May 26
IntelliScreen Brings Useful Widgets to iPhone’s Home Screen
Instead of just staring the time, date and your choice of wallpaper when you start up the iPhone, why not make it more Windows Mobile-y by putting useful information there*? The app IntelliScreen lets you show either your upcoming calendar items, recent emails, recent text messages, the weather, or even an RSS feed up on the standby screen, letting you see what you need to see without even unlocking your phone. Useful? Definitely. Cluttered? For sure.
It’s also in beta, and may crash or even wipe some of your data if it conflicts with some of your other apps. Be careful.
* Yes this is one of the few times that people want to make the iPhone more like Windows Mobile.
[ModMyiPhone via Just Another iPhone Blog via Lifehacker]
May 26
Switzerland to get the iPhone, remain neutral
Many great things have come out of Switzerland: chocolate, clocks, cheese. Many of them, as you might notice, start with “c.” But now something great is coming into Switzerland, and that’s the iPhone. Confirming rumors published in Swiss’s Le Matin last week, a notice appeared on Swisscom’s website with the…
May 26
iPhone camera job; Vancouver store and iPhone; Logic 8.0.2
Apple is hiring to advance the quality of the iPhone’s camera. Also, Apple will open its first west coast Canadian retail store and has begun referencing iPhone for the country; an update has been issued for Logic; and refurb iPhones have returned t…
May 26
T-Mobile Germany and Apple so happy together
So, with all of this hubbub over Apple’s non-exclusive carrier deals in many of the countries they’re moving into, what does this mean for the countries where Apple’s already got deals in place? According to the CEO of T-Mobile, Hamid Akhavan, it doesn’t affect the happy marriage between Apple and…
May 26
People already lining up for 3G iPhone?
Filed under: Cult of Mac, iPhone
In what must come as somewhat, yet not completely, surprising news, it seems people are already starting to line up at Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store in New York for the next version of the iPhone — supposedly being announced on June 9th. According to our friends at Engadget Mobile, the line is already about 60 people deep but some waiting seemed confused as to what they were actually waiting for – although others did think they were in line for the new iPhone 2.0.
Could this line actually be for the latest and greatest version of the iPhone? Or, is this just some tragic case of mis-communication? Maybe they think they can get their hands on one of those iPhone refurbs? Or, perhaps the employees at that particular store are bored and just in the mood to mess with customers?
Whatever the answer, if this is actually an indication of the fervor iPhone 2.0 is going to generate, maybe I should start thinking about when and where to line up so I can get mine?
How about you guys, you going to camp out to be the first on your block to get an iPhone 2.0?
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May 26
WildEyes!
WildEyes is a native iPhone app which lets you view many types of files (HTML, PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT) on your iPhone using Safari. You browse the iPhone via WildEyes!, and press any icon/file to launch it in Safari. Available via the MMi Installer/Cydia Source | Developer’s Site
May 26
AT&T making out like bandit on iPhone
Filed under: iPhone
Apparently AT&T is making out pretty well on this whole iPhone thing. According to a Rubicon Consulting study (NYT link, registration required) of 460 iPhone users about half (47%) switched to AT&T to get the iPhone and agreed to pay an average of $19 more per month to use the iPhone over their previous cell. Those numbers are just about right in my case from when I traded in my Treo on Sprint.
What about you guys? How many of you switched to get an iPhone and how much more are you paying per month than you were before?
[via iPhone Central]
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May 26
Trivia Why?s Daily Quiz
Specifically created for the iPhone and iPod Touch but playable in any modern web browser, Trivia Why’s Daily Quiz keeps you sharp with a few minutes of exercise for the left side of your brain and a touch of wit for the right. Know all the answers? Congratulations, you’re a trivia genius! Not so sharp […]
May 26
WildEyes!
WildEyes is a native iPhone app which lets you view many types of files (HTML, PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT) on your iPhone using Safari. You browse the iPhone via WildEyes!, and press any icon/file to launch it in Safari. Available via the MMi Installer/Cydia Source | Developer’s Site
May 26
Rumor Smashed: AT&T Not Insuring iPhones For $5 a Month
We knew that rumor about AT&T iPhone insurance for $5 was too good to be true, seeing as we went through the same thing back in 2007 when the iPhone was launched. AT&T’s insurance company, Asurion, isn’t going to cover that super expensive phone for only $5 a month, even with the $125 deductible on pricier smartphones and PDAs. Tough luck guys, but you can always get AppleCare and protect yourself from most problems on your phone not caused by you being a dumbass. [MobileWhack]
May 26
Refurbished iPhones Might Still Have Previous Owners’ Personal Data, No Way to Erase It
You might already know that performing a restore on your iPhone does not, in fact, completely wipe out your personal data. But it’s cool if you take it to Apple, because if your broke-ass iPhone does become a refurb for some discount-seeking soul, Apple scrubs it to the bone, right? Nope. Using a standard forensic toolkit (or probably just some decent quasi-hacking), your personal data can be recovered from a refurb, as Jonathan Zdziarski—the guy who wrote the iPhone Forensics Manual for Law Enforcement, ironically—discovered. A detective bought his past iPhone, and was able to pull his email, photos and financial info, no sweat. The scariest part?
There’s no public, easy way to completely erase your personal data—Zdziarski says “there are only a couple low-level methods to format the NAND and I’m not sharing at the moment.” Maybe there will be an option in the 2.0 firmware? I doubt it, so you might wanna use a different gadget to conduct your less legal activities. Update: Kevin reminded me that the 2.0 firmware will have remote wipe as part of its enterprise feature set, so this problem might be solved next month. [iPhone Atlas via TUAW]
May 26
Apple seeks expert in WiMAX; impromptu 5th Ave. lineup; more
Apple is on the hunt for an engineer familiar with WiMAX, Ultra-wideband, and other next-generation wireless technologies. Meanwhile, confusion reigned on Thursday as a lineup appeared at the Fifth Avenue store without warning, Oppenheimer Funds has…
May 26
MailCoaster
MailCoaster is a fast and easy email application for iPhone and iPod Touch. - Login to your regular mail account - Scroll through and read your latest messages - View attachments - Compose, forward, or reply to messages - and more … MailCoaster works with regular POP/POP3 and IMAP accounts as well as popular Webmail systems from Hotmail, MSN, AOL, Gmail, […]
May 26
Apple’s Top Designer Explains Design
Most of you probably know Jonathan Ive even if you don’t recognize the name—he’s Apple’s head of design (otherwise known as the company’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design). And he’s chiefly credited for designs of the iMac, iPod and iPhone. In an interview with The Independent, he shared some of his philosophies on designing for Apple, and just how Apple “does it.”
We have a very clear focus that all the development teams at Apple share, a focus around trying to make really great products. That can sound ridiculously simplistic, almost naive, but it’s very unique for the product to be what consumes you completely.
Later in the piece, Ive talks about Apple’s place as a cultural icon.
I’m not driven by making a cultural impact. That’s just a consequence of taking a remarkably powerful technology and making it relevant. My goal is simply to try to make products that really are meaningful to people.
We could easily pull the entire interview and paste it here for you to read, but you should really hit up the original article instead. There’s plenty more interesting stuff left. [The Independent via psfk]
May 26
Apple Reveals WWDC Plans; Keynote Set for Monday, June 9
Today Apple revealed its plans for WWDC, confirming that the Jobsnote this year will take place 10AM PST on Monday, June 9, rather than the usual Tuesday. (No word as to whether the turtleneck will still be black, or if the 3G iPhone will actually be present.) The WWDC will of course have two separate tracks, one for iPhone and one for OS X. More info at Apple’s WWDC website, or in the press release after the jump. UPDATE: Some things we tend to forget repeatedly around here—WWDC keynotes are always on Monday, Macworld Jobsnotes are the ones that are always on Tuesday. My bad!
Apple Executives to Showcase Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone Development Platforms at WWDC 2008 Keynote
CUPERTINO, California—May 13, 2008—Apple today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone , the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.
The five-day WWDC event, which runs from June 9 to June 13, will feature the first ever iPhone track for mobile developers with in-depth sessions and hands-on labs to fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod touch users.
The iPhone track will also enable mobile developers to work side by side with Apple engineers to create amazing applications that leverage iPhone’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, animation technology, rich set of APIs, including programming interfaces for Core OS, Core Services, Media and Cocoa Touch technologies, built-in three axis accelerometer and geographical location technology to deliver truly innovative mobile applications.
This year’s Mac track will give newcomers and se
