Top iPhone Resource

Just connect your iPhone or iPod Touch to your iTunes and click Update.

Voila! You’ll see that Apple has released the much awaited iPhone OS 3.0 for your iPhone.

Here are the complete list of OS 3.0 features mentioned in the OS 3.0 screen.

iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update

This update contains over 100 new features, including the following:

• Cut, Copy & Paste with shake to undo
• Landscape keyboard in key applications
• Enhanced Messages application
  - Send and receive photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
  - Forward and delete single or multiple messages
• Added search feature in Mail, Calendar, Notes and iPod
• Spotlight search across iPhone
• Support for CalDAV and subscriptions in Calenda
• Improvements to Safari
  - Performance
  - HTML 5 support
  - HTTP Streaming audio and video
  - Auto-fill usernames and passwords
• New Voice Memos application
• Sync Notes with a Mac or PC via iTunes
• Internet Tethering over USB and Bluetooth*
• Browse and download movies, TV shows, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store**
• Stereo Bluetooth***
• Wi-Fi auto login
• Enhanced Stocks application
• More Parental Control options for Apps, Music, Movies and TV Shows
• iTunes account creation and login**
• YouTube account login and access to subscriptions, ratings and favorites**
• Shake to shuffle
• New languages, dictionaries, and keyboards
• Find my iPhone and Remote Wipe via MobileMe (subscription required)**
• Support for more Exchange policies
• Create and send Exchange meeting invitations
• Search mail on server (Exchange Server 2007 and supported IMAP servers)
• Search LDAP company directory
• VPN on demand and VPN proxy support
• Encrypted configuration profiles
• Encrypted iTunes backups
• 1,000 new developer APIs, including:
• In App Purchases
• Apple Push Notification Service
• Accessories support
  - Peer to Peer Connectivity
  - Embedded Maps
  - iPod Library Access
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3G S

* Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S and requires support from your wireless provider.
** Not available in all regions or in all languages.
*** Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S.

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
Apple - Support - Manuals

For more information about iPhone, go to:
Apple - iPhone - Mobile phone, iPod, and Internet device.

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
Apple - Support - iPhone

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
Apple security updates

Jailbreaking iPhone OS 3.0

If you’d liketo jailbreak your iPhone OS 3.0, you may want to hold your horses until QuickPwn and PwnageTool 3.0 is released by Dev Team. In the meantime, you can check out the ultrasn0w - 3.0 unlock software demo shown last night.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Hello there! Hope you found a nice app, or a cool hack or the latest iPhone news. Don't miss future updates, grab our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter and get free updates.

Apple has released the 2.2.1 iPhone firmware update. Here is the detail

iPhone 2.2.1 Software UpdateThis update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Improved general stability of Safari
• Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
<http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphone>

For more information about iPhone, go to:
<http://www.apple.com/iphone>

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
<http://www.apple.com/support/iphone>

This update contains security content originally included in previous iPhone Software Updates. For more information, please visit this website:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222>

I like the fact that they have addressed stability issues with Safari. Also, an update for iPod Touch is also reportedly available.

As always, if you have a jailbreak iPhone, don’t update to firmware 2.2.1 yet! Please wait until the Dev Team releases a QuickPwn or Pwnage that will work with firmware 2.2.1.

Update 01/29/09

And Dev Team has posted a warning asking us to hold our horses!

Popularity: 2% [?]

Today was the MacWorld 2009 Keynote day.

Phil Schiller handled the Keynote today as opposed to Steve Jobs who is going through a patch of bad health.

iTunes received a fair bit of attention today at the Keynote. But, not in terms of technology innovation like the announcement of the Genius feature last time.

iTunes music store is going completely DRM Free!

Here are a few more iTunes stats thrown around in the Keynote:

• iTunes has sold 6 billion songs
• iTunes holds over 10 million different tracks
• There are now over 75 million accounts on iTunes with credit cards
• Today, 8 million songs are DRM free and all 10 million will be by the end of March

You can now buy DRM free music from iTunes. You now get a ‘Create MP3 version’ when you right click on the song.

iTunes Plus

You can also get DRM Free upgrades to your existing iTunes collection through a iTunes Plus Apple Program that features songs with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding.

Upgrading individual songs to DRM Free iTunes Plus tracks will set you back about 30 cents a song, 60 cents for a music video and $3 for most albums.

Also, iTunes Plus has now made it so that you can download songs from both WiFi or cellular network.

Other than this and the announcement of a 17″ Macbook Pro, there wasn’t much news on iPhone 3G or iPod Touch. So we were like meh!

Popularity: 1% [?]

I love a game of pool and I like it enough to be playing in a 8-ball pool league (BCA) in our town.

I just recently had a chance to try out Killer Pool on our iPhone 3g and I had to share it with you. This has to be one of the best pool physics I have seen in an iPhone pool game. I used to be so addicted to Yahoo Pool at one time and now this pp has rekindled that interest again.

Killer Pool was created by Sauce Digital and they have done an excellent job in recreating the fun of this game for iPhone & iPod Touch.

Here are a few screenshots of the game screens

Killer Pool Features

• 5 different games - 8-ball, 9-ball, UK black ball, Killer & Octokiller
• Easy & accurate controls
• Shooting using finger swipe or power meter
• Very realistic physics - spins & swerve
• Rich, real-life graphics
• Play with the computer or 2-player or multiplayer modes
• You can also play Local Comp or Championship
• No chinsy music choice by the app - play your own
• Option to resume your game when you re-open the app
• Option to turn hints on or off
• Top down table view help you with shots
• You can choose to lag to start playing

Killer Pool sells for $2.99 in App Store. If you are a pool player and would like to catch up the game in your iPhone in your downtime, Killer Pool could be the app you want!

Popularity: 2% [?]

iTunes ia a great media player and has seen a lot of improvements lately. But one feature that it is sorely lacking is keyboard support for controlling playback of your media. 

You cannot pause, play, forward, skip a playing media with a keyboard hotkey. You can’t let iTunes run in the background and control your media without reaching for your mouse.

iTunes Media Keys lets you do just that. It is a small utility that lets you control playback in iTunes right from your keyboard.

You can Play/Pause, Stop, or skip to Next Track or Previous Track with this small utility. Nothing fancy just that important functionality we have all longed so far in iTunes.

We have also written previously on how to remove DRM from iTunes media.

Popularity: 1% [?]

The muct awaited iPhone firmware 2.2 is here. We can hardly contain our excitement and we’d love to update to firmware 2.2 as soon as we can. Probably so are you.

But, we love jailbreaking and our beloved iPhone Dev-Team warns against updating to firmware 2.2 yet. In fact, this is what they say exactly

If you want to keep that option of a ’soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

A few reasons they cite against updating to 2.2

• 2.2 firmware for 3G contains baseband update for the 3G iPhone
• PwnageTool & QuickPwn do not support his release yet, so don’t update to 2.2 via iTunes.
• Your iPhone could become deactivated and unusable if you had previously relied on PwnageTool or QuickPwn to activate and if you now applied this update.
• Non AppStore apps will stop working
• 2G (ist gen) iPhone users can theoratically be able to update to 2.2 via iTunes and preserve existing activation. But, if you restore to 2.2 iTunes, your iPhone will go to unactivated state. If in doubt, hold off for the updated PwnageTool or QuickPwn.

We will bring you the most current news on PwnageTool and QuickPwn as we learn. So stay tuned.

As you can see, our posts on jailbreak 2.1 & winterboard themes are the most popular in the site and firmware 2.2 will be no different. We will bring you detailed step by step instructions as we do it on our own iPhone 3G.

If you’d like to stay updated, you can get free automatic updates with our RSS feed or even get notified by email. If you are a Twitterer, we are at twitter.com/TopiPhone.

Popularity: 2% [?]

After much waiting and anticipation and a lot of guess work from folks who had access to 2.2 beta, iPhone firmware update 2.2 is here via iTunes.

Confirming rumors of Apple’s 2.2 firmware release of today, it was in fact made available last night!

Here are some of the new things iPhone 2.2 firmware brings:

iPhone 2.2 Software Update

This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Enhancements to Maps
  • Google Street View
  • public transit and walking directions
  • display address of dropped pins
  • share location via email
• Enhancements to Mail
  • resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
  • improved formatting of wide HTML email
• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
• Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
• Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone
• Phone 3G

iPhone Jailbreak Users - Do not update

Watch out for an upcoming post with full details on this. In short, if you have a jailbreak iPhone or iPhone 3G, do not update to firmware 2.2 at this time. Or if you want to soft unlock your iPhone in the future, do not update to 2.2 firmware yet.

More details about jailbreak 2.2 firmware coming shortly in a new post.

If you’d like to stay updated, you can get free automatic updates with our RSS feed or even get notified by email. If you are a Twitterer, we are at twitter.com/TopiPhone.

Popularity: 1% [?]

If you have been looking to remove DRM protection from iTunes music, look no further. The freeware named DVDneXtCOPY iTurns Free does this for free by converting your iTunes music library into DRM-free mp3 files!

iTurns Free works by stripping the DRM protection from audio purchased from iTunes music store. It installs a virtual CD burner on Windows (works on Windows only).

How to Remove iTunes DRM

1. Install iTurns Free
2. Select iTurns Free as the default burner in iTunes Settings
3. Click on iTurns Free icon in your task bar and choose where to store converted iTunes files
4. Simply create a playlist of songs you want to remove DRM
5. Burn playlist. Voila!

In a few easy steps you have made drm-free MP3 songs from your iTunes music collection. This also works on WMA (Windows Media audio) files as well.

iTurns Free - Free vs Pro

The free version works just fine to convert iTunes or WMA files to drm-free mp3. The pro version that sells for $29.99 however gives you a handful of extra options. You can convert to MP4, OGG Vorbis, built-in burning engine, etc.

The way this software works doesn’t even violate any copyright law and gives you the value for the money you spent by using the music you bought on multiple computers or players, etc. You can now port your purchased music to any player of your choice!

Download iTurns FREE

[via Lifehacker]

Popularity: 1% [?]

Ok. This is a really cool trick I just found.

How would you like to be able to add music, videos, podcats from multiple machines to your iPhone or iPod Touch?

Normally you can sync media on iPhone with only one computer but most of us use multiples computers in a day but carry our iPhone around everywhere.

Lucky for us, Andrew Grant has figured out how to do this! Click over and check out his post on how to do this. It’s not really that hard and he has pictures to assist with the instructions.

Enjoy adding songs, video, podcasts to your iPhone from work and home!

Popularity: 2% [?]

We have seen several price drops for various iPhone & iPod Touch Apps in the AppStore but now it has become a daily occurrence. So, how can you find some really good app that you thought was over-priced but is on sale now?

We are going to bring some of the price drops to you daily. Here are today’s

• Shaker - An arcade iPhone game drops $9.99 to FREE
• NeoSameGame - A puzzle game drops $3.99 to FREE
• Aqua Forest - A puzzle game drops $7.99 to FREE
• SuperBall2 - Action game drops $1 to $1.99
• Fast Contacts - Productivity app drops $1 to $0.99
• Cow Hunt - An action game drops $2 to $0.99
• Vegas Pool Sharks - A cool pool game drops $5 to $2.99
• Easy Relax - has a promotional price - FREE
  

Some of the apps in AppStore are really not worth the price and with the daily price drops you can really find some good ones. And we are gonna help you find it. So watch out for this daily. You can get free updates with our RSS feed or you can even get updates by email.

Popularity: 1% [?]

I was just browsing through my feed reader and came across this post by Cody on iPhone Download Blog about an interesting website for iPhone ringtones.

We have seen here on how to create iPhone ringtones using the free utility iRinger. But, you needed to have the music file with you in order to create the ringtone of your choice.

Myxer.com on the other hand has a wide range of popular ringtones of various categories available for download. Mind you, this isn’t really an iPhone oriented site and it seems to be popular for most cell phones. You can pick a ringtone and have it sent to your phone.

For iPhone though, this doesn’t work but there is a workaround. When you are looking at a ringtone in Myxer.com, you will a Download for iPhone link as you see in the picture. You will see that the ringtone you are downloading is in the iTunes friendly .m4r format.

Once you download it, you just need to drag it into iTunes and sync your iPhone! Yes, it’s that simple. And Myxer has a boatload of popular ringtones for you to enjoy. Thanks Cody for the heads up!

[via iPhone download blog]

Popularity: 1% [?]

iTunes 8.0.1 has come out with some bug fixes and not much new features. If you are happy with everything the way they are, don’t worry about this update. Especially if you have have done the jailbreak 2.1. There are some fixes for the iPod so you may wanna check the list.

if you are seeing some issues, here are some of the bug fixes you may be interested in.

• Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist
• Improves spoken menus to iPod nano
• Improves checking for updates from the App Store
• Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod
• Addresses a blue screen error on Windows Vista when connecting iPod to your computer

I am going to hold off updating mine for now and I have reached the sweet spot of having everything work the way I want. Can’t jinx it, can we?

Popularity: 1% [?]