Hacking the iPhone: iPhone Dev Wiki Progress report

The iPhone Dev Wiki team has been making steady progress in their goal of achieving freedom from AT&T. They had told us earlier in the week that they have a new way to search for the key to achieve their objective when they reverse engineered the software that controlled the iPhone’s radio communications. Today, they have announced further breakthrough as they have extracted the full content of the radio memory.

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Screenshot utility for the iPhone (hacks)

Screenshot utility for the iPhone (hacks)

Yesterday, we had iPhone hackers making progress in their goal of creating high quality tools for the iPhone by developing a full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen.

Today we have Erica Sudan from Tuaw.com announcing that she has created her own screenshot utility tool for the iPhone.

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iPhone Hackers bring first third-party native iPhone Application

It hasn’t been even a week since we had the first unauthorized iPhone GUI "Hello World" application binary released. Even though the application just displayed "Hello World" we were aware of the potential of the iPhone hack. As expected, iPhone hackers have made further progress as they have now developed a full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. The other interesting bit is that the iPhone hack is being hosted on Google Code.

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iPhone Application: eBuddy brings multi-network chat client to the iPhone

iPhone Application: eBuddy brings multi-network chat client to the iPhone

eBuddy is an web messenger for MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL). With eBuddy you can chat online, everywhere anytime and is available as a web based and mobile version. They have recently announced the availability of this advanced web-based multi network chat client for the iPhone.

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iPhone RingToneMaker: Custom ringtones (hack) for your iPhone made simpler

I had covered a 23 steps iPhone hack and then an easier 9 step iPhone hack to install custom ringtones onto your new iPhone, if that was not simple enough folks at Efiko have come up with iPhone RingToneMaker which is easily the best option available to add custom ringtones to the iPhone and definitely a lot more user-friendly then the iPhone hacks.

Edit your ringtone:

You can use the audio edit screen to select the section you want to use as your ringtone. With your advanced interface you can even select the ‘Start’ and ‘End’ times precise to the hundredths of a second with the help of a slider.

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iPhone Application: Make AppMarks the homepage for your iPhone’s Safari browser

iPhone Application: Make AppMarks the homepage for your iPhone’s Safari browser

One of the programs that had generated buzz at the iPhoneDev camp was AppMarks. AppMarks is a web desktop for the iPhone that allows an iPhone user to create a customized home page with iPhone-like icons.

For example, you can put icons of your favorite websites, iPhone web apps or widgets on your home page if you are most likely to use them every time you turn on the iPhone making AppMarks the perfect homepage for your iPhone’s Safari browser.

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