If you’re one of those people with hundreds of gigabytes of music on their computer and you’re getting sick of swapping over tracks on your iPhone, then maybe it’s time to take a look at a service like Dot.Tunes. It’s a web server that publishes your entire iTunes library online, so that anybody with the right password (I’m assuming for legal reasons that would be you and only you!) can access them from wherever there’s internet access. Give them twenty bucks and you can have a custom iPhone interface making searches, playback and playlist management easy.
iBrickr is a Windows app making it unbelievably simple to modify your iPhone — add & manage custom ringtones, and install third-party applications. Download it here!
Lights Off took 2nd place in the C4 Iron Coder competition behind the Video Conferencing application for the iPhone.
As a native application, you must download the package and install it using existing “jailbreak” tools to gain access to the iPhone’s file system. Installation instructions are provided.
Lights Off was developed completely with Apple’s UIKit development framework, the same used to make iPhone’s built-in applications such as Maps and YouTube. It leverages the community-built tools that have been developed with the absence of an official iPhone SDK.
IM+ for Skype™ is a web service that enables voice and text communication with other Skype users and provides cost-effective calling to landlines and mobiles. Pure SkypeOut quality with no extra voice delays. The application is designed especially for iPhone’s touch screen and complements the design and interface of iPhone.
Main Features:
* Call Skype users
With IM+ for Skype you can talk with other Skype users all over the world.
* Make cost-effective calls to any destination
IM+ for Skype is based on SkypeOut service that allows users to make and receive calls for a low fee. Save Even More with Call Back by using any landline number instead of mobile
* See who is online and chat with Skype users
Have conversations with other users who are logged in with their Skype accounts on PC. Text messaging is cost effective way to say something to your contacts instead of sending an SMS. By looking who is online, and sending a text message you can also check whether the contact is ready for a call.
IM+ for Skype uses a simple Internet protocol. You will be charged for data connection, just as you are for web surfing according to your wireless carrier rates. You may be online and exchange instant messages for free (SkypeOut not required).
For any voice communications (SkypeOut or Skype Unlimited is required).
Atlas, a faster Nintendo emulator has come to fruition. This application allows iPhone owners to play classic 8-bit NES games on Apple iPhone, and this new version adds sound and much more. The iPhone NES emulator comes with many popular games including Mario Bros, MegaMan, and Metroid.
ROMs need to be placed in /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES.
NOTE ON iPhone NES Emulator Sound; it is required that you disable mediaserverd, and only works through the headphones. A couple of easy aliases can be added to your .profile to disable or re-enable mediaserverd if you are using MobileShell:
alias nosound=”launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/coreaudiod.plist”
alias sound=”launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/coreaudiod.plist”
Readdle.com releases first version of Readdle, a service for reading books and documents on iPhone. Using Readdle people can view electronic books, text files and even business documents at any place using their iPhones.
Readdle features iPhone native interface to navigate and read books when browsing readdle.com from an iPhone and handy web interface accessible from any Mac or PC that allows users to upload books and documents they want to view from a desktop computer to their Readdle account.
Documents uploaded by readers can be divided into custom categories and form private bookshelf which is accessible only by account owner. For people who don’t want to register Readdle features public bookshelf, a collection of classics that is accessible to anyone.
The service supports PDF, TXT files as well as MS Word and MS Excel documents, is FREE to use and provides 50MB free space for book upload per account. Readdle can work without regular Internet connection, since Internet is used only during initial book loading and isn’t required later.
Apple has released (via iTunes) is iPhone Software 1.0.1. Apple simply describes the update as containing “bug fixes”, and does not indicate any additional functionality at this time.
Speaking to analysts for RBC Capital Markets this week, Apple’s Vice President of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, said the first software update for his company’s iPhone handset is due to arrive shortly.
“Management expressed excitement at plans to increase iPhone value over time via new software features, citing ‘the sky is the limit’ for iPhone software,” analyst Mike Abramsky told clients in a research note Tuesday. “An iPhone update patch is expected shortly.”
The iPhone software updates include:
new widgets
peer-to-peer applications (chat, picture messaging, social networking)
