPhone come 2008, which has led some to suspect that the Cupertino-based manufacturer are attempting to rescue their holiday sales by casting doubt on the availability of the next-generation handset.

Others - such as Robert Cringely - see this as the latest gambit in an Apple/AT&T cockfight, with Stephenson’s announcement intended to warn Apple (who have recently been eyeing up the 700MHz spectrum auction, due to be held in January 2008) that the carrier is quite capable of success without them or their bestselling-smartphone product.

“What I believe is troubling the relationship between AT&T and Apple is the upcoming auction for 700-MHz wireless spectrum and AT&T’s discovery that — as I have predicted for weeks — Apple will be joining Google in bidding. AT&T thought its five-year “exclusive” iPhone agreement with Apple would have precluded such a bid, but that just shows how poorly Randall Stephenson understood Steve Jobs. Steve always hurts his friends to see how much they really love him, so AT&T probably should have expected this kind of corporate body blow” Robert Cringely

Cringely suggests that Apple may include 700MHz-band data cards in future MacBooks, ostensibly keeping their contract with AT&T separate and unchallenged, but simultaneously allowing VoIP over the new network to eventually stand as a competitor.

iPhone iSync: the beginnings of WiFi syncing

iPhone iSync is potentially a very interesting application with great promise. It’s a GUI implementation of an rsync-based folder synchronization tool that works with WiFi. This means it will sync a folder on your Mac to your iPhone/iPod touch over the wireless network. In the future, this suggests the possibility of iTunes syncing over WiFi… unfortunately, it’s not quite there yet.

The author, francisois, says that he has “reached a breakthrough that has allowed me to synchronize my own iPod Touch over wi-fi with an older version of iTunes,” and he is working on getting iTunes 7.5 support but a few obstacles remain. Nonetheless, he eventually plans for syncing music, photos, contacts, and bookmarks over WiFi.

Obviously you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone to use this. If you have any experience with “shell scripts and ssh and especially iTunes library access,” francisois is looking for help. iPhone iSync is a free download from its Google Code page.

Mobile Safari plug-in downloads files to your iPhone/iPod touch

Now this is just amazingly cool. iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it allows you to download data off the Internet and store it on your iPhone or iPod touch local disk in the /var/root/Downloads folder.

I downloaded the package (it’s variously on RapidShare and BadOnGo; see the hackint0sh thread for links) and gave it a whirl. Following the instructions on the thread for modifying the Info.plist file, I told the plug-in to download MP3 files. (I had to disable playback as well in the QuickTime plug-in–so make sure to read the entire thread!) Now back in Safari, when I navigated to an MP3 file and selected it, this green Download button appeared. I tapped it, and the file downloaded perfectly. Before, the QuickTime plug-in would have just played the file back in Safari.

iPhone enthusiast RohitK asked if there was an easy way to play back these downloaded files using my software. As there wasn’t at the time, I went ahead and modded my SendFile application to search ~/Downloads as well as ~/Media/Documents. You can grab a copy of the modded app here. This allows you to email, share and play back the downloaded media on demand, whether or not you are connected to the Internet.

Thanks to RohitK and Xadacka.

via http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/04/mobile-safari-plug-in-downloads-files-to-your-iphone-ipod-touch/

10 ‘Awesome’ iPhone Accessories

PCMag.com compiles a list of what it says are “10 Awesome iPhone Accessories”.

The slideshow of products feature:

- Apple iPhone Dock
- iSkin revo
- BoxWave Screen Puffs
- MarWare Quick Vue case
- Incipio Technologies Bikini
- MacAlly mClip
- DLO Jam Jacket
- Belkin Sport Armband
- Jawbone Bluetooth headset
- Gomadic Rapid Car/Travel Charger

The list appears a bit heavy on iPhone cases,

iPhone v1.1.2 Boosts Clock Speed

While Apple continues to break our jailbreaks and 3rd party apps, they are working on the iPhone to make it faster and more battery efficient. The recent update of firmware v1.1.2 boosts the iPhone’s clock speed from a CPU Frequency of 400Mhz, and a Bus frequency of 100mHz, to a CPU frequency of 412Mhz, and a Bus frequency of 103Mhz. This information can be obtained via SysInfo in installer.app.

While you may not notice a difference, Apple is definitely trying to figure out ways to keep the battery life, and make the iPhone perform faster. Could this possibly be for the upcoming SDK release in order to make sure the phone will run most 3rd party apps? Hopefully, and we’ll see come February.

iApp-A-Day: November 20th - Sleigh

Today iApp-a-Day brings you another exciting iphone game, this time Christmas was in the air. This is a pretty simple, yet challenging game that takes use of the iPhone and iPod touch’s accelerometer for full control over the game.

The objective of this game is to keep Santa’s sleigh away from the falling ice by tilting the phone or iPod into clear space on the screen.

The game is pretty exciting and it’ll definitely keep you occupied until the next iApp-a-Day app is released. Every day a new app can be obtained by adding the iApp-a-Day source through installer.ap

Frenzic Game for iPhone

As noted by iPhone Central, the iPhone web-version of Frenzic has been published at http://frenzic.com/iphone/. Frenzic is described as a fast paced puzzle-based game originally developed for Mac OS X.

Gameplay:

As colored pie pieces appear in the center, place them in the outer circles to earn points. Pieces can only be placed into circles that have a corresponding open slot. Once all six slots of a circle are filled, the completed pie is cleared from the board. If a piece is not placed before the timer expires, a life is lost

Use the fewest colors possible when forming pies for maximum points as each piece of the same color is worth more than the one before it. Pies completed with a single color also earn an extra life. The speed of the timer gradually accelerates, increasing difficulty. Play ends when all of your lives are lost.

A Youtube video which demonstrates the Javascript version of Frenzic (running on a desktop browser).

Ojom Releases Maya - Temple of Secrets Casual Game for iPhone

On Thursday, Ojom announced that it had released Maya, its first game specifically designed for the iPhone. The game functions as a puzzle in which players have to flip, twist and turn triangle-shaped pieces in order to progress through levels and find the Maya temple deep within the jungle. Each puzzle includes a cluster of triangles with a different color in each corner, challenging players to solve by puzzle by flipping or rotating the triangles to form a pattern where all corresponding colors are connected.

A deluxe edition of the game was released in conjunction with the iPhone European launch last week via Jamster and Jamba while the standard edition is available for free.

iPhone Game Of The Week

This weeks featured iphone game is Bubble Trouble

In theory this is a relatively simple iphone game. You need to find at least three colors/shapes that are touching and once clicked they disappear. If you’re able to click on a group of more than three you can obtain combos and earn more points. The object of the game is to clear the boards and by doing so get the most possible points.

Once you reach a point in the board where no further combos can be obtained new bubbles will appear. This will continue to happen until no more combos exist and therefore the game is over.

The trick to this game is to look at the board for the best combinations. Anticipate what each move will do for your next move. Play smart and you’ll get hooked.

Our personal best so far is 2980

Give it a try and let us know your high score.

Casual gaming portal for the iPhone

Instead of having a bunch of links filling up your bookmark list on your iPhone, this site is working to centralize all the simple web-based iPhone games. So if you have some time to waste before a meeting, waiting on a cab, or at the bus station, click on through to Knibble’s iPhone site. The site has all the classic casual games for your iPhone on a single website. We’re talking about such classics as Sudoku, Bejeweled, Video Poker, and Minesweeper here. All of them are powered by JavaScript, hence you can play them through the built-in Safari Browser. It’s free and they even promised to add more games in the coming weeks and months. And yes, as it’s an iPhone optimized site the interface is slick and easy to use. Here’s the link. Enjoy!

From http://www.intomobile.com/2007/09/24/most-popular-casual-games-for-the-iphone-on-one-place.html

100 iPhone Games

Reader Silver sent us his site of iPhone games, basically just a big linklist of online web games for the iPhone. There are buttons there for voting and “favorites,” but I couldn’t get them to work. Still, if you’re looking for a big lineup of what’s out there to play, there you go.

And on that list, I found a pretty cool iphone game that I’d never heard of before called iPhone Assassin. The concept is pretty interesting– basically, you sign up on the web to play, and then whenever you see someone in real life with an iPhone, you call out that you’ve “killed” them, and then on the site, it tracks how many kills have been made and who’s still alive.

Now, yes, it does occur to me that while the idea may sound good in theory, the execution (pardon the pun) leaves a little bit to be desired– I do agree that most iPhone owners probably don’t want maniacs running at them yelling about a kill. And yes, it’s probably true that not many iPhone owners have actually seen this game yet, and so there are probably way too few people in on the joke– more often than not, you’d have to explain the whole thing to anyone you assaulted on the street, and even more likely, they probably wouldn’t be amused.

Still, for the easily amused like myself, the idea seems really fun. If they come up with a way to make it a little more secret (maybe a special phrase that you could drop), and a little more automatic (although I have no idea how they’d do that– can you make iPhones “see” each other over WiFi or Bluetooth?), a real-life iPhone scavenger hunt might be fun.

From http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/13/iphone-assassin-and-100-other-iphone-games/

Doom is close to the iPhone

After the NES emulator, you knew it was just a matter of time, and now Doom is running (though not playable yet) on the iPhone.

stepwhite is behind this one, too, and he worked it up because he’d promised a friend he would (not to mention that he was prominent requests for it on Waxy.org, and some other little Apple site you might know). Unfortunately, he hasn’t implemented a controller system yet (all you can do right now is watch the demo scenes), but that’s the beauty of open source– no doubt some intrepid programmer out there has an idea on how to do it. Also, you gotta turn that thing sideways, man! This isn’t the iPod; let’s use the whole screen space.

Geez, after Doom, what’s left? Quake III Arena? I stand in awe of what you programmers have been able to do with the iPhone.More and more exciting iphone games will be developed.

From TUAW

Top 10 Free iPhone Games

If you’ve managed to get yourself an iPhone and haven’t smashed it yet, you’ve probably noticed that the iPhone isn’t preloaded with any games (to me that’s one good reason to smash it) so here are top 10 free iPhone games:

1- Shredder iPhone Chess
2- Diamenty which is basically Bejeweled, my favorite online game EVER!
3- Sudoku, the world’s favorite logic based number placement puzzle.
4- Checkrz aka Checkers!
5- i-Tiles: a memory game
6- Reversi: an abstract strategy game
7- Collapsing Blocks: falling blocks puzzle game.
8- Video Poker
9- iMineSweeper: the classic Minesweeper game.
10- iPhone Sokoban: a puzzle game where you have to push the boxes onto the target squares.

All of these games are web based as Apple still doesn’t offer any downloadable games.

TinkerBell iPhone Theme

Want to add the nice theme to your iPhone? Free download iphone hack toolkit and the PKG file at iPhone theme page,then import the tinkerbell pkg to your iPhone.Just one click,try it right now!