Ever wondered what Jailbreaking is? Or how it affects your iPhone/iPod Touch? This article should help inform you what jailbreaking is, and how to do it. There are quite a few things you should know before doing it, and this guide should cover everything you’ll need to know. Keep on reading for the low-down.
Flicktweets, launched in 2009 and was said to be the first site of it’s kind to cleverly organize and filter tweets based on movie titles. They’re also powered by MRQE ( Movie Review Query Engine) , the monstrous online movie database.
In the middle of DJ’ing a house party you’re called away from your desktop forgetting to cue up some tracks. To your amazement, iTunes cues up your live version of “Like a Virgin” after a kicking Beastie Boys track — your guests recoil in horror.
This tragedy could have been avoided with an app like Djay Remote.
As a person who spends a lot of his time on Twitter (follow me here), I read about all the latest rumors circulating the Web. However, while there are always rumors about the next big thing, since the beginning of the new decade, things are really starting to heat up. Where do I start? The Apple Tablet, Microsoft’s iPhone killer, the iPhone 4.0, Google’s plans for Android, the list doesn’t end. I tried to make a little sense of the endless rumors and see if they all fall under certain categories. Seems like there are some very clear trends forming and a lot is going to change in 2010.
The iPhone App Store is overflowing with games. There are endless types of games, such as puzzles, arcade, mind games, shooting games, etc. However, out of the many games I have tried, there are really a few that stick out in their level of entertainment they provide. Unblock Me for iPhone is one such game.
If you have been paying attention to the online buzz as of late, you have surely heard the name Nexus One thrown around. Google announced its much anticipated mobile phone just two days ago, and the hype it is generated brings me back to when a certain other phone starting with the letter I was announced. However, as exciting or not exciting as the Nexus One is, Google actually announced something else that excited me more.
If you have not been paying attention, one of the big buzz words lately has been Augmented Reality. There really is no simple way to explain what it is, but let’s just say it is a developing technology that overlays or augments reality creating a separate mixed reality. Yes, I know you are probably more confused now than you were before. What this technology allows you to do practically is aim your camera phone in a certain direction, and using the phone’s GPS in combination with the Web, display results based on the phone’s view. That means you can define that you want the phone to look in a 5 mile radius for pizza stores, ATMs, people on Twitter, or many other things, and the phone will display the results.
Ever since I started tweeting, I have been using Twitterfon, now Echofon as my default Twitter client on my iPod Touch. I always found it to be the closest balance between form and function. However, Twitter is not what it used to be, and there are many new features that were not around back then. Echofon pretty much stayed the same with the exception of some small updates, but never really made the transition to the new Twitter experience, and specifically the addition of Twitter lists.
As the year and decade are coming to an end, it is safe to say that one can summarize this year in the mobile space using only three words: Apps, apps, and more apps. While all the major players in the mobile industry have released some pretty amazing phones this year, the ones who are bringing in the major numbers are the ones who realize that software is the name of the game. Apple surpassed the 100,000 mark, Android is hovering around the 20,000 mark, Nokia released its Ovi store, and BlackBerry’s App World is catching up quickly. It is safe to say that Apple still has the lead by a lot, and in my opinion, there is a direct correlation between that lead and the iPhone’s unprecedented popularity.
