Watch TV on your iPhone with the free BBC iPlayer - Eastenders, Dr Who and more!
June 20, 2008 · Print This Article
On the 27th July 2007, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) launched the BBC iPlayer - an free internet service offering streaming of all TV shows broadcast on their channels within the last 7 days. Keeping up with technology, they launched an iPhone compatible version on 7th March 2008 and boy is it great!
You can access the BBC iPlayer on your iPhone or iPod Touch just by visiting their website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ by WiFi connection (the EDGE connection is too slow to stream video). When you try and access the iPlayer website, it detects that you are surfing via your Apple iPhone and shows you the Beta version of the iPhone compatible version and streams shows at 516Kbps (400Kbps H.264 video, 116Kbps AAC audio) rather than the standard flash version which you would get if you access the iPlayer website via a PC or mac. Read more
Free iPhone Instant Messenger - Get AOL, MSN etc on your iPhone
June 12, 2008 · Print This Article
MobileChat is a chat client offered by TheBigBoss repository and its available for free via the iPhone installer. It looks very professional right from the word go and offers you a variety of account setup options when you start the app to allow you to access your AOL, .mac, XMPP, MSN or icq accounts via your iPhone.
Just click on the corresponding icon (MSN for us) and you simply enter your user name, password and click save. Simple as that. Now whenever you start up the program, you are shown of list of accounts you have set up within the App and allows you to log in to them by clicking the appropriate one in the list. Read more
The new 3G Apple iPhone - A dissapointment?
June 10, 2008 · Print This Article
Apple revolutionised the mobile phone market when it released the Apple iPhone on June 29 2007 after months of anticipation. Customers camped up outside stores and Apple managed to sell 270,000 iPhone in the first 30 hours on launch weekend!
A year later and after numerous failed attempts at iPhone killers by other mobile phone manufacturers, we saw the announcement of the new 3G iPhone on the 9th June 2008. Although Apple kept the lips sealed about the announcement beforehand, it was pretty obvious from previous reports that a new release was due very soon and this again had many mobile phone users worldwide in anticipation as to what we may see. Read more
VoiceNotes - A Free Voice Recorder App for the iPhone
June 5, 2008 · Print This Article
Without all these 3rd party apps, the iPhone would be seriously lacking in features straight out the box. Thankfully, that’s not the case and we present you another app you should install on your iPhone ASAP - VoiceNotes. Its available in the installer now.
VoiceNotes (or VNotes as it is named on the dashboard after install) is a free and very simple application that allows you to use your iPhone like a dictaphone with no limit as to how long your recording can be. We found it nice and simple to use and it does exactly what it says on the tin. The conversations we recorded were nice and clear although a little on the quiet side. Read more
iPhone Video Recorder - Free Video Recording on your iPhone!
May 23, 2008 · Print This Article
Finally we have a decent video recorder for the iPhone ingenuously named ‘iPhone Video Recorder‘ by Dreamcatcher allowing up to 320 x 416 video resolution recording with 128kbps sound recording in mp4 format albeit only 15fps. Now, iPhone Video Recorder isn’t the first video app that has been available for the iPhone. An app called ‘Showtime’ has been available for a while but it wasn’t exactly fully featured and only allowed a 4 second record time unless you paid for the full version.
iPhone Video Recorder however only allows a 30 second record time (enough for most people) with the demo version. By purchasing the full version however, you get permanent free upgrades to future versions and there is no restrictions on record times - it just keeps going until your iPhone runs out of space. And with a 1 hour recording file as small as 60MB (depending on settings) you could record over 100 hours of video on your 8GB iPhone!
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Snapture Advanced Camera App for the iPhone Reviewed
May 6, 2008 · Print This Article
If we could say anything about the original photo application, we’d say it was simple. Too simple. So we thought we’d try out the Snapture App available by thebigboss.org from within the Installer. Installation is quick and simple and finishes by adding a camera icon on your home screen.
PDFViewer Application for the iPhone Reviewed
May 5, 2008 · Print This Article
The iPhone has a nice big screen so it was quite a surprise to see that Apple provided no native PDF viewing application. However, there is an App called ‘PDFViewer’ in the Installer by thebigboss.org which allows you to view your PDFs on your iPhone. So we went to give it a try.
Downloading and installing the package is as simple as always through the installer and finished with a message telling you: ‘Please place all PDF files in /var/root/Media/PDF’. So that means you need to find a way to get the PDF files onto the iPhone.
Re-arrange the icons on your iPhone home screen
May 1, 2008 · Print This Article
Once you take a look at the iPhone, you’ll soon realise the icons you’ll probably be using and ones you won’t. Thankfully, iPhone provides a way for you to re-arrange your home page icons to suit your needs.
Just press and keep pressed any icon on the home page and after a few seconds you’ll see all the icons begin to shake. You can then drag any icon around the screen to move its position or you can drag an icon over to the far right hand edge of the screen and this will slide to show a new blank screen.
Why you should Jailbreak your iPhone…
May 1, 2008 · Print This Article
You’ve probably heard the term ‘Jailbreak’ being mentioned when talking about the iPhone. But what is it?
Apple when making the iPhone produced a ‘locked’ operating system meaning that only applications given the seal of approval by Apple themselves would work on the iPhone. However, some members of the iPhone community thought different and were quick to develop a ‘hack’ which would essentially allow 3rd party applications to run on the iPhone. It was like breaking out the iPhone jail hence the term ‘Jailbreak’.
How to change the iPhone SIM Card
April 30, 2008 · Print This Article
Due to the design of the iPhone, changing the SIM Card does not appear straight forward at first glance. But grab yourself a pin or a paper clip and its a 2 min job.
First off, push a paper clip or a pin down into the small hole on the top of the iPhone as shown below.
