You might have heard that Google launched a new feature in Google Maps called Latitude that allows users to share their location with their friends and family.
The feature is available on mobile phones as well as iGoogle gadget on the computer. You will be able to track your friends on your iPhone as Google has announced that the feature will be released very soon to the iPhone, through Google Mobile App.
We have already seen jailbreak apps such as Cycorder which brought video recording and Snapture which brought professional features such as Digital zoom, delay timer etc to iPhone's very basic camera app.
ClearCam is the latest iPhone app which is set to add more zing (actually megapixels) to your iPhone's camera. It turns your iPhone's 2-megapixel camera into a 4-megapixel camera.
The iPhone has already been used to control R/C car, iRobot’s Packbot, Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), iPhone Lego NXT Robo, turned into a walking robot and dog treat dispenser.
Do you have a fish tank? Want to control it from anywhere in the world from
your iPhone then you should checkout the video of this cool hack by
Pete from WaveJam Technologies.
We have heard rumors about the next generation iPhone and based on Phil Schiller's, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product
Marketing statement to David Pogue of New York Times at Macworld 2009, it is speculated that it will be released in June as per Apple's natural product timelines.
Mark Davis, Programme Director for iPhone at Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat), a carrier in UAE who was commenting on Etisalat's launch of iPhone 3G in UAE and Saudi Arabia might have also confirmed the launch of the new iPhone in June.
Push Notification Service was supposed to be Apple's solution to allow iPhone apps to run in the background. It is one of most requested features by iPhone users along with copy and paste and support for Adobe's Flash. Apple had announced that it would be available to iPhone users in September 2008.
However, Apple had strangely pulled out the Push Notification Service APIs in fourth beta version of iPhone firmware 2.1 and there has been no further updates from Apple about the feature.
But looks like Apple has not forgotten about it. MacRumors is hearing that Apple is considering allowing real background processes instead.
In December 2008, Gmail Labs had released Gmail Tasks, the
lightweight to-do list manager which had turned out to be quite
popular.
Google has just released an optimized version of Gmail Tasks for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
A group of crackers had claimed to have hacked Apple's DRM on Sega's Super Money Ball for the iPhone and many more iPhone games few months back. We never saw that coming as Apple's FairPlay DRM has been used for so many years to protect content sold on iTunes stores.
At that time, we had stated that cracking iPhone apps was crossing the line as we don't condone any type of piracy. But we have some bad news for iPhone developers, cracker by the name ‘Angel’ has released a jailbreak app called Crackulous which strips the copy protection from iPhone apps and render them free for distribution.
Victor Agreda over at TUAW has reported a problem that everyone should be careful about before updating their iPhone with the latest firmware update using iTunes.
His warning message:
It looks like Victor is not the only one who puts his iPhone in Airplane mode before upgrading, one of readers, Mario had also reported an issue few days back while trying to update his iPhone with iPhone firmware 2.2.1 which was released by Apple last Tuesday. He also has the habit of turning on Airplane mode before upgrading but he hit a problem this time.
Support for Adobe's Flash is one of the most requested features by iPhone users since its launch. Therefore it has not been surprising to have heard tons of rumors and speculations about Flash coming to the iPhone like this, this and this one.
However, so far it has been a case of wishful thinking. But that might change based on Adobe Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen's comments made to Bloomberg Television from the World Economic Forum in Davos that Apple and Adobe are collaborating to bring Flash to the iPhone.
