Voice Control is an exclusive feature of iPhone 3GS which enables its users to make phone calls and play music by using voice commands. Some folks over at this forum have released a Voice Control look-alike app for iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G which works and looks almost exactly as it is on iPhone 3GS.
Both released tonight via the MMi Cydia repo LockDockBar and QuickUnlock provide some extra features and functionality to your iPhone’s lockscreen.
This utility puts your Phone, Mail, SMS, and Calendar apps on your lock screen above slide to unlock for quick and easy access. Just a quick install from Cydia and you can access all four of the applications mentioned above with a quick finger tap from the lockscreen. No slide to unlocked needed.
QuickUnlock
QuickUnlock provides more options for locking/unlocking your iPhone. If your phone is locked simply hit the home button three times to unlock temporarily. After you hit the home button three times you’ll be able to browse around your home screen for 10 seconds. If you do not choose an app or hit the home button again during those ten seconds your phone will re-lock automatically.
originally posted at MMi
Back in April I wrote about the availability of fring on the iPhone
You may recall that fring is a VoIP application lets you use Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo!, and AIM clients to chat and instant message. Well, the good news is that fring is available now for free in the Apple App Store.
Fring team have added many new features to this version including ‘history tab’, ‘privacy settings’, ‘easy dialing from the main buddy list’ and many bug fixes.
This is a brand new, straight from the oven fring version (V1.0.1.4)
Trick. Original version doesn’t support VoIP over 3G. It was intendent due agreement with mobile operator. You can remove the restriction installed modification version of Fring
Today i realised myself useful iPhone trick. When you have a call with someone and need to check information on your iPhone e.g. SMS or e-mail data, some necessary note or contact phone number you don’t need to hang up. Just press Home button once and you will return to the home screen. You will see ”touch to return to call” green banner at the top of the phone.
You can run any application you want. But you can’t use 3G/GPRS/EDGE requests while you calling. When i was trying to run Weather or Stocks apps i got an error message ”Cellular data connections are not available during this call”. To return to you call screen you can touch on the green banner or just press Home button twice.
Good luck :)
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Today Mac OS X hints offers an easily overlooked internationalization hint. You probably know already that you can hold down a key on the iPhone keyboard to select international versions of a character (eg. Accented characters).
What you might not have know about was the regional domains. In settings, choose General > Keyboards and enable some of those international keyboards.
Next go to Safari and start to enter a new URL. Tap the globe to switch the active keyboard from US English to some other nationality. (Russian is shown here.) Finally, tap and hold the .com button. After a second, a regionalized version of .com appears just to the left of the default.
Many Tricks has released yFlicks 3.3, updated version of its movie manager and viewer for Mac.
With yFlicks, users can download, tag, organize and view their movies. This update adds coverflow for browsing your movies both in window and fullscreen mode, lets you access your iTunes movies from yFlicks, improves downloading from video communities such as YouTube, and features many other small improvements.
It costs €16.95. However if you have an older version of yFlicks, update will be free. But if it’s a bit too much you can also purchase TubiTunes alone for €4.95. As usual, there is a trial version available for download.
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