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Yesterday on the Gillmor Gang, Michael Arrington renewed his request to me to do a guest column for Techcrunch. I have resisted that urge for a while. Why? Well, my blog hasn’t been getting enough of my time lately and doing something for some other media outlet would require me to stretch myself even thinner

Nov 3, 2010 The drawback of owning a smartphone that holds all of your apps, photos, music and more is the possibility that you may lose the device. With all of the information and content iPhones hold, it can be frustrating to lose the device in one fell swoop. There are a number of apps

We had a look at the VLC player for iPhone last week but now it is available for general consumption.  While there are some issues, you can now play a much wider array of movie formats on the iPhone.  Download here free. What’s New in Version 1.1.0: This new version of VLC brings : – Runs on

Image via CrunchBase By sheer serendipity, a member at Macrumors reported to have discovered a new bug in iOS 4.1 that allows you to make calls and send mail, even though your iPhone is locked or password protected. Hit the video after the break that shows how to bypass the device’s lock screen and make

Version 2.7 of PayPal’s iPhone app has added a the capability of depositing a check by taking a picture of it with your phone: no trip to the ATM. Of course, the check ends up in your PayPal account, not your bank account, and will take up to a week to process. Still, given how

How it works When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stolen computer anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and screen shots of the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy network information, but we won’t bore you with the details!) The Hidden team will also help you work with

Just tested out iOS 4.1′s field test mode (dial *3001#12345#* and hit call). Pretty interesting results. At CMOS HQ we get 4 bars AT&T coverage, so it’s hard to tell just what kind of impact touching the iPhone 4′s corner of death really has. This obviously isn’t a massively scientific study or anything, but I

Wow, this is nice, but 4.00 a minute? Its not that nice (Grin) Kevin There was no shortage of readers who predicted what FaceTime would evolve (or devolve) into for some users immediately following Steve Jobs’ introduction of the hot new feature of the iPhone 4. Well, that hot feature just got a whole lot

iPhone users have more sex. File this under “icebreakers, MacWorld ’11″. Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple: Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! August 10th, 2010 by Christian Rudder If you’re anything like me, you usually think of your pics in terms of content: Here’s me smiling. Here’s me looking

This is now turning into a norm isn’t it? Every time a new iPhone is launched, there are designers who come up with unique designs to decorate these gadgets in their own ways and styles. With the launch of iPhone 4, this tendency has increased manifold. Last year, we saw a 3.2 Million dollars iPhone

In this file photo made June 7, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, left, demonstrates the FaceTime feature on the iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. [Agencies] BEIJING - Apple’s Chinese partner says it will sell iPhones with Wi-Fi starting Monday. China Unicom Ltd started selling the iPhone in October but early

We’ve all been using FaceTime like crazy here at TUAW central — it’s really great to be able to conference with friends in real time without having to arrange things in advance. Nearly all of us have been video-conferencing-ready for years. But with the iPhone 4, there’s no more “Do you have iChat set up?”

iPhone at risk from security flaw

I just saw a tweet that said Apple might be removing this program so grab it while you can. MiTube Allows Non-Jailbroken iPhones to Stream, Download from YouTube This one clearly falls under the banner of “get it while you still can.” MiTube is now available through iTunes. What’s MiTube, you ask? It’s a sweet

Hmm, well, I like my iPhone 4. Seems there are a bunch of whinners out there. (Grin) Kevin By Jean Crumrine, Paul Carton and Mike Wrobel August 4, 2010 The iPhone 4 launched in late June and was initially heralded as one of the most successful product releases in Apple’s history. But within days the

Hmm, I always have put a case on all of my phone since the early 90′s.  But I’m glad other people don’t. Its more business for me Kevin According to Apple they compare the iPhone 4 glass to a helicopter windshield and its 30 times harder than plastic and less prone to breakage. On its

I have been using the manual cell tower info by calling this number to put the phone into Field Test mode. *3001#12345#* then press call. It was great, all sorts of info, you can do it now long as you havent upgraded to ver 4.0. Well now thanks to PlanetBeing, he has made a program

Many people are curious to know how much data FaceTime over 3G actually uses. We put two iPhone 4s to the test, one running FaceTime over 3G, and took before and after screenshots of the data. As you will see, if you do the math, a 5 minute FaceTime call with lots of movement used

Written on July 30, 2010 by Sebastien 9 Comments OpenAppMkt is a new App Store alternative that takes full advantage of iPhone web apps, which means that no jailbreak is required. Remember when the iPhone first came out and Steve was praising those web apps? Well OpenAppMkt gathered some of them and packed them up

When I reviewed Apple’s new iPhone 4 last month, I said that, overall, it was still the best of the super-smartphones. But I warned that, in my tests, its performance in making voice calls on AT&T’s network in the U.S. was decidedly mixed. In some cases, I found it dropped fewer calls than its predecessor,

July 25, 2010 – 8:30 pm | Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée We’ll leave serious industry matters aside this week. (If you must, you can wade into Apple’s Q3 numbers here, or luxuriate in the impending ouster of Nokia CEO OPK and consider the list of possible replacements.) Instead, we’ll look into the fun side of

http://foursquare.com/ It’s the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker’s dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger’s life? Louise has straight, auburn hair and, judging by the only photograph I have of her, she’s in her 30s. She works

I’ve fielded a lot of questions today about the iPhone 4. No, not about the antenna — that was last week — today, all people want to know is why the hell is white version being delayed again? Like everyone else outside of Apple, I have no idea. Is it a problem with the glass supplier?

Update: They are from this ABC News broadcast(US Viewers can view the Hulu below): Here are some pics of the ‘Black Lab’ that Apple didn’t want us to see. You’ll see the magical black covering cloths, cat scan machines as well as their mobile testing vehicle

There are unlucky thieves, and then there is Horatio Toure. According to San Francisco police, the 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman Monday afternoon in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away. Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part

If you were expecting a full iPhone 4 recall from Apple, you will be disappointed. Buy hey, something is better than nothing right? Steve Jobs today at iPhone 4 press conference announced a free iPhone 4 bumper for every iPhone 4 user. If you have already bought a bumper, you will get full refund. Oh

There is no Antennagate. Well, that’s not true. But what Jobs called Antennagate at today’s press conference is more than just the design flaw in the iPhone 4 they insisted was a non-issue. It’s a design flaw with the entire way the issue was handled — by them and by us. The feeding frenzy around

In case you haven’t noticed, the iPhone 4’s antenna design has come under considerable scrutiny. In our iPhone 4 review, we investigated the iPhone 4 antenna and came to two conclusions. First, that iOS 4 was displaying signal bars in an overly optimistic manner, compressing the dynamic range of possible signal bars users can see.

Warning !!!! If you have a Jailbroken and Unlocked iphone, Stay away from this upgrade. If your on 4.0, Stay there untill a new unlock comes out. Use TinyUmbrella to save your blobs on Cydia, just in case you need to use them to roll back, or use them for the jailbreak and unlock process.

Hi, Kevin here. Finally got my iPhone 4. So far so good on it working just perfectly. Then I went to hook up my BlueAnt Z9i earpiece to it and the i4 would not even see it. Worked great on my G3 and 3GS. After looking up the iPhone 4 bluetooth problems on Google, I