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When the iPhone App Store launched last Friday along with the new 3G iPhone, free apps made up 24 percent of the 552 apps available. In other words, the most popular price point was free. The rest of the apps ranged in price from 99 cents to $9.99 and even more. Instead of dictating a uniform price, as he did with music, Steve Jobs let the market decide what price apps should go for. The market is already doing that sorting.

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With the iPhone 3G Apple's playing for keeps. Not only is this iPhone's Exchange enterprise support aiming straight for the heart of the business market, but the long-awaited 3rd party application support and App Store means it's no longer just a device, but a viable computing platform. And its 3G network compatibility finally makes the iPhone welcome the world over, especially after Cupertino decided to ditch its non-traditional carrier partnerships in favor of dropping the handset price dramatically. $200? We're still a little stunned.

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Blogging through Safari is practically impossible on the iPhone due to the excessive real estate taken up by the keyboard. Native apps have the potential to make the whole ordeal much more manageable, and they could spawn a new trend of bloggers who post while on the road.

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It is certainly possible to make money selling software at $5 or $10 a pop, but you have to do significant volume to make it pay. $20-$49/pop can add up pretty quickly (as many successful shareware authors can attest to), but $5-$10/pop requires real volume.

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Apple finally let developers know when their iPhone apps will be live on the App Store for users to download and use: around 9 am PST Thursday morning. That, at least, is when the embargo lifts and press can start writing about the specific applications. Presumably the App Store will go live, along with iPhone 2.0 software in general, around that time.

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Lextech Labs introduced iRa, a remote surveillance viewing and control system that puts the power of multiple live video feeds and direct camera pan-tilt-zoom control in the palm of your hand on an iPhone or iPod Touch.

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iPhone 2.0, of course, is the operating system that will come preinstalled on iPhone 3G models when those start shipping on Friday, July 11. iPhone 2.0 will also be available as a free software upgrade to people who have first-generation iPhones. Here's a preview of some of the ways in which iPhone 2.0 differs from iPhone 1.0.

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Before, during, and after the introduction of the iPhone 3G, many people were hoping/asking/whining for a better camera in the iPhone. One with more than 2 megapixels, that is. Unfortunately, more megapixels wouldn't have made the iPhone camera better. The extra pixels wouldn't help with anything, in fact, and could even hurt under some circumstances.

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Not only has Apple whacked as much as $200 from the iPhone price and made it capable of working on a faster wireless network, but the company is also adding a wide range of software features that may make it more appealing to consumers and business users alike. The new iPhone is due in July.

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OmniGroup's plan for the iPhone version of OmniFocus was not to be merely a companion to the desktop version, and since day one has planned a standalone version of OmniFocus. That means that, unlike some other projects, OmniFocus for the iPhone allows its user nearly the full spectrum of capability you expect from such an application. This includes adding, deleting, and editing tasks, organizing and prioritizing those tasks, and marking tasks as complete.

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Sketches allows iPhone owners to draw on top of photos they synced from iPhone or snapped with the built-in camera. The killer "feature" is the ability to shake your iPhone to erase what you had drawn. Compared to the bare bones features you may have played with in the original version of Sketches, the application that the team at LateNiteSoft will be selling on the Apple App Store is nigh unrecognizable.

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Apple today introduced the new iPhone 3G, combining all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

Continue reading "iPhone 3G - perfection unleashed" »

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Apple today introduced MobileMe, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe applications include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online.

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A June 9 launch date for the iPhone 2? No surprises there, and now it looks like inside sources are confirming the June 9 date, which is also when Steve Jobs' keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled.

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PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone. See the latest tweets from your contacts, update your status remotely, or see what's happening around the world by viewing the public timeline - all via EDGE or WiFi.

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It's a long time coming but there is finally a file sharing application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Hahlo is the original Twitter client for iPhone/iPod Touch. It's built on top of the great APIs provided by Twitter and Summize. Just one of the great new features in version 3 is the search capabilities that are made possible via the Summize API. Hahlo 3 has an all-new menu which brings all the great features right to your fingertips. Hahlo's aim is to provide as much of the Twitter.com functionality as possible, in an interface that is as easy to use as it is on the eyes.

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Now that's what I'm talking about :)

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A recent patent application filed by Apple suggests that the company might be considering the development of an iPhone in a flip phone design. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that you can expect a flip phone from Apple, but it is certainly possible if the company were to diversify their product line.

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StatCounter says that iPhone took 0.06 percent of the total Internet browser market in the UK in March, behind Nokia with 0.15 percent. "iPhone already has three times the Internet browser market share of BlackBerry (0.02 percent) in the UK [and] Sony Ericsson has 0.01 percent of the UK market...iPhone and iTouch combined took 0.9 percent of the UK market in March to date," StatCounter said.

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It's never easy to get a Dear John letter, but it can sting a little more when you're getting the same letter as everyone else. Such is the case with the first wave of iPhone App Store "rejection" letters that Apple is now sending out to developers. Judging from the actual content of the letters, however, they sound more like a stall for more time to get through all the applications than a flat-out pink slip.

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Based on a screen capture of the Parental Controls menu, parents will be able to limit most of the iPhone's major functions. First of all, there appears to be an option for limiting the explicit content played in iTunes. There are also Safari and YouTube options, which could be used for blocking mature YouTube content or certain websites. The iTunes Wi-Fi Store and App Store can also be limited, presumably to prevent children from going on massive music and application purchasing sprees.

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Apple previewed its iPhone 2.0 software, scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as new enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air push email, contacts and calendars as well as remote wipe, and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks.

Continue reading "Apple iPhone 2.0 software beta" »

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Computer companies want more control over the products they sell you, and they're resorting to increasingly draconian security measures to get that control. The reasons are economic.

Control allows a company to limit competition for ancillary products. With Mac computers, anyone can sell software that does anything. But Apple gets to decide who can sell what on the iPhone. It can foster competition when it wants, and reserve itself a monopoly position when it wants. And it can dictate terms to any company that wants to sell iPhone software and accessories.

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Apple today added new models of the iPhone and iPod touch which have double the memory. The iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model for $499, joining the 8GB model for $399. iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model for $399 and the 8GB model for $299.

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Fortunately for anyone with a stylish iBrick adorning their coffee table, there is hope, and that hope's name is iPhone firmware 1.1.3. Braving the dangerous seas of unlocked iPhones and firmware updates, Gizmodo was able to successfully recover a phone originally unlocked with AnySIM, activate it in iTunes for AT&T, make calls, and use data.

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Until the 1.1.3 firmware is successfully hacked by the resourceful iPhone hackers, you can still enjoy all of the features the update is bringing and more with your jailbroken iPhone. Here's a look at 20 outstanding (that's right, 20) third-party iPhone and iPod touch apps.

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Here is a little movie of ProRemote in action connected to a ProTools LE rig.

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Assaults are likely to be in the form of drive by attacks - malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone's Web browser.

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Nokia has unveiled plans to release an iPhone-style touchscreen phone next year as part of a strategy for tackling what it described as "tough competition" from new players in the handset market, including Apple.

It's actually very sad to see a leader like Nokia being completely stunned by the iPhone that illustrated just how much they are behind when it comes to innovation. I just hope the device they plan on releasing is not a complete copy of the iPhone.

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The iPhone has no built-in BitTorrent client yet, but you can use it to access uTorrent remotely from anywhere in the world. The iPhone web interface for uTorrent makes it easy to manage your torrents when you’re away from your desktop computer.

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In an effort to keep up with Apple's changes at a faster speed, the iPhone Dev Team is considering open sourcing AnySIM, the free unlocking solution for the iPhone. In an exclusive talk with Gizmodo, iPhone Dev Team member Sam said that this move could "open a lot of possibilities for the future," mainly in terms of the speed of the updates and avoiding sloppy and possibly dangerous binary patches.

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Greg Joswiak has what you might call a busy job — he’s charged with marketing two of Apple’s biggest hit products, the iPod and the iPhone. That might sound easy considering the buzz Apple’s product announcements generate, but there’s more to the task than promotion; he works with the company’s engineering teams to decide what the next iPods and iPhones will look like, what features they’ll have, and what they’ll cost. In this interview he discusses the iPod and iPhone’s holiday prospects, and the company’s plans for expansion.

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To find out the iPhone's state of security, Fast Company magazine purchased an iPhone for Rik Farrow, a UNIX specialist and consultant, and commissioned him to crack through its defenses, which he did using H D Moore's Metasploit, a popular platform for testing security systems.

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It's been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide. Hidden in the code of the “Stocks” and “Weather” widgets is a string that sends the IMEI of your phone to a specialized URL that Apple collects.

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iPhone fans are finding there's a price to pay for refined design and an innovative user interface. Attempts to force open the iPhone to third-party development - not to mention carriers other than AT&T - have resulted in a tough battle for the hack-minded. But a slew of free, open-source and hacker-friendly alternatives are coming to the market or already available, including a few big boys. Here are nine of the best that let you do things the iPhone won't.

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Over the past few weeks, hackers and enthusiasts have given the iPhone’s platform a thorough massage, attempting to break through Apple’s barriers. More often than not, such breaks progress not by unraveling Apple’s attempts at locking things down but rather by circumventing them through the exploitation of some bug or vulnerability in a component of the OS. Mobile Safari and Mobile Mail have come under a lot of scrutiny - imagine creating a (paying, of course!) web page that iPhone users could visit to automatically unlock the phone through the crafty exploitation of an image-based bug.

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Despite the fact that Apple has added extra protections to SpringBoard and created a list of approved identifiers, iPhone hacker asap18 has managed to port several applications to the iPhone and gotten them to appear properly on the home screen. For now, only 15 icons can be added this way--the last spot appears to be reserved for iTunes. The apps have been tested and are working fine.

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Imagine an iPhone from Apple that makes VOIP calls, gets faster-than-Wi-Fi internet access, and boasts weeks of battery life. Best of all, it's not tied to a pokey Edge network. DigiTimes reports the rumor that Apple will base future iPhone versions on Intel's upcoming Moorestown processors that will also be an integrated WiMax platform. Intel has already announced that its Moorestown platform will feature a CPU, fast 3-D graphics, HD video decoding, Wi-Fi and WiMax on a single chip.

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By downgrading your firmware from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 using the method outlined here, all iPhones can get use of third party apps.

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iPhone update 1.1.1 is only available through iTunes, and will not appear in your computer's Software Update application, or in the Apple Downloads site. Here are the details.

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Apple executives say they have discovered that many of the unauthorized unlocking programs cause some software damage to iPhones. Now, a software update that Apple plans to issue later this week that will add features such as accessibility to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store may end up making the touch-screen cell phone completely inoperable if it has been hacked into.

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Brian Lam at Gizmodo writes: "This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required), the free app started up, taking about 30 seconds to find my location by measuring the delay between nearby cell towers and using their known locations to pinpoint where I am. Then it pushes your coordinates, by latitude and longitude, to many, many, many decimal places of degrees, to the map application."

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It's a phone, it's an iPod, it surfs the web. In addition to all of that, the iPhone is also a killer remote control. You could spend hundreds of dollars on a multimedia remote with a touchscreen interface, glorious album art, and all of the fixings, but if you've already got an iPhone, you really don't need to.

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At Apple's "Mum is no longer the word" event in London, O2 has been unveiled as the carrier. The price of the iPhone is £269 including VAT and it goes on sale November 9.

Features and contract

Visual Voicemail is enabled as are unlimited data with £35, £45 and £55 plans. You'll be able to transfer your number from your current provider to O2.

The iPhone comes with an 18 months contract. There is a limit though - 1400 Internet pages per day would break the deal as part of a fair usage agreement.

3G and WiFi

Contrary to previous reports, the iPhone still does not support 3G. According to Apple, 3G chipsets are real power hogs but they plan to solve the problem by next year.

O2 is in agreement with Cloud for 7500 FREE WiFi spots in the UK, this should make many that can't do without 3G to change their mind.

iTunes

iTunes will work in the UK just like it does in the US. It will allow you to select your plan, activate your iPhone and update it. The iTunes WiFi Music Store is coming to the UK this month.

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Apple probably isn't worried too much about all the people working to unlock the iPhone. It has the technical upper hand, and the vast majority of consumers aren't interested in putting their iPhone at risk. It's all about planning. There are plenty of upgrades and new services to be offered by the iPhone over the next two years. Customers will, by and large, want those free services.

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With the help of some free, open-source software, you can unlock your iPhone in about an hour, free of charge. Here's a tutorial on how to do it.

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Almost overnight, a booming market for unlocked iPhones has mushroomed in the United States and Europe. This week, hackers released the first software for unlocking the iPhone, freeing up the device from AT&T's network and enabling it to be used on any GSM network in the world. In the United States, sellers on Craigslist are hawking unlocked iPhones for between $450 and $700, a significant markup on the $400 devices.

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Michael Calore at Wired writes: "I've been tearing my hair out today trying to get our test iPhone unlocked and working with a T-Mobile SIM card. I've managed to get the phone opened up via the different "jailbreak" methods, but that's as far as I've gotten. The rest is a total head-scratcher for non-supergeeks like me, and it's obvious both the manual and GUI processes for unlocking the iPhone are not ready for average consumers."

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Here’s a little known secret: bookmarklets work on your iPhone. Bookmarklets are little pieces of Javascript code that can be saved as ordinary bookmarks in your web browser. They enhance your browsing experience by giving you super-instant access to useful tools and special functionality.

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In an open letter to early iPhone adopters Steve Jobs wrote: "...we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned."

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In the event of a price drop, Apple Stores will automatically refund you the difference if the price drop occurs within 14 days of the date of purchase. AT&T accepts returns within 14 days and likely has a similar pricing policy. The online Apple Store covers price drops for 10 days (instead of 14, I have no idea why this different), but I suspect they'd overlook that in this case. In any case, if you purchased an iPhone in the past two weeks, getting a refund should be no problem, no matter where you bought it.

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The iPhone has lots of things other mobiles don't: Wi-Fi, touchscreen control, highly advanced wallet-draining power. But by far its most distinctive feature is the ability to impress the pants off young and old alike. Of course, if you want to get the most out of the iPhone's pocket reality-distortion field, you have to do a bit of optimization. Try it yourself.

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A set of modifications to the iPhone's home screen icons.

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Michael DeAgonia writes: "Now I know. The iPhone is the first phone I've liked in well over six years. To call the iPhone the best phone I've ever used is the biggest understatement of the decade. It's like saying Jupiter is big, or infinity a long time. From the moment you pick it up, you can feel the weight and sturdiness of the phone, inspiring the sort of confidence you get from a quality build. The display is gorgeously integrated, the streamlined face covered by glass. Finally -- a design worthy of being called a design!" The entire in-depth review is here.

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When pressed during the Q&A about the striking similarity to the iPhone, Nokia's Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia said, "If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride." Check out the video of the device at Engadget and wonder what's going through their mind.

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Will Apple and AT&T's legal action deter hackers? Hardly. Individual users are already allowed to unlock their own phones under an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that the U.S. Copyright Office issued last November. The exemption, in force for three years, applies to "computer programs…that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network."

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The long-term viability of the iPhone is unlikely to be seriously damaged by reports of a serious security vulnerability that allows hackers to take over the device. Most early iPhone adopters have bought into the Apple mythology which convinces them that anything blessed by Steve Jobs is automatically desirable, so we won't see a mass return of the shiny devices with their slick interface.

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Engadget confirmed with 100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US.

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There so much truth in this regarding Microsoft it's scary :)

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Technophiles may love the iPhone, but you criminals? Watch out. The iPhone may reveal more about your misdeeds than you realize.

Derrick Donnelly, chief technology officer of Blackbag Technologies, a company specializing in Apple forensic solutions, is tempted by the rich array of potential evidence an iPhone might contain. Will its data favor the defense or the prosecution? "There is more information in there than your average cell phone," explains Donnelly. "The ease of use lends itself to more use … and more use creates more artifacts."

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Apple has succeeded in committing European mobile phone operators that want exclusively to sell its new iPhone to share parts of their revenues with the technology group. The contract was signed by T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK. The contract requires that the operators hand over to Apple 10 per cent of the revenues made from calls and data transfers by customers over iPhones.

Sad news go to iPhone fans in other counties since Apple will apparently limit iPhone’s European launch this autumn to the UK, France and Germany. It will continue the roll-out elsewhere in Europe next year, when it will also launch in Asia. This means I won't be getting one until 2008...

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Developing for the iPhone is a breeze. The ads say that the iPhone gives you access to the Internet as is rather than some mobile version of it, and the ads are right: you can browse to your normal pages just as you would on your Mac or PC. But toolkits like the iUI interface builder help give the application a more genuine iPhone look and feel—handy with applications like this XML and PHP-driven iPhone remote.

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If you wanted to install third-party native software in your iPhone but you didn't had the necessary technical knowledge or courage, the newly updated iPhone Installer.app will make it so easy that it will be very hard to resist.

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Here's a mockup of what it might look like to copy/paste on the iPhone as told by an alien looking guy :)

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This is just plain silly...

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Macenstein has a gallery with 28 images in which you can see what ColorWare do when you send them your iPhone. Looks pretty sweet to me :)

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Below is a video of the InfoNES emulator running natively on the iPhone. Binaries and source available here.

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An Apple fanboy underwent a vasectomy to get an iPhone, following his wife's orders after a road trip with his kids to Boise, Idaho. But fear not, dear readers-with-your-manly-parts-still-intact, because his amazing tale of heroic Apple fandom doesn't include any Bobbit-style genital violence.

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A security update for the iPhone does more than just fix critical flaws in the handset. It also looks for and wipes out any modifications that users make to the firmware on their phones, according to hackers looking to unlock the phone. But the security update does not break any of the tools that hackers have so far developed to modify the iPhone's firmware, they said.

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Here’s a quick how-to for people wondering how they can install the iPhone toolchain and try out their own command-line programs.

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Gruber writes: "iSuppli is a “market intelligence” company which, every time Apple releases a major new product, rips one apart and generates an estimated “bill of materials” for the costs of its components. Their estimates always seem to conclude that Apple is generating extraordinarily high profit margins, often in excess of 50%. They issue press releases trumpeting their research, which are then parroted in “Look at Apple’s crazy high profit margins!” stories all over the press. I’m calling bullshit."