How Environmentally Safe is Your iPhone?

Guest Author ∙ September 5, 2010

Apple is one of the most secretive companies you'll ever deal with. Even when they're about to release a product or report good news, they seem to have a vacuum seal applied to the lips of their employees. This seems to be the case with a piece of less desirable news regarding the eco-friendliness of the iPhone.

U.K. carrier, O2, showed off their "Green Rankings" which show the British consumers which phone hurts the environment least. Sony Ericsson and Nokia lead the way while the Palm Pre Plus bottomed out the ridiculous chart. Where did the iPhone rank? It didn't. Apple chose to keep the iPhone out of the research..

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Jailbreak Mod Removes Folder Badges on Your iPhone

Sébastien Page ∙ September 5, 2010

Have you ever been annoyed by the badges showing on the folders of your iPhone? Personally, it never bugged me but Chpwn, the developer of No Folder Badges must think otherwise.

No Folder Badges is a new tweak available in Cydia that does one single thing: removing the folder badges (ie. badges for available app updates, unread emails, etc...).

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Top 10 iPhone News You Missed This Week

Sébastien Page ∙ September 5, 2010

This is a summary of the most popular posts on the blog this past week:

Try these sites if you're having issues with JailbreakMe This might be the coolest iPhone lockscreen ever Jailbreak app lets you use your iPhone while it's syncing with iTunes How to set up Hotmail on your iPhone 10 jailbreak apps you should download now Is the iPod Touch for people who don't want an iPhone? This is for those who are scared to jailbreak their iPhones Why do people think jailbreaking can brick your iPhone? Does the new iTunes logo suck? Take that, Apple

New on z iPad Blog:

iPad to get iOS 4.2 in November
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Conserve Your iPhone Battery with ScreenDimmer

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 27, 2018
ScreenDimmer

Apple promised better battery life with the iPhone 4 but let's face it, it still falls short. But then again, depending on how you use it, a full charge can last anywhere from just a few hours to a couple of days (I'm being very generous). I'll admit I'm a heavy iPhone user. It's useful and I like it and being a heavy iPhone user obviously taxes the battery. I run very few things in the background to conserve battery life but I want more conservation.

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iOS 4.1 Coming September 8th

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 27, 2018

This is interesting. Engadget has a screenshot of the UK Apple Store that shows iOS 4.1 scheduled to be released on Wednesday, September 8th.

The US Website still shows the usual "Coming Soon" announcement so we'll go out on a limb here and say that the 8th is the day. Any ideas on how this inconsistency of information happens?

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Will iOS 4.1 Fix the iPhone 4’s Camera Issues?

Guest Author ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

There were certainly no shortage of complaints when the iPhone 4 was released, or perhaps there was no shortage of coverage relating to every issue users experienced. Whatever perspective you take there was an issue that didn't receive much attention compared to the rest. There seemed to be a couple problems relating discoloring of photos in certain light.

TUAW reported on it briefly while forums seem to run wild with complaints. This wasn't the only complaint regarding the camera as Apple's discussion board showed us. Other users seemed to be getting a green blob appearing in their photos with the intensity of the discrepancy occurring while indoors with florescent style lighting.

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Popup Blocker for iPhone Gives You More Control Over Your Notifications

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 27, 2018
Popup Blocker

We all know Apple Push Notification system falls a little short in with good notification management. To a point, Apple gave us the ability to control push notification popup: either on or off. Great choice, right? The popup notifications can become a nuisance when you're in the middle of an email, for example, and a friend decides to start messaging you. For each message, you get a nice popup, usually with the text of the message, depending on the messaging application.

For those of you wanting to suppress those annoying popups, Popup Blocker is the application you've been itching for. Popup Blocker gives you the ability to switch on/off over 10 native alerts.

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iOS 4 vs iOS 4.1 – Guess Who Wins

Guest Author ∙ September 3, 2010

It was bad enough that many of the exciting features that accompanied iOS 4 weren't going to be added to the iPhone 3G. It was a whole different debacle when we reported that the device was basically crippled in many instances after making the upgrade.

According to a demo by Life Hacker, iOS 4.1 works much smoother on the 2 year old device than the previous version. The site notes the following regarding their little experiment:

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Take That, Apple!

Sébastien Page ∙ September 3, 2010

I hate Flash. But you know what I hate even more? Not having the choice to have Flash on my iPhone. Whether you like it or not, Flash is a major plugin of the online world, which is trying to get its way to the iPhone the legit way, and the not so legit way.

The lack of Flash on the iPhone has been an ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple, but it now brings the battle to the turf of other smartphone makers, like Motorola.

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iPhone, is There Anything This Phone Can’t Do?

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 27, 2018

It was a Thursday morning like any other. I woke up at 7:45am  to "Kanye West - Addiction" blaring from my Sony alarm clock/ipod dock. I grabbed my iPhone off that dock and hobbled to the bathroom and launched a pre made playlist to listen to as I got ready for work.

For those of you who frequent the blog this is a great example of where my beef with the iPhone's speaker quality comes into play. But that's neither here nor there. I updated myself on the day's technology news using RSS Reader and bouncing around from site to site, once again on my iPhone.

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Skyfire Submits App That Brings Real Flash Videos to Your iPhone

Guest Author ∙ Updated May 11, 2018

Anyone who has an iPhone knows that trying to watch Flash videos is just not possible. There are a few hacks and cracks that bring synthetic Flash knockoffs to your device, though the jury is still out on how well they actually work. That could be changing real soon.

Skyfire has submitted an application to the App Store that would perform a nifty little conversion and bring real Flash to your iPhone. We know that natively, the software would never get a chance to grace the presence of Apple territory, so the developers created a way to make the content compliant...

The way it works is when you click on a video that is Flash based, the app takes it from its original format and converts it to HTML 5. Such a simple sounding but brilliant idea by whoever is behind the development. HTML 5 of course is the format that Apple has regarded to be the future that eliminates Adobe's software.

The video shows off the seemingly stable app in action by loading an episode of The Daily Show. I can see Apple approving this and revering it to be the sort of example they speak of when they claim HTML 5 is the future. If only the app could make Jon Stewart consistently funny.

Will Apple approve this application or deem it too controversial? I wonder if the guy who decides will have to make a call to Steve himself. Let us know what you think of the app's presentation and concept in the comments below.

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