Author Archives: Lincoln
iPhone tethering approved by Apple! …. or not. (Updated 3x)
Last night, a very interesting app appeared in the AppStore. It’s name was NetShare, a utility from Nullriver that allowed you to tether your iPhone’s internet connection to your computer. Many people, including myself, were quite surprised that this made it past the AppStore sensors. While AT&T offers tethering for …
Quick Tip: Speed up iPhone sync times (not by disabling backup)
A while ago, we wrote about a way to shorten the time that your iPhone running the 2.0 software takes to sync. In this method, you cancelled the part of the sync in which your iPhone was backed up. While this most certainly does improve sync times, you won’t be …
Quick Tip: crop your photos
One of the nifty features of the 2.0 software is taking screenshots by pressing the Home and Lock buttons at the same time. There are lots of ways to make use of the feature: screenshots for an app review, capturing your home screen to show to your friends, or grabbing …
“Top 10 iPhone Apps” – not exactly what it looks to be.
When you Google “iPhone apps”, this website comes up as the top hit. When you view, the page, you see an offer that reminds you of MacHeist; a bundle of the “top 10 iPhone apps”, that all go for a price of $24.95, which the website calls “a steal” However, …
Quick Review: WeatherBug
WeatherBug is an application that gives more location-based weather information that the standard weather app found on iPhones and iPod touches. To get weather for your current location, you can either enter your zip code or have WeatherBug use the GPS or Triangulation features to locate you. Once you have …
iPhone 3G has landed.
Today is July 11th, 2008, and today the iPhone 3G and iPhone Software 2.0 are finally available. The 2.0 update was announced in March, along with the iPhone SDK, and iPhone 3G was announced last month, on June the 9th. The software upgrade is available today, as is iPhone 3G, …
iPhone 3G. Coming tomorrow.
It’s been a long wait since iPhone 3G and the iPhone Software 2.0 was announced, but that wait is over tomorrow morning. iPhone 3G will go on sale at 8:00 AM at your local AT&T and Apple stores, and the iPhone 2.0 Software will be available for download for V1 …
Gizmodo posts iPhone 2.0 firmware walkthrough, iTunes 7.7 screenshots
Yesterday, Gizmodo posted a video walkthrough of the new iPhone 2.0 (build 5A345) software, as well as screenshots of the iTunes 7.7 confidential pre-release ” which will be required to install the new iPhone OS. Gizmodo confirms that everything Apple promised – the push data feature, the content restrictions, the …
Google Talk announced for iPhone
Google has just announced that it will be providing Google Talk for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As Google Talk will be a web application, you won’t need to download it from the AppStore, and your iPhone does not have to be jailbroken to use it. To view the Mobile …
Deadline for AppStore submissions set
Earlier today, Apple sent an email to registered iPhone developers about the AppStore application submission deadline. This means that if you want your app to be available on the AppStore on July 11th, then you need to have it in by this coming Monday, July 7th. World of Apple received …
6.9 Million searches for iPhone in April
comScore, a company that specializes in measuring the digital world, has announced that there were nearly 7 million web searches for terms related to the iPhone in April – and this data was collected from only the U.S. While several of the 7 million searches were keywords related to ‘iPhone’, …
