There are hundreds of iPhone applications available on the market, from games through to photo editing and sharing applications, many of which are available through the Apple App Store. It is a well known fact that the 2 megapixel iPhone camera isn’t the best phone camera around and even more disappointingly is that it cannot capture video recordings.

Well cheer up iPhone fans, there are some great 3rd party apps that can enhance your iPhone photography experience by enabling you to edit and share your photos easily with family and friends. There are also some ingenious applications that enable you to capture video on your iPhone and share it. These are some of the best. Read more…

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This is one of the new looks for the new Bez Theme for the iPhone/Touch that I am working on. It is called Bez Fence.

This is version 0.8 of the my new theme called Bez Fence, for now it’s only available for download and install via OpenSSH, if you don’t know how to install a theme via OpenSSH you can wait either for a tutorial or for Bez Fence to be available on Cydia soon.

The theme includes icons for LiveClock and LiveWeather springboard widgets which you can install via Cydia on your iPhone. You will need to place the Clock.png icon in the LiveClock.theme directory on your iPhone and also place the weatherbg.png, weatherbg_day.png and weatherbg_night.png files in the Weather Icon Background.theme folder on your iPhone.

The modified ClockScreen Widget included in this theme was originally created by Lucas Design from MacThemes2.net (http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16789706) and was modified by Aaron Besson to work with this theme layout and wallpaper. If you wish to remove or dissable this widget please delete the file called “Wallpaper.html” and the folder “UIImages” or download the version without the ClockScreen. All credit and thanks go to Lucas Design and everyone involved in creating this great widget.

Download the Theme

• Bez Fence with ClockScreen Widget, LiveWeather and Live Clock Icons
• Bez Fence without ClockScreen Widget.

Download the PSD files

• Icons
• Wallpaper

More versions to come and this theme will be updated as more icons are created/updated. Thanks for downloading Bez Theme, if you create new icons or customize the theme, please make sure to share it with me and the rest of the community, the more icons the better!

I will be uploading to Cydia as soon as I get some more icons done. The old Bez Theme will still be available via Cydia.

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas — his iPhone.

Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple’s popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids [AppStore link], has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple’s iTunes store in two weeks, the
New Paper reported on Thursday.

The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone. “I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw,” Lim said. His sisters are aged 3 and 5.

Lim, who is fluent in six programing languages, started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programing projects. His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.

“Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads,” the older Lim said. The boy, who enjoys reading books on programing, is in the process of writing another iPhone application — a science fiction game called “Invader Wars.”

(Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Bill Tarrant)

[Tweet by: TouchTip originally posted by Reuters]

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‘Tis the Season to be Jolly!

Now that you guys have got used to the sunburn and blindness caused by the glare of the Dev Taems new blog template, we can get back to normal business. We’ll give you some updates and also tell you our schedule for the festive season.

Over the Christmas break some of the Dev Team members will be talking at the Chaos Computer Club’s 25C3 Congress. This talk will be a juicy technical talk relating to iPhone platform and their previous exploits. You can see more information about the talk “Hacking the iPhone”. There is even a super-cool TeamPwnapple T-Shirt

The Dev Team have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

* The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
* This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, they did warn you.
* The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.

DFU Problems

Lots of users have been experiencing problems with the use of DFU mode after applying yesterday’s 10.5.6 system update.

The Dev’s believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!) -

1. Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you don’t understand this, then you shouldn’t attempt it!)

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext

2. Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhone’s USB cable.

3. Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows! Oh the irony!

iPod touch 2G

Currently the Dev Team are not investigating the iPod touch 2G. Other people outside the Dev-Team are looking into this, but they are not at the moment. Please don’t hassle them with comments and requests about this, they’ll just be deleted and ignored. If they do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year and they’ll inform you guys if and when they commence this work.

The Dev Team would like to reiterate that this is not because -

1. They are mean
2. They are turning our back on the iPod touch community
3. They have been paid off by JFK, Princess Diana or Elvis

This is because -

1. They have been busy with the 3G unlock.
2. They have been busy with the CCC talk.
3. Only one of them has a iPod touch 2G (but we’ll see what Santa brings)
4. Their employers don’t get as excited as us about hacking expensive pretty devices
5. Unfortunately their partners, parents and pets need occasional attention too.

Great news!!

[via DevTeamBlog]

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OK - Mini vMac is really cool and brought a HUGE smile to my face… Totally reminds me of when I was a kid and our old II and SE etc. I got it working on my iPhone running OS 7.0.1, 7.5.5 and 6.0.8. Check out the developers website here. You can install by adding apt.namedfork.net/iphone to your Cydia repositories.

How to Use:

Tap with two fingers to toggle screen size.
Swipe up with two fingers to show the keyboard, down to hide it.
Swipe left with two fingers to insert disks.
Swipe right with two fingers for settings.

Where to get the .ROM file and .dsk files

I got the vMac.ROM file from here: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bit/6458/vMac.html
I got .dsk from here: http://www.geocities.com/basicman10549/

Settings

Swipe right with two fingers to show the settings dialog and change the virtual keyboard layout and opacity.

On the bottom of the settings view, there are Interrupt and Reset buttons.

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I have put together a smash up of some of the new Widgets that are now out there for WinterBoard. Download it here

To install these for now you’ll need to SSH into your iPhone/Touch and place them in the /var/stash/themes folder.. If you are not in Trinidad and Tobago, you’ll need to edit the “configureme.js” file in the Calendar Weather Lockscreen.theme (or DigiClock Calendar Weather Lockscreen.theme) folder. To get your local weather settings, please check out page four of this post and edit the “configureme.js” file accordingly.

There are two versions of the clock, there is the digital version and the analog version, to use the digital version you need to replace the “LockFont” (clock font) with a blank font in /system/Library/fonts/cache/. You can find the blank LockFont here. (don’t try to use both at the same time)

There is one problem with using the digital clock, your call numbers and names will be hard to read as the images that make up the clock don’t disappear when you are making or receiving a call.. Other than that, simply copy them to your themes dir, fire up winterboard and turn them on. If you have any questions or problems setting this up please let me know either in the comments or the Forum.

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Jay Freeman (aka Saurik) has created a remote desktop server for iPhone and iPod Touch users who wish to access their device from their Mac/PC. Veency (available on Cydia) allows you to control and view the Springboard and access the Apps through the computer, use the mouse to drag the screen, open Apps even make calls (you’ll need to use the actual phone to hear and talk though), open sms, notes or email and start typing with your Mac/PC keyboard and the text will start appearing on the iPhone and on your PC/Mac screen.

There is no password or toggle for the server; however, these feature are planned in the future. Jay is continuing to amaze me with the apps that he is coming out with for the iPhone. I am working on a video so check back soon fi you wish to see this in action before using it. I used Chicken of the VNC for Mac, there are allot of other clients out there for Mac and PC. Enjoy and Happy Friday!

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