If you're less than confident mucking around with command line interfaces, swapping files and generally monkeying around with the glossy innards of your iPhone then you may have been watching helplessly at all the hacks and third-party add-ons introduced for the handset over the past month or so. Now, however, there's a decidedly simple way to install new applications and be a top-flight tinkerer, with the Installer.app Beta created by ... continued »
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iPhone 3rd-party app Installer
If you're less than confident mucking around with command line interfaces, swapping files and generally monkeying around with the glossy innards of your iPhone then you may have been watching helplessly at all the hacks and third-party add-ons introduced for the handset over the past month or so. Now, however, there's a decidedly simple way to install new applications and be a top-flight tinkerer, with the Installer.app Beta created by ... continued »
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Slick iPhone Facebook portal goes live
Unlike many I'm yet to jump on the Facebook wagon, but for those of you desperate for round the clock contact with your Wall then the social networking site has just released the iPhone app for you. It's a very slick implementation of Facebook formatted for the iPhone's mobileSafari browser, complete with animated tab switching, sensible accommodation of the handset's finger-friendly interface and even the ability to make a call ... continued »
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Skype on the iPhone!
It's not the first way to get Skype up and running on your iPhone, but it promises to be the most elegant (that is, until Skype themselves come up with a client): Shape Services have released a beta of their IM+ for Skype software that is compatible with any Java browser, including Apple's cellphone. Right now the site is obviously getting hammered by early-adopters, and is refusing to play ball, ... continued »
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iPhone Finder project brings file explorer to handset
It's looking like one of the primary reasons those tech-lovers who haven't bought an iPhone give - that the handset doesn't give up access to its innards with such WM-mainstays as a file explorer - are growing less and less relevant. The iPhone Finder project, under the watchful eye of KDBDallas, is working on an explorer program based on the iPhoneNES' ROM viewer.
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NES emulator brings retro games to iPhone
I saw the other day that a programmer under the nickname "stepwhite" had managed to get a usable - but not particularly elegant - port of the InfoNES emulator, complete with games, to the iPhone. At the time it seemed to be more a proof-of-concept than anything else: it ran slowly, relied on you jabbing at an on-screen image of the keypad, and you couldn't save your progress making it ... continued »
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Review: booksoniphone eBook directory
Newly in beta, booksoniphone (http://booksoniphone.com/) is aiming to sate some of the hunger for using an iPhone as a personal ebook reader. With over 20,000 titles to choose from, all of them free, and a made-for-iPhone interface, this could be the ideal way to spend your commute (assuming you don't drive to work). We took a look to see if it can really best your local library.
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Cross-platform chat with Mundu IM
Another day, another iPhone IM client. Mundu IM, however, deserves a little more attention than others we've seen, as it supports a pretty broad bevy of chat standards: Yahoo!, AIM, MSN and GTalk.
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