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iOS 4.3 beta 2 Released to Developers
Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 4.3 to developers. Features include the WiFi hotspot, as advertised on the Verizon iPhone 4, and more should be revealed as developers open it up and take a look. If you are a developer wanting to test this firmware, the minimum system version required for iOS 4.3 development...
AirView: Turn Your iPhone into an AirPlay Receiver
There have been some tweaks released, in the jailbreak community, to enable AirPlay to work with 3rd party apps. With the beta release of iOS 4.3, we now know that Apple plans to open up this feature to developers, so that they can add it to there own apps. The are still some cool apps...
New iPhone Unlock Coming After iOS 4.3 Release
Some key players in the jailbreak community are feuding again. Members of The iPhone Dev Team and The Chronic Dev Team have been bickering back and forth about who has the best jailbreak and/or unlock for current iDevices. If you follow these folks on Twitter, you know what I'm talking about. In my opinion, this...
Small Office In Toronto Uses iPhone To Save A Bird!
So there's a guy a named Jason who works in a small office of about 12 employees in Toronto. On Tuesday, Jason had to grab some files which were located in the window-less and low ceiling basement of their Toronto office. Upon arrival, Jason heard some interesting noises. When he turned around, a bird (as...
iPhone and iPad to Lose the Home Button on Future Models?
With the release of iOS 4.3beta1, some details about future features and hardware changes for iOS devices have been uncovered in the iOS 4.3 code. BGR is reporting that the discovery of new multigestures in the iPad firmware, suggests that Apple is moving towards getting rid of the home button. Here's what BGR reported: We...
WSJ: Verizon CDMA iPhone Coming January 11th
We're lucky to have the iPhone offered from three carriers in Canada. Down the US, AT&T has had an exclusive on iPhone sales but that is coming to an end. The Verizon CDMA iPhone rumour is a reality. According to the WSJ, Verizon will offer a CDMA version of the iPhone with an announcement coming...
Create Ringtones on your iPhone with “Ringtone Studio – Professional Ringtone Maker”
When the iPhone first came out, it was quite an ordeal to create your own ringtones. You had to chop the song down to 30 seconds, make an ACC copy of it, delete it from your library, rename the extension to .m4r, and then add it back to you library. Then you still had to...
Check Your Blood Pressure With Your iPhone? There’s an App for That; and a Peripheral
The iPhone has lots of different uses. If there's something it doesn't do, naively, there is usually an app in the App Store, that will accommodate. One area that this has been truly inspiring, is in the medical industry. We have see the iPad make into the operating room, and great add-ons to the iPhone...
A New Way to Slide to Unlock, with “Move Lockscreen to Unlock”
In this article, we're taking a look at a new tweak that was recently released in Cydia. This tweak, called "Move Lockscreen to Unlock", does just what it says. Rather than just moving your slider to unlock the device, you can move the entire lockscreen. You can still have the unlock slider active, or you...
Verizon iPhone for Valentines Day?
Okay. **sighs** I know this rumour has been going around for ever and ever, and frankly I have always thought of this as wishful thinking, from AT&T users. This is not really a big deal to us Canadians, but over the past few months, there has been more and more speculation that Apple will indeed...
RIM Thought The 2007 iPhone Was Impossible.
In 2007, RIM, makers of the Blackberry, reportedly had an internal panic when Apple released the first iPhone. The story comes from a former RIM employee. Apparently RIM held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying about the capabilities of the new device. The claims focused on how it was...
Anti-Sexting Software Patent
Well, leave it to Apple to help protect our kids! Apple has purportedly patented software to identify inappropriate language in text messages and to either completely delete it or to replace with "age appropriate" verbiage. I suspect a database of offending words can be input into the phone by a parent and text message content...