September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

TomTom’s much-anticipated iPhone GPS car kit has appeared on a number of European Apple online stores, including the UK store. Scheduled to ship in 2-3 weeks, the kit is priced at £99.95 (US$164.10) in the UK and 99.95 Euro (US$147.90) in other European countries, which includes the TomTom iPhone application.

Did you notice?

You get both the TomTom navigation app for your iPhone 3GS or 3G and the docking kit to hold your iPhone securely in place on your dashboard or windscreen.

Details on the car kit, including the user guide, were posted to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s site late last month. The kit, which had been expected to be launched this summer, was pushed back to an October release earlier this month.

TomTom’s car kit contains an external GPS receiver and other hardware features and has been claimed to be compatible with the iPod touch and other GPS iPhone applications from other vendors, but Apple’s product description makes no mention of compatibility with those offerings.

Via macrumors.com

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

When it comes to finding Mr. Right and avoiding Mr. Wrong, the iPhone is about the change the dating game. Thanks to new technology, in a matter of minutes, you could have a person’s entire background at your fingertips. “I haven’t been in the dating game for a while but I have a lot of friends who are, I think it would save a lot of time. I think it’s pretty cool,” says Sohlia Sanchez. The application is called Date Check. If you have names and telephone numbers of the potential person of interest, you can immediately search a massive database a find facts like criminal pasts or if the person is married.

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via myfoxdc.com

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

12seconds.tv, a micro video messaging service dubbed by some as “Twitter for video,” is bringing the same short format to private video messaging in its second iPhone app, 12Mail.

The basic gist of the app, released this week, is that you can record a video, up to 12 seconds, and send it off to one of your friends. Your friend then gets a push notification and can watch it. Read more…

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

AT&T today announced on its Facebook page that a carrier settings update for MMS on the iPhone will be available in the “late morning” Pacific Time on Friday, the previously-announced launch date for the service.

MMS Update: We know you’ve been eager for this service so we wanted to offer a quick update on the launch plans for MMS on Friday, Sept. 25. Late morning, Pacific Time, on Friday, the new carrier settings update enabling MMS should be live and ready to download through iTunes. We’ll provide the steps and all of the details you need right here at that time.

A rumor from earlier today had claimed that AT&T would begin rolling out MMS for the iPhone around 10:00 AM Eastern Time on Friday and that the company was rushing to complete infrastructure improvements to support the expected crush of data upon initial activation from users testing out the service.

Via macrumors.com

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

Extra-hot venti with whip white chocolate mocha?

Yeah, there’s an app for that.

Starbucks has introduced two new applications for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to order and pay for coffee beverages directly from the device.

The myStarbucks application allows you to customize your favorite drink, remember friends’ or coworkers’ preferred drinks and locate nearby Starbucks stores to order them. The app allows you to share your concoction with others (hey, intern!).

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September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

“Apple has approved the first two iPhone apps dedicated to the careers of popular (or, ahem, so we’re told) porn stars”, reports Cnet earlier today. Developed by GrindHouse Mobile and the stars, these apps set a precedent as the first time that Apple has the allowed the porn industry into the store in such an obvious way. While more “in-your-face” then some of the already available apps, the content of these new apps is still rather tame (meaning no nudity), although GrindHouse did admit that the original version was “a little too ‘hot’ for Apple’s compliance department.” and had to be redone to the current ones. Read more…

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

DSLReports claims to have received word from a source noting that AT&T is extremely nervous about the impending launch of MMS for the iPhone scheduled for this Friday. Early testing of the service has apparently already placed a strain on the company’s MMS servers, resulting in a test outage yesterday and a last-minute rush to beef up capacity beyond the measures already taken.

AT&T and its MMS partners are already seeing “record traffic during peak hours of the night” with just the users selected for testing.

That early testing has been a little rocky, with AT&T seeing a fairly significant test outage yesterday Read more…

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Teehan from Teehan+Lax has posted his vision for the iPhone Home Screen. Unfortunately, Apple has prevented any changes to the home screen via the SDK; however, its possible that someone could create an implementation of this for users with jailbroken devices.

You can see from the screens it’s essentially just a scrollable list of applications and notifications. We envision it behaving in much the same way that the list view does in the Calendar application. By default it may track things like missed calls, unread emails and calendar events. But what if users could allow other apps to feed into this screen as well? If I’m a Facebook junkie I’d be able to tell the Facebook app to include certain feeds on my home screen. If I was a frequent traveler I may include the Tripit app to show me my upcoming trips. The options would only be limited by what apps you have installed.

Basically the design allows you to create a scrollable home screen of the stuff that matters to you.

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Via iclarified.com

September 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

If Apple and Eight Mile Style LLC, publisher of artist Eminem, are unable to resolve a dispute by Thursday, the two parties will end up in trial over the sale of songs on iTunes.

The lawsuit stems from 2007, when the rapper sued Apple over the sale of his songs in iTunes, alleging the tracks were sold without his blessing. Also included in the lawsuit is Aftermath Records, the company that controls Eminem’s songs.

According to Reuters, the matter will head to trial this week if the parties involved are not able to reach a last-minute deal. Eminem and Eight Mile Style allege that Apple is providing downloads of the artist’s song through iTunes without proper permission. Apple, along with Aftermath Records, contends that not only is their arrangement legal, but the publisher has received royalties for the sale of songs on the iTunes Music Store.

A conference with Judge Virginia Morgan is scheduled for Wednesday with the Read more…

September 23, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - Cracked .deb's, Cracks

QuickReply for SMS is a new Tweak available in Cydia store that is integrated within the native SMS and allows us to use the function QuickReply to quickly respond to text messages we receive, without leaving the application in use and in compliance graphic style “balloon” of the iPhone.

Unfortunately not free but it costs $ 2.99 and only works on firmware 3.0 or higher. Once installed we will not have to do anything. Every time you receive a message will open the usual pop-ups that will also enable us to respond. QuickReaply for SMS is available on the BigBoss repository.

Download the deb HERE

• Rename the deb to sms.deb
• Copy the file to var/mobile on your iphone
• Open up mobile terminal and do the following
• Type in su (Press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i sms.deb (press return)
• Reboot or respring and enjoy

Note: you will not see an app icon, its a mobile substrate. When you get an sms all you have to do is press reply and you will get to use the quickreply function. Thanks to iPhonix91 over at xsellize for this.

Via ispazio.net