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Archive for October, 2007

Here's an iPhone tip for installing your own ringtones on 1.1.1 without having to jail break it. The details are in this blog entry, but the basics are as follows...

You'll need iPhuc, Ringtonator, and a text or plist editor. Then...

1. Prepare your ringtones. Iâ??ve only tried this with m4a files. Your mileage may vary. First, run your ringtone trough Ringtonator. You should now have both an m4a version, and an m4r version of your ringtone.
2. Load up iPhuc and add BOTH files (m4a and m4r) files to the /iTunes_Control » Ringtones directory. (using the putfile command).
3. You need to get the Ringtones.plist file from /iTunes_Control » iTunes using iPhuc and the getfile command. Save a copy of the file in case your make a mistake!
   
   Then youâ??ll need to edit the plist in the p...

Hackers discovered a security flaw in the iPhone software when they were trying to figure out how to install unofficial 3rd party apps. Now some of them have created an exploit that takes advantage of that flaw to jailbreak your phone and install 3rd party apps just by visiting a website. I don’t know how [...]
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The Wall Street Journal is claiming that Google will announce it’s gPhone within the next two weeks. The phone itself will be manufactured and sold by hardware partners like HTC. T-mobile is the most likely carrier partner in the US. The expectation is that the phone and service will both be priced cheap, underwritten by [...]
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An automated windows tool called iDemocracy for “jailbreaking” iPhones running the 1.1.1 firmware to allow the installation 3rd party apps has been released. If you’ve unlocked your iPhone, make sure you “revirginize” it first. This will allow you to install the latest version of the free AnySIM unlocking tool. Similar Posts:Unlock iPhone 1.1.1 With New Version of [...]
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It’s been about a week since the first methods for “jailbreaking” the iPod Touch and iPhones running the 1.1.1 firmware to allow the installation of third party apps. Now Mac users have an easy way to jailbreak their iPhones with the latest release of iFuntastic. Enjoy your 3rd party apps! Similar Posts:Unlock [...]
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I discovered that it is possible to type email, text messages, and enter text in most western languages. Simply tap and hold the button for the letter that most closely resembles the one you'd like to type. While holding the key down, an additional menu will appear where you can select the desired letter or accent.

For instance, to get an é, simply tap and hold E and select desired letter with accent from pop-up menu.

[robg adds: This feature was added with the iPhone 1.1.1 update, but as of now, it's not yet documented in the iPhone's user manual (which hasn't been updated for 1.1.1), nor anywhere that I can find on the iPhone support pages or even in the what's new video.]

Having used the iPhone for some testing, I saw that some SMSes corrupted the database file and the SMS app no longer worked. It would simply quit when I tried to open the SMS. The Apple suggested way to fix this problem would be to reset the iPhone by using the Settings » General » Reset » Erase all Content and Settings. But this would mean that you would have to resync your iPhone again. The easiest way I have found to do this is as follows.

1. Install iNdependence 1.2.2.
2. Install AppTap.
3. Download any Terminal app from within the AppTap installer on the iPhone.
4. Open the terminal app and enter these commands:

   $ bash
   $ rm Library/SMS/*

   Note that you will lose all your saved SMS messages.
5. Exit the terminal app.
6. Restart your iPhone.

Your SMS app should now be as good as new while all your othe...

If you're on another Mac and want to sync a song/video to your iPhone, iTunes will clear your Music/Video Library. But the iPhone syncs Podcasts separately from the Music/Video Library, which means you can use Atomic Parsley to rewrite some flags on your songs/videos, and iTunes will sync the song/video as Podcasts without touching your Music/Video Library.

So, grab Atomic Parsley, and run it with these modifiers (URL and GUID can't be blank):

... --podcastFlag true --podcastURL 'www.google.com' --podcastGUID '0000'

Now drag your song/video over to iTunes, and it'll show up as a Podcast and sync without touching your Library. Friendly note: The Podcast will show up by Artist metadata or podcastURL. This hint inspired by the methods covered in this one.

After an ill-advised (the site is somewhat dysfunctional even in desktop Safari) visit to a local book seller's web site on my iPhone crashed Safari, I found that I could no longer use Safari. Every time I opened it, it would be unresponsive for a few seconds, then crash, taking me back to the iPhone's home screen. Since Safari attempts to re-load the last visited site, it would attempt to reload the book seller's site upon launch and just crash again. Catch-22.

So I opened Mail, went to a message with a URL in the body and clicked that. That caused Safari to launch and open the URL passed by Mail. Problem solved!

I've been frustrated by the way we change the volume on the iPhone. The side button makes too large of a change, for my taste, with a single tap. But when I try to use the on-screen slider, I find I also have a hard time because my finger covers up the slider knob, so I can't see when I try to make small changes. I've discovered a way around this. If you put your finger on the slider knob and start to move it, you can then move your finger (keep it in contact with the screen) quite far away -- I move my finger up into the main screen area -- and the slider will still move. Now I can make the small changes I want and watch the slider knob move without my finger blocking my view.