A month or two back, I shelled out US$4.99 to pick up a copy of yxplayer, a video playback utility available on the App Store. Yxplayer isn’t particularly user friendly or over designed. I am also about as far away from yxplayer’s core demographic as anyone can get. (More about that later.) And yet, I’m going to give it a double pair of thumbs up and recommend it to anyone who owns a video-capable camera that shoots AVI video. Read more…

Although iControlPad never materialized, gPod, an iPhone case with an integrating gaming control pad, hopes to see the light of day.

Interfacing with the Apple 30 pin connector and providing tactile buttons in the conventional game pad layout, the iPhone Game Pad allows a massive library of arcade and console games to be ported to the iPhone and not loose that old school interface that people who grew up in the 80′s and 90′s enjoyed so much. Read more…

After a couple of years of fighting with Apple the EFF successfully deemed that jailbreaking or unlocking your iphone is not illegal. The good ol library of congress has made it official check out the ruling (HERE). Jailbreaking was never illegal and never could have been illegal, Apple argued that jailbreaking was copyright infringment (Article HERE). To all of those people that were afraid of jailbreaking because of the law, Welcome . Below is an excerpt from the AP:

wners of the iPhone will be able to break electronic locks on their devices in order to download applications that have not been approved by Apple. The government is making that legal under new rules announced Monday….Another exemption will allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.

To the new jailbreakers that hit the scene with easy to use tools such as blackra1n and spirit, it wasn’t always that easy. I take that back, it was actually very easy to jailbreak the first iphone 2g since all you had to do is visit a website but enough talk listen to the videos for a quick brief on the history of jailbreaking. Part 1 above and part 2 below.

Engadget reports AT&T is set to narrow its plan offerings by combining the new ‘Data Pro’ and ‘Data Plus’ with new calling plans. Essentially, the difference between each respective plan is the higher end gets unlimited texting while the cheaper goes the ‘pay-per-use’ method. The spy shot below explains everything else.

Engadget has more pics for you to enjoy.

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Here is a quick interview with Jay Freeman better known as Saurik talking about the upcoming iphone 4 jailbreak. Saurik is the creator of cydia and is part of the dev team in a way.

Apple has started their free iPhone 4 case program. The rules are simple, download their specific iphone app made for the program using your iPhone 4, launch it and sign in using your itunes id and then select the case or bumper you would want.

It may be hard for you guys to find in the appstore but just search specifically for iphone 4 case program. As of right now i’m having problems getting the app to work I can’t sign in, im sure everyone is overloading their servers so if it doesn’t work you can try again later.

Cases available:

Apple Bumper
Incase Snap Case (Smoke/Clear)
Belkin Shield Micra (Clear)
Griffin Motif (Smoke)
Griffin Reveal Etch (Black/Black Graphite)
Speck Fitted Case (Black Tartan)
Speck PixelSkin HD (Black)

Apple really has had a terrible time with the launch of its most succesful product ever, the iPhone 4  — this morning the company has been forced to admit that white models of the iPhone 4 won’t ship until later this year, citing manufacturing problems.

Statement follows:

White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.

We’re sure that’s going to leave some customers disappointed, but let’s face it — sales are so brisk at the moment most of us are having a tough time getting an iPhone at all, let alone the white model.

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The style gurus at iColor Wraps have created the one thing that iPhone 4 has been missing. It’s that familiar glow in the dark magic that will make drunk dialing at night twice as much fun as it was before.

This latest color wrap sensation transforms any regular iPhone 4 into a glow stick party animal all night long. The makers of iColor Wraps also loosely suggest that their thin designer vinyl strip, acts as an insulator against hand-held signal loss when applied correctly. Read more…

iNES is an NES emulator for your iPhone / iPod Touch. It has many features and runs great on any device. Features include:

- Multiple save slots.
- Landscape and portrait views.
- Game Genie cheat code support.
- Download roms directly to your device with the built-in browser and downloader.
- High quality sound.
- Excellent rom compatibility.
- Wiimote support (The latest version of the free BTStack is required)
- Multiplayer support using two wiimotes on one iPhone/iPod Touch

Thanks to case for his support, it allows us to try before we buy.

You can install this easily via TheSpot’s cydia repo