VLC for iPhone Released

by Alex Heath on Oct 25, 2010

VLC media player was just updated as a universal app for iPhone and iPad in the App Store. The popular, open source, cross platform media player has been a favorite on Windows, OS X and Linux for years.

Awhile back, VLC released an iPad app in the App Store, and surprisingly the app was approved. VLC for iPhone allows you to play nearly every kind of video format known to man. The app clearly duplicates (and in my opinion, makes better) the video playback functionality of the the native iPod app. So, it’s interesting that Apple has finally approved it.

The developers of the VideoLAN player just got the VLC 1.1.0 update approved, which lets VLC run on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and recent iPod touch models. I downloaded the app, and I was impressed.

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Fast Copy Speeds Up Your iPhone’s Copy and Paste Functionality

by Jeff Benjamin on Oct 25, 2010

Every so often, a tweak comes around that simply makes the iPhone better to use. Fast Copy is the type of tweak that falls perfectly into that category, taking basic iPhone functionality and improving it.

I must admit, I was a bit skeptical at first, because I thought that the iPhone’s copy and paste abilities were fairly competent already. After using Fast Copy, though, I can safely say that the room for improvement has always existed, whether I perceived it, or not.

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SkyF1re iPhone Browser Takes Minimalism to the Extreme

by Jeff Benjamin on Oct 25, 2010

“A nice lightweight, quick little WebKit browser…” — that’s how the developer of the recently released SkyF1re Browser describes their iPhone browser for jailbroken iPhones. And while that’s certainly an apt description, the browser is so incredibly lightweight, that it might just float away into utter obscurity.

Although one must keep in mind that this is version 1.0 of the app, I couldn’t even get the address bar working on my iPhone.  No working address functionality on a browser? That’s not a good thing.

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How to Change Your iPhone App Icons Without Jailbreaking

by Alex Heath on Oct 24, 2010

We Apple users are picky about our aesthetics. Some of us try to pretend that we aren’t, but we are. Things like app icons matter to us. Apple doesn’t make it easy to customize your iPhone’s look on a system mod level, but luckily there are still jailbreak-free hacks out there to taunt Apple’s need for aesthetic control.

I’m going to walk you through how to manually change app icons on your iPhone without jailbreaking. There are multiple reasons you may want to change an app icon; you think the developer’s icon is ugly, you want a retina display-compatible icon, or you just want to mess with your friend while he’s away from his phone. Here’s how you do it:

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Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

by Sebastien on Oct 24, 2010

This is a summary of the most popular articles published on the blog this past week.

From our iPad blog:

From our Apple TV blog:

 

Is AT&T Preparing to Lose iPhone Exclusivity?

by Guest Author on Oct 23, 2010

With the rumors flying again that Verizon might be getting a CDMA iPhone sometime next year, it looks like AT&T might be getting ready for life after iPhone exclusivity. Bloomberg notes that AT&T has been ramping up new smartphones on their network.

Lately they have added several new Windows 7 and Android phones to their mix of units. AT&T has said numerous times that they are not worried about losing the iPhone exclusivity due to the increase in popularity with Android and interest in Windows 7 Mobile.

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Unpowered iPhone Speaker Amplifier

by Sebastien on Oct 23, 2010

Here is one original accessory for your iPhone. It’s a speaker amplifier in the shape of a horn.

Best part of it is that it doesn’t need any batteries as it takes advantage of the horn to naturally amplify the sound coming out of your speaker by adding up to 12 decibels. That’s what the product description says anyway.

You can get this amplifier for $25 from here. More iPhone accessories in our very own store (support the site!).

 

PhoneDisk Turns Your iPhone Into an External Hard Drive [Free]

by Guest Author on Oct 23, 2010

PhoneDisk is an app available for both Mac and Windows that transforms your iPhone into an external hard drive. Using PhoneDisk, you can preview, open, edit and save images, documents and more directly on your iPhone.

Best of all, this applications is available for free until December 1st 2010…  Read More

 

This is What Heat Will Do to Your iPhone

by Sebastien on Oct 23, 2010

Last week while at Blog World Expo in Vegas I met comedian and film maker Mark Malkoff. We were chitchatting when he picked up his iPhone, made a quick call and put the phone on the table. I looked at it and couldn’t help saying “damn, what happened to your iPhone?”

Mark said he had actually done nothing special and that his screen had cracked apparently because it was too hot. Mark lives in NY and I know it can be very hot sometimes there, but heck, that was the first time I saw an iPhone screen cracking because it was too hot outside… Read More

 

Two WebOS 2.0 Features that I Want for iOS 4

by Nick on Oct 23, 2010

HP has just announced some new features for their 2.0 release of the recently acquired WebOS.  Some of them just seem to be playing catch-up with iOS 4.

There’s also the infamous claim of “true multitasking.”  We’ll see.  But there’s two features that I think would be awesome on the iPhone and I would love to see appear in Cydia (soon please!)… Read More

 
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