Apple posted New iPhone Ads: Show off Yelp, OsiriX & Classics

Apple is now running a new TV ads for iPhone. The new iPhone ads entitled “Read” focuses on showing off three iPhone applications: Yelp [Free] – Use Yelp to search for place to eat or drink and read reviews from other iPhone users. OsiriX [$19.99] – Use OsiriX to view medical MRI, ultrasound and CT [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year – Celebrating the Year of Ox

Happy Chinese New Year! Today, in Hong Kong and China, we’re celebrating the Chinese New Year – The Year of Ox. I, here, wish all of you have a happy Chinese New Year and Kung Hei Fat Choy! P.S. “Kung Hei Fat Choy” is an usual greeting during Chinese New Year, meaning that “Wish you [...]

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How to Install Winterboard Theme on iPhone without using Cydia

A reader asked, “Sometimes, I stumbled upon websites that offer some great Winterboard themes for download. I know how I can download & install Winterboard theme via Cydia. But I can’t find those themes on Cydia. So, how can I install those themes that are downloaded directly from web?” Very good question. Cydia offers the [...]

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iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak Update & FAQ 

Since the announcement of the possibility of iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak, iPhone Dev team may have kept you waiting for the release of jailbreak tool (codenamed redsn0w). As demonstrated by the team previously, the jailbreak for iPod Touch 2G is a success but the jailbreak process is quite manual and not so straightforward, as you [...]

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Winterboard Theme: Vista Mobile Theme for iPhone

Last time, we have Perform Storm theme that turns your iPhone into Blackberry’s look & feel. Here, Vista Mobile theme for iPhone is another fun theme and makes iPhone look like Windows Vista. Vista Mobile theme is a complete theme designed for Winterboard and comes with customized application icons, fading wallpaper (yeah, the wallpaper is [...]

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Clippy brings “Real” Copy & Paste to iPhone

Forget about Pastebud, forget about MagicPad‘s copy & paste feature. iSpazio released an awesome application called “Clippy” that brings a system-wide Copy & Paste feature to iPhone. Copy & Paste is one of the most-wanted features on iPhone. While we are still for Apple to bundle this feature in future firmware release, developers has put [...]

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Display Calendar Event on iPhone Lock Screen using Lock Calendar

Lock Calendar is a very simple application that does only one thing — display your calendar events on iPhone lock screen. I’m always looking for such free application that makes good use of the iPhone lock screen. Lock Calendar is very promising and exactly what I’m looking for (and probably you too). Lock Calendar is [...]

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iPhone Gmail Tip: Archive Email on iPhone

If you’re an archive junkie and use iPhone’s email application for checking Gmail, this Gmail tip for iPhone, recently published by Google Gmail team, will be greatly useful for you. By default, when you delete a email in iPhone mail application, the email message will be moved to the Trash folder. You probably like this [...]

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iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak: iPhone Dev Team makes the Impossible Possible again…

iPhone Dev Team has announced iPod Touch 2G can now be jailbroken using a software with codename “redsn0w”. This incredible team has once again made the impossible possible. Earlier, they can only manage to jailbreak iPod Touch 1G. But for iPod Touch 2G user, you’ll have to wait for a little while. As mentioned by [...]

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Winterboard Theme: PerfectStorm transforms your iPhone into Blackberry Storm

If you’re bored with your current Winterboard theme, you may give a shot on PerfectStorm. It’s a cool theme that makes your iPhone look like Blackberry Storm. The designer of PerfectStorm theme has demonstrated the power of Winterboard to the full. Unlike most of Winterboard themes that only modify the iPhone icons and wallpaper, PerfectStorm [...]

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App Store: Apple Says 500 Million iPhone Applications Downloaded

Apple today announced at its homepage that it has reached another milestone for App Store — more than 500 million iPhone applications are downloaded. That’s incredible. Since the debut of App Store in early Jul, it only took Apple 7 months to reach such an amazing milestone. Earlier on Dec 5, Apple has mentioned 300 [...]

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Installer 4.0 is now officially Released on iPhone

Installer, which is a Cydia alternative for installing third-party application, has finally come to iPhone officially. As announced by RiPDev, this official release comes along with lots of bug fixes and three language localization: Since its last public beta, it has come underway a significant change — for starters, we have added Greek, Russian and [...]

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Five Icon Dock Hack: Add one more dock icon for iPhone

Previously, I’ve talked about a hack that lets you add the fifth icon column on iPhone Springboard. Some readers mentioned if we can add one more icons to the dock, which by default can only hold four most-frequently-access application icons such as Phone and Safari. Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia, has developed a hack [...]

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Jailbird – WinPwn Replacement will Come Soon

You may have used WinPwn in the old days of jailbreak. The development of WinPwn seems come to a halt after the beta release of WinPwn 2.5. Presently, to jailbreak and unlock iPhone on Windows, QuickPwn from iPhone Dev Team is the only solution. Soon, you’ll see “Jailbird“, a WinPwn replacement to be released as [...]

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