When I wiped my iPhone and upgrade to 2.0 software while away from my desktop computer I realized I had no remote access to any of my contacts, tasks, or calendar appointments. They were just trapped on my home PC and awaiting the iTunes fairy to cast its magical sync spell. But now that I’m more grown up (or I guess my iPhone is more grown up – it’s already 2.0!) I didn’t really want to rely on the idea of magical wired synchronization and I started looking for a different solution.
Your hear far too often about hackers developing cracks for the iPhone, but it’s not everyday you hear about the iPhone developing its own cracks (cue laughter…please!). Engadget Mobile posted about some 3G owners developing cracks in their new 16GB iPhones that show up all the more because of that ivory white sheen. Black iPhones aren’t safe either, although the damage is a lot harder to see.
I read through a few of the comments, but saw the usual flame war start to prop up just a few posts down. I did like this line from commenter Jakob Henner, though: “I think the white iPhone 3G is an egg, this is just the beginning. In 2 weeks we will see a lot of Apple-designed dragons walking around.”
If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone running the 2.0 firmware, you’ve currently just got the Cydia application for installing new apps, not the old, familiar Installer app that was the far more ‘mainstream’ option up through firmware 1.1.4.
Good news if you’re hankering for Installer though - an update last week on the RiP Dev blog sounds very positive:
Hi folks! Many of you are wondering what’s up with Installer 4. No, we haven’t slowed down the work on it, and are currently in the final stages of hooking the GUI to the back-end. We will be contacting the authors of the major repositories in a few days to invite them into the testing process and to prepare for the upcoming repository changes.
Installer Kicks App Store’s Arse?
So hopefully we are not far off seeing Installer released for iPhone 2.0 - and it’s looking awfully good in the preview screenshots like the one above. Check out more of them HERE.
After having spent a few weeks with the App Store now, I have to say the content of it (i.e. the number of cool apps) is very impressive. But … the performance, the actual working of the App Store is not so great. I’d say Installer kicked its butt in working solidly and just doing its job reliably.
Another much-anticipated program has made it into the iPhone App Store - the 1Password password manager / digital wallet application.
I’ve been using this app on my Mac, and on the iPhone via its secure bookmarklets - for some months now, and have been very much looking forward to seeing the full iPhone native version. I’ve only just installed it, so no thoughts on it yet, except that I’m glad to see it.
eWallet and SplashID are already very worthwhile apps in this area - now it looks as if we may be spoiled a bit with several good, solid choices for protecting our confidential data on the iPhone.
1Password is available now in the App Store, and is FREE.
Like most of you I’m checking out reviews for nearly everything iPhone App related and this one was just too funny to not pass along. Needless to say I’m just gonna skip this one altogether.
“I’m not sure how this app got up to number three in the rankings. I suppose it is amusing for a bit—attempting to draw something that looks decent or cool—but it loses its charm very quickly. Perhaps a toddler would be more amused by it; (un)fortunately I don’t have access to one at the moment.”
Posted By Lincoln on Monday, July 28, 2008 under General | 5 Comments
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A while ago, we wrote about a way to shorten the time that your iPhone running the 2.0 software takes to sync. In this method, you cancelled the part of the sync in which your iPhone was backed up. While this most certainly does improve sync times, you won’t be happy with yourself when you’re forced to restore your iPhone and you don’t have that backup.
However, iPhoneFreak has discovered another way to improve your times. By default, diagnostic data from your iPhone is sent to Apple every time you sync. (This data does not contain any personal information, only crash logs and the like.) Apparently, this takes a good bit of time as well. Follow the steps after the break to disable this.
First off, you should know that Evernote is not only for iPhone. It also offers a web-based service, and a desktop application for Mac and PC.
Evernote on iPhone allows you to take notes in four four forms: Text Note, Snapshot Note, Saved Photo Note, and Audio Note. Once you have composed a note, it is synced with your Evernote account, and the note will immediately appear in your online account and on your Mac or PC. You can also use a very nice feature to search for text not only in your Text Notes, but in your Photo Notes as well. Once a photo has been synced with Evernote’s servers, text inside photos can be recognized. Read more… »
Palringo is a new instant messaging app for the iPhone, and the first one that supports multiple IM services to make the App Store.
As you can see in the screenshot above, it supports most of the leading IM services, including Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, and Windows Live Messenger.
AT&T also confirmed that sales of the iPhone 3G were "nearly double levels achieved in AT&T’s 2007 iPhone launch" across the 12 days following its US launch. And that’s despite limited availability of the device.
That’s a little excerpt from AT&T’s reporting of their second quarter results last week. I’d been waiting for some sort of comparison of the sales success during the first iPhone launch vs. this year and the 3G model - as it still seems slightly incredible to me that the lines and shortages have carried on this long.
I’m looking forward to seeing more sales numbers from AT&T and Apple to put this all in good context …
Cool jailbreak app of the weekend? No doubt about this weekend’s winner - now that Quake4iPhone has appeared on the Cydia installer.
We’d been seeing reports for quite a bit about Quake getting ported to the iPhone - nice to see it made it.
I’ve only tried the game out briefly today, but it plays well so far. There is an Options area (which I found a little difficult to work with), sound and music, and very little lag when playing. Main thing, it’s quite playable - moving around and firing are easy to do.
It doesn’t make use of the accelerometer - but if you’re a Quake fan, this is a good bit of Sunday fun for sure.
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When I wiped my iPhone and upgrade to 2.0 software while away from my desktop computer I realized I had no remote access to any of my contacts, tasks, or calendar appointments. They were just trapped on my home PC and awaiting the iTunes fairy to cast its magical sync spell. But now that I’m more grown up (or I guess my iPhone is more grown up – it’s already 2.0!) I didn’t really want to rely on the idea of magical wired synchronization and I started looking for a different solution.
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