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How To Use iPhone While iTunes Sync is in Progress

by Simon Ng on August 31, 2010

You should be very familiar the “Sync in Progress” screen. When you sync the iPhone with iTunes, you have to wait until the sync process completes before you can use it. This is trivial for iPhone user and we already get used to it.
However, Coleman Stavish, an iPhone developer, don’t agree with that. He has [...]

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How To Enable iPhone Speak the Name of Caller and Read Text Message

by Simon Ng on August 30, 2010

Recently, there are quite a number of interesting app released on Cydia. CallTell is one of them. In brief, CallTell is a hack for jailbroken iPhone that tells who’s calling when you receive a call. The hack simply looks up your contact list on iPhone and speak out the name of caller before your iPhone [...]

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Tired of “Slide to Unlock”? Hack to Use Volume Button to Unlock iPhone Screen

by Simon Ng on August 21, 2010

Recently, Apple awarded patent for the iPhone’s “slide to unlock”. However, not all the iPhone users love this invention to unlock the screen. Developers have already built hacks like “Tap to Unlock” for jailbroken iPhone. Here comes another hack called “VUnlock” that lets you use volume buttons to unlock the iPhone screen.
VUnlock is a hack [...]

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SnapTap Hack: Use iPhone Volume Buttons to Take Photo

by Simon Ng on August 19, 2010

The iPhone’s Camera app is really simple to use. But I really hate to use the little touch button to take photo especially when shooting self-portrait pictures. I always think why Apple doesn’t take a page from Sony Ericsson’s camera phones that used to have a built-in shutter button.
If you are like me, [...]

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PDF Patch for Jailbroken iPhone to Fix PDF Vulnerability

by Simon Ng on August 14, 2010

On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 4.0.2 that comes with a security fix for PDF exploit. For those who need jailbreaking, as mentioned in previous post, it is advised not to upgrade to this version of iOS. Otherwise, you will lose jailbreaking once upgraded. However, that means your jailbroken iPhone is vulnerable to PDF attack.
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Frash Hack Brings Flash to iPhone

by Simon Ng on August 9, 2010

A month ago, we covered a hack known as “Frash” that allows users to run Flash on iPad. Now, folks at Grant Pannell has ported the hack to iPhone.
Originally, Frash is developed by comex, the iPhone developer behind Spirit and JailbreakMe. The name ‘Frash’ is an abbreviation for Adobe Flash for Android Runtime. Comex [...]

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OpenAppMkt: New App Store for iPhone, No Jailbreak Required

by Gaurav on August 3, 2010

Apple has often been publicly blasted for its closed-door approach on the iTunes App Store. While the company was smart to block jailbroken devices from accessing its app store, it has no answer, at least for the moment, to OpenAppMkt – a web-based application which offers a selection of HTML apps to users, thereby creating [...]

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Is iPhone Jailbreaking Legal? Now, the Answer is Clear

by Simon Ng on July 28, 2010

“Is it legal to jailbreak my iPhone?”
This is one of the frequently-asked questions and a concern raised by some of the iPhone users. Now, with the announcement from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit digital rights group, the answer is clear. Jailbreak and unlocking iPhone is not illegal and do not violate the copyright [...]

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FullForce for iPad Forces iPhone App to Display in Full Screen Mode

by Simon Ng on May 29, 2010

One selling point of iPad is you are able to tap into all iPhone apps available on App Store. Obviously, all iPhone apps are compatible with iPad. However, there is a catch. If you own an iPad, you know it’s a poor experience to use iPhone apps on iPad. It just looks odd!
When you run [...]

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