Lately there has been alot of video recording apps released in the App Store that delivers for iPhone 2G & 3G owners that Apple neglected. Here’s a run down of them all against the incumbant Cycorder from Cydia creator Saurik.

Frames Per Second (maximum)
iVideoCamera - 3
Camcorder - N/A
iVidCam - 7
Cycorder - 15

Length
iVideoCamera - 1:00 
Camcorder - long as space holds
iVidCam - long as space holds
Cycorder - long as space holds

Resolution
iVideoCamera - 160×213 
Camcorder - 320×426
iVidCam - 360×280
Cycorder - 384×288

Price
iVideoCamera - $0.99
Camcorder - $0.99
iVidCam - $1.99
Cycorder - free

My thoughts are that iVideoCamera was 1st but now looks like the worst. Only 3 frames per second, for a minute & the smallest resolution makes it to me an easy avoid.

Camcorder was aright. Better than iVideoCamera but with no ability to transfer your videos anywhere doesn’t make it cut in my book.

iVidCam was the next to come. Out of the non-jailbroken available video recorders it has the best maximum FPS, matches Camcorder for video length but beats it for resolution.

Then of course there’s Cycorder, which is available only via jailbreaking. It has more than twice the maximum frames per second than any other video recording app available (only beaten by the 3GS’s 30 FPS), ties with Camcorder & iVidCam in terms of video length and beats them with resoution. To top it all off, its free.

So I think the choice is obvious, if you’ve jailbroken your iPhone 2G & 3G & already have Cycorder then there’s no need to get rid of it. If you don’t already have it, then get it. However if you aren’t tech savy enough to jailbreak an iPhone then I think you’d be happy with iVidCam.

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Ustream announced Wednesday the availability of Ustream Live Broadcaster in the iPhone App Store. The company touts that it is the first live broadcast software made available for the iPhone and iPod touch. With it, anyone can broadcast live video from their phone. 

“The Ustream Live Broadcaster is a free app that enables live streaming on 3G or Wifi, and users can notify their Twitter communities when they start broadcasting, and interact with their viewers using chat or Twitter through Ustream’s Social Stream,” the company said.

The application is said to require the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS with iPhone OS 3.1 or later. It allows polls, works in portrait mode, can auto-record, and can record and save for upload later. Recordings can be shared on Ustream, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. The free 6.1MB download is available through iTunes.

(Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Qik (available in Cydia & now the App Store for a while now) do the same thing?)

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The iPhone Dev-Team has issued an update to the UltraSn0w unlock which fixes the disappearing carrier name issue. 

UltraSn0w .92 was posted by MuscleNerd and uses an extra 10 lines of code to fix the carrier name. It is available on the normal repo666.ultrasn0w.com Cydia repository. 

Remember to use UltraSn0w you must be on the 04.26.08 baseband. 

The carrier fix has been confirmed for:

USA, Thailand, Austria, Trinidad, Germany, China, Kuwait, Serbia, Poland, France, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, Malaysia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Israel, Belgium, Canada, Portugal.

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Geohot has released his BlackSn0w unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

“blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.”

You can find instructions on how to use blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone here: Windows, Mac.

If you have already jailbroken using blackra1n, run the application again. You will see Icy replaced by an option “ra1n”. Install this to upgrade your blackra1n application. Run the blackra1n application again. This time you will see “sn0w”. Install sn0w to unlock your device.

(via iClarified.com)

Here’s what the iPhone Dev Team had to say concerning BlackSn0w

iPhone 3G/3GS owners who found themselves stuck with version 05.11 of the baseband (either by accident or because they bought it that way) are now in luck!  geohot was able to turn the already-public at+xemn crash into an injection vector, which can be used to inject his version of the unlock.  The blacksn0w unlock is available for free via Cydia by adding the repository http://blackra1n.com in the Manage->Sources panel.  Congratulations, geohot!

Those of you who are already unlocked at 3.1.2 because you kept your 04.26 baseband now have an extra cushion of comfort, and more choices: ultrasn0w, purplesn0w, and now blacksn0w (and of course the original yellowsn0w too if you’re still back at FW 2.x).   Whether or not you choose to update your baseband solely to use the new unlock is a personal choice, but so far there are no advantages to doing so (and remember you can’t come back to 04.26 after you’ve gone to 05.11).

As with all the unlocks, it will probably very soon be re-sold through scam sites that charge you money for what is offered to the community for free.  Please stay vigilant for these scam sites and steer your friends away from them.

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Voice Control is an exclusive feature of iPhone 3GS which enables its users to make phone calls and play music by using voice commands. Some folks over at this forum have released a Voice Control look-alike app for iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G which works and looks almost exactly as it is on iPhone 3GS.

Step 1: Download WinSCP on Windows or Cyberduck on Mac.

Step 2: Make sure you have OpenSSH installed on your iPhone:

• Open Cydia. Touch on “Search” tab and then search for “OpenSSH”.

• Install “OpenSSH” and reboot your iPhone.

Step 3: Connect your iPhone with your computer. Make sure iTunes is not running.

Step 4: Start WinSCP on Windows or Cyberduck if you are on a Mac and enter the following details to login to your phone:

• Hostname: The IP address of your iPhone. Setting –> WiFi –> <Your Network Name>
• User name: root
• Password: alpine
• Protocol: SCP

Step 5: Once you have logged in, browse to /<root>/Applications directory on your iPhone.

Step 6: Download VoiceControl.zip. Extract “Voice Control.app” and copy it to your iPhone in this directory: /<root>/Applications

Step 7: Right-click on “Voice Control.app” which you just copied, click on Properties and change the permission to 755. Make sure you check “Set group, owner and permissions recursively” option as shown below:

That’s it! Restart your iPhone and you should now have a new app named “Voice Control” on your springboard. Start this new application on your iPhone 3G or 2G and simply search through your contacts, music and bookmarks by using voice commands just like iPhone 3GS!

(via RedmondPie.com)

If you rather just install it via Cydia its available via the BeYouriPhone repo at http://repo.beyouriphone.com. Look for Controllo Vocale (yes this version is Italian)

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Codium Labs has released Babelshot, a revolutionary application that allows automatic real-time translation of printed text using iPhone camera. Busy professionals and foreign travelers can use Babelshot to instantly translate items like restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from books and newspapers. 

All you have to do is select source and target languages, take a photo of the item, and select text portion of it that you want to translate. The translated text is then displayed next to the original photo of the item and can be saved for future reference. No typing on iPhone keyboard is needed. 

Babelshot supports automatic translation between 32 world languages. Options are available for manual correction of recognition errors that may occur in complex or imperfect documents, as well as for full manual input. 

Babelshot incorporates innovative image processing algorithms coupled with state-of-the-art Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, adapted and optimized for use on mobile devices. Unlike existing OCR-enabled applications for iPhone, Babelshot does not offload text recognition task to web server and performs text recognition on mobile device in real-time. 

(via iClarified.com)

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GeoHot has posted a video demonstrating the first iPhone unlock being performed with BlackSn0w. 

The unlock has an expected release date of November 4th, 2009.

Geohot has declined a $10,000* reward for the iPhone unlock and blasts those reselling the unlock calling them scum. 

The BlackSn0w unlock will be released November 4th, 2009 and will work with the latest iPhone baseband (05.11.07). 

Geohot implores users to get the truth out. The iPhone unlock is free. “Let’s shut all these a**holes down”

*Jody Sanders, a person notorious for selling the Dev-Team’s unlock, had offered Geohot $10,000 for releasing a new unlock.

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ActivateMMS2G brought MMS for 2Gs running 3.0 but was unable to be installed on subsequent iPhone OS releases (3.0.1, 3.1, 3.1.2). Hopefully Native MMS iPhone 2G from the iFoneGuide repository will bring this feature back to iPhone 2G owners. This along withTethering Patch 3G & Tethering Patch 3GS are Cydia versions of CommCenter hacks released by the iPhone Dev Team’s MuscleNerd. 
There are ways to do these hacks manually but they are considered “dangerous” and to be done by only advanced users. 
-iPhone 2G MMS
-iPhone 3G/3GS Tethering

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