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How to Find the IP Address of Your iPhone

2007-12-26T06:57:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:54:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:51:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:49:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:46:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:45:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:42:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:41:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:39:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:37:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:35:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:33:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:30:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:28:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:26:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:24:00.000-08:00

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?

2007-12-26T06:20:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:17:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:14:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:12:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:11:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:08:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:05:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-12-26T06:04:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-26T06:03:00.000-08:00

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.