iPhone Hacks

How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? 

Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone. 

How to Jailbreak And Unlock your iPhone With Blackra1n And Blacksn0w On Mac

If you are looking to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone, here is a tutorial on how you can do it with Geohot's blackra1n software. 

This tutorial is for Mac users only. If you are a Windows user, you may read the corresponding jailbreaking guide here. 

How to Jailbreak And Unlock Your iPhone With Blackra1n And BlackSn0w on Windows

We had recently written about the release of Geohot's iPhone jailbreaking tool Blackra1n. 

Here is a short tutorial that you might find useful in using these tools to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS on your Windows PC.

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. 

New iTunes Updates Lets You Manage More Than 180 iPhone Apps

In September when iPhone OS 3.1 was released, Apple also introduced an App management feature for iTunes, which let you manage iPhone apps on your iPhone Home Screens directly from iTunes. 

One of the issues with this iPhone app management feature was that it only displayed the 180 iPhone apps spread over the eleven iPhone Home Screens. This was okay if you had fewer iPhone apps. However, for users who had used up most of their 180 app slots, adding and sorting newer iPhone apps was a tedious and clumsy process. 

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. 

Tip: How to Get Safari's Anti-Phishing Feature to Work Properly in iPhone OS 3.1

iPhone users have been complaining that the new anti-phishing feature introduced in iPhone OS 3.1 released last week isn’t working properly.

Jim Dalrymple over at The Loop reports that Apple has given them the reason for the issue observed by some users with the anti-phishing feature.

Fix for Disappearing or Wrong App Icons Problem in iPhone OS 3.0

When we had reported that many users were facing the strange Wi-Fi connectivity issues after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0, one of our readers, LegendarySwag informed us about another annoying issue after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0.

The icons of some iPhone apps get replaced by icon of some other iPhone app or with a strange combination of multiple images.

Based on this Apple Discussions thread, it seems to be affecting some iPhone users.

Trick to Get More than 11 Home Screens on your iPhone

When we have published a post on some of the hidden features in iPhone OS 3.0, we had mentioned that you can now have 11 home screens instead of the previous limit of 9 home screens.

If 11 home screens are still not good enough, and you want more then you will find this trick discovered by Dayna of PHP-Princess very useful.

She discovered a way to create more than 11 home screens while moving around icons on her iPhone.

How to Use Google Voice on your iPhone

If you have an iPhone and a Google Voice account and were disappointed with Apple's decision to reject all Google Voice related iPhone apps then you will be happy to know that you still have couple of options to use Google Voice on your iPhone.

If you have not jailbroken your iPhone then you can checkout Google Voice Speed Dial Bookmarklet generator developed by David Friedman of Ironic Sans.

It is essentially an iPhone web app that generates bookmarklets for anyone you want to call with Google Voice, allowing you to organize your contacts as Safari bookmarks.