Didn’t we have this discussion a few months back about making an Apple TV remote out of the iPhone?  Well, somebody did it.

A posting on the Romanian blog, Pic Poc, has detailed steps in order to turn your iPhone into a full-fletched Apple remote.

read it here appletvhacks.net

Now this is just amazingly cool. iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it allows you to download data off the Internet and store it on your iPhone or iPod touch local disk in the /var/root/Downloads folder.

read it here tuaw

Sometimes is it very useful to combine some iPhone applications to a new function which is richer than the sum of the parts. Listen to this example: suppose you are a parisien police team and all your members are carry an (jailbroken) iPhone (cool!).

read it here iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot

So do you have your iPhone in Canada yet? Well, if you do here are a list of iPhone tips and tricks that you may or may not know about! These have been compiled off the web, courtesy of the MacRumors forum, and Macworld. Some of these I didn’t even know about! Let’s get on with the show!

read it here iphoneincanada.ca

Nick “Drudge” Penree writes that he took my tip for boosting audio and made an Installer.app package that does all the work. It’s called AudioAmp and is available in Tweaks 1.1.2. TUAW readers have reported various levels of success with the package. Some readers are delighted. Others feel it overboosts the volume.

read it here tuaw

Now here’s a clever trick. Inventive Labs Gadgets has designed a Safari bookmarklet that adds “tabs” to your iPhone browsing experience. Just drag their bookmarklet into your Safari bookmarks bar, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch.

read it here tuaw

Conceited Software today released a tiny app (3.8kb) called AudioAmp that purports to increase or amplify the volume output of iPhones.

Unfortunately that’s exactly all the information available at the moment, even if the app is already out. As to what it precisely does is still a mystery, according to various forum discussions as of this morning, and the company website is no help.

read it here inquirer.net

Leave it to the army of third-party developers, hackers, krackers and programmers to plug the holes and putty-up the seams and cracks in Apple’s line of products. Somehow, somewhere, sometime soon, someone’s going to patch up the good ship Apple, in spite of Steve.

Take the iPhone for example. From a long list, my personal top three missing features are: forwarding SMS, sending contact info and the venerable ability to cut-and-paste text within or among apps.

read it here blogs.inquirer

All of us folks who are lucky enough to already have an iPhone know how much fun they can be just to play around with. Playing with my iPhone a lot myself, I have discovered some cool tips and tricks that you may find useful.

read it here nirmalbharathi.blogspot

Apple has locked down the iPhone battery, which means that once it can’t hold a charge, you need to send it in. If you’d rather just buy your own battery and replace it yourself, we’ve got your hookup. Nate and I got together to film this this tutorial, which shows how to replace your iPhone battery. Heck, even if you have decided that you will never open up your iPhone on your own, we think it’s still pretty cool to see the process - so just hit play, okay?

read it here video.gearlive

Not all preferences appear in your iPhone Settings application. As I discussed rather thoroughly in my Modding Mac OS X book, it’s not that hard to dig through applications and discover undocumented--or in this case unpromoted--preferences that add spice to your Mac or iPhone. I decided to put the iPhone’s SpringBoard to the test. That’s the app that runs your main home page.

read it here tuaw

I’ve written a Script-fu plugin for the Gimp which splits an image up like this one for New York, but automagically. It’s not as spiffy in the final appearance but it does the job.

Right now I can’t put it up on the site as I can’t ssh into deadsquid from this hotel. For those who don’t know, you can sync arbitrary photos to your iPhone, but then it RESIZES them to a lower resolution.

read it here deadsquid

If you own an iPhone, you will want to learn some of the cool iPhone tricks. If you are a new owner of an iPhone, then congratulations! You now have a very handy and powerful piece of technology that can virtually do it all. And it is so easy. With your new iPhone, everything can be done with your index finger. So let the tapping begin.

read it here newiphonetricks.blogspot

OurStage is a web site that lets the fans rank music artists. Both iPhone and iPod touch users can stream any songs.
Q:How to stream?
A: Just point Safari to ourstage.com to access the iPhone optimised interface.
Q: Is the stream type iPhone compatible?
A: Yes, Quicktime is used to stream the music on iPhone.

read it here iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot

Sick of paying $20 a month for EDGE? Want to save $240/year? TUAW reader Josh tipped us off to his iPhone News post that reveals that you can now remove it from your plan. If you rarely use EDGE and live around ubiquitous WiFi (like I do), this is a great way to save some money.

read it here tuaw

When you decide that it is worth to risk your ipod touch’s warranty in order to install a vast number of third party apps, you are sure to end filling up all the space dedicated to the ipod operative system.

This ain’t good for a lot of reasons: you won’t be able to install new software and some will fail (as of YouTube not being able to create its cache files).

read it here harecoded

The other day I tried to purchase an album from iTunes through the Wi-Fi Music Store on an iPhone. Unfortunately, the transaction couldn’t be completed because there wasn’t enough storage space on the device. 8GB isn’t what it used to be.

read it here smartphonetoday

Listen up, iPhone coders, NSBundle is your friend. It lets you look in your main .app bundle and retrieve files without hardcoding paths. Avoid “/Application/MyProg.app/foo.png” and replace your absolute references with relative ones. This lets your users install your applications wherever they wish.

read it here tuaw

One thing that lacked was a removable disk option for the iPhone. Its absence was a means to deter hackers from gaining access to the core of the device so easily but all of that has changed. Erica Sadun reports that a developer going by the handle “Core” has implemented AFP for the iPhone, this opens up a world of possibilities.

read it here iphonematters

Google has just rolled out some new features for Google Reader Mobile with some additional changes especially for iPhone and iPod Touch users which should make the user experience even better.In case you have not noticed the new features you can find out all the details after the jump.

read it here iphone-cheats.com

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m one of those people who loves it when my computer grabs stats on what I’m up to (though I’m not so much on the whole reporting to other companies thing-- I’d prefer to keep my activities to myself).

read it here tuaw

This application show all processes running on your iPhone. Tapping one of the processes displays detailed information about the process including (and interesting) the command used to start the process.






read it here iphonefeatures.blogspot

Are you a busy network or system engineer and need holiday somewhere under the sun? I have a nice tip from a collegue. For the record: he is CCIE.

read it here iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot

jComix is a CBR reader written in Ruby. It has been specifically tailored to the browser in a iPhone/iTouch.

Features
- Support for CBR/RAR archives (requires the unrar command line tool)
- Detects JPEG, PNG and GIF images
- Portable code (does not write to anything outside of its own folder)
- Cross Platform

read it here penjuinlabs

Many potential iPhone buyers from the Netherlands, europe, are wondering if they can surf the internet on their GPRS networks with an iPhone. They asking this because there are no EDGE networks available anymore. KPN took over and shutdowned Telforts EDGE network.

read it here iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot