iphones
Peripherals
4:19PM Nick Broughall | Seeing as how using your mobile phone in the car is generally frowned upon no matter what you’re doing with it, adding handsfree capabilities to their Tunebase products was a good move for Belkin. The good news is that both the Tunebase FM with handsfree and Tunebase Direct with handsfree are now available in Australia. More »
Belkin’s New Handsfree Enabled Tunebase Gadgets Available Now
4:19PM Nick Broughall | Seeing as how using your mobile phone in the car is generally frowned upon no matter what you’re doing with it, adding handsfree capabilities to their Tunebase products was a good move for Belkin. The good news is that both the Tunebase FM with handsfree and Tunebase Direct with handsfree are now available in Australia. More »
Phones
3:38PM Nick Broughall | No longer will cheapskate Australians have to wander through the back alleys of Hong Kong or China to pick up quality counterfeit gadgets, with word that a Victorian market raid ended up seizing some high-quality iClones that were (almost) indistinguishable from the original. More »
Australia Finally Getting iClones
3:38PM Nick Broughall | No longer will cheapskate Australians have to wander through the back alleys of Hong Kong or China to pick up quality counterfeit gadgets, with word that a Victorian market raid ended up seizing some high-quality iClones that were (almost) indistinguishable from the original. More »
Phones
Rumour: Apple Considering iPhone Background Apps
10:10AM Brian Lam | Apple’s said no background apps on the iPhone forever, citing it destroys stability and system resources. Today, three reputable publications have independently claimed that Apple is having a change of mind. What the hell? More »
Software
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 Is Out Now
1:06PM Jesus Diaz | Can you feel that? That electricity in the air? Yes, it means that the final release of iPhone OS 3.0 is closer than ever, and here is iPhone beta 5—build 7A312g—to demonstrate it: More »
Online
Just Some Naked Guys With iPhones!
11:20PM Mark Wilson | You’re an attractive guy. You workout. You like to take semi-nude to full-nude pictures of yourself. Oh, and you own an iPhone! More »
Gadgets
Visible Energy UFO Power Strip Gets Its Commands From Your iPhone
1:40AM Sean Fallon | As far as powerstrips go, Stanford’s Visible Energy UFO is as cool as it gets. It monitors and tracks the energy consumption of plugged-in devices, and the whole shebang is controlled via the iPhone. More »
Design
Friday Easy Origami: Business Card Becomes iPod Earbud Winder
11:30AM Wilson Rothman | Those designers at Core77 never stop. Today, one of them devised a super-simple but damn-if-it’s-not-worth-it business-card hack that finally gives you a way to stash those damn white earbuds. Share your attempts in comments. [Core77] More »
Phones
Apple Patents Movement Gestures for the iPhone
1:00PM Andi Wang | Apple recently applied for a patent for “movement-based interfaces for personal media devices,” which means a more advanced accelerometer and movement gestures for the iPhone. More »
Software
iPhone 3.0 Beta Jailbroken, QuickPWN Up For Download
11:06PM John Herrman | QuickPWN for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices but the Touch 2G, but it could sabotage future unlocking, says the Dev Team. And so the untelevised procedural drama that is jailbreaking continues, forever. [QuickPWN] More »
Computers