Yap is a new application available in the App Store that will turn your iPhone voicemails into a readable text. If you think listening to voicemails is a waste of time (I do), then Yap will be the perfect companion for you.
Google Voice already offers the option of receiving transcribed voicemails but not everybody has a Google Voice account. Yap is available in the App Store for free. Give it a try.
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iOS developer Steve Thoughton-Smith confirmed earlier today on Twitter that it is indeed possible to install applications on the new Apple TV. Great news, right?
Well don't rejoice just yet. While you can install apps on the Apple TV, you actually can't launch those applications. So in short, the apps are on your Apple TV but they are useless since there is nothing to make them work.
Since the Apple TV has already been jailbroken, my guess is that the jailbreak community will come up with a way to actually run applications on the Apple TV. And of course, Apple will most likely natively run apps by next year's next big software update.
Thoughts?
Pointless, right? Who would want to buy a $500 iPad to shoot it with a gun?
Glowing App iCons is a new application available in the App Store that will let you make your iPhone apps icons glow on your springboard. This free application doesn't require a jailbreak because it's not actually tweaking the app icons, it's simply adding glowing frames on your wallpaper.
Does that sound confusing?
Glowing App iCons is free to download in the App Store. It will most likely cater to those who've wanted to customize the look of their iPhone without taking the risk of jailbreaking. At this price you can't really go wrong.
Let us know what you think about this application.
When AT&T changed its data plans a few months ago, it put an end the unlimited data plans for new iPhone customers. Existing customers were however offered the possibility to stay on those unlimited plan. Others decided to go to a cheaper capped data plan. The trick is once you give up your unlimited plan, you cannot go back to it.
That's exactly what my friend Mathew did. He wanted to save a few bucks and downgraded to the $25 2GB plan but he quickly regretted his move. I was talking with Mathew the other day while preparing the TwiiPhone podcast when he told me he had found a way to get his iPhone back to the unlimited data plan.
I was very interested in hearing his story and how he managed to go back to the grandfathered unlimited data plan so he offered to email me all the details of the story. Here it is for you...
This one goes in the weird accessories category pretty well. This new charger by some Japanese artist resembles an umbilical cord. Yeah you know, the connecting cord from a developing fetus to the placenta.
I don't know if I should laugh at it or go take a shower as this creepy iPhone accessory makes me feel dirty, especially the way it squirms. Here, check out this video and have a look for yourself...
Rumors are floating around the interwebs that Apple might currently be testing a touchscreen display for a future iMac. According to a report by DigiTimes, Sintek Photronics has sent samples of touch panels to Apple for what would be a new touchsreen all-in-one iMac desktop computer.
Now DigiTimes has been wrong so many times before that you can't really tell if this rumor is well funded or not. However, this is not the first time we hear about a possible touchscreen iMac, which will inevitably be released one day or the other...
A couple weeks ago we introduced you to FolderEnhancer, an awesome jailbreak app that let's you considerably improve what you can do with Folders on your iPhone. At the time though, the app was still being worked on. I'm here to tell you FolderEnhancer is now available on Cydia.
iOS 4 gave us the ability to create folders on the home screen. This was in itself a big step forward but its implementation is limited. FolderEnhancer unleashes the potential of your iPhone folders with some amazing features...
That didn't take long. A few days after demoing there iPod Touch 4G jailbreak, the Dev Team has now given us proof of a jailbreak for the new Apple TV that came out a couple days ago. It had been confirmed that the Apple TV could be jailbroken, but to be honest with you, I didn't expect it to come so quickly.
This Apple TV jailbreak takes advantage of the same SHAtter exploit used on the iPod 4G by restoring it to a custom IPSW using PwnageTool. Brilliant...
Since AT&T recently started offering capped data plans for iPhone, those of you who were not grandfathered into the unlimited plan do have to pay attention to their 3G and Edge usage. While the iPhone does offer the ability to monitor your usage by going to Settings > General > Usage, it still doesn't offer a reliable way to see what you're really using.
Enters Data Counter, a jailbreak application that helps you keep track of your data usage within a given period...
I rarely if ever write about iPhone apps updates but today I felt compelled to do it for 2 reasons. One, Angry Birds is freaking awesome. Two, this game is a good example of what every iPhone developer should do.
Unless you've been under a rock for the last few months, you most likely have heard of Angry Birds, a game where you have to throw birds at evil pigs. Sounds terrible, doesn't it? It is however as addictive as heroin, so play with care...
It had been a while since we saw one of these creative DIY iPhone stands. While doing my morning reading I came across this video on TUAW showing designer Enrique Pardo turning a $100 bill into an origami iPhone stand.
Of course this would perfectly work with a $1 bill but we ain't that cheap ;)