iPod Nano Recovery Mode
After discovering James Whelton’s SpringBoard.plist hack for the 6G iPod Nano, Steve Throughton-Smith decided to play around with his Nano to see what else he might find. Steve may very well have stumbled on some kind of DFU-like recovery mode, much like the recovery mode that allows customized firmware (or jailbreaking) to be injected into [...]
The C64 iPhone Emulator Is Back Baby
People in their 30′s rejoice, you may now relive your youth on your iPhone, again. The Commodore 64 emulator is available again in the iTunes App Store. (Check the video of it in action after the break) If you don’t remember, back in June Apple removed it from the app store claiming that it violated [...]
iControlPad: Gamepad For Your iPhone
Since the release of the iTunes app store the iPhone and iPod touch have really been pushed as the next great portable gaming platform. Game developers have really started to push the limits of the device but the one major stumbling block has only been the “touch only” interface. The iControlPad looks to change all [...]
App Store Overwhelming? Try Chorus
With the iTunes app store pushing over 100,000 choices it’s easy to see how someone can easily be overwhelmed. If you’re like me you need some clarity amongst the sea of choices. Thankfully there is an app to help you out. Thanks to the wisdom of crowds, Chorus gives you recommendations from people you know [...]
Use Your iPhone To Control Your Car
You knew it was bound to happen. With the iPhone already having apps to control everything from your iTunes to a remote computer you knew that someone would come up with an app to control a car. The Spirit of Berlin team have developed an iPhone app that remotely controls a minivan. They developed the [...]
iPhone App To Crack Combination Locks
Earlier this month we talked about how easy it was to hack a Master Lock (you know, one of those locks we all got in high school) by using some basic math. Well, someone has decided to write an iPhone app that will help you in your endeavor to remember the combination to your old [...]
Rock Band For iPhone Now Available
You can now head over to the iTunes App Store and pick up Rock Band for your iPhone for $10. One of the most anticipated games for Apple’s mobile gaming device lacks all of the hype that was built around it. I decided to dish out the $10 today to play it and besides suffering [...]
Apple Working On Radio App
Rumour has it that Apple is working on a radio app for the iPhone and the Touch. The app will be similar to what they developed for the iPod Nano. That includes the ability to pause like streams and to fast forward when you decide to resume. Radio apps for the iPhone are nothing new. [...]
UPDATE – Beatles Make It Into Rock Band
At the time of this post, further details were yet to be announced, but it appears official, Viacom and MTV Networks (owners of “Rock Band”) have licensed Beatle songs for their Rock Band game. This is a pretty big deal, since even major players like iTunes don’t even have Beatle songs yet. In fact, no [...]
Boxee For Your AppleTV
Don’t like the look of your AppleTV UI? No problem. Boxee, which is a fork of the awesome XBMC project, has just rolled out a version that will work on your AppleTV. Now you can enjoy all of your media without being tied into the iTunes DRM. Boxee installs on a flash drive which you [...]
Is The Apple TV Being Replaced?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting on an email they received about the possibility of the Apple TV being replaced later this month. The email states that resellers should remove all Apple TV displays and destroy them (I hope it’s just the literature and not the Apple TV’s) by September 30th at 5 PM. The [...]
XBMC App For Your iPhone
One of the coolest apps that ever rolled out of the iTunes app store was the Apple Remote app that allowed you to control your iTunes or Apple TV via your iPhone or iPod Touch. This has come in quite handy when I can’t find the remote for my Appple TV. Now you can have [...]
XBMC ‘Atlantis’ Beta 1 Released
The uber cool open source media center application Xbox Media Center (XBMC) has just release the first beta of XBMC Atlantis for all platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux, Xbox, and even on a live cd or thumb drive). Don’t let the beta status scare you, these guys are really close to brining this to production. [...]
PwnageTool And QuickPwn For 2.1
The iPhone Dev Team strikes again. If you really want to run jail-broken apps on your 2.1 iPhone or iPod touch, the iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 devices. The Dev Team has worked around iTunes 8 without having to patch the program, so jail-breakers can try the new tool [...]
Save A Genius Playlist
One of the neat new features in iTunes 8 is the “Genius” playlist builder. Basically, it creates playlists from the songs in your library or from the iTunes store. What’s the big deal with that you ask? Well, it does this based on a track you select from your library. So, in short, you pick [...]
