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Entries from April 2008

RIM Scoping iPhone Development?

Date April 30, 2008


From the “If you can’t beat ‘em…” files, a new internal job posting at BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion concerning the formation of a brand new “confidential” development team smells strongly of RIM-developed iPhone software. Quoted from the listing:
“As part of a newly-created team, you’ll influence the development and design of BlackBerry software,” the [...]

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Touching Up VII: Time Capsule, AppLock, Hahlo 3, vWallpaper 0.5…

Date April 30, 2008


When I started this column, I thought it might be a once or twice weekly thing. How’s that for short-sighted? Nevertheless, it’s time once again for everybody’s favourite collection of the best, the worst, and the individually-wrapped-for-freshness bits of news too numerous and not verbose enough to dedicate an entire article to.
It’s a [...]

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Apple’s Sly Wink At Unlocking

Date April 29, 2008


MacWorld had a pretty good piece on Apple secret love affair with unlocked phones. The point made was that Apple really don’t mind unlocked phones. Even if they don’t see any residual income from those phones, whether they’re being used on carriers that share revenue or not, Apple is still all smiles on [...]

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Patent Lawsuit Targets Apple’s iPod Touch Dock Connector

Date April 29, 2008


 
A new legal complaint accuses Apple of infringing on a patent for a flash memory drive by selling its ubiquitous iPod nano and iPod touch players, among other devices.
Apparently, Apple Inc. used a technology similar to those described in a patent granted way back in January of ‘06.
The patent for a “Flash Memory Drive with [...]

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Listen to Your Music Through a Piece of Lego

Date April 29, 2008


Rock on with your block on!
With these miniature speakers, you can now enjoy and share music with friends anywhere. The lego blocks have camouflaged up and down volume buttons on the front, which allow for quick and easy volume control without having to actually go into the iPod’s media player. The speakers do not require [...]

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It’s Official: Rogers Bringing iPhone to Canada

Date April 29, 2008


Good lord ‘n butter, but it’s been frustrating watching Apple try and bring Rogers Communications into the fold only to have ol’ Teddy Boy try and bargain his way to greater wealth at the expense of Canadian pocketbooks. And this is entirely aside from the trademark issues with small-time VoIP peddlers Comwave.
Nevertheless, the Toronto [...]

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Danstaface Pimps Out With iToday+vWallpaper

Date April 29, 2008


Danstaface is all about pimpin’ out your iPod. The dudes behind the Ringtones app have been hard at work on a duo of new apps sure to put some wow factor into your iPod Touch or iPhone.
The first, called iToday, brings the uCalendar functionality seen in Caterpillar to your device in a much more [...]

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iTools Lets You Edit the Heck Outta Your iPhone/iPod Touch

Date April 28, 2008


gojohnnyboi vbmenu_register(“postmenu_525886″, true);  of the iPod Touch Fans community has released an update of his progress on iHackers app; iTools. 
What is iTools? Well, just have a look at what it can do below:
Clear Memory
3. Clear Music
4. Clear Videos
5. Clear Photos
Free Disk Space
1. Move & Link Applications
2. Move & Link Ringtones
3. [...]

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MooManager – Allows You to More Easily Skin MooCowMusic’s Apps

Date April 28, 2008


hockeypanda32 of the iPod Touch Fans community informs us that he is working on a new app.
What is it?
In the words of the beholder, “MooManager is a skin chooser for all of your MooCowMusic Apps.”
MooCowMusic is the developer name of that who brought us Drummer, Pianist, and Guitarist.
Check out one more provided screen:

There is [...]

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Portable iPhone Periodic Table for On-The-Go Science

Date April 28, 2008


The X-Team recently released their talked about Periodic Table application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application is pretty self-explanatory, so no detailed explanation required.
Here are a few screens of the app in action:

Features:

Horizontal Table view with tappable Elements.
Sort by any data we have on the Elements.
Comprehensive data on all elements.
Every [...]

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Check Point Software Announces VPN Tool for iPhone

Date April 28, 2008


Check Point Software Technologies just recently announced its official support for the iPhone through its VPN-1 product. VPN-1, which acts as a Virtual Private Networking tool; hence VPN, allows users to hold secure Internet connections via the iPhone’s Layer 2 Transport Protocol. (L2TP) client. Once installed, iPhone users can then communicate with firms using the [...]

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New iPod Ad. The Silhouettees and Silhouetters are Back!

Date April 28, 2008


TUAW tipster Bren has informed that Apple has released a new silhouettes advertisement for the iPod. Cool! Back to the old style, which many people are glad to see back.
The advertisement was first seen on American television earlier this morning, and can now be watched via the Apple website, via this direct link. The music [...]

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Sun Still Trying to Convince Apple. Apple Being Difficult.

Date April 28, 2008


Sun is still getting in contact with Apple Inc. about bringing JVM to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The company has been very vigorous in their attempts at getting Java to run on the iPhone via a Java Virtual Machine. The only way Java will be brought to the iPhone for official use, is [...]

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Foxconn Contracted to Mass-Produce 3G iPhones for End of May

Date April 28, 2008


The Chinese company Commercial Times is quoting sources claiming that Foxconn (known as Hon Hai in China), the makers of the first-generation iPhone, will be responsible for mass-producing the second-generation iPhone with 3G support. It is being said that there will be 3 million second-generation iPhones available by “the end of May”, to ship in [...]

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