How to install Android on the iPhone 2G

Still wondering how to install Android on the iPhone? Well, a detailed guide is now available if you plan to try Google’s OS on your trusty old 1st generation iPhone (iPhone 2G). The trick is to basically load of the Android files on the iPhone via a file explorer (iPhone Explorer), run Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine or you PC or Mac to install Openibot on the handset. Check out the video below for a step-by-step procedure:

Downloads

Here’s a bunch of stuff that you’ll need before you start:

1.IMPORTANT! Jailbroken iPhone 2G. Jailbreaking guide can be found here.
2.VirtualBox (link). Get the right version Windows/Mac
3.VirtualBox Ubuntu Image (link). Download number 10, Ubuntu Linux 9.10 codename Karmic Koalax86
4.iPhone Explorer (link). If you’re on Linux you can use FTP such as FileZilla instead.
5.Android images and sources (link)
6.Patched images (link). Courtesy of Geekoid.
Preparation

Basics:

1.Open Task Manager
2.Kill the iTunes Helper process
3.Install iPhone Explorer
4.Connect your iPhone to your Mac/PC
5.Run iPhone Explorer
6.Click the Change Root button
7.Select “/” Real iPhone Root Directory
8.Browse to private/var
9.Copy ramdisk.img, userdata.img, cache.img and zImage from Downloads#5 (Android images and sources) to that var directory
10.Copy system.img and android.img.gz from Downloads#6 (patched images) to the that var directory
11.That’s all the Android files on your iPhone, now to make them run!

Setting Up Virtual Box:

1.Install VirtualBox
2.Open VirtualBox
3.Go on File > Virtual Media Manager
4.Make sure Hard Disks is selected
5.Click Add
6.Locate the ubuntu-9.10.vdi file (download#3) and select it
7.Close Virtual Media Manager
8.Go on Machine > New
9.Click Next
10.Under Name enter “Ubuntu”
11.Select Linux Operating System
12.Select Ubuntu Version
13.Click Next
14.Set an amount of RAM, the default should be fine
15.Click Next
16.Select “Use existing hard disk”
17.Select the ubuntu-9.10.vdi
18.Click Next
19.Click Finish
20.Select that new machine to start up Ubuntu
21.The password to login is: reverse
Setting Up Ubuntu

Almost there :

1.Click System (top bar) > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
2.Enter the password: reverse
3.In the quicksearch box, type libusb-1.0, click the Check Box next to libusb-1.0-0 and select Mark for installation
4.In the quicksearch box, type libreadline, click the Check Box next to libreadline5 and select Mark for installtion
5.Click Apply
6.When it’s all installed close the Package Manager
7.Open Firefox (in Ubuntu)
8.Download openiboot installer from here
9.Click Places (top bar) > Downloads
10.Right-click openiboot.zip and click Extract Here
11.Click Applications (top bar) > Accessories > Terminal
12.Without the quotes, type ‘cd Downloads/openiboot’
13.Restart your iPhone in Recovery Mode (power off, hold down Home button, connect to USB cable)
Getting Android Working!

Well done on getting this far! This is where the fun beings (credits to WinX Blog for these instructions –link)

1.In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (Recovery Mode)
2.In the terminal type (without quotes): ’sudo su’
3.Enter the password: reverse
4.In the terminal type ./loadibec openiboot.img3
5.You’ll see the OpeniBoot screen appear on your iPhone
6.Hold down the power button a couple of seconds (iPhone)
7.The bottom option, openiboot console, will become selected
8.Press Home (iPhone). You’ll see a bunch of text appear and stop at “Welcome to openiboot”
9.In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (OpeniBoot Mode)
10.In terminal type su ./oibc
11.Enter the password: reverse
12.If this doesn’t work just type: ./oibc
13.You’ll see the same text from the iPhone in the Terminal
14.Type (without quotes) ‘nor_read 0×09000000 0×0 1048576? and press Enter
15.Wait for it to say Done
16.Type (without quotes) ‘~norbackup.dump:1048576?
17.This creates a backup of your NOR memory – save a copy on USB stick, or email it to yourself or something
18.Type install, press Enter. When this is done you’ve got openiboot installed on your iPhone. You’re done!

Finishing Off:

What you’ve achieved up til now is Android files on your iPhone, and then installing openiboot so that you have an option to start iPhone OS or Android when you turn on your phone. Openiboot was necessary because that’s the only way right now that you can boot into Android. Here’s how to finish off and get into Android:

1.If you still have Terminal open with the oibc still running, just type ‘reboot’, press Enter and skip to step 3
2.If you don’t have Terminal open, disconnect your phone, turn it off and back on
3.When openiboot appears press Power button to switch to openiboot console (bottom option)
4.Hold down the Home button
5.Android will start to boot, but it might take a while

Jan,2010 Best iPhone Games Download – i-Quest

It’s a cube elimination game which is simple but has many interesting props. You will have a very nice leisure-time by playing this game.

Game Features: There are four stochastic props which make you be delighted！
·Regroup: Once it works, the cubes on the screen will be randomly regrouped!
·Row Elimination: Once it works, the given row of cubes will be eliminated!
·Cubes of the Same Color Elimination: Once it works, the cubes of the same color will be randomly eliminated!
·Obstacle: Once it works, the screen will be concealed by a white sheet which need be wiped away before proceeding! There are three valuable props which will help you to a great extent!
·Magic Rune：If you use it，the cubes on the screen will become the same color.
·Cupid’s Bow：If you use it，the chosen row of cubes will be eliminated.
·Fancy Coin：If you use it, you will get double scores till the game is over.
As the game scores become higher and higher, game speed will become faster and faster! The challenge exists all the time.
The game can be paused and replayed. Continue the game after you leave or answer a phone call. There are four color schemes.

Download Here

For the first three reply you will get this game Promotion Code than you can enjoy this game for free!

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How to Downgrade Your iPhone 3.0 OS

Lots of us have been using the iPhone 3.0 beta full-time. Now we’re rolling back, because it is decidedly NOT ready.

Now, we’re not saying we’re surprised, or angry, or anything. It’s beta software, and beta software is by definition not ready for everyday use. But in the pursuit of the latest and greatest thing, we all have learned that a little bit of inconsistency or crashiness is often a fair price to pay for being on the cutting edge.

Not so in iPhone 3.0. It’s slow as hell, locks up on everything from launching an app to entering a phone number on the numeric keypad, sucks down battery life like an alcoholic who just found his first bottle of MD 20/20 in days, and so on. Add to that a lack of support for MMS as of yet and no apps to take advantage of the background notifications, and you have a fairly useless upgrade, right now. So let’s roll it back.

Note: Your iPhone 3.0 OS backups (your phone settings, unsynched photos, text messages, etc) will not be compatible with 2.2.1 once you go back down. So make sure you have a backup from the 2.2.1 days to restore from, or else you’ll be starting from scratch.

iPhone EDGE
If you’re running OS X 10.5.6, you’ll need to do the USB DFU fix outlined in our jailbreaking guide before proceeding.

1. With your phone plugged in, put it into DFU mode by holding both the power and home buttons for 10 seconds, then releasing power and continuing to hold down home until iTunes recognizes a phone in “recovery mode.”

2. Download the 2.2.1 firmware .ipsw file from Apple. Hold down option (Mac) or shift (Windows) and click on restore. Choose the stock iPhone 2.2.1 file you just downloaded.

3. Let it do its thing, and you should be in business. Restore your backup should you have one, and proceed to jailbreaking if you want to.

iPhone 3G
On the iPhone 3G, the 3.0 software flashes the baseband (the chip that controls voice and data network traffic), which confuses iTunes when you try to downgrade. So you have to jump through a few more hoops to downgrade your 3G, but it’s still easy enough.

1. Follow the first two steps above for iPhone EDGE, only using the iPhone 3G 2.2.1 firmware package of course. Again, OS X 10.5.6 users will have to do the USB driver switcheroo detailed above.

2. When it’s done restoring, you’ll get an error message that looks like this:

As long as it’s a four-digit error number like 10xx, don’t worry, that’s just iTunes telling you it’s confused by the updated baseband on your phone. Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we’re doing next.

3. For Mac (Windows users skip to step : Download a utility called iRecovery. This tool forces your phone to reboot out of restore mode, which is necessary for the QuickPwn jailbreak software to recognize it.

4. Go to the terminal and change to the iRecovery directory, wherever it is on your system, and type these two commands:

chmod 755 libusb-0.1.4.dylib
chmod 755 iRecovery

5. Next, copy the “libusb-0.1.4.dylib” file to the /usr/local/lib directory on your machine (you’ll have to shift-command-G to go to this folder in Finder).

6. And finally, with your iPhone plugged in, go back to Terminal and type:

./iRecovery -s

You’ll get a prompt, where you should then type “fsboot” (no quotes) and hit enter. If nothing happens after 10-15 seconds, type it again and hit enter again. Your phone should boot.

7. Download QuickPwn and jailbreak your phone. Restore your 2.2.1 backup in iTunes, and you should be in business.

8. For Windows: After you restore to 2.2.1, you can skip straight to running QuickPwn to get your phone up and running.

And that’s it. Enjoy an iPhone free of horrible slow-downs until summertime.

(Via Gizmodo)

Free iPhone Apps Review & Download: iSilo v1.31 for iPhone

 The iSilo application, whose earlier incarnations were much beloved of doctors, lawyers, and others who sought a way to carry HTML reference material on their PDA since time immemorial, was released for the iPhone platform back in August.

As I mentioned when I covered it then, I had been a heavy user of iSilo for PalmOS back in the day, since I cordially disliked the MobiPocket PalmOS application and iSilo was the only other convenient way to get Baen Webscription books onto my Palm, Visor, or Clié.

However, I hadn’t used it since my last Clie bit the dust. There had been other ways to read those books, such as FBReader on my Nokia 770 and Bookshelf on my iPod Touch. When I downloaded the first version available from the store, I was fairly unimpressed, so I decided to put off reviewing it until it got a little better.

That time has come now. With the release of version 1.30-1.31, iSilo has moved considerably closer to ready for prime-time. It has added support for viewing a number of non-iSilo document formats (most notably PDF), and also supports loading documents with WebDAV rather than needing a sync conduit application—an innovation I would like to see in other readers, such as Stanza or Bookshelf.

 

The iSilo document format

In order to convert documents from HTML into iSilo format, you will need to download  the free iSiloX converter program. This program will allow you to convert any single page or collection of linked pages into an iSilo-compatible e-book.

Some websites, such as Munseys, also offer preconverted iSilo-format books for download. (It should be noted, however, that Munseys uses an older version of the iSilo format, which shows up double-spaced on newer iSilo apps, so you will get better results if you convert them yourself.)

iSilo is a format that has been evolving since shortly after the introduction of the original Palm Pilots. At its root, it is intended as a way to take text formatted in HTML and translate it to a form that can be read on a PDA, with as little human intervention as possible along the way.

In this respect, it has a couple of notable advantages over the other HTML conversion document format, MobiPocket. With iSilo, if you have a table of contents for a book in HTML format with links to all the chapters, all you need to do is point iSiloX at the table of contents and tell it to fetch that to a link-depth of 1. It creates the book for you, with the table of contents at the beginning”and links from the table of contents to other parts of the book work just as they would if you were viewing through a web browser.

On the other hand, I have never yet been able to make a MobiPocket-converted file with a built-in table of contents, even when I had that same table of contents HTML file.

This also makes iSilo a natural for mirroring websites. Just feed iSiloX the URL and link depth, and it will produce an archive file that can be browsed just as if it was the actual website. Of course, this was much more useful back in the PalmOS days when the presentation of the web on a portable device was much more limited.

The iSilo iPhone App: User Interface

 Both having names that start with a lower-case “i,” it would seem that iSilo and the iPhone were made for each other. At $9.99 on the App Store, it is half the price of the iSilo client for other platforms (though this price may be raised at any time).

Like other platforms’ iSilo clients, the iPhone version is capable of reading iSilo-format documents. However, unlike the other versions, the lack of hardware buttons on the iPhone leads to some hard choices in the user interface.

Scrolling up and down can be done by dragging and “flicking” just as with other iPhone apps. But there are other functions that can be performed by single, double, or triple-tapping the screen at various points. (They can be edited from within the Options menus.)

Tapping in the very middle of the screen brings up a display of the single-tap commands, then tapping again in the same place switches to the display of double-tap commands (as seen at left), then triple-tap.

Thus, tapping twice in the lower left corner of the screen would move to the previous page in the document, or tapping twice in the middle top would page up. The interface is a bit clunky, with so many different locations and taps to remember—and if you are in the habit from using other applications of just tapping anywhere in the lower part of the screen, iSilo could be a little hard to get used to.

Configuration Menu

Another place where the interface is a little clunky is in the configuration menu (accessed by tapping the “More” icon at the lower right corner of the screen). This will bring up a list of all possible functions—File, Edit, Find, Mark, Go To, and Tools—in one single panel.

Some of the options are a bit unclear. For instance, if you want to change the font, you need to go to the “Edit” section and choose “Options”. (However, changing the font is frequently ineffective; see below.) The options for autoscroll, rotation lock (to prevent the screen from changing orientation if you flip the device on its side), and full screen display are under “Tools,” at the very bottom.

Thus, to engage full-screen mode (getting rid of the title bar at the top and the menu bar at the bottom), you must go into the configuration menu and scroll to the very bottom. (Also, if you attempt to page down with a tap, you will come right back out of it again, since it is turned off by tapping at the bottom of the screen where the menu bar would be.) There is room for improvement here.

Viewing Other File Types

 Unlike other iSilo clients, the iPhone version of iSilo has been blessed with the ability to display several document formats in addition to iSilo—most notably PDF, Word, RTF, unaltered HTML, as well as JPEG and other image formats. No conversion is necessary to load these documents into iSilo. Perhaps the iSilo people figured that these document viewing abilities might make the iPod iSilo more attractive to people who had never used it before.

Most of the PDFs I loaded as a test displayed adequately—at least as well as they would appear in Air Sharing’s viewer. The only failures were a Wowio PDF (which only displayed the first couple of pages and everything else was blank—perhaps this was due to whatever copy protection method Wowio uses) and my 153-megabyte Spycraft 2.0 PDF (iSilo churned gamely away for a couple of minutes trying to load it, then the iPod crashed to the silver-apple screen—but then, I didn’t really expect it to work).

Loading iSilo: “I can do that, WebDAV.”

 Once you have files in a format iSilo can read, it is necessary to load them. As with eReader, iSilo can pull down compatible files from any web server, including one on your own desktop computer. But unlike eReader (or BookShelf, or Stanza), iSilo offers the ability to load files into its memory without needing a webserver or any specialized PC-side conduit at all.

Like Air Sharing, iSilo has its own WebDAV server built in. This means that you can tell iSilo to set itself up as a file server on your wireless network which you can access with a URL. You can then add it to “My Network Places” on your Windows computer, explore to it, and move files into and out of it just as you would any network drive. In short, the app itself is also its own conduit.

This also means that you can use iSilo just as you would Air Sharing—as a network hard drive utility to transfer files from one computer to another without ever wanting or needing to view them on the iPhone.

Loading files in this way is easy and fast, at least for me. It means no having to mess around with a conduit that may not actually work properly. I wish other e-reading apps would offer this function!

Text Display

iSilo books are displayed by default in a Verdana sans serif font. They can be viewed in either portrait or landscape; iSilo has a very smooth accelerometer screen-flip function. The documents look very much as they did in their original HTML format (making allowances for screen size), including italics, bold, links, and even tables.

The font is reminiscent of the fonts available on the old PalmOS devices where iSilo was born. Someone used to reading on those devices might see very little difference in how the document is displayed.

However, these days I tend to prefer reading in a serif font, such as Georgia, for the way it guides the eyes along. iSilo does have a font-setting dialogue under its Options menu, where the font can be changed to any that is available on the iPhone—but for some inexplicable reason, of all the documents I tried to change the font with, the only one where it stuck was the converted HTML Tor e-book of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire (as seen in the screenshot near the top of this review).

I am not sure whether something in the document’s HTML (or in my iSiloX conversion of it) is overriding my font choice, or if it’s something wrong with the iSilo client—but whatever it is, it certainly is annoying.

[Edit: I have since been informed that this has to do with the way that iSilo documents have a specific font family (serif or sans serif) set, and you must choose which font is displayed for each family. You can choose to set a serif font to be displayed for sans serif families, by turning "Set Defaults" on, changing "Family" to "Sans Serif," and then choosing the serif font, such as "Georgia". I tried this, and it worked. Still, it only serves as more evidence of the overall clunkiness of the application and its configuration options.]

One thing I have found while reading documents in iSilo is that sometimes the scrolling can be decidedly sluggish. Sometimes it will not even scroll at all, no matter how much I flick it—and then it comes unstuck and immediately jumps several pages down.

Another mild annoyance has to do with the “soft” scrolling selection from iSiloX—a format conversion option which is supposed to allow scrolling across boundaries between different webpages in the same iSilo file.

I used soft scrolling with Baen Webscription books (which are set up in a one-webpage-per-chapter format) when I was using iSilo on my PalmOS machines so I would not have to click a link to jump to the next chapter, just hit the down button again to scroll across the boundary. However, the iPhone iSilo client does not seem to recognize soft scrolling. (I wonder if it is because of the same API issue that makes BookShelf have to load books in 35K chunks?)

Conclusion

Back in the PalmOS era, iSilo offered an unparalleled ability to convert HTML documents to a form that could be conveniently carried on a Palm. Since it was the only game in town at the time (other options such as Plucker had not yet come along), it was immediately adopted by professions that relied on rapid access to significant amounts of reference material—most notably the legal and medical professions.

To this day, a number of medical and legal reference sites continue to support iSilo, and the lack of an iSilo reader had been cited by doctors or lawyers as an overwhelming reason why they could not switch from their old PDA to an iPhone. Happily for those doctors and lawyers, this has now changed. I would have no compunction at all recommending the iPhone iSilo to people who need to use iSilo professionally (or others who have a bunch of files already in iSilo formats).

However, due to its current clunkiness in comparison to the various other choices available,Now i am searched the iSilo v1.31 for iPhone free share for you! Enjoy it!

Free Download Here

Password:   www.ggiphone.com

USB tethering with iPhone OS 3.0 apparently works

A developer has accidentally enabled USB tethering with a beta of Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0. The feature appears to work, so it is just up to the carriers to determine whether they can handle the load when iPhone OS 3.0 is expected to ship this summer.

USB tethering—where a cell phone is used as a modem for a computer—is one of the most-requested features for the iPhone, and (half of) it has finally arrived in iPhone OS 3.0. Scott Forstall, Apple’s Senior VP of iPhone Software, stated on Tuesday that the feature is now built into the OS, but carriers will have to choose whether to take on all that extra network burden and allow access. As developers continue to tinker with the iPhone OS 3.0 beta, though, one has unlocked access to iPhone tethering and taken it for a spin.

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has posted screenshots of his adventures in iPhone tethering to his Twitter account. Unfortunately, Steve has no idea how he did it, only tweeting that he was hacking around with APNs in the Carrier.bundle itcc file. Steve says the feature appears in the Network section of the Settings app, but while “tethering over USB seems to work,” it tends to cause a hard-reboot of the phone. Steve is in Ireland using O2, and testing over Bluetooth is next.

It is worth reiterating that the ability to tether an iPhone for data is not a technical challenge; it’s a network challenge. You probably heard that the iPhone is responsible for bringing AT&T practically to its knees this past week at SXSW in Austin, TX, and that’s just from tiny bits of mobile sites and the like. Computers can haul far more data down a connection, and many carriers are simply not ready to provide that large of a wireless pipe to 17 million iPhone owners yet.

Top 10 Free Music Based Games for the iPhone & iPod Touch

Music-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become wildly popular, so it only makes sense that similar games are being created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Both devices have a plethora of gaming apps, but only a handful of those are free and based around music. Here are 10 – perfect for long hours stuck in airports, commuter trains, and so on.

What are some of your favorite music-based games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and which do you wish existed?

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Aero Drum Free

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While it may not be as exciting as beating the skins of an actual drum kit, Aero Drum Free will still help you work out some of your frustrations by beating out a sick rhythm. Just follow the dots to play snare, cymbal and bass drum and try to beat the scores.

As with all of the “X Game Free” versions, this is a trial version, and there are more features in the paid app.  (App Store Rating: 2 stars)

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Aero Guitar Free

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At some point or another, everyone has “played” air guitar, but with the help of Aero Guitar Free, now you can actually feel like you are accomplishing something!  This free version of the app will allow you to sample the game before you buy the full one, and will teach you the basic of up strokes, down strokes and basic tapping.

Another rhythm action game, but at least it makes you feel like you are doing more than just tapping.  (App Store Rating: 2 stars)

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Aero Synth Free

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Ever wish you had the mad skills of a club DJ?  Well, more than likely you never will, but Aero Synth Free will at least help you live out that fantasy a bit more. Tap along as the electronic music plays and keep the beat going, but if you miss one of the bubbles in the four streams, the music goes back to its original intro until you are on track again.

The side scrolling nature of this game is a bit prohibitive as your hand can hide the lower streams.  (App Store Rating: 2.5 stars)

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Chrimbell

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There is nothing quite like the sound of bells playing along with a Christmas carol, and with Chrimbell you can reproduce that sound to go along with some old time hits.  Choose from Christmas carols like “Away In A Manger” or “Jingle Bells” and then choose your bell and get to playing.

It appears it does need the built-in speaker of the iPhone or iPod Touch version 2 to work as I couldn’t get any sound on my iPod Touch 1.  (App Store Rating: 2.5 stars)

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Mardo’s Music Trivia – Lite Version

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Who doesn’t love to test their knowledge of trivial facts?  With Mardo’s Ultimate Music Trivia you can see how well you do across a whole range of musical genres from punk to country.

The lite version is very lite, but it will give you a feeling for how the full version plays and if it will even interest you.  (App Store Rating: 2 stars)

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rePete Lite

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Harking back to the days of the Simon electronic game, rePete Lite allows you to choose a playing grid of 4, 6 or 9 light boxes and then uses lights and sound to show you the pattern you need to remember.

As with most memory games out there, watch out for the addictive factor.  (App Store Rating: 2.5 stars)

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synthPond Lite

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A fairly complex app, synthPond Lite allows you to place different types of nodes around the screen to create synthetic music.  You can change their pitch, speed and a whole lot more.

While most lite versions of games really scale back on their features, this one seems to be complete in all the right places.  (App Store Rating: 2.5 stars)

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Tap Tap Revenge

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Have a desire to tap your iPhone or iPod Touch screen to a rhythm?  Then Tap Tap RevengeTap Tap Revenge reviews is your answer.  With a name obviously inspired by Japan’s mega-popular Dance Dance Revolution, the actual game play takes its cues from the addictive Guitar Hero.

While the music is generic in this version, that is what allows them to keep it being released for free.  I personally find the game a bit frustrating, but then I have huge fingers and am not exactly known for my ability to keep a beat.  (App Store Rating: 3 stars)

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ThumbStruck Free

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Compared to other rhythm-based games, ThumbStruck Live has you hitting the musical elemental balls on three bars instead of the usual one.  Your thumbs will be dancing all over the board to keep up with this one.

This game definitely steps up the rhythm-based genre by requiring you to be a lot more agile and coordinated to hit all three sections of the board.  (App Store Rating: 2.5 stars)

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Xmas In Space: Play-a-Long Christmas Carols

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Who knew they had Christmas on other planets?  Well, according to Xmas In Space:Play-a-Long Christmas Carols, they do, and they have sent you a music app that allows you to play along with bells or harps to some of your favorite Christmas carols.

Though the game has no way to measure how well you did, the song mixes are cute, and the fire crackling sound is oddly comforting.

iPhone Apps For Designers And Bloggers

Now I’ll admit that I don’t have an iphone…but I do have an iPod Touch…which is the next best thing! I’ll go over some details of how I use the apps on my touch to help me design and keep my blog up to date!

First off…Just in case you don’t want to read all this I made a short crappy video of some of the apps that I use!

iPhone Apps For Designers And Bloggers from Niki Brown on Vimeo.
 

Kern: The Game

First off, I need to keep my typography skills in shape so I downloaded this game. The gist of the game is to position a missing letter in a word that is falling from the top of the screen. The more actuate the kerning the higher the score. Now this game seems simple and easy, but it has proven to be difficult! A fun way to sharpen your type skills and pass the time.

What The Font?

I know that I don’t have a camera on my touch, but I can stil save images from mail or safari and use this app. What The font attempts to identify fonts from your uploaded images. Very useful on the go (especially for iphone users.)

Analytics

If you run a website or blog odds are you have google analytics set up. This app provides an iphone interface to google’s less than desirable flash graphic interface. Good for checking out your website stats on the go.

Drop Box

While not necessarily an iphone app, the drop box website has a lovey iphone interface. I use dropbox on a regular basis to transfer files between computers. Very helpful if you have a multi-computer set up and need to keep some files synced.

Wordpress iPhone App

I ride the subway to and from work every day. This means I have about 30 mins to kill each way. The wordpress iPhone app is extremely usefull when I get blogging ideas on the train. In fact, many of the first drafts of my posts are composed on this ap!

Tweetie

If you aren’t on twitter now…well you might as well shut your computer down and go back to the stone ages. The design community on Twitter is HUGE! Tons of well known and not so well known helpful designers out there tweeting all sorts of designy goodness. How the heck do you keep up with it? IMO Tweetie is the best twitter app out there. Landscape keyboard, and easy search functions so you dont miss replies.

What Apps Dou You Use?

I’m interested in what applications you guys use – leave a comment and let me know!

The Top 10 iPhone Clone

If you believe that we live in a world of illusions and there is no such distinction between the real one and the duplicate one, here are something that you may feel interested in. Beauty comes with the fear of being eyed too much. And it seems, iPhone is under it. There are many duplicates of iPhone available in the market. We have found out some of them. Want to know their capabilities and price? Stick to us.

1. Mini iPhone 3G+ Clone with Strong Java and 1GB Internal Memory

Triband GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz
Weight : 160 g
Display : 2.8 inch, 260 K color, 240 X 320 Resolution
Battery : 1000 mAh Lithium, 3-6 hours
Camera : 1.3 MP
1GB Internal Memory
Bluetooth, USB.
Price
$140

2. iPhone P168 Mini Clone Cell Phone with Dual Sim and 24k Golden Edge

Dual SIM
Max 8 GB External Memory supported, 256 MB provided
MP3 Shaking function
Weight : 160 g
Display : 2.6 inches Touch Screen, 260 K QVGA Screen, 240 X 320
Battery : 950 mAh Lihium, 3-4 hours talktime.
Camera : 1.3 MP
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$107

3. iPhone Quad Band Clone- Ciphohne T1 with Free Analogue TV Function

Dual SIM
Quad Band : GSM900/ 1800/ 1900 /850 MHZ
LCD display
3.2″ touch screen, 260k QVGA ; PX: 240*320
Weight : 160 g
Battery : 1250 mAh Lithium with 3-4 hours talktime
Camera : 3.0 MP
FM Radio without earphone
Max 8 GB T-flash memory supported, 256 MB provided
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$164

4. Wholesale Anycool i929 Quad Band Analogue TV Phone- Dual Sim and Dual Camera

Dual SIM
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Display : 2.8 inch touchscree, 260 thousand color; PX: 640×480px
Weight : 160 g
Battery : Lithium Batteries 1800mAh, Calling Time, 3-5hours
Camera : 640 X 480
FM Radio without earphone
Max 2 GB T-flash memory supported, 256 MB provided
Dual Bluetooth, USB
Price
$148

5. Build-in 4GB Music iPhone 3G-1 Clone Cell Phone with Java Function

1 : 1 iPhone Replica Design
Double Band : GSM900/ 1800 MHZ
Display : 3.5 inch touchscree, 16 M color; PX: 240 X 320
Weight : 135 g
Battery : Lithium Batteries 1000mAh, Calling Time, 3-5hours
Camera : 1.3
4GB Built in Memoy
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$195

6.iPhone 3G Mini Clone Cell Phone – Triband and Dual Sim

Dual SIM
Tri Band : GSM900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ
Display : 2.8 inch touchscree, 260 thousand color; PX: 240X 320
Weight : 160 g
Battery : Lithium Batteries 950mAh, Calling Time, 3 hours
Camera : 640 X 480
FM Radio without earphone
Max 8 GB T-flash memory supported, 256 MB provided
Bluetooth, USB
Change MP3 by shaking
Price
$122

7. Wholesale iPhone 8GB 1:1 Clone with Obvious Apple Logo and Real 8GB Memory

Dual Band : GSM 900/ 1800 MHZ
Dual SIM
Display : 3.5 inch touchscreen, 16M color; PX: 240X 320
Weight : 135 g
Camera : 2.0 MP
FM Radio without earphone
8 GB internal Memory
Bluetooth, USB
Change MP3 by shaking
Price
$204.00

8. M88 Wholesale Quadband M88 Windows WiFi Java iPhone Clone

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Windows Mobile 6.0 Operating System
Display : 3.2 inch QVGA
Weight : 160 g
Battery : 1800 mAh
Camera : 2.0 MP Max 1600 X 1200
2 GB TF Memory Supported, 64 MB SD RAM, 512 M ROM provided
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$269

9. Unlocked Stereophonic iPhone 3G Clone with Mini Outboard Speaker and AOD Menu

Dual Band : GSM 900/ 1800 MHZ
Dual SIM
Display : 3.5 inch Touchscreen
Weight : 180 g
Battery : 1200 mAh Lithium talktme 3-5 hr
Camera : 1.3 MP
4 GB Internal Memory
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$208

10. V8+ iPhone Clone Cell Phone- Quadband Dual SIM and Analogue TV Function

Supports Analog TV all over the world
Quad Band : GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHZ
Dual SIM
Display : 3.5 inch Touchscreen, 260K Color, 240X320 Pixel
Weight : 160 g
Battery : 1250 mAh Lithium talktme 3-4 hr
Camera : 3.0 MP
FM Radio without inserting earphone
256 MB T-Flash card provided max 8 GB Memory supported
Shake to change MP3 function
Bluetooth, USB
Price
$151

But as they say, there is never a second chance to first impression, so Apple iphone rules. Originality rules because its original. You can try them too. They can give any sophisticated mobile phone a run for their money. And you can buy them because we had to gruel before we could find the top 10 models which we could present to you.

5 killer Backgrounder apps to keep going on your iPhone

Last October, we wrote about Backgrounder, a jailbreak utility that allows iPhone users to run more than one application at a time. Backgrounder is an open source extension to the iPhone’s SpringBoard, the application launcher that works as the device’s version of the Macintosh Finder. When installed, you can move any application into the background by pressing and holding the Home key. The application continues to run and you can move on to other tasks.

If this sounds like a battery killer, well, it is. When used the right way, however, Backgrounder lets you multitask short-term visits to whatever app strikes your interest while running the important stuff in the background. 

True, some (but not all) of these background apps may get used when you’re near power sources: at your desk or in the car for example. But others will not, and many apps are just as useful on the go. It’s obviously a trade-off: shorter usage life versus higher productivity when taking advantage of Backgrounder’s features.

The trick lies in choosing the right apps to background. Yes this might mean backgrounding apps where going through the launch sequence and menus is a pain. If you don’t want to interrupt a game, it’s convenient to background it, take care of another task and then pop back a few minutes later. For the sake of this post, however, I’m talking about apps that you might stick in the background for longer sessions, the really core stuff that you want to keep going on while you do other things.

Here is a list of our top five killer Backgrounder applications, and why you would want these to keep running when you’re busy doing other things.

1. Pandora

Ah, Pandora, my love. Backgrounding you is like having a little angel of music sit on my shoulder at all times. Apple’s built-in iPod/Music application may also offer background music, but it doesn’t offer the music exploration features that power the Music Genome Project. Pandora uses song analysis to create suggestions and introduce you to music you’ve never heard before. With Backgrounder, Pandora plays new music as you get on with other iPhone work.

2. Mobile Colloquy and 3. AIM

Back in the days of the iPhone’s 1.x firmware, before Apple introduced its strict one-application-at-a-time rule, IRC and IM clients ran in the background as a matter of course; they would badge their SpringBoard icons to indicate when new messages became available. That’s the way clients work on PCs and Macs, and it was the way they should work on the iPhone.

Apple cut off third-party background processes in the 2.x firmware (and, in a related matter, never delivered on Push notifications). Backgrounder offers the closest approximation you can come to the halcyon implementations of the early days of jailbreak. 

With it, you can leave your IRC and IM sessions running in the background and check back in to ongoing sessions at will. In the best of all possible worlds, these should work the way the SMS app works: in the background, with badges and ongoing conversations. In the real world, Backgrounder makes Colloquy and AIM more practical and more accessible. With it, they operate closer to the way we really use these tools on our desktop computers.

4. File transfer apps like Air Sharing

When you’re working at home, there are occasions when you just want to throw a file onto the iPhone for later use. Instead of stopping what you’re doing and launching a file transfer application, it’s extremely convenient to have that app running in the background and toss over a file as needed. Using Backgrounder lets you leave that server going unattended, available for use whenever.

5. Twitter clients like TwitterFon

Most Twitter clients check in at regular intervals to fetch new tweets and messages. This check in can only occur when these applications are open and running. Backgrounding them lets this happen unattended, avoiding long delays when you return to see what your tweeps have been up to. You don’t have to wait to refresh; the software stays in the now as you allow it to keep running.

Other apps

That’s five, but there are many other applications that rock under Backgrounder. Our short list represents the apps most commonly used on our phones, but many other apps didn’t make the cut. When consulting with colleagues, a number of honorable mentions were thrown around. Here are some of the more notable uses, adding to the “pausing your ongoing game” mentioned earlier in this write-up.

• Reminder apps don’t have much utility when they’re not running. Backgrounding them means they can function better and keep you on top of the tasks that you’re supposed to do.
• Internet connection apps let you share your connection with nearby laptops. Backgrounding those apps lets you keep using your iPhone even while a friend surfs the Web. (These apps are legal in many countries; consult your local laws.)
• Slow-to-load apps may not take up a lot of background cycles but it’s nice to hop right back into these apps whenever you want.

Most iPhone applications gathering dust

Just 30 percent of people who buy an iPhone application actually use it the day after it was purchased, according to Pinch Media, which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple’s App Store. And the numbers plunge from there: after 20 days, less than 5 percent of those who downloaded an application are actively using it. The drop-off is worse for free applications.

iPhone AppStore Secrets – Pinch Media

Those are amazing numbers. It’s not a new pattern–GigaOm and TechCrunch noticed this last August–but back then, with the App Store just a month old, it was hard to know whether that usage model would last.

Now it’s clear that seven months, 15,000 applications, and 500 million downloads later, things haven’t changed. App Store activity continues to be huge; Apple has made the App Store the centerpiece of its iPhone marketing over the last few months, highlighting the breadth and depth of applications that are available on the App Store for business and entertainment.

But if most people don’t find iPhone applications very compelling, does it matter how many exist? It’s enough to wonder if the App Store is starting to get a bit saturated.

Pinch Media CEO Greg Yardley looks at it a little differently. In his view, Apple has built such an easy-to-use distribution (as well as payment processing) platform for iPhone applications that people find it very easy to move onto the next thing that catches their fancy. The lack of a “try-before-you-buy” feature means iPhone users have no choice but to take the plunge, and given that most iPhone applications are free and the ones that do cost money are very inexpensive, there’s little incentive to carefully shop around for the one application that best meets your needs.

Only about 10 percent of iPhone applications appear to retain an audience over time, and most of those are games, entertainment applications such as movie listings, and things like Facebook (”their user sessions must be off the charts,” Yardley said).

But developers are still making plenty of money from the other 90 percent, he said. As noted, people are very willing to try new iPhone applications, meaning that building a better mousetrap is still a very viable business model for the world of mobile computing. His advice for developers is to get your money up front, and charge something for your application rather than trying to depend on a free/ad-subsidized model, because the number of people viewing those ads will plummet the day after the application lands on their iPhones.

At some point, however, Apple will need to find a better way to help developers promote their applications within an ocean. “The App Store fails as a promotional mechanism. There’s only so much screen real estate” that Apple can use within the App Store window to promote applications, Yardley said, and if you don’t get on those Top 100 or Staff Favorites lists, your application languishes.

Yardley thinks there is still a great deal of opportunity for developers on the App Store, which isn’t that surprising given he makes his living by advising iPhone developers. And it’s true that if the installed base of iPhones continues to grow, there will be more and more niche opportunities to cater to the needs of high-school students and seniors, and everyone in between.

Still, how many more currency conversion (37), recipe (67), and fart-joke (30) applications do iPhone users really need, especially if they aren’t using the ones they’ve already got?

Dev-Team Releases PwnageTool and QuickPwn For 2.2.1 Update

The iPhone Dev-Team has released updated versions of both the PwnageTool and QuickPwn for the recent 2.2.1 update. Supported devices are the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and original iPod touch. Users who unlock or intend to unlock their iPhone 3G should only update using custom firmware created with the most recent PwnageTool. Using QuickPwn or the vanilla update from iTunes will re-lock your iPhone 3G. iPhone, iPod touch users, and iPhone 3G owners who don’t wish to unlock can simply update using iTunes and jailbreak using QuickPwn.

More information on the do’s and don’ts of updating and download links for QuickPwn and PwnageTool are at the Dev-Team Blog!

PwnageTool is a tool developed by the iPhone Dev-Team which creates custom firmware packages for jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone. QuickPwn is a tool which jailbreaks and unlocks the iPhone without needing to create custom firmware packages.

Thanks to luqven for the tip!

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