iPhone Hacks

New Smartphone Optimized Version of Google News Launched

Google News has been one of the popular news aggregators on the web, which lets you to read news relevant to your geography as well as personalize your page to read updates on subjects of interest to you. 

TomTom Version 1.2 Released - Includes Support For iPod Touch and First Gen iPhones

TomTom, one of the navigation apps available on the iPhone has just released an updated version. 

The new version v1.2 of TomTom's iPhone app offers quite a lot of interesting features and one that is most interesting is its support for iPod touch and the first generation iPhones. 

iPhone App Approval Gets Additional Automated Layer to Check Private API Usage

Despite the number of cases where iPhone apps have been wrongly either accepted or rejected, there has apparently been one segment of iPhone apps, those that use private APIs, that managed to sneak in quite a few times even though Apple expressly forbids them. 

'Fit Or Fugly' iPhone App Tells How Attractive You Are

Beauty is skin deep and all you need to measure it is an iPhone app. 

If you have always been curious to know how attractive you actually look, here is an iPhone app that might be able to finally declare whether you are attractive or not. 

Apple Retracts Stance After Rejecting US Senators' Database iPhone App

Apple's public image seems to have taken quite a beating over the past one week after two prominent iPhone app developers, Rogue Amoeba and Facebook's Joe Hewitt quit over Apple's App approval policies. 

Another news story that could have caused further embarassment has been doused thanks to some quick face saving measures from Apple. 

Another iPhone App Developer Quits Protesting App Store Policing

Another day and yet another app developer calls it quits in protest against Apple' App Store policies. 

Shortly after Joe Hewitt, the lead developer at Facebook's iPhone app development team quit, today Rogue Amoeba has announced that they are following suit. 

Cellphone Number Harvesting Result Of Obsolete Code - Storm8 Says Lawsuit Lacks Merit

Storm8, the game app development company that was sued earlier this month by an iPhone owner who had accused the company of illegally harvesting cellphone numbers has now publicly responded to the accusation.

Storm8 is the developer of popular game apps like iMobsters and Vampires Live.

UnderCover iPhone App Helps You Recover Stolen iPhone

For those who remember,'Find my iPhone' is a feature offered by Apple to MobileMe subscribers that lets them to recover lost or stolen iPhones. 

Now a Belgian based company named Orbicule has launched an iPhone app that does the same thing and much more. 

Facebook Clarifies App Developer's Decision Does Not Mirror Official Position

If there were any speculations regarding Facebook's stand on Apple's app review procedures after its lead iPhone app developer quit citing Apple's approval policies, they were cleared today when the company clarified that Joe Hewitt's decision did not in any way mirror the company's official position.

Apple Introduces New Feature for Developers to Track Status of their iPhone Apps

Remember the iPhone app named 0870? 

The iPhone app made news earlier this year when Apple finally approved it after a record 429 days. Though this was an aberration, most iPhone app developers find themselves in similar situations when their iPhone apps take weeks or sometimes months to get approved.