Safari Download Manager is an extension that adds a powerful, highly-configurable download manager to the iPhone’s web browser. Like never before, you can take control over downloaded file types, and harness the true power of the network connection on your device.
After demonstrating Android running on his iPhone 2G, Planetbeing has succeeded in porting Android OS to the iPhone 3G.
Here is some comments on the progress made to PCWorld.
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We’ve also made several other improvements to the original port in this version. Along with many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes, the Wi-Fi driver has been fleshed out with all the Android-specific extensions, making it more stable and reliable. We’ve also added an Android icon to the boot menu to make it more easily accessible.. Read more…
AT&T may have extended its iPhone exclusivity via an iPad data deal that Apple couldn’t refuse and competitors wouldn’t match.
“AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad,” says Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst at BroadPoint AmTech. Read more…
We love our iPads. We wouldn’t dream of giving them up. And yet, there are ways and situations where the iPhone simply works better. Without taking potshots at our beloved iPad, here is TUAW’s respectful list of mega-win scenarios where the iPhone takes first place in usability.
Making phone calls. Yes, you can use line2 to convert your iPad into a quasi-phone that accepts incoming calls, or fire up the Skype app, but for real-world use, nothing beats a device that you can stick into your pocket and then forget about. It rings, you answer, you talk, you hang up. It’s a lot easier to use an iPhone than an iPad to make phone calls. Read more…
Comedian Ellen Degeneres claimed she upset Apple officials with a parody of the company’s iPhone commercials, prompting the talk show host to apologize for jokingly portraying the touchscreen device as difficult to use.
The host of the syndicated program “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” said on her program that representatives from Apple contacted her regarding a parody commercial she had aired on her program. Read more…
An iPod widget and orientation lock have been discovered in the latest iphone OS 4.0 Beta, according to 9to5Mac.
If you flick to the left of your first window of open apps, you are greeted with a few new buttons. A stationary iPod button to quickly launch the app, iPod music controls, and Orientation lock. The orientation lock is just like on the iPad, but instead is controlled via this new menu. Tap once to lock in portrait, and again to unlock. The iPod music controls are similar to the ones that used to appear when you double clicked the home button.
It’s possible that Apple could expand on this functionality with future betas providing widgets that could perform other tasks.
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The one feature the ipad doesn’t have is voice control, can you believe we spent five hundred plus for this thing and we don’t even get voice control which is what the ipod touch and iphone 3gs have its ridiculous I must say. This tutorial will show you how to simply edit a plist on your jailbroken ipad and activate voice control. Another reason to jailbreak your ipad everyone now watch and learn something new.
Update fixes windows users having problems that had to run in windows 98 compatability, this update also fixes the bug that deletes all of your photos after you jailbreak using spirit.
With all of the chaos going on around the lost iPhone case, everyone has more or less assumed that Apple is behind the police department’s actions in searching Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s house late last week. Of course, no one believes that the sheriff is working for Apple, but most people seem to be under the impression that Apple wants to get to the bottom of the case, and that the company is pulling strings in law enforcement to try and do that. Read more…
We did inform you all yesterday that Spirit untethered jailbreak for all the iDevices including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch will be released very soon. And now we have been tipped by our readers that it is in fact coming as soon as this Friday (if all goes according to plan) – the same day on which iPad 3G ships. Read more…