Aug 17, 2010

If you are a developer, what if you could mimic the iPhone UI with the popular javascript library – jQuery? jQuery iPhone UI is a complete library that can emulate iPhone’s interface. It can come in very handy for creating iPhone web applications. The library includes widgets like menu, tabs, scrolling, forms and gallery browsing. jQuery iPhone UI comes...

Jul 20, 2010

If you have a jailbroken iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 2G, pay attention to this. Apple has introduced a new restriction in iOS 4 where it does a soft check for SHSH blobs on iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G as well just like it does on newer devices. Dev Team has posted an explanation on this new restriction Those of you with jailbroken iPhone3G and ipt2G devices may now...

Jul 15, 2010

Apple yesterday released the iOS 4.1 update with an updated SDK to developers. With a lot of expectations that this might fix the iPhone 4 antenna issues, the iOS 4.1 seems to fail to fix it. Actually I am not surprised. A software fix for a hardware issue, meh! If you want to see the iPhone 4 antenna issue on 4.1 as well, check out this video below. iOS 4.1...

First things first. iPhone 4 has been unlocked by Dev Team member planetbeing. He has posted a video on Youtube explaining the iPhone 4 unlock. According to him, the unlock is still a beta version and needs a lot of work before releasing it to the public. He also mentioned that the other Dev Team member MuscleNerd is also working on a software unlock. They will...

Jun 26, 2010

So it looks like there is a glaring design flaw in iPhone 4. If you hold the iPhone with the antenna bands in the lower part covered with your hands, you can see the reception lose a couple of bars or even drop calls. I can visually confirm that the bars drop when I cover the antenna but I haven’t had any dropped calls yet. To add insult to injury it seems...

Jun 7, 2010

We have all been waiting for this moment for a long time. The leaked photos, police raid, vietnamese photo leaks, rumors upon rumors about the features – it’s the culmination of all these events was today. The WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs keynote. We were following the live blogs from the Steve Jobs keynote. Here are some of the important announcements before they...

Jun 6, 2010

iPhoDroid has come up with a really easy way to install Android on iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. iPhoDroid lets you install Android easily on an jailbroken iPhone 2G or 3G with a jailbroken 3.1.2 firmware. Note: Sorry, Mac only. Here are the easy steps to do it, if you are really wanting to run Android on your iPhone. You need a jailbroken iPhone 2G or 3G with...

May 6, 2010

If you are looking to learn iPhone App Development, there is a new book in the book town. iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry. Here is an excerpt from the author In short, there’s more to learn than just how to code, so I wrote about it. Of course, I cover topics like Objective-C and Cocoa Touch in detail, but that’s not the...

May 3, 2010

Traditionally the iPhone & iPod Touch jailbreak involved a tethered boot. You would need a computer with your iDevice connected via USB during boot time for the jailbreak to work. In the firmware 1.x days, there was a vulnerability which let people do untethered jailbreak. @Comex has found an exploit to run an untethered jailbreak on all iDevices including...