Need a place to put your iPhone while hanging out in your underwear? There's a pair of boxers for that!
The Scottevest Travel Boxers have a built in pocket so that your iPhone has a snug place to stay warm and cuddle with you while you roam around the house near-commando style. Of course, the blogosphere has taken to making every kind of joke possible about them. Here are some highlights:
If you go to Apple.com right now, you will be greeted with the image above. What can it be? Well, the rumors have been running around for a while that Apple is preparing a cloud version of iTunes which would allow you to stream your iTunes music from anywhere.
Apple spent 1 billion dollars in a top-of-the-art data center so it's about time they get some return on investment for this. But again, with Apple you never really know what to expect...
Have you ever wanted to travel back in time but couldn't afford the pricetag of a DeLorean? Now you can thanks to the Flux Capacitor app for iPhone. Best of all, going back to 1955 to kick Biff Tannen's ass will only cost you $.99.
The Flux Capacitor is what made time travel possible in the movie Back to the Future. Now it's your turn to launch into the past, fine tune the future, and disrupt the space-time continuum! The only downside to this application is that it requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate, so no need to say that your battery will drain very fast...
Track Your Happiness.org is a recent project from a group of Harvard scientific researchers. The project's goal is to, "investigate what makes life worth living." Specifically, to see how the wandering mind and happiness correlate.
But how could this type of a survey really be effective when you would need the ability to invade the mind of your participant throughout the day for effective results?
Researchers were able to do something that traditional physiology methods have not allowed in the past: to intrude on the lives of their participants in a non-threatening and targeted way. What better means to prick the wandering mind than through what is the usual cause of a wandering mind- the smartphone.
This specific way of data collecting was made possible through (you guessed it) the iPhone...
In the recent Steve Jobs keynote, Apple introduced the next major version of Mac OS X. "Lion" boasts many new graphical innovations, and iOS seems to have been sewn into the new interface. One of the most interesting additions to Lion was the "Launchpad."
Launchpad brings the iOS home screen to OS X. In OS X Lion, when you activate your Launchpad, your desktop wallpaper is blurred and given a nice vignette so that you can clearly see your app icons. The effect is very pretty. And, fortunately, it's fairly simple to duplicate this visual effect with your iPhone's locks screen and home screen...
In case you missed some of this week's festivities, here is a summary of the 10 most popular articles that were published on iDB.
FaceTime comes to the iPhone 3GS New jailbreak tweak brings panoramic wallpaper scrolling to the iPhone Damn you iPhone auto correct AppSwitch, the ultimate system utility for your iPhone What iOS 4.2 features are you looking forward to the most? Saurik speaks at TED How to install Android on iPhone, no computer needed Update about the iOS 4.2 jailbreak and unlock How to forward your iPhone voicemails to Google Voice iOS 4.2 to be released on the 24th?
Why would someone waste time and more importantly money putting almost $2,000 worth of mobile phones on a grill? Well, for advertising...
No matter how stupid this was, I couldn't help watching until the end, secretly hoping the iPhone would be the last phone standing. Spoiler: it wasn't. If you have 2 minutes of your time to kill, watch this video.
iH8Sn0w, the developer of Sn0wBreeze recently announced on Twitter that he had released an updated version to his infamous jailbreak tool. This new version of Sn0wBreeze supposedly works with every device on iOS 4.1, including the iPad iOS 3.2.2.
Sn0wBreeze is like PwnageTool for Windows. It allows you to create a custom firmware while preserving the baseband and hacktivating the phone, thus making it possible for you to unlock using UltraSn0w. But how reliable is Sn0wBreeze?
Do you hate how your iPhone leaves app icons in the multitasking bar even though they aren't running anymore? How about when you have to go through that tedious process to exit an app; click the home button twice, tap and hold an icon in the multitasking bar, wait for it to jiggle, and then click that tiny red delete button to quit.
Luckily, there are other people that feel the same way. MultiCleaner is a jailbreak app that relieves the cumbersomeness of managing your multitasking apps. In fact, the app's tagline is quite simple, "Because iOS 4 multitasking sucks..."
iOS 4.2 is like the white iPhone 4. There are rumors about it, it's supposed to come out any time, but for some reason, it's never released. The rumors have gone wild lately about when iOS 4.2 will be released, and I haven't reported much of it here at iDB because to be honest with you, I think all these rumors were full of crap.
This being said, the new rumor coming from the Telegraph might be as reliable as a 1991 Ford Tempo, but I'd like to give it a chance and see what you guys think about it. According to the UK newspaper, iOS 4.2 will be released on November 27...
Apple just released iTunes 10.1, bringing AirPlay to the table. iTunes 10.1 will also be necessary to update your iPhone to iOS 4.2, whenever it's released.
So far there is no indication whether iTunes 10.1 is safe for iPhone jailbreak and unlock, so my advice to you is to stay away from it until we get confirmation from the Dev Team that it is indeed safe.
Here is the changelog of iTunes 10.1...
So your 10 year old nephew wants to look through your iPhone photos, but you're afraid to hand over the phone completely, lest he starts tapping away, deleting emails, sending prank text messages, and wreaking havoc on your homescreen. It'd be nice if you could limit him to the Photos app, right? There's a jailbreak app that'll let you do just that!
IncarcerApp for jailbroken iPhones will allow you to "lock up" the current app, leaving it fully functional but disabling the home button. With a quick gesture chosen by you through Activator, you can hand over your iPhone with no worries of them exiting the app and playing around elsewhere on the phone.
It's a simple but useful tweak if you have curious friends, family, or kids eager to play with an app or watch YouTube without you having to worry about sensitive data elsewhere on your phone.
Once you download the app in Cydia, you'll find there's some flexible options to choose from to make full use of the app...