Voice Control on iPhone 2G/3G

apps, Cydia, tricks November 20th, 2009

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LockScreen Tricks with LockDockBar and QuickUnlock

apps, Cydia, tricks October 29th, 2008

Both released tonight via the MMi Cydia repo LockDockBar and QuickUnlock provide some extra features and functionality to your iPhone’s lockscreen.

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LockDockBar

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

Fring avaible now in AppStore for free. Modification version support VoIP over 3G.

apps, AppStore October 6th, 2008

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

Great iPhone trick not everyone knows

tricks September 16th, 2008

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

Erica Sadun

books March 24th, 2008

Unleash your iPhone and take it to the limit using secret tips and techniques from gadget hacker Erica Sadun. Fast and fun to read, Taking Your iPhone to the Max will show you how get the most out of Apple

Internationalize your iPhone .com key

news, tricks March 23rd, 2008

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).

iPhone Accented Trick

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.

iPhone internationalization trick

yFlicks – Home of Your Movies

apps, Mac March 23rd, 2008

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.

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The update also adds stand alone application TubiTunes, which lets you add an online web video (YouTube, CollegeHumor, DailyMotion, Metacafe) to your iTunes library with just one click. Most importantly you can convert movies to iPhone-readable format.

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