The iPhone hackers from #iphone on irc.osx86.hu released a tool to “manipulate the iPhone’s state, launch services and interact with the chroot’d filesystem” last night. Although the Wiki is currently down, you can lurk in the IRC channel and keep an eye on the channel MOTD for notification of where to find it when it […]
You’ll probably never have the desire or need to download and watch a YouTube video on a text-only console, but doesn’t it make you feel better knowing that it can be done? The trick is to use the AAlib ascii image library as an output device for mplayer, using the -vo parameter: mplayer -vo aa […]
Call it superficial, but you can really help your Pocket PC’s self esteem by giving it a face lift. It’s still Windows Mobile on the inside, so most of your apps will look and function as before, but a few free downloads will get you home screen and dialpad themes, an iPhone-like contacts list, and […]
There’s a way to avoid the standard AT&T contract plan and sign up for pre-paid minutes on your iPhone. With this hack, you can activate your phone for a fixed amount. Even after you’ve used your prepaid minutes — or remove the sim card entirely — the phone will continue to function as a WiFi […]
We were fortunate enough to be approached by not one, but two groups of authors, to write iPhone Hacks, and like peanut butter in your chocolate, they’ve teamed up to take on this fun project. And you can find them at this week’s iPhoneDevCamp. So if you’re joining the fun, be sure to say hi […]
I was thinking today about how a person might go about creating a rich offline web application for devices like the iPhone, where your application may need to run entirely from cache from time to time. In the extreme example, you could imagine an application that stored its data entirely on the client side, and […]
Hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone from a couple of angles. The iPhone restore image has been making the rounds, and hackers quickly discovered two disk images in it: one is a small ramdisk image (694-5259-38.dmg) that kickstarts the other, larger, and sadly, encrypted image (694-5262-39.dmg). There are a lot of folks […]
