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[26 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 5 views]

Speculation is starting to rear it’s ugly ahead again, this time about 3g iPhones shipping in June.

All three Apple stores in New York: Soho, 59th street and West 14th street were all sold out of iPhones this week. Now as well all know this is a very popular phone and it could mean absolutely nothing that they are sold out, or it could mean we are in store for something new.
To add some fuel to the rumor Keven Rose from Digg had this to say on twitter…
Another person confirming …

Applications »

[19 Mar 2008 | One Comment | 145 views]

Earlier this year I posted a list of web apps that had a webclip icon.
http://www.iphone-journal.com/iphone-news/list-of-websites-with-webclip-icons
Today I will reveal my own personal list of web apps that I have contained on three full screens on my iPhone.

Google
Picasa
Apple Web App Page
Netflix
iRadio
SeeqPod
Fandango
Apple Movie Trailers
Amazon
iLounge
Pricecheckah
Digg
Fluther
iCafe
CNet
Facebook
MySpace
Linkedin
Wikapedia
Craigslist
Dictionary
Break (video site, some NSFW material)
Textonphone (great ebook reading site, lots of free books)
Free Stuff Times (just like it says, links to free stuff)
Slickdeals (coupon site)
Expedia (rarely used need to get ride of it)
WeightDate (Weight Tracking App, trying to lose a few pounds)
Video Poker
Bonus Solitaire
Frozen Lexicon
Kenny Rogers BlackJack
Kenny Rogers …

Wallpaper »

[19 Mar 2008 | One Comment | 664 views]

This weeks iPhone Wallpaper Wednesday is all about spring. The first day of spring is tomorrow, March 20th, and I for one welcome spring with open arms. As much as I enjoy all the seasons here in Pennsylavania I must admit I love spring and summer.
Enjoy these nice landscape wallpapers

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[19 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 2 views]

During a conference call Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen announced that they will work with Apple to make sure flash applications run on the iPhone.
Whether and how Flash applications would run on Apple’s iPhone has been an open question since the device’s launch. Narayen’s comments indicate that Adobe will be able to create a version of Flash Lite for the iPhone by using the iPhone software developers kit (SDK) which was released earlier this month.
via news.com
Apple CEO has made it clear on several occasions that flash applications are simply too slow …

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[14 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 8 views]

As the iPhone SDK gets into more and more hands we have come to find it’s limits.
One of these limitations being that third party applications won’t be allowed to run in the background. Now in terms of games and other such applications this poses only little issues. In fact I’m all for protecting my ram and not having a slow brick in my pocket. However apps like the much awaited for AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) that will now need to be turned off before doing anything …

Games »

[13 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 8 views]

The amount of developers jumping on the SDK increases daily.  With this hot new developer tool we are in line to get lots of new applications and games on the iPhone.
Several major game developers have announced they will be releasing games for the iPhone.
Namco Networks will be releasing Galaga and Pac-man on the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Both games will be redeveloped  for the touch screen interface.  Popcap Games is coming in with new versions of Bejeweled, Peggle and Zuma.   This is just the beginning we’re sure.  Over the next …

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[12 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 9 views]

You read that title correctly, the iphone firmware 2.0 (which hasn’t been released to the public yet) is hacked.
The iPhone Dev Team confirmed that using the iPhone SDK they were able to hack the included version of firmware 2.0. This means that as soon as it’s released in June people can still jailbreak it and use it as they wish. This is not to say that Apple won’t try it’s best to lock it down even more, but let’s face it, it’s only a matter of time …

Games »

[10 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 8 views]

Gameloft, the self proclaimed #1 mobile games publisher, has recently announced they will produce 15 games for the iPhone.  Michael Guillemot, CEO of Gameloft provided these details during his keynote of their Game Developer Conference.
This news joins that of Sega, Freeverse and EA who also announced they too will be releasing games for the iPhone and iPod Touch during this year.
Gameloft hopes to have a few games ready to be released by June (when the SDK plans to be released to the public).

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[6 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 11 views]

Apple’s iPhone SDK and Enterprise roadmap press conference just wrapped up.  There are TONs of cool things in store here and we’ll get right to it.
Enterprise Class Features:

Push Email
Push Contacts
Push Calendar
Global Address List
Cisco IPsec VPN
Authentication and Certificates
Enterprise Class WIFI (WPA2 / 802.1x)
Enforced Security Policies
Enterprise Configuration Tools
Remote Wipe

All the above was asked for and it granted.  wOOt.
Want more… ok..
MS Exchange right into the iPhone — they have licensed ActiveSync for the iPhone.
“Microsoft has come up with a much more advanced architecture, where the iPhone can work directly with the Exchange server …

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[5 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 4 views]

According to Steve Jobs the iPhone doesn’t support Flash because it runs to slow to be useful. This statement comes from a shareholder meeting were jobs defended it’s reasoning behind not providing Flash support on the iPhone
Users have complained that the iPhone’s lack of Flash support makes the browsing experience less rich than it should be. According to Jobs, Flash Lite doesn’t go far enough, but the full-fledged Flash Player, which is designed to run on laptops, performs sluggishly on the iPhone. He said, “There’s this missing product in …