KABUL — Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef is a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan. He spent almost four years in Guantánamo. He wears a black turban, has a thick beard — and is never without his Apple iPhone. The ultraconservative Taliban banned modern technology like the Internet and television during its harsh 1996-2001 rule, but those … Continue reading
‘Batteries are holding back the portable revolution,’ says the CEO of a firm that’s developing an answer: a pocket-size fuel cell. My new 3g iPhone is a wonderful device, but it has one very serious short-coming. The battery life stinks. I never get through a day without needing to recharge. Sometimes the low-battery warning shows … Continue reading
Tired of hitting the 123 key to toggle on the numeric keyboard? Well, obviously some ingenious iPhone hacker was and whipped up this interesting little Jailbreak app to change the standard 4-row virtual keyboard into a five row with numbers surfaced right on top (or symbols, if you tap the shift key). via the iPhone … Continue reading
Apple’s new iPhoto 09 will use the geo-tag data recorded by the iPhone 3G’s camera to map out the locations of your pictures. But what if you’re no using the iPhone for all your pictures? What if you have a regular old point-and-shoot or even a DSLR without GPS? One approach would be to use … Continue reading
Ok. It looks good from a GUI point of view. However I am not finding the this so user friendly. Example one. I have cut and paste on my phone. Don’t ask. I went to Google Maps as their search capabilities are second to none. Copy the address I want. Return to G-Map. Ok how … Continue reading
Well this is quite an install. It is taking forever. Then again it is 900 MB’s. Perhaps I should have purchased it online via iTunes and then sync’ed my phone. Just a thought. Phone is very sluggish. Hard to tell if the download is happening as the progress bar that is normally so snappy on … Continue reading
It seems despite all the anticipation about Turn-by-Turn GPS routing for the iPhone, an App already exists in the App Store that delivers this basic functionality. Continue reading
A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller. The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey’s TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing … Continue reading
There you see it, folks, a real live native iPhone app that provides turn-by-turn GPS directions with voice prompts, points of interest, support for multiple countries, maps stored in-memory instead of streamed from the internet, the whole nine yards.
I travel a lot. And if you’re a geek like me, you can’t go a full day sans internet access without experiencing some severe withdrawal symptoms. Luckily, my iPhone, with all its WiFi and 3G goodness, has been instrumental in feeding my addiction while on the road. But though Apple’s smartphone provides the best mobile … Continue reading
