If you're a developper and are curious to see what the process is to have your application in the App Store, you may want to have a look at Mike Ash's story. From signing up with the iPhone Dev Center to getting his NetAwake [iTunes link] app approved, Mike goes through the 22 steps of the process.
[via TUAW]
What if I told you you can speed up the web browsing on your iPhone by 500%? Yes, that would be a lie! BUT what f I told you you can indeed speed up the your iPhone web browsing by blocking ads? Ahh see, now you/re interested.
Web browsing on your iPhone is usually pretty fast. But sometimes you have to rely on the sloooow Edge network and if you're visiting a site that has a few banner ads, it will terribly slow you down.
There is now an easy way to block ads in Safari and speed up your web browsing. How to do that?
Make sure you are on a jailbroken iPhone SSH into your iPhone to /etc/ Replace the hosts file with the new hosts file you downloaded in Step 2 Reboot your iPhone Done!You should now be able to navigate the web without any ads!
Thanks to James for this trick.
Note: like any hack, it is not guaranteed that it will work and it may cause conflicts with other applications. I highly recommend you backup your iPhone before doing that.
And this is your daily fix of iPhone news. There was much more going on on the various iPhone blogs but I don't want to report to you each and every post related to the iPhone. Most of them are useless and don't deserve to get much attention. I just want to report to you what I think is real news.
Internet petition protests iPhone auto-correction
An internet petition has been building to protest Apple's auto-correction feature on the iPhone, entitled Please Let Us Disable Auto Correction Steve. Many users would at least like the option to switch the feature off. The truncated words, commonly used while writing on mobile devices, are particularly problematic. Frühjahr Design has received nearly 3,000 "signatures" on its petition in the few days since its launch. [via Macnn]
UK's "Stuff" names iPhone 3G gadget of the year
Apple's iPhone 3G has won a public vote to find the year's best gadget, beating strong competition from three games consoles, a budget laptop and a balloon-shaped iPod speaker system. The latest version of the mobile that combines a phone with a music and video player was chosen by readers of Stuff magazine in its annual Gadget of the Year awards. [via Reuters UK]
SwirlyMMS for iPhone 2.x Released Those of you who are fans of SwirlyMMS will be happy to know that the SwirlySpace Team announced that SwirlyMMS 1.2 for firmware 2.x has been released. [via iPhone Alley]
First post-patch iPhone 3G lawsuit wants Apple to pay $5 million
Jumping on an increasingly overloaded bandwagon, a Little Rock, Arkansas man has started a class action lawsuit expecting at least $5 million in damages for Apple and AT&T overselling iPhone 3G relative to the network load, even though a fix has already been put into place. [via Apple Insider]
This is quite a funny, yet surprisingly true drawing we've got here. We all know that the Apple process to accept applications in the App Store is very very very shady (see the Netshare mess...) and more recently the Podcaster app debacle!
[via Geek Culture]
What happened today in the iPhone world? Save yourself some time and read this! These are the highlights of the iPhone news for today.
From the iPhone Download Blog:
Sonic Lighter the iPhone lighter CopierciN brings copy/paste to the iPhone. Kinda!From other sources:
Apple finding it difficult to crack Japanese cell phone market
Apple's iPhone, a runaway success in the US and parts of Europe, is struggling to see similar success in Japan, where consumers who've long been privy to some of the world's most advance cell phones are passing over the touchscreen handset for cheaper and more familiar offerings. [via Apple Insider]
DevTeam working on a Jailbreak for the iPod Touch 2.1
“U Can’t Touch This” were the words of the great MC Hammer in 1990, but we just couldn’t wait to “touch it” as soon as the new slinky wafer-thin iPod was unveiled by Father Jobs a week ago. We are especially eager to experiment with this device because the n72ap in the new iPod Touch 2G may give us insight into upcoming iPhones. So a few hours ago the large truck backed into the DevTeam warehouse where the crate of iPod touché devices were dropped off and we started the very earliest stages of investigation (which means fun!) ;-) We won’t have more to say unless there’s more to say. Hammertime! [via DevTeam Blog]
AT&T Looking for New Ways to Meld iPhone with U-Verse
U.S. phone company AT&T Inc plans to eventually link Apple Inc's iPhone to its high-speed Internet and video service called U-verse, and introduce new features like using the phone as a remote control. [via Reuters]
Newber adds second line to iPhone
FreedomVOICE has launched a beta program for Newber, a combination iPhone app and cellular service. The software allows users to have an additional number on their iPhone, enabling users to have a "business" line without revealing their personal iPhone. [via MacNN]
T-Mobile sets stage for Android, iPhone showdown next week
An invitation sent out on Tuesday by T-Mobile asks the media to gather next week to see the first phone built on the Android mobile platform, but will also pit Apple and Google against each other -- if reluctantly. [via Apple Insider]
Yes, I know, you've heard it before... I also know you've really wanted that copy/paste feature on your iPhone since June 29th, 2007. After all, even the crappiest Treo can do it; why the iPhone couldn't?
It seems that we're kinda getting there with CopierciN.
CopierciN is a basic text editor which, hopefully, bring some kind of copy/paste mechanism to iPhone (to jailbroken ones only, unfortunately). It does not add copy/paste functionality directly to other applications but it provides a mechanism to import text from and export text to SMS, Notes, Mail applications (more to come in the future) and files in the filesystem.
CopierciN only works for jailbroken iPhone 2.0.2. Is is not very stable and only works for Notes, SMS, and emails so far but the developer (who's actually developing this application to learn Objective C !) says he wants to port it to Safari as well, which to me is where the great value of this app would be.
If you're still on 2.0.2, go to Cydia (under BigBoss repository, in Utilities section) and try it out and tell us what you think.
This is your daily fix of iPhone news in one place so you don't have to visit 60 sites to know what happened today in the iPhone world.
Apple Developing ARM Processors for iPhone
Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple’s chip team, dished out the morsel on LinkedIn, saying he’s busy at work crafting an ARM processor for the next-generation iPhone.
Edit most document types with TextGuru
TextGuru is a new iPhone application that promising, useful -- and also really powerful! The application allows you to create and edit a ton of document types.
NetShare, banned from the AppStore
Looks like Apple has decided they will not be allowing any tethering applications in the AppStore. As such, NetShare will not be available in the iTunes AppStore. We are seeing a lot of similar reports from various developers who's applications were abruptly removed and banned from the AppStore without any violations of the terms of service. This is all unfortunate news for the iPhone platform end-users.
iFund Gets A Blog
Today we’re launching the iFund blog. The purpose is to share (and hear) perspectives around the iPhone and emerging open mobile ecosystem. We’ve been blown away by the amount of entrepreneurial activity in mobile since launching the iFund on March 6th. In 6 months, we’ve received over 2700 plans. To put it in context, that’s about 20x what we received in a similar period last year.
Become a citizen journalist with CBS EyeMobile
CBS wants you to take photos of events as they're happening, then use EyeMobile to upload your pics and report on what's happening. If the iPhone ever gets video capabilities, you'd most likely be able to use EyeMobile to upload your news videos as well. (Note to Apple: that video capture capability would have been nice in the 2.1 update.) CBS is now accepting video from other sources, like your camcorder or BlackBerry.
EyeMobile also lets you watch what other "citizen journalists" are posting. While the quality of reporting might be somewhat iffy, anything has to be better than the talking heads that the networks hire.
iPhone app growth outpacing iTunes' early days
As Roughly Drafted Magazine points out, what used to be the iTunes Music Store took two months to sell 25 million songs, and a full two years to sell 1 billion. Even if growth stopped today and remained flat for the next year, Jobs could very well still hit his prediction of a billion-dollar marketplace, and the App Store could give McDonalds a run for its money by hanging a "one billion sold!" sign much earlier than the iTunes Music Store did.
"Star Wars: Force Unleashed" for iPhone Now Available
THQ Wireless Inc has released Star Wars: Force Unleashed [App Store] to the App Store. The $9.99 game offers a companion game to the full version due for release on September 16th.
iPhone 3G works out of the box with AT&T Pay As You Go SIMs
It was my first time to truly confirm that the rumors were true: a completely virgin iPhone 3G works out of the box with AT&T Pay As You Go SIMs. After about two minutes, the iPhone acknowledged the SIM and threw up an AT&T logo. I made an outgoing phone call without any problems.
Got my phone wet everything works but the backlight is there a way to replace just the backlight??
Hey everyone I just had a question that I wanted some input on... Ever since I upgraded to 2.1 on my iPhone 3g I keep getting prompted to enter my
How do I see my safari menu eg.'file, view, etc when using iphone?
i am having problems staying connected to safari. the page will open but as soon as it loads then the phone exits out of safari to the main screen on
Hey Windows user, don't be so sad that QuickPwn and PwnageTool are only available for Mac users so far for jailbreaking the iPhone 2.1 firmware. \Cmw has been busy lately but according to his website, he and his buddies are gonna be working on a WinPwn update for jailbreaking the 2.1 firmware:
It's been very busy for me recently at work and I haven't had much time to spend on WinPwn.But i'm hoping that planet/squpid and I can get the latest version out soon. I will keep you updated!
Of course, I will report to you when this little piece of software comes out ;-)