Archive for February, 2009

Nostalgia trip: Mac Plus emulator available for the iPhone

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

For those of you who have followed Apple from the beginning: There is now an honest-to-goodness Retro MacOS emulator for jailbroken iPhones in the form of Mini vMac, which loads disk images and everything. It’s like getting your first Mac all over again. The OS, developed by upstart company Named Fork, is based around that found

South Park Application Lives On

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

The jailbreak community has decided enough is enough. Instead of letting Apple get the final say in the South Park application rejection saga , the jailbreak community has brought the application new life

iPhone “Simulator” released for Windows

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

iPhone development is typically a Mac OS X only proposition so, naturally, Apple hasn’t released an iPhone simulator for other platforms, such as Windows. It dawned on developer Shaun Sullivan, however, that Webkit is both available on Windows (within Safari) and that it can render iPhone-specific content well.. so why not combine the two into an

‘AppStore Secrets’ From Pinch Media

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Pinch Media , the same company that brought us evidence of the next iPhone revision, has posted an interesting slide show from a recent presentation given by CEO Greg Yardley at the New York iPhone Developers Meetup. The slide show breaks down application usage details gathered from over 30 million App Store downloads

I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghost

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Be honest, when you were a child were you afraid of monsters that lived in your closet or under your bed?

Want Objectionable Content On Your iPhone? Import It!

Friday, February 20th, 2009

It seems like the farting application trend at the App Store is finally starting to taper off. So what novelty application is going to fill the void

Gizmodo rates iPhone gloves

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Gizmodo just ran an article rating all the iPhone gloves, used to operate the iPhone touchscreen in the cold (as the touchscreen doesn’t work with normal gloves all that well). They ran 3 different models against each other, and the results were pretty conclusive that all 3 weren’t fantastic, but serviceable if you must use your

Google Demonstrates Offline Gmail For The iPhone

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Google’s VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra, demonstrated offline Gmail at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it looks pretty snazzy. The offline Gmail mobile web application is based on the HTML5 standard which is supported by the iPhone’s web browser or any Webkit based mobile browser for that matter

Tip: Stop excessive auto-correction with just a ‘Z’

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Writing an email on your iPhone or iPod touch with a lot of jargon or phrases that may not be in a dictionary? Writing out a text in another language? Here’s how you can prevent the overbearing auto-correct feature from slowing you down too much. Several sources have found that by typing out a “z,” then

Turn-By-Turn Navigation Already Available

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Remember how we all have been complaining about the lack of turn-by-turn GPS navigation for non- jailbroken iPhones? It looks like it already exists and has been available for over a week.