Via http://theiphoneproject.org

As of tomorrow, Sunday, March 30′th, the long awaited project iPhone PWNED will be available to the public! – it’s what we’ve seen on YouTube and many of us have disbelieved. However, it is real and allows for custom unsigned firmware to be flashed on to the iPhone.

Here is a quick rundown interview with the developers:
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Via Phone Magazine
Poring through the latest iPhone 2.0 firmware that Apple has distributed to developers, The Boy Genius spotted that a new YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app has been added. At present, video embedded into webpages won’t display in the iPhone’s browser, and only YouTube content is visible in a separate program. It’s unclear right now whether this new plugin will simply embed the separate YouTube app into the webpage, or is a sign of more advanced Flash development on Apple’s part.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has previously criticised Adobe’s Flash offerings, claiming the full desktop version to slow and the specially-formatted mobile version not good enough for the iPhone. In response, Adobe examined the iPhone SDK to see whether they could code a unique version of their embedded Flash viewer for the handset; however, Apple’s third-party software rules scuppered any chance of that, as they do not allow for Safari plugins, only standalone apps.

As it stands, then, the only possibility for an official Adobe Flash solution with the current SDK is if Apple gives them special treatment and permits a version of their software to work with Mobile Safari. This new Firmware 2.0 plugin could be a sign of that, but it’s simply too early to say.

A new version, v3.0, of Zibri’s ZiPhone is now available. This version is compatible with all currently available iPhone and iPod Touch firmwares, from v1.0.0 to v1.1.4 and can now fix a problem with WiFi that occurred to some users.

New features in v3.0:

- No more need to fix nvram!
- Solution for GREYED wifi!
- No need for YouTube Fixes!
- Embedded apps installer!
- Customized plugins !

For more info on the customized plugins option read the included documentation.

Direct downloads:
- ZiPhone v3.0 for Windows (18MB)
- ZiPhone v3.0 for Mac (19MB)

Visit the project page at ziphone.org for support and to donate to Zibri for his hard work.

Another neat new program (actually, two of them) popped up online for complete GUI iPhone and jailbreaking. Both of the programs (one is for Mac, the other is for Windows machines), just like ZiPhone, can unlock any existing and currently available iPhone firmware version (from v1.0.0 to v1.1.4 — it can also jailbreak the iPod Touch).

The programs provide a nice clean, user-friendly interface, and can also fix the no EDGE/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth problem some may have run into. It even automatically shuts down iTunes and detects which type of device is connected (iPhone or iPod Touch), and then changes the settings accordingly.

Direct downloads:
- iLibertyX Mac iPhone unlocker (18MB) – visit the project page for more info and screens
- iLiberty+ Windows iPhone unlocker (23MB) – visit the project page for more info and screens

via UnWiredView.com

Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player.

But that does not mean that developers inside Apple are leaving all this to the third parties. They are also busy, thinking up a whole lot of new things that an iPhone could do.

And recent patent applications provide us with a glimpse of the things to come.

When I started browsing through these patents , I first thought that it was just a new fitness application for iPhone:

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At the special event earlier this month where Apple laid out the future of developing software for the iPhone, the company said that it would be providing the full suite of its existing development tools, such as Xcode, for creating iPhone applications. However, in the first version of the SDK that was rolled out, there was one notable omission from that lineup: Interface Builder, the application that lets developers easily design the UI of their program.

Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Which, as you might have guessed, was today. A new version of the SDK—build 9A2151 for the alphanumerically curious among you—has been posted, including the anticipated Interface Builder.

That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues for what Apple calls the “Beta 2” release; Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders
other than the default /Developer.” So be a good little feller and install it where it wants to go.

Caterpillar is an unique package of little tools for your iPhone that can be installed separately from each other. Each module provides its own set of features aimed to make your use of iPhone more productive and fun. Customization, business tools, quick contacts search, system font replacement and many more — constantly growing as we add new tools and functionality.

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per TheGreenerGrass.org

We were inspired by the energy visualization concepts and the lack of well design device timers to create this high tech system to help individuals take control of their energy usage. Current State is a real-time energy use monitoring system and timer for powered devices combined into one. The Current State system is made up of two parts, a mobile application for you cell phone, which allows you to control and monitor electricity use from anywhere, and a series of Plug-Ends that give you control over the products around your house.

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via pocketnow.com

The recent announcement of a software development kit and the Microsoft Exchange Activesync support for the iPhone has raised the eyebrows of a few users who have remained hesitant from switching to the iPhone. Our own Brandon Miniman even exclaimed that now that the iPhone has Exchange support, various device form factors was the only reason left to stick to Windows Mobile.

On the contrary, here are 42 reasons you still don’t want an iPhone: Read the rest of this entry »

O’Reilly has released a book on developing applications for a jailbroken iPhone. “iPhone Open Application Development”, is written by Jonathan Zdziarski, who’s actually responsible for making NES.app and countless other unauthorized iPhone programs.

While the book doesn’t teach you how to use Apple’s official SDK, you will learn how to access the iPhone’s OS, gain understanding of therefore and creating applications for it, using iPhone’s Objective-C framework, and other things… which in the end will make you understand the workings of the SDK as well as the iPhone itself much better better. After all that’s exactly what this book teaches: developing third party apps without the need of SDK.