iPhone Hacks

Apple's Patent For 'Grab and Go' System to Make Syncing More Efficient

If you thought syncing your iPhone was easy, think again. This is because Apple is working on a system that strives to make cross-platform syncing much more simple and quicker. 

Folks at AppleInsider have unearthed a patent filed by Apple in September last year where the company talks of a system called 'Grab and Go' that primarily offers a way to sync only relevant and specific content among the various Apple platforms like the iPhone, iMac, Apple TV, Apple Remote, etc.

Is Motorola Droid's 5MP Camera Better Than iPhone's?

Verizon proudly flaunts Droid's 5 megapixel camera in the "Droid Does" ad campaign where it mocked iPhone's camera with the line "iDon't take 5-megapixel pictures". But is the Droid camera indeed better than iPhone 3GS's camera? 

Andy Ihnatko, a tech columnist at Chicago Sun has countered the argument with actual camera shots. A picture is worth a thousand words indeed. 

iPhone Syncing Problem Reported With Intel P55 Powered Windows 7 Computers

A lot many iPhone users have been reporting on the Apple Support forum that they have been facing trouble in syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9. 

The root cause of this issue is yet to be resolved, however, based on the complainants' computer configurations, it is doubted to be an issue with Windows 7 built with Intel P55 chipset. 

Ripdev - Popular Jailbreak Software Developer Shuts Down

Ripdev, one of the earliest names in the iPhone jailbreaking community, the company that is associated with the development of Installer, which is arguably the first iPhone app store, much before Apple's official iPhone App Store came about and before Cydia took over as the leading jailbreak app store has now called it quits. 

Gartner Forecast Predicts Android to Overtake iPhone In Market Share by 2012

With rapid strides being taken in the mobile phone industry in the past few years, how will the different mobile phone platforms of today stack up against their rivals in the future? 

According to a study released by Gartner today, Android could well be moving up the table to become the platform with the second highest market share, ahead of the iPhone, by 2012. 

DoubleTwist Brings Amazon MP3 Store to the iPhone; Gives Palm an iTunes Alternative

The past few weeks have seen Palm being in the news for all the wrong reasons. We first wrote about them when the USB Implementors Forum disapproved of their practice of hacking iTunes to let Palm Pre users use the Apple software. 

After Apple had disabled their hack, we reported on the update that Palm released to their users that enabled the iTunes syncing once again. 

iTunes 9 Released: Allows Users to Organize iPhone Home Screens; Home Sharing & More

After releasing iPhone OS 3.1 Apple has released iTunes 9 as they had announced at today’s special event.

iTunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements such as Home Sharing support, allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to organize their iPhone home screens directly in iTunes and lots more.

Movement App Makes it Easier for Users to Organize iPhone Apps

We had reported a couple of weeks back that there was rumors that the next version of iTunes (iTunes 9) might give users the ability to visually organize and arrange iPhone apps within iTunes.

If you can’t wait then you should checkout Movement. It’s an application that makes it easier to rearrange iPhone apps on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

iPhone Backup Extractor Helps iPhone Developers Debug Bugs

Developer Pádraig Kennedy has released the iPhone Backup Extractor which converts the iPhone backups created by iTunes into Mac OS X files that you can browse, examine, etc.

Pádraig was the author of the Python script that was used by iPhone developers to extract data from the .mdbackup files. With iPhone Backup Extractor Pádraig has wrapped an easy-to-use GUI around the process to make it a lot easier.

The utility allows iPhone developers to debug customer bugs.

iPhone Dev Team Releases Updated QuickPwn Tool to Jailbreak iPhone running Firmware 2.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2

The iPhone Dev Team had recently released a tool called QuickPwn which made it easier and quicker to jailbreak iPhone running firmware 2.0.1.

As promised they have released an updated version of QuickPwn which can now be used to jailbreak iPhone running firmware 2.0, 2.0.1 and also iPhone firmware 2.0.2 which was released last week.