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Notifier: Puts Notifications to iPhone Status Bar
Every time I take a screenshot to review an iPhone App or to broadcast my iPhone's homescreen on the blog, I always get questions about the little icons I have in my iPhone's status bar. You might have seen them too, and been wondering where they are from. The tweak is called Notifier and it's...
How To Create Blank Home Screen Icons On iPhone/iPod Touch Without Jailbreaking
When I got my iPhone 3G back in July 2008, the first thing I did was jailbreak it. I did this because of all of the awesome stuff you could do which I had learned from jailbreaking/unlocking my iPhone 2G. When the iPhone 3GS came out, I chose not to jailbreak simply because most of...
Stream Video to Your iPhone with Air Video
Do you find that you never have enough room on your iPhone for all the movies, TV shows, and podcasts you want to carry around? Then Air Video, may be the app you've been looking for. Air Video is a simple app that allows you to stream video from your computer to your iPhone, over...
iPhone Book Review: Not Your Average iPhone Book, Give Your iPhone a (Jail)Break
With Bell and Telus now selling the iPhone (along with Rogers & Fido), Apple will continue to sell billions of these phones in Canada during Christmas and the holidays. Along with the influx of these new iPhone owners, online forums will get flooded with the same old questions since the first gen iPhone. Review: Not...
How to Change the Default SSH Password on Your iPhone
There's been a lot of hoopla lately about the latest "iPhone worm" that apparently will Rickroll your iPhone. The worm makes its way to your iPhone through SSH, since the default password is "alpine" for every single install of OpenSSH. Now, before you get freaked out, you don't have much to worry about if your...
How To Create Your Own “3G” Logo
Hello. RoryPiper here again. This week I've got a "how-to" Winterboard theme, that will allow you to set anything you want as your 3G logo. This will work on Mac or Windows. All you really need is some kind of image editing software, that will allow you to create and export a PNG file, with...
iPhone Theme Review: PogoPlank
One of the main reasons people jailbreak their iPhones, is to get the ability to customize the iPhone OS with different themes that can be downloaded from Cydia or, if you have the capability, create yourself. A "revolution" - ary new theme that was released a few weeks ago, by Justin Williams, in the Cydia...
App Review: PhoneView
I came across a few posts today discussing a newly revised app called PhoneView, brought to us by a company called ECAMM. What i found interesting about this app is the impressive list of features that it boasts, without the need to Jailbreak your iPhone. The main feature that caught my attention was the ability...
How Google Maps Live Traffic Works: Crowdsourcing
Remember when we posted about the Live Traffic feature in Google Maps going "live" in Canada? This feature is pretty darn awesome, and many people have been wondering how the service actually works to find all the busy hot spots. The answer is quite simple, according to the Official Google Blog. Google wrote about this...
How to Get Windows Live Hotmail on iPhone
Way back in 2004, I got an invite to setup my first Gmail account. At the time I was suffering with the abysmal interface and slowness of Windows Hotmail. Well, after fully making the switch to Gmail, my life has changed for the better. IMAP, Push, and cloud computing with all those Google services make...
How to Change Your iPhone Desktop/SMS Background
I always get some interesting news and tips from the fantastic readership out there. These tips always lead to post ideas and today we're going to tackle how to change your iPhone's desktop/SMS background. It will require a jailbroken iPhone. Let's get started! How to Change your iPhone Desktop/SMS Backgroud: Use the Desktop/SMS Background App...
Create Awesome Ringtones, with Smule’s “I Am T-Pain”
One of the silliest, but funnest apps I've used over the past week, has got to be "I Am T-Pain", by Smule. Smule are known for other great apps like "Ocarina" and "Leaf Trombone: World Stage". "I Am T-Pain", records your voice on it's own (Freestyle), or singing along to full on, karaoke-style tracks, and adds...