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iPhone Case Concept Would Allow For Use by the Blind

As great as the iPhone is, it’s not really he best option for the blind.  Bruno Fosi has devised a potential way for letting the sight-impaired join the party by combining a silicon iPhone case with embossed symbols over the screen with a special app that would bring both tactile feedback and text-to-speech features to the [...]

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Installer app gets an update, now at version 4.0b11

RiP Dev has recently released an update for the Installer app, which brings the latest up to version 4.0b11. The update includes several bug fixes and some new features. Those new features include a welcomed “Update All” button, but perhaps more important are the bug fixes which include a reduced memory footprint and more. Personally, [...]

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Private-I app promises to help track down you lost or stolen iPhone

The latest in iPhone security comes in the form of an app called Private-I, which is a simple app that will set you back just $0.99 will hopefully make it a little easier to track down and recover your iPhone should it end up in the hands of a criminal. Once the app is installed it [...]

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iTunes Interactive Albums Coming?

Apple is signaling a jump into interactive albums from iTunes. The first artist in the cue is Snow Patrol, set to release their latest studio album next month. According to a Polydor production manager, the downloadable, “interactive” application will offer additional content such as artwork, behind-the-scenes images, and lyrics for iPhone and iPod touch owners — “A [...]

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Jobs: “I’m not Dead Yet”

OK, first, that’s not an actual quote. But bloggers who use WordPress for writing (like the folks at iPhonefreak), should know better than to hit “publish” when what they are working on is not ready for prime time. And if what you are working on is an obituary for Steve Jobs, premature posting can by particularly [...]

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AT&T Offers International Plans for iPhone

AT&T’s has announced a pair of international data packages geared specifically toward the iPhone and iPhone 3G. The plans come too late to help me with my trip to England, but to be honest, they wouldn’t have helped anyway since they cost more than my entire monthly service anyway. But if you want to do International [...]

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EZ fix for iPhone Security Flaw

Reuters reports a security flaw in the iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked.  The Gizmodo blog site and an online forum run by the Mac Rumors site showed that it took only three taps to gain access to lockediPhones, which run the latest 2.02 iPhone software. The vulnerability [...]

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Third Party iPhone Gaming Control Pad?

http://www.icontrolpad.com/ issued pictures on its web site of a new game controller for the iPhone. iControlPad has made public plans to build a gaming control pad for the iPhone and iPod Touch to sell for under $30. The latest prototype casing is shown here. It may not look like much now, but the makers say the [...]

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WinPwn announces version 2.5 is on its way, new features to be included

Perhaps in an effort to not be forgotten now that the DevTeam has already released their QuickPwn (with firmware 2.0.2 support) for Windows users, the team behind WinPwn has just announced that version 2.5 is on its way. With a release that is expected to come “later this week” they are making the promise that it [...]

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Those Nike App Shots Likely Fakes

The Nike + App screen shots may be fakes. We believed they might be real and posted them as shown on a French iPhone site. We did say it was a rumor and we did use a question mark in the headline. Still, we hate to be post something that is off base (unless of course [...]

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