Archive for November, 2007

How To:Install Nintendo Games and Play With Tactile Feedback in Your iPhone

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Unlike the original version, the NES emulator for the iPhone works great now —except for the sound. There’s still one big problem: the lack of tactile feedback on the buttons. Natetrue, the creator of iBrickr, came up with an ingenious hardware patch: a transparent vinyl layer cut like the gamepad buttons. It seems silly, but it works….

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Israeli Hackers 100% Unlock the iPhone Yet Again, AT&T Shrugs

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Three hackers named Dubbi, Ofir and Eli have claimed to have unlocked the iPhone independently in Israel. If confirmed, this would be the fifth time that someone has unlocked the iPhone with a different method. The hackers say they made more progress in regards to the iPhone’s user interface. Meanwhile, AT&T talked with Gizmodo about the unlocking.

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Too many iPhone apps? Mod your home screen to fit them all

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Using Dock, a new app by Nate True. It changes the last row of the iPhone’s home screen so that it scrolls to the left and right.

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iPhone, Wiimote, or newborn baby: which has the best built-in accelerometer

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The iPhone was eliminated fairly quickly…the portrait-to-landscape flip is easy to circumvent if you do it slow enough or at an odd angle. Newborns, however, are born with something called the Moro reflex. When infants feel themselves fall backwards, they startle and throw their arms out to the sides. But the wiimote is very sensitive. Who wins?

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Engadget is giving away 5 iPhoneSIMfree unlocks…Try and get yours

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

So if you haven’t already heard, today is iPhoneSIMfree launch day, and the crew that software unlocked the iPhone has hooked us up with five iPhone unlocks to give away to you, our faithful, iPhone obsessed readers. We’ll be giving one away each day of the week this week, starting now!

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The story behind iUnlock: the first free, open iPhone SIM unlock software

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

If you’re like us, you’re furiously unlocking every iPhone in sight at the moment, but what you might not know is the story behind the hack. It all started Monday when iPhoneSIMfree was finally released.

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Report: iPhone could make or break Apple’s bank

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Financial researchers have banked on the iPhone as the driving force behind Apple’s near-future growth — but cautioned that the fourth major platform in the company’s lineup could also eat away at the very iPod share that has helped build its recent success.

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Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.

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Apple "wrestles" with 3rd party iPhone apps

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Contradicting earlier statements that the iPhone would definitely be a closed platform, Steve Jobs cracked open the door a bit. Supporting this semi-statement is the upcoming Developing Websites for iPhone session at WWDC.

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Solid gold iPhones for sale?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I sense two problems with this…

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