Well well, after a week-end of travel, I sit down to get back to work and what do I find, a Doom port! Very cool! The port is of the shareware version of Doom. When you open the application, you will come to a screen where you will need to tap Play. This will bring you into the game. The controls are on the screen. You can use the arrows to move the direction the arrow is pointing. Yes, there are two right arrows and yes, they do the same thing…move your guy to the right. To shoot, use the gun button in the upper right. To walk, just tilt your iPhone back. To stop walking, tilt your iPhone forward. The Open button is what you use to open doors.
A member of the Dev Team named planetbeing announced that he has reversed engineered Apples hardware and has ported Linux 2.6 kernel to run on the iPhone (as shown in the above video). This hack works on first gen iPod Touch and both model iPhones (2G & 3G). This could be considered an alpha software release, but is a huge leap forward in opening up the iPhone Hardware to different operating systems. Theoretically this could lead to eventually being able to boot your iPhone and choose between different OS’’s (iPhone OS and Andriod) and still be able to use the device as a phone. At present this is not really for the newbs to install unless you really must show it off and hey, you’ll definitely learn something along the way.
Some people don’t like iTunes. Some other people decided to start discussing how to sync music to their libraries on the iPhone and iPod Touch without iTunes. Some more folks at Apple decided that iTunes must be the only option and shut down development discussion for syncing without iTunes.
Users over at Bluwiki were having discussions on a few pages about how to sync media onto the iPhone and iPod Touch from sources other than iTunes.
Apple has introduced an iPhone 3G Gift Card which can be used to give an iPhone gift this holiday season.
Give someone an iPhone 3G Gift Card and when the lucky recipient comes in to redeem it, an Apple Retail Store Specialist will take care of every detail. The Specialist will get your recipient’s iPhone 3G up and calling, set up email, and help customize the Home screen, choose some great iPhone applications, personalize ringtones, and find favorite songs. The iPhone 3G gift card can be purchased online or in Apple stores.
The number of undocumented new features in iPhone OS 2.2 is small relative to some other releases, which were accompanied by skimpy release notes. Among the few niceties discovered so far:
Mail rendering improvements Several users have reported enhanced readability of HTML messages in Mail.app under the new release. One iPhone Atlas reader writes:
“In the past, many html-formatted messages would have the unpleasant tendency to appear in my iPhone with fonts much too small to be viewable on the iPhone’s screen, requiring irritating horizontal swipes. Since the 2.2 upgrade, however, I’ve noticed that Mail - after briefly showing the original message for a fraction of a second - automatically changes the font size and formatting of those messages, and makes them completely readable. I noticed this in the daily Tech Bulletins I get from IHT.com, for example, among other sites. A very welcome improvement indeed. Kudos, Apple!”
Emebdded YouTube Playability indicator The ability to see graphic indicators of embedded YouTube content in Safari on the iPhone has existed for several OS iterations. These graphics can be clicked, launching the YouTube application. which may or may not playback the video, dependent on whether or not the video has been encoded for the iPhone.
Under OS 2.2, however, the graphic indicates whether or not the YouTube video is playable.
One iPhone Atlas reader writes:
“On web pages that have embedded YouTube videos, the frame now tells you in advance whether the movie is playable on the iPhone’s YouTube app. If it isn’t playable, you’ll see only a gray frame with a play button and a slash through it. If it is, you see the movie and a play button, as normal.
“Unfortunately, the same can’t be said when trying to stream video podcasts. When you try this with an incompatible podcast (like ABC’s Barack Obama videos), you have to connect and start downloading before a message comes up and tells you you can’t play it.”
Slide-deletion for podcasts In addition to podcasts now being available for download in the iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular networks), iPhone OS 2.2 adds the ability to swipe-delete podcasts.
One iPhone Atlas reader writes:
“After updating to FW 2.2 I can now delete audio podcasts by sliding your finger across it and press delete. I believe this was restricted to video podcasts before 2.2, but not 100% sure.”
For the people who run iPhone 2.2 on the iPhone and would like to have Caller ID working along with a customized carrier service experience.
The number one thing that a lot of people have been complaining about with every update, and recently with the 2.2 iPhone Firmware update is Caller Id - that one’s simple! Here we go:
Let’s try that again.
This is Caller ID Fix test file for India , Montenegro , Trinidad & Tobago and Cyprus. There are many more over on this thread on hackint0sh.org - Thanks to Frank8 for his help with this.
Navigate to System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppSupport.framework/Default.phoneformat
Backup the Default.phoneformat file on your iPhone, and replace it with the new file you downloaded. Reboot your iPhone, that’s it!
Custom Trinidad & Tobago Carrier Bundles for Digicel and Bmobile
thanks to Kofster
Just make sure you have Open SSH installed on your Jesus phone and you are using an sftp client like Cyberduck or Fugu, WinSCP etc.
drop the carrier bundles in /System/Library/Carrier Bundles.
Then, with MobileTerminal installed (via Cydia), type in su and hit enter.
at the prompt, type in alpine and hit enter
Type in cd /System/Library/”Carrier Bundles” and hit enter
Type in ln -s Digicel_TT.bundle 374130 and hit enter
Type in ln -s bmobile_TT.bundle 37412 and hit enter.
When you’ve done that, navigate to your Settings > General > Reset > ResetNetwork Settings
When the phone restarts, you’ll see a screen like this in the ‘Phone Preferences:
Bmobile Services Menu
Digicel Services Menu
Digicel Serices
For iPhone 3G users, because the iPhone 3G does not have a software unlock as yet, the baseband is unable to read the MCC and MTN numbers from the SIM cards. Therefore, even if you try to create symlinks to the MCC information, the iPhone 3G still will not generate those lovely screens like the silver and black (2G) iPhone owners get. However, all you have to do it replace the Unknown.bunble bundle in /System/Library/Carrier Bundles with the ones below.
(via AppleiPhoneSchool.com’s Brooke)
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