Review & How To Get Video Recording for iPhone 3G

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Written on 4:56 PM by irockish

Sad us 3G owners didnt get video along with the 3.0 update? Follow this video to learn how to get nice video recording for your iPhone 3G! Works on iPhone 2G as well!



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Get The Compass App For iPhone 3G/2G!!

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Written on 11:59 AM by irockish

Have an iPhone 3G/2G? Sad we don't have the hardware for the new 3GS-exclusive Compass app? Well with this it will make you 50% happier =D It's a spoof app but makes it look like you have the app on your device

Enjoy

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The Next iPhone Killer?

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Written on 8:43 PM by irockish

Now as you all know I already own a iPhone 3G, soon to be 3GS, but I saw this video and said wow. Sure iPhone does all these things, but the UI is really nice on this phone, plus it also has a 4' touch screen. If specs follow the video just to review them:

  • Scratch proof tempered glass
  • Flash based UI
  • WiFi
  • 7.2 Mbps HSDPA 3G Connectivity
  • AGPS
  • and more

What do you think of it? With a nice App Store like Apples this phone would be awesome in my opinion!

Vlingo App Review - Voice Control For iPhone 3G & 2G Owners

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Written on 4:10 PM by irockish

Since Voice Control didn't come with the update for us 3G and 2G owners, I found a good replacement until you decide to upgrade to the 3GS :) Enjoy

Don't forget to Rate, Comment, and Subscribe!
Thanks!!



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RebelSim.com is a joke

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Written on 5:54 PM by irockish



Rebelsim, I'm sure you heard about it. It's the company that sells SIM cards that you put in your iPhone and it unlocks your iPhone. I've never used this, cannot say if it's crap or actually works. When I bought my iPhone it had 2.2.1 on it so I was screwed. I used TurboSIM to unlock my phone and it worked perfect.

So why am I hating on RebelSim, sure they do what they say. My problem with them is that they sell the dev team software and make profit of it. Recently they started selling GeoHot's purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak software. All jailbreaks though are free, most of the time through the dev-team.

RebelSim charges about $20-$40 for the software. People buy it of course because they thing well if I'm paying for it then it must work right? People need to learn how to use Google and YouTube. Google can help you find info and when that info is found, YouTube it for visual. YouTube is the video google in my opinion.

I don't like the people that make profit off of others hard work. Dev-Team to be exact, they put hardwork and people did donate some money for a new iPhone 3GS for planetbeing, but they worked hard and deserved it. That's why I have my little problem with RebelSim.

Internet Tethering with T-Mobile USA Edge Network [UPDATED]

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Written on 9:50 PM by irockish

Well I'm in California today (July 3rd) San Diego, to be exact. 4th of July weekend and with the family. Well I have EDGE service on my iPhone. So how am I doing this blogpost? Well sure there's an app for that! ? No not really, blog posting from the iPhone isn't really my thing.

So how am I. I'm tethering my iPhone's EDGE service to my computer. It's really simple, I am not even joking. The best Part too? It doesn't even require you to Jailbreak your iPhone!!! I have my phone jailbroken but only for ultrasn0w, I try not to run so many JB apps as I like my battery life not to be used by apps in the background.

This tutorial is simple and does work with AT&T 3G service as well. Now for you AT&T people, try not to do so much, if you use it to send some emails, check facebook then your good. But don't go using it to download music, or videos or something. Why? Well because If AT&T sees some heavy 3G usage on your account, well I don't know what the consequences are but I'm sure they may suspend your account or something.

Tethering At the moment is not allowed for AT&T service, BOO! Now with T-Mobile I don't think there should be any consequences because window phones have Internet sharing apps on there as well, so no problem there

If you follow this tutorial and follow it right you should be tethering in no time.

1. Open safari on your phone and go to "help.benm.at"
2. Scroll down to the first "mobileconfigs" and click on it.
3. Select your country
4. Select Carrier (if your doing T-Mobile, do U.S.A > T-Mobile.
5. It will then take you to your settings and on the top right hit install.
6. Reboot your phone
7. Go back into safari and go to the second "mobileconfigs" and enter in your internet settings (for t-mobile it should be either wap.voicestream.com or internet2.voicestream.com depending on your internet plan)
8. Hit Install
9. Go into Settings>General>Network>Internet Tethering and Turn it on
10. Use USB mode (most common)
11. If your on Vista it should automatically install and set up on your PC and should take 2 minutes at the max!

ENJOY and retweet this please!

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New Features in Firmware 3.1 *ultrasn0w users DO NOT upgrade*

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Written on 1:17 PM by irockish


If you are a ultrasn0w user and before you get excited please note that you should not upgrade. Why? 3.1 already comes with ways to stop ultrasn0w just as @musclenerd said it would.

So if your planning on buying a 3GS, do it NOW. 3.1 is sure to fix the holes that the dev-team broke through to unlock the iPhone "3G".

So what comes in the new firmware? The following:
- Video editing now gives you the option to trim your clip then “Save as copy…” rather then writing over and replacing the original clip.
- Voice Control now works over Bluetooth
- The iPhone now vibrates when moving icons
- Updated AT&T profile to 4.2
- Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01 (*this is what will kill ultrasn0w)
- Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
- APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them. New tools for the developers
- MMS buttons are back in the Messages app for AT&T customers but still don’t work. I wonder when later this summer is going to be?
- Copy & Paste functions also work in the address book as well as in the numeric keypad of the phone application. Nice little improvement, it did work when you would go into the contact and hit edit to get the number now allows you to highlight the number and copy will come up
- Videos can be saved from e-mail attachments and stored in your photo album.
- Find My iPhone feature, still only for MobileMe users, the audio alert Blasts at full volume regardless of what the ringer volume is set to.
- Does not fix the pitch noise for iPhone 3GS users that were experiencing this problem.

I guess with all these features, that is why it's 3.1, instead of 3.0.1 which probably would've just been made to kill Ultra, as I'm sure is Apple's main concern rather than getting MMS out to it's customers.

Get The iPhone 3GS Battery Percentage Feat. On Your iPhone 3G/2G!!!

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Written on 11:53 AM by irockish


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This video is to show you how to get the Battery Percentage feature that's only supposed to be in the iPhone "3GS". Why Apple didnt give it to 3G users is beyond me but if your jailbroken this is a nice feature to use.

Enjoy, Comment, Rate, and Subscribe!

Instructions:
1. Jailbreak device if you haven't already
2. Open Cydia
3. Go to search pane, and type in "iPhone-Notes"
4. Install that source
5. Go to changes and install "asBattery"
6. Exit out of cydia
7. Reboot iPhone
8. Go To settings>general>usage and turn Battery Percentage "On"
9*. Subscribe to me :P

*Step 9 not necessary lol

Getting MMS to work on T-Mobile with 3.0 Firmware

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Written on 5:33 PM by irockish



With 3.0 obviously came a long awaited feature: MMS!! So now that ultrasn0w is out, and your using T-Mobile or another Carrier that supports MMS, you can now edit the celluar MMS settings.

To get here go Settings>General>Network>Cellular Data Network then you will see MMS. If your on T-Mobile USA then I have the settings for you here:


APN: wap.voicestream.com
Username:
Password:
MMSC: 216.155.174.84/servlets/mms
MMS Proxy 216.155.165.50:8080
MMS Max Message Size:
MMS UA Prof URL:


Exactly like they are and you will be able to MMS, unlike AT&T lol, Oh well they still got 3G we don't :(

Enjoy!

Downloading .IPSW Files With Safari 4

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Written on 5:24 PM by irockish


The great people over at MMi have made a nice little 15 second tutorial over on their site about download .IPSW files on Safari on Macs. It seriously takes like 15 seconds.

.IPSW being the file type for the firmwares. If you've jailbroken your phone or are thinking about it. Then your going to deal with these files. Safari automatically extracts it which is why the .ipsw could not be working. Follow this tutorial on their site and you'll be set. 15 secs goes a long way when dealing with problems like this.

BTW Safari might not do the auto-extract thing again but it might name it ".ipsw.zip" just rename it and take of ".zip" and you'll be good!

How to Download iPhone Firmware .ispw with Safari Via MMi

Unlock Your iPhone 3G With ultrasn0w!

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Written on 2:08 AM by irockish

iPhone 3G Owners can now rejoice everywhere as ultrasn0w is now officially available. BIG THANK YOU goes out to the Dev-Team for all their hard work and focus on trying to get it out ASAP for us. Make sure you check their blog, and follow them on Twitter!

I'll post a vid tomorrow, joining the other million that will be up on how to unlock the iPhone, its pretty simple if you have it jailbroken just follow these instructions straight from the dev team themselves.

Until then..let it sn0w, sn0w, sn0w!

Some interesting iPhone 3G S Performance Results

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Written on 2:10 AM by irockish



above is just one of the performance results showing how fast the page loaded up and rendered. The contestants were most of the big smartphones in the market such as the iPhone 3G, the Palm Pre, and the T-Mobile G1




above now is the application launch times, all of these apps are on all of these phones, of course you can see how the iPhone 3G S (Of course), comes in first place without a doubt.

The new 3GS renders web pages 128% faster, on average, than the old iPhone 3G. The 45% clock speed boost alone isn't enough to generate such a large performance increase, this is a new microarchitecture. Also, note that the 3GS' performance mimics that of the Palm Pre - another Cortex A8 based phone.


Such nice results, Pre and G1 didnt stand a chance, especially its little iPhone 3G brother.

news via MMi
Pic via AnandTech

Ultrasn0w Demo Video

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Written on 1:46 AM by irockish

I'm sure 99% of you guys saw this already but oh well never hurts right? Enjoy!



CAN'T WAIT!!!! I love the dev-team

AT&T: No Extra Charge for iPhone MMS

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Written on 12:56 PM by irockish


So a big question i'd say ever since WWDC regarding AT&T and the 3.0 update was is there going to be an extra charge for MMS. AT&T always finds a way but not in this case. If you currently have the text messaging bundle plan for your iPhone. There will be no extra charge for sending Picture Messages. Now though. MMS is not coming until later this summer as we all know by now. But I guess now the question should be when are we going to get this lovely-should've-been-here-a-long-time-ago feature?

iPhone "3G" 16GB is to sell at $149 (Limited Supply?)

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Written on 9:16 PM by irockish


Today at WWDC 2009 Apple introduced with the iPhone 3G S, with that being awesome and all. Whats to happen to the old supply of 8GB and 16GB? the 8GB will sell at $99, which is awesome! And the 16? well that will sell at $149.99. $50 bucks cheaper than the iPhone was not even 3 weeks ago

This is pretty sweet deal if you ask me, if you've been looking to purchase an iPhone for a while now, I say now you have an even bigger predicament on your hands:
The 8GB 3G?
The 16GB 3G?
or the brand new 16GB 3G S (the s is for speed lol)

All good choices no matter what. Just go pick up an iPhone now!!


T-Mobile G1 Keyboard Compared to iPhone 3G Keyboard

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Written on 12:38 AM by irockish



So I finally decided to do the video thing. If you have time please email me here to lemme know how I did, and what I should change? I'd appreciate it

So the G1 finally got Cupcake, which of course one of the biggest features added was the touch keyboard, So I decided to compare it to the iPhone, of course! LOL

Below the video are the pictures I took as well



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Good Article On Maximizing iPhone 3G's Battery

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Written on 10:17 PM by irockish



Some tips even I didn't know about! Hope it helps :)
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I think I cried when I first saw this LOL

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Written on 12:20 AM by irockish

ok not really but I just came across this really old video and wow LOL

App Review: Picture Safe 2 - Keep Those Snoopy Eyes out of Your Pictures!

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Written on 2:42 PM by irockish

Ok well I'm a Guy, and I know every guy has to have some sort of pictures they dont want other people, friends, or just whoever looking around through their picture, right? Well I am one of those guys haha. So I was browsing through the App Store, looking for an app that could do just that

So I found Picture Safe 2 by collect3, and I read the sidebar information and this had mainly caught my eye

Even we have had been suprised at the wide range of uses you guys are finding for Pciture Safe! We've had emails from

Parents (safeguarding children)
Males 18-85 (no suprise there) Teens (obviously)
Suprising Number of females(we choose to imagine the possibilities)


Anyone else suprised at the 85 yr old using this app?! LOL, I am!
I am in the Males 18-85 category LOL, So I'm like why not give it a try?

Looks Of the App:
It looks like a real secure App, has the whole picture of the vault going on as a splash screen and as the icon. and first when you open the app you have to choose your 4-digit password and then it takes you to the Photo application looking screen. Looks familiar right? Just like the Photo App that came with your iPhone.
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UI:
Like I said in the previous paragraph its real easy to use its simple yet effective. Its looks just like the stock Photo application, except if you look in the top right corner you'll see the icon for settings. The whole app runs really nice, its simple to get nothing to hard that requires you to go looking on there site for help or stuff, The only thing it does take some time to import them to the library
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Features:
We got a few features to get through here so lets get started, as you can see in the screen shots you can see options for changing you PIN, having it enabled, this is just changing your password and stuff. Then you can have Wi-Fi access to access them from your computer without it being connected, nice feature right! Then you get the "Photos" option, this basically tells the app where to get your pictures when your adding pics to your albums, its album by default which it will probably stay, at least for me. Then you get slideshow, you guys are familiar with this, playing each photo for 3-15 seconds and such, transitions, repeats and shuffling, basic stuff. Then you get privacy settings, my FAV feature of the app. for starters you get Snoop Stopper: this is cool! Say you have one of those naggy friends that you really dont keep stuff from and there like c'mon let me see them and blah blah blah, well this allows you to create a DIFFERENT Pin and when they enter that one in, it takes them to a whole 'nother album! By default it will have 'Downloaded Pics' with pics of the ocean and stuff from there, in there you can also edit/delete/add pics and albums. I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS FEATURE, Good Job Guys! The next one is Quick Hide. Let me paint another picture for you, Say your sitting in the front seat of the car and some friends are in the back and there looking over every now and then, this lets you double tap anywhere and another picture will pop-up, thats right! One minute Sexy picture from girlfriend, the next?! Batman Logo (thats what I have it set to LOL) Another great feature. The Last is Security Log, this tells you who got in and if they were succesful and stuff. Look at the Screenies

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Conclusion?
I love it. I dont like the time it takes to import but other than that its safe and secure, exactly what I was looking for. It's $2.99 in the App Store, kind of eh, but if you need somewhere to hide those pics, this is your APP! I love the security feautures of it the double tapping, the different PIN different Album whoever came up with that is genius! I have no regrets and only hope that importing gets speedy within the next few updates.

App Review: Bookworm

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Written on 9:59 PM by irockish

Ok so here is my first review its on a App called "Bookworm"



What kinda Game is it?
Bookworm is a word game. There are two options to start new games. One is "Classic" and one is "Timed". Its not rocket science so I think you can figure it out. If you can't let me explain, Classic is the easiest of the two. In classic your just trying to put words of 3 letters or more together. The more letters the better. You try to this for as long as you can without letting the library burn up into flames. How do I keep it from burning? Some of the letters that come down are red and in flames. You must use these letters before they hit the bottom. If they hit the bottom, the library burns, and we dont want that! LOL

Is it Worth the Price?
Bookworm is $4.99 in the App Store. My personal opinion? if it was maybe $2.99 maybe even $3.99. I purchased it, and im content with my purchase. Maybe in the future updates there will be another option in starting a game. If your a fan of these you'll really enjoy it. It does come with some challenges especially in Timed!

Conclusion?
$4.99 for this game is a little expensive, but if your interested don't let me influence you. Go ahead with the Purchase, I enjoyed it and play it every other day when I'm not doing anything or waiting for the bus or something. Its fun, entertaining, and helps with expanding your Vocabulary. Funny thing is this app taught me about 50 words that I never knew existed haha! Go figure. Let me know in comments or email what you thought about it!

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Purchase: