Apple may begin charging full price if you try to redownload an app you have already bought over the iPhone, according to a report by The iPhone Blog.
The warning message pictured below has been appearing to some users on the iPhone 3.0 beta firmware. Previously if you had purchased an iPhone app you could remove it and then easily redownload and install it on your iPhone as many times as you like.
Now the warning dialog suggests that you must re-download it using your computer; otherwise, you will have to pay full price for the app again.
The iPhone Blog believes that this is due to the on-device account management coming to iPhone 3.0. The ability to log in and out of multiple iTunes accounts on your iPhone could lead to the sharing of iPhone purchases with others who haven’t paid for them.
Unfortunately, this could inconvenience the many who have legitimately purchases and simply prefer not to have all their apps always installed.
One of the few disappointments with the Apple iPhone is its camera. PCMag has published 22 suggestions on how to get the most from it. Even if you are waiting for an iPhone that has a 3.2 or 5MP camera, the tips and apps that follow will come in handy for improving your image collection on Apple’s handheld marvel.
Tips for Taking Better iPhone Pictures:
1. Learn a bit about photo composition
2. Don’t take pictures in direct sunlight
3. Check that the lens is unobstructed and clean
4. Switch to landscape orientation occasionally
5. Mind the background
6. Hold the iPhone still with two hands
7. Get close to people you’re photographing
8. Take several pictures of your subject, varying the angles and poses
9. Get the light right
Apps for Shooting Better Photos:
10. Camera Genius 1.3 (US$2.99)
11. Fast Tap Camera 1.3 ($0.9)
12. Photon (Free)
13. Real Cam SP ($2.99)
14. CameraBag 1.4 ($2.99)
15. ColorSplash ($1.99)
16. PhotoArtist ($1.99)
17. PhotoCanvas ($2.99)
18. Photo fx ($2.99)
19. Photogene ($2.99)
20. Photo Lab 1600 ($1.99)
21. Photobucket for iPhone (Free)
22. Facebook for the iPhone (Free)
New features in 2.5 Beta:
- Ability to insert a contact name & number or email address when composing an SMS just right swipe in the message text box (not supported in landscape mode)
- Ability to insert your current GPS location coordinates when composing an SMS just right swipe
in the message text box (not supported in landscape mode)
- For incoming SMS messages that contain a http url, now allows user to open up Safari, YouTube or Google Maps
- Added Landscape mode when composing an SMS message, and with a larger font as well!! (you need to be in the compose text box before it’ll rotate to landscape)
- Faster navigation from “Text Messages” view to specific message conversation
- Compliance with Cydia Mobile Substrate framework for registering of dylibs (now a Cydia prerequisite)
- Unify status bar color (containing character counter and credit / message indicator)
- Upon pressing “Send…” keyboard reverts to normal mode (if currently in numbers / special symbols mode) as per Apple SMS application If you can’t wait until the 2.5 general release you can beta test biteSMS 2.5 by adding the following repo to your Cydia Installer: http://www.bitesms.com/cydia/beta
One of the most anticipated handheld music applications, Noise.io is capable of creating all kinds of melodic sequences, basses, leads, keys, bells, percussive sounds and sound effects. Designed by an experienced electronic musician, Noise.io makes it possible to create 303-like acid basslines or any other melodies using the buit-in sequencer, or jamming live in sync with the rhythm using the TapBPM feature.
AppsAmuck.com has been created by iPocketApps as a website dedicated to creating tutorials for developing iPhone Apps. The key here is simple: “Taking baby steps is better than taking no steps at all!”. AppsAmuck plans on writing 31 iPhone applications in the next 31 days. AppsAmuck will publish both the executable and the source code for each application. Their goal is for each of these applications to be useful, interesting, and straight-forward. Someone considering writing their first iPhone application should be able to look at these applications and “get it”.
Jay Freeman, a sort of Robin Hood of the iPhone/Touch hacking community recently, has ported one of my long time favorite and most used apps, MobileFinder, to 2.0-2.1 iPhone OS. The original developers of MobileFinder have taken it to the AppStore, but because of the limited permissions and system access developers are given by Apple, the new MobileFinder on the AppStore is very limited.
But thanks to Jay Freeman (aka Saurik - developer/creator of Cydia, WinterBoard and Cycorder just to name a few), who recently discovered that the MobileFinder code was open source, has taking the time to port it over to 2.0-2.1, the real MobileFinder for the iPhone is back on Cydia. Thank You Jay!
I really find the MobileFinder for jailbroken devices most useful, because it allows you full access to your iPhone OS system files directly on the iPhone. It also allows you to do allot of stuff that you would usually only be able to do via a OpenSSH connection with FTP software on a Mac/PC.
The developers at iControlPad have posted some updates to their site since TouchArcade originally wrote about them back in May. For those who don’t remember, iControlPad is hoping to deliver an under $30 gaming control pad for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The latest prototype casing is shown here:
They say the color and texture will be glossy and smooth in the final production model. Here is a link to an old prototype video
One of the few disappointments with the Apple iPhone is its camera. PCMag has published 22 suggestions on how to get the most from it. Even if you are waiting for an iPhone that has a 3.2 or 5MP camera, the tips and apps that follow will come in handy for improving your image collection on Apple’s handheld marvel.
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