iPhone for Enterprise
The iphone for enterprise tools are here. They allow you to set passwords of larger than 4 digits (with alphanumerics) and assign profiles to devices. Quite a neat toolkit.
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Has Palm done it?
The new Palm Pre looks very awesome: smaller than an iphone, slideable keyboard (I love that keyboard, it’s very very good) and an OS which seems slicker than Apple’s. Other than that it seems to have all the prerequisite bits and bobs, such as wifi, gprs, reasonabley poor camera, gps, bluetooth, 480×320 display. Contact management Read more about Has Palm done it?[…]
Shazam
Shazam allows you to identify any tune you hear through your iphone speakers.
The Gecko project
These guys are making a shot of creating a app store like Android or Apple have for Windows Mobile programs.
Enable emoji
It’s Apple cripples your 2.2 software update but hack it time! This time it’s the emoji, which only Japanese iphones got. So if you want it on your iphone or ipod, try the following: You need to edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist on the device -> whether you use a jailbreak to achieve this or merely Read more about Enable emoji[…]
[HowTo] Enable Street View on Touch 2.2
Because Apple are dicks and have disabled streetview on the 2.2 ipods in a pathetic attempt to make the iphone somehow more exclusive than the ipod, someone has had to come out and discover how to fix this 🙂 i’ve found the trigger so this is probably the easiest way for the time being… 1. Read more about [HowTo] Enable Street View on Touch 2.2[…]
Itunes without a credit card
Creating an Itunes account using this method allows you to not give Apple your personal data, but also allows you to register in the US store, which is updated more frequently and has more free content on it.
Android has a kill switch too
It’s not only Apple who wants to control the content on your phone – it’s Google too! Android contains software that allows Google to delete any app they feel like on your phone. And they’re being up front about it as well.
QuickPwn 2.1
Well, the apple version of QuickPwn 2.1 for the 2.1 firmware was broken beginning of last week, now the dev-team supports windows as well!
MMS for iphone
Yup, yet another feature Apple forgot, can now be downloaded into your jailbroken iphone. SwirlyMMs adds just what you’d expect it to 🙂
iPhoneModem
Unbelievable but true: Apple doesn’t offer any way for you to use your iphone as a modem for your computer. Fortunately, if you have a jailbroken iphone, this app alows you to tether your PC to your iphone and internet off a BIG screen!
iPod ripped off from failed inventor
Ahhh I knew it was too good to be true! The only good thing to come from Apple since the 1980s – the iPod – wasn’t thought up by Apple, but by an Englishman who in 1979 couldn’t raise the venture capital needed to renew his patent! And no… he isn’t going to see a Read more about iPod ripped off from failed inventor[…]
‘I Am Rich’ iPhone App
8 people bought this app at the maximum price the apple app store allowed, $999,- before it was pulled. And now, here we can find it documented on youtube and a cracked version of it.
IPhone Software killswitch exists
And in pretty astounding news, Steve Jobs has confirmed that the iphone has a kill switch for applications Apple doesn’t want you to have. The list has nothing to do with allowing access to some kernel core as some people have conjectured.
Push and Synchronization – Email, Calendar, Address Book
Synchronica is the one solution I’ve found for synching the iphone. Winfonie Mobile 2 has been tested and known to work allowing you to synchronise your iphone with lotus organizer 6.1. There are two versions: one for your contacts and one for your calendar. No to do list or notes as the iphone doesn’t support Read more about Push and Synchronization – Email, Calendar, Address Book[…]
Bling Bling Laptop
f you are a true fanboy of everything Mac, and you are super-excited about the launch of Leopard (the latest operating system from Apple), then celebrate by purchasing a gold-plated MacBook Pro. Computer Choppers has upped the bling quotient with a gold and diamond-encrusted laptop for those with more money than sense. The computer itself Read more about Bling Bling Laptop[…]
Vivendi tries DRM free sales through Universal
Universal Music Group is to sell thousands of tracks DRM free untill 1/8, none of which on the iTunes store in an attempt to measure if DRM sells better or worse. Or if the iTunes store sells poorly. Or whatever. Probably just to piss Apple off really. And to see if people will really want Read more about Vivendi tries DRM free sales through Universal[…]
Flumotion
Like VideoLan, Flumotion from Fluendo offerts a streaming media server based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. Fluendo creates plugins for different formats as well as a DVD player, Media Center and Streaming Java applet (Cortado). The Fluendo Site The Flumotion site
Road Traffic Simulator
The university of Dresden has developed a simulator in a java applet which allows you to change loads of variables on a road with an inroad in an attempt to see what causes traffic jams. Watch your road congest in front of your eyes as you add traffic lights!
iPods cheapie cheapie
Because they’re planning to launch a new product, they’re selling refurbished units with one year’s garauntee for massively cut rates on the Apple Website. A video iPod 30GB for $179, a 2GB iPod nano for $99, for example… Uhm, that is… if you can get it posted to you somehow – the USA Apple store Read more about iPods cheapie cheapie[…]
Baby Name Voyager
This Java applet shows how many people (y-axis) were born in a given year (x-axis) with a given (part of a) name (area under the curve) on a graph comparatively to other names starting with the same letter.
Wireless FM transmitters
This is a device you attach to your mp3 player, either through a port or via the headphone output, which then allows you to select a frequency and transmits the music on FM on that frequency. This allows you to tune your radio to your mp3 player. In the Netherlands they are finally legal (since Read more about Wireless FM transmitters[…]
Wozniak’s name is worth $150m
Which the apple founder raised by going public with a company who’s charter states that it’s a ‘blank-check’ company – ie. one that doesn’t have to do anything. Oh and on the share issue, the company has allready run a $30m profit!
Mac OS X on PCs
Since Apple moved to intel chips, it wasn’t a surprise that someone was going to hack OS X and try to run it on a run of the mill PC. Apparently Apple put a poem in their OS asking people please to not hack OS X. But the hackers have apparently prevailed and allthough there Read more about Mac OS X on PCs[…]