Aug 22, 2010

Facebook released their latest updated in version 3.2 with the new Places feature and support for background uploading for photos & video. They followed up with a bug fix with version 3.2.1 very quickly. However, after updating to Facebook 3.2.1 I was not able to login. Someone on Twitter suggested that there could be a possible issue with BiteSMS on...

Aug 1, 2010

After jailbreaking my iPhone 4 today and immediately installing my usual recommended items from Cydia: SBSettings, WinterBoard, OpenSSH, MobileTerminal, FiveIconDock… Then I immediately went to change my SSH passwords with Mobile Terminal. I was surprised to find that MobileTerminal gave me a flash of terminal, and immediately sent me back to the springboard....

Aug 19, 2009

There is an App for everything! I am sure you have heard of that, plenty of times. What if you have a new idea? What if you went – ‘No, there isn’t an App for that!’ or if you had an idea to address a problem better with your App? You would want to develop an iPhone App yourself. But, how do you get started developing a new iPhone...

Aug 14, 2009

I will find an iPhone app on sale in App Store. For eg. TowerMadness: 3D Tower Defense (full version) is on sale today for Free. I looked it up in App Store from my iPhone and it showed up as Free. But, on tapping the app it still showed the original price of $2.99! I have been noticing this lately a lot. Fellow iPhone user @Urvaksh attests to it on Twitter as...

Aug 6, 2009

We receive promo codes from iPhone App developers both for giveaways as well as for reviews & sneak peeks. The  iTunes App lets us redeem those promo codes right from the iPhone. It used to be in the iTunes application under the More option. But, when I looked recently it was gone! I was like, hmmm. Where could it be? And it was in the last place I would...

Aug 4, 2009

Push was one of the biggest OS 3.0 features that was touted so much. But, honestly there are only a few apps that do it well and that I use regularly. One of them is the recently reviewed iPhone Twitter app – SimplyTweet. PushMail is a new push-enabled iPhone app that brings new email notifications via Push to your iPhone. I use Gmail as my primary,...

Jul 27, 2009

As you can see, I post a lot of App screenshots to our site. Plus, I take a lot of pictures in both landscape and portrait orientation with the 3MP camera in 3GS. Often I would like to rotate the picture before uploading it via WordPress iPhone app or to Flickr or send by email. But, the native iPhone Camera Roll doesn’t have a way to do this natively and...

Jul 23, 2009

SpotBright is a jailbreak app that enhances the SpotLight search functionality introduced in iPhone OS 3.0. You need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch to use this app. SpotBright is pretty much QuickGold for 3.0. One great feature of SpotBright is that it displays small icons of 6 most recently used apps under the search box. This is an incredibly useful and...

Jul 20, 2009

One of the big reasons to jailbreak your iPhone is the Winterboard themes! Illumine is a simple and classy iPhone Winterboard theme. It adds a cool green orb for the unlock screen and themes most of the common Apps from both App Store and Cydia. I have the Reflective Dock Cydia app installed to get the reflection look. How to Install Illumine? Your device...