Watch TV on your iPhone with the free BBC iPlayer - Eastenders, Dr Who and more!
June 20, 2008
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 [...]
Free iPhone Instant Messenger - Get AOL, MSN etc on your iPhone
June 12, 2008
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 [...]
VoiceNotes - A Free Voice Recorder App for the iPhone
June 5, 2008
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) [...]
iPhone Video Recorder - Free Video Recording on your iPhone!
May 23, 2008
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 [...]
Snapture Advanced Camera App for the iPhone Reviewed
May 6, 2008
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
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 [...]
Re-arrange the icons on your iPhone home screen
May 1, 2008
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 [...]
Why you should Jailbreak your iPhone…
May 1, 2008
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 [...]
How to change the iPhone SIM Card
April 30, 2008
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 [...]
Unlock, Jailbreak and Activate your iPhone
April 29, 2008
So your thinking of getting the iPhone but a bit put off by the £35 a month contract with O2. Well, its a lot easier to unlock and get around the contract activation then you may think. In this guide, i’ll be showing you just how simple it is.
Now the way you buy an iPhone [...]