Entries Categorized as 'Tutorials & Help'

Learn to Type on Your iPhone with TypingWeb; Now Free

Date June 3, 2008

Just recently get yourself an iPhone? Or maybe you’re thinking of buying one of Steve’s upcoming 3G iPhones and you have a feeling you’ll be a horrible typer with the iPhone’s touch screen keyboard? No problem. TypingWeb will help you become a quicker typer, may it be on your desktop computer, or on your newly [...]

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Refurbished iPhones Said to Contain Previous Owners Personal Information

Date May 22, 2008

According to iPhone/iPod Touch hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, refurbished iPhone’s may contain the personal data of previous owners of the device.
“A verified detective from the Oregon State Police notified me this afternoon that an out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone he purchased contained recoverable personal data including email, personal photos, and even financial information which he was able to [...]

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Lighten Your Wallet Thanks to the iPhone/iPod Touch via WalletCards

Date May 14, 2008

The iPhone is not only a photo viewer, media player, gaming device, digital camera, internet tablet, and cellphone. No, it is also a membership card holder.
Albert Alberts has come up with a novel way to rid his wallet of said membership cards with his iPhone. He scanned all cards, front and back, and uploaded them [...]

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Camera Photos Won’t Save to iPhone? Here’s a Fix

Date May 13, 2008

iPhone Atlas has recently posted a story in regards to a fix for those who have been having issues saving images via the iPhone’s built in Camera application. It is being said that there are a select few of you out there who go to save an image right after taking a photograph, and can’t [...]

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AT&T Now Offering Data-Only iPhone Plan for $20/Month

Date May 13, 2008

According to Erica Sadun of TUAW.com, AT&T is now offering a data-only iPhone plan for $19.95 per month. With this plan, you literally get “unlimited” data transfer using the iPhone’s EDGE internet (and possible the next generation iPhone’s 3G internet, too).
Keep in mind, this data-only plan will only get you the internet part of your [...]

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Restoring the iPhone/iPod Touch Does Not Remove All Personal Data

Date May 7, 2008

Jonathan Zdziarski, one of the top-known iPhone/iPod Touch hackers, talks about the safety concerning issue on his blog.
“As part of my work on a forensics toolkit for the iPhone, I decided to push my test device to the limits and see whether user data could survive a full restore in iTunes. […] I first deleted any backups [...]

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Control TiVo with Your iPhone via Telnet

Date May 4, 2008

When TiVo worked with Crestron (the home automation company) to provide integration between your DVR and your wall control panels, they actually opened up a door for people to control your TV with just about any computer. All you have to do is telnet into your TiVo via port 31339 and type in some commands. [...]

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One Phone Number Not Enough? Then Use Two.

Date April 28, 2008

So you want two phone numbers, aye? One phone number just not cutting it for ya?… No worries. Uneasy Silence has got the solution for you!
There is actually more than one way to get your iPhone to have two phone numbers - the all AT&T (hacked and unhacked) method, and the mixed network method.
Before getting started, you will [...]

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How To: Putting Hidden Videos on Your iPhone/iPod Touch

Date April 28, 2008

iPod Touch Fans member Totally 1337 recently made a post on the community forums, explaining how to upload ‘hidden’ videos onto your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Needed:

OpenSSH
MobileFinder
avPlayer
“Secret” videos
WinSCP

Steps:

SSH into \Applications
Copy your video into this folder
On your iPod, install MobileFinder and avPlayer
Open MobileFinder on your iPod and go to \Applications
Click on the video
Hit “modify”
Click “Open With” and click [...]

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How To: Brushing the Metallic Backing of your iPod/iPhone

Date April 27, 2008

I’m sure most of you already heard of others brushing the metallic side of their iPods and iPhones, but I figured I’d take a few minutes out of my day to explain exactly how it is done, just in case some of you have never heard of this, or have heard of it, but were [...]

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How To: Create Custom Boot Logos with WinPwn

Date April 25, 2008

iPod Touched (.net) has recently released a video, showing how to create custom boot logos using the just-recently-released WinPwn software(the Windows version of Pwnage).
Note : the image size must be 100k or less, if it is not you will get the unk[n]own error 6 when your try to restore to your custom firmware. You can [...]

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The Randomly Resetting Issue

Date April 7, 2008

 
Are you experiencing an issue where your iPhone/Touch will just randomly reset at will, without your concent?… In otherwords, going back to the silver apple logo screen at any given time, may it be, while surfing Safari, or listening to the Media Player.
Here are some recent discussions going on at Apple’s Community Boards:

“The new phone randomly [...]

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The iPhone SDK & Web Developers…

Date April 4, 2008

Apple made sure not to forget about you; Web Developers when it comes to their iPhone SDK software package.
If you head over to the iPhone DevCenter (registration required) you will find a video titled “iPhone SDK for Web Developers” that goes into detail.
When you watch it you will see a ton of great stuff:

Gestures: ongesturestart, [...]

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iPhoneNotes Loosens Things Up a Little

Date March 28, 2008

iPhoneNotes allows for you to download, and re-upload your MobileNotes.app notes. The only catch is that this programmed to work on Macs only. Looks like we Windows users will have to wait for another program, or we can just do it the hard way and figure out which file is the database file using WinSCP [...]

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Stuck in Recovery Mode? iBricker Can Help!

Date March 4, 2008

Are you a jailbreaker? Is your iPod Touch in recovery mode? Even if it isn’t in recovery mode now - it may go into recovery mode unexpectedly in the future, so I suggest you bookmark this post for that matter.
My iPod Touch went into recovery mode earlier this evening while I was playing around with [...]

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