‘iPhone’ Archives
New Snapture MILLION Trial Giveaway
I've written about Snapture in the past but their new release deserves another post. Version 2.1 (compatible with firmware 2.1) contains free trials for people to experience the premium version of this great app. My favorite premium feature is the preview, which allows you to check out the latest photos you've taken without having to quit Snapture [...]
iChinese: learn Chinese
iChinese is a tool to learn writing Chinese characters and a Chinese-English dictionary with handwriting recognition. I have been trying this iPhone app for the past few days, and I really like it. It should be available on Installer, or you can add its own source: http://ichinese.de/repo Once installed, go to the Library and install the first [...]
Video for iPhone
One of the best features of the iPhone is its beautiful screen and video quality. But where do you find video files to play on your iPhone? The first choice would be to buy TV shows or movies from the iTunes Store. They have a fairly good selection of both, but it's not exhaustive. Unfortunately iTunes Store is not available to me, so I have [...]
iPhone Restore
I've been installing/removing apps everyday, and yesterday (4/20) something happened to my iPhone. I upgraded two apps, Sketches and Ringtones at the same time, and I was asked to reboot the iPhone. Once I did that, the touchscreen wasn't responding anymore, and I couldn't use it at all. I even tried calling my number, but it didn't ring. I [...]
Flickr on iPhone
One of the cool things I do with my iPhone is take pictures while I am out and upload them directly to my Flickr account (if I find a wifi point...) There are many ways to do that, here are the ones I tried: - The easiest way is to send the image as an attachment through email. Every Flickr account has a private email for this purpose. I've [...]
How to access iPhone from Windows
Normally iTunes is used to transfer photos, music and video to the iPhone, it also synchronizes some other data (contacts, bookmarks, mail etc..) to your computer. However if you've jailbroken your iPhone, some applications will require to transfer other files directly to the iPhone. For example Books, iComic, weDict etc... Here are a few [...]
Snapture: best camera app
The iPhone camera app works fine for taking photos, but it lacks some basic features. Which is why I was happy to try the app CameraPro. Unfortunately that's a shareware application, so although its features were nice, I didn't feel I needed to buy it. But now there's a new app called Snapture, which is similar to CameraPro but it's totally [...]
Camera.app problem
I recently encountered a problem with my Camera and Photo apps, so I thought I'd share it in case someone else has this same problem. Premise: I took more than 100 photos with my iPhone, so I wanted to copy them to my PC and delete them from the iPhone. Instead of deleting them one by one on the iPhone, I decided to do it on [...]
VoiceNotes
One app that I really like is VoiceNotes (Multimedia). It simply records from the iPhone microphone and can rename/delete files. The files are saved in arm format, but it's pretty easy to convert to other more popular formats. In theory there isn't a time limit, as long as you iPhone has enough battery and disk space. In practice this app [...]
Wanted iPhone Apps
Third party apps are fun to have, but only a few of them are really useful. Which is why I am eager to see the apps for the new SDK. Here is my wishlist: - Amazon/Kindle/ebook reader: right now there is the Books app, but it only supports txt and html files. What if Amazon's new ebook service would integrate with the iPhone? We could [...]
iComic: read comics on your iPhone
This is definitely my favorite app on my iPhone. As you can see from my comics section, I am a huge comics fan. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time for it, however having my comics in my pocket at any time to read is a big help. That's what iComic does. Install it here. Since the author is Japanese, the menus are all in Japanese, however [...]
Games on iPhone
I am not a huge gamer, I managed to avoid that addiction, since I already have so many. However there are some 3rd party games available on Installer, so here are some of the ones I've tried. - FiveDice: if you've ever played Yatzee, this is the game app for you. Don't know how much fun it is to play by yourself, but it's well done. - [...]
Google on iPhone
Google recently released their mobile version of many of their services, and they work very well on the iPhone. Gmail loads very quickly, and it contains all the feature you need. You can also view your Google Docs files, but not edit them. Unfortunately the calendar doesn't work here, not sure if it's blocked here or what. However there is [...]
Controlling your PC with your iPhone
Sometimes we would like to control our PC while we're away from it, and the iPhone can be useful in this regard. - Signal is a way for you to control your iTunes from the iPhone. You install a small program on your PC, then in your iPhone you surf to your PC's IP address and you will see an interface for your iTunes. You can play/stop tracks, [...]
Fun to have Apps
Here are some fun to have apps. - Sketches: you can draw with your finger, even choosing a photo as background. My kid loves to play with this. - Pianist/PocketGuitar/Drummer: these are apps that simulate these instruments, and they sound very good. For Pianist it is even possible to record your performance and play it back. Drummer has many [...]
Wikipedia on iPhone
One of the coolest advantages of a portable internet device, is being able to find information anywhere/anytime. Wikipedia is arguably the best place to start the search, regardless of the subject. So how does it work with the iPhone? You could simply go to Wikipedia.org on your iPhone, but the layout will be a little difficult to read. Safari [...]
Using GPRS on iPhone
It is possible to use GPRS on the iPhone for people living outside US. This is actually very simple to do: Go to Settings -> General -> Network -> EDGE and enter the corresponding APN/username/password. Each country/carrier might have a different one, so Google yours. For China it is 'cmnet' for APN, empty for the rest. Now I [...]
Upgrading to 1.1.4.
When I bought my iPhone, the firmware was 1.1.2., and I was using the StealthSim to unlock it. However I decided to upgrade it to 1.1.4. and unlock and jailbreak it again. The process was faily simple, here are the steps I took: - Before upgrading I synched the iPhone with iTunes, so that iTunes made a backup copy of my iPhone (it does this [...]
How to make ringtones for iPhone
The iPhone has many ringtones by default, but it's always useful to be able to assign a custom ringtone to a certain contact. There is an easy way to do this, you can click here to find out. To briefly summarize: - Get an mp3 file, cut a 30 seconds clip (using a free editor like Audacity) - Convert it to AAC (with iTunes) - Change the file [...]
iPhone Formatted Websites
The iPhone has probably the best mobile internet browser. It is so popular that there are now many sites that have an iPhone compatible version of their site. - Some sites have a version of their website specifically for the iPhone. - Other sites have a general mobile version that also looks good on the iPhone. - A third type of site is one [...]