iPhone Hacks

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. 

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.

Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits To Protest Apple App Approval Procedures

The iPhone App Store has been ridiculed quite a bit in the past over their draconian as well as inconsistent approval policies. 

These policies of Apple claimed another victim today when Joe Hewitt, the brain behind Facebook's iPhone app announced that he was quitting the project. 

Want to Diagnose a Cough? There's An App for That

The next time you have a persistent cough, you can simply diagnose your illness by coughing into your iPhone! 

That is simply what a team of American and Australian scientists are working on. 

Lala Music Streaming iPhone App Launching Soon

Music streaming service, Lala has been making news of late. 

Recently, the company partnered with Google in the latter's launch of a music service. 

TechCrunch is now reporting the impending release of Lala's app for the iPhone. 

Apple Approves Rock Band App for iPhone and iPod Touch

Earlier this month, we had written about the impending launch of the popular rhythm game, Rock Band will be coming to the iPhone. 

News is in that Apple has finally approved the app and it is now available on the iPhone App Store. 

Orbit - Jailbreak App Brings Homescreen Exposé to iPhone

If you liked the concept developed by Ocean Observations that showed how a homescreen expose feature can be introduced on the iPhone to let users sift through several iPhone apps scattered on their iPhone's homescreen with just a few taps then the good news is that iPhone developer Steve Troughton-Smith has released his jailbreak app called Orbit on Cydia Store for jailbroken iPhone users.

4x4 Jam is an Excellent Off-Road Racing Game for the iPhone

If you like off-road racing games then you will like iPhone game, 4x4 Jam that is available on the iPhone App Store.

4x4 Jam is developed by Invictus who have developed popular off-road racing games like 1nsane. I have been playing their iPhone game for the last few days, and I'm addicted.