by Simon Ng on March 20, 2010
textPlus is a free SMS texting application for the iPhone that allows you to text via Wi-Fi, 3G or Edge. With the textPlus app, you can essentially save yourself the $5, or whatever, you are charged by your cellular provider for messaging. Moreover, if you only have an iPod touch, this app gives you a [...]
by Simon Ng on September 6, 2009
Are you bored with the default SMS background and balloon color? For jailbroken iPhone user, you can actually use Winterboard to apply different themes to skin the Message application.
In Cydia, you can go to “Search” and then search for “sms”. You’ll locate ample cydia packages that allow you to change SMS background or bubbles. [...]
by Simon Ng on August 1, 2009
Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1, which is a minor update for iPhone 3.0, to fix SMS vulnerability, after security experts demonstrated the exploit at a top security conference (known as Black Hat).
According to New York Times, the SMS exploit was discovered by two security researchers – Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller. As claimed, the [...]
by Simon Ng on April 5, 2009
You know, for any incoming SMS message, iPhone will automatically show you a preview of the message. For whatever reason (e.g. privacy), not everyone expect to have this kind of preview.
So, how do you disable SMS Preview on iPhone?
That’s pretty easy. But it’s required to enable password lock to disable the SMS preview.