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iPhone Made Insanely Great With This Mod 2/23/2008

The process of TiN utilizes some hardcore chemistry concepts to coat objects like luxury watches, drill bits and aircraft blades. Well, what happens when you treat a regular old iPhone in this manner? It ends up looking insanely great, that’s what

Use Your iPhone As A Touchpad To Control Your Computer 2/21/2008

“Touchpad enables you to use your iPhone (or iPod Touch) as a wireless touchpad.”

Touchpad turns your iPhone into a remote trackpad 2/21/2008

Touchpad for the iPhone is built on top of VNsea, but instead of allowing you to navigate your desktop on the device, it becomes what is essentially a wireless, remote trackpad, which gives you direct access to your system as if you were using a mouse or touch device for input. It sounds interesting in description, but looks amazing in execution.

Step-by-Step: Jailbreak the iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware 1/26/2008

Before you get started, be sure you’ve got at least 1GB of free space on your computer, 300MB of free RAM, and 300MB of free space on your iPhone.

Top 10 Business Tech Stories of 2007 1/04/2008

An iPhone, Baidu, VMware Year… It’s always impossible, and unfair, to call one year “worse” than another. But at first blush it seems 2007’s top stories don’t pack quite the punch of 2006’s. There was no YouTube coming out of nowhere. But there was a Facebook, a VMware (VMW) and a Baidu (BIDU) coming from, if not nowhere, then at least left field

Archos 605 wifi hacked! 12/31/2007

Fiat over at archosfans has figured out how to run native, unsigned code on the 605 and 705. Check it out! 605 is the new iPhone!

iFlash - External Flash for the iPhone 10/07/2007

Using a USB connector, 4 white LED’s, and a tact switch, I built a removable flash unit.

To Hack or Not to Hack, That is the Question 10/04/2007

Going beyond the iPhone, do you use your technology as the manufacturer dictates right out of the box, or do you push the barrier? If you tweak, how far do you take it and what is your expectation of the reaction you should get from the company if you do?

Oh Look, T-Mobile Unlocking iPhones! (PIC Included) 9/23/2007

So imagine my surprise when I walk out of the Apple Store and I see a T-Mobile Authorized Reseller in Kiosk form sporting this sign every so boldly near the realm of Apple: “We unlock iPhones!”

iPhone explodes from unlock attempt (picture) 8/30/2007

“We were so happy, all the software part was done, so we started opening the iphone. The antenna cover was a bit tricky but eventually it came off. Then we started to open the metal cover (after taking out the 3 screws) and PUFF, up it went in smoke, I think my collegue must have touched something

Too many iPhone apps? Mod your home screen to fit them all 8/30/2007

Using Dock, a new app by Nate True. It changes the last row of the iPhone’s home screen so that it scrolls to the left and right.

Man surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone 8/09/2007

The Denver man had a hard time using touchscreens with his big fingers, so he made them smaller. “Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years.”

New mod for iPod 4G, Video, and Nano… 7/17/2007

AcidMods has taken the iVue clear panel from Rapid Repair and spiced it up a bit with dancing LEDs. Very cool stuff. Sexier than the iPhone? Not sure. unique? Certainly. I want one.

iPhone File System Hacked, Custom Ringtones to Come Soon 7/10/2007

The iPhone file system has been compromised and you can access it using iPhoneInterface. Full access to the file system means custom ringtones and all kinds of fun stuff. One them you can see in the image: They moved the Safari application from the dashboard to the iPhone space. This also opens the door to running custom applications

iPhonize Your PSP With iPSP 7/08/2007

The iPSP software allows you to not only skin your PSP, but links you to handy portals like IM clients. Still, our favorite feature has to be the “turn your PSP” command. The download is free, and besides, what else are you doing with your PSP?

How To Build Your Own Interactive Multitouch Display 6/30/2007

Between the Apple iPhone and Microsoft’s interactive table, multi-touch displays are all the rage. This instructable will show you how to turn your lcd projector into an interactive multi-touch display table using a few cheap components readily available from the hardware store.

Apple on Board? 6/29/2007

With both the iPhone and Apple TV running versions of OS X, rumors of an in-car navigation and infotainment system are not inconceivable