Apple iPhone

By Kevin Purdy 5. Shiny but scratched gadget bezels Gadgets with shiny chrome finishes look great out of the box. A few days of actual use, however, can give you that Why I Can't Have Nice Things feeling. Smooth out your iPhone or any other gadget with a polished chrome-like finish by brushing the bezel evenl...

By Whitson Gordon Readers offer their best tips for running multiple instances of Dropbox at once, using Twitter to jot down notes and ideas for yourself, and using Google Docs to manage money between friends. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every...

By Kevin Purdy From the files of the Worth Mentioning Again Dept.: If you're jailbreaking your iPhone to get tethering up and running, be sure to change the root access password once you do. Besides hacker ransom attempts, it's just good security sense.

By Adam Pash Mozilla's browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There's not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you're a Weave user, you'll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs]100,000 Apps Now Available for the iPhone...

By Adam Pash AT&T has been dragging its feet on data tethering for months now, so if you're fed up waiting for official support and desperate to tether your iPhone's internet connection, weblog MobileCrunch...

By Adam Pash Jailbreak your iPhone with blackra1n (available for Windows and Mac).Unlock your phone with blacksn0w—which you can do through the blackra1n icon on your iPhone post-jailbreak.Install a custom IPCC file via mobile Safari.Turn on tethering in your iPhone settings. The MobileCrunch pos...

By Kevin Purdy iPhone/iPod touch: Gist, an inbox aggregation webapp that sorts your email, RSS, and other feeds based on the frequency and importance of contacts, has released a free iPhone app that brings the same powers to the small screen. Gist iPhone Application Now Available [Gist]

By Adam Pash iPhone only: Mapquest Navigator is a new turn-by-turn application for the iPhone that brings GPS to your phone on a budget. The question is: When will Google Maps do the same? MapQuest Navigator [iTunes App Store via MapQuest Blog via Gizmodo]

By Adam Pash Apple has just pushed out an update for all iPhone generations in the form of iPhone OS 3.1.2. Don't expect any major feature updates in this 241MB download, but do expect a few fixes to some...

By Kevin Purdy 5. DimDim Makers of "webinar" software are feverishly pitching the idea of at-your-desk conferences as a money-saving alternative to travel these days. DimDim, an open-source meeting platform, offers web users a truly money-saving experience, with up to 20 users able to view a present...

By Adam Pash The first time you log into a newly minted Google Wave account, you'll get a wave welcome message that includes this video. (It makes more sense when you're actually using Wave and can see what Dr. Wave is pointing at.) [Mashable]Apple purchased Placebase in July to replace Google Maps?

By Jason Fitzpatrick If you're looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you'll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.

By The How-To Geek Everybody's got a wireless network at home, but if you've ever wanted to get your iPod touch, iPhone, or other wireless device connected but all you've got is a wired network at work, school, or elsewhere, Windows 7 makes this process trivial.

By Kevin Purdy 6. Share music with friends and coworkers If you hear someone with a killer tune playing from their own hard drive, they can usually be cajoled into sending a copy your way. But what if they've brought that track in on their MP3 player? Grab a copy of DoubleTwist for Mac or PC, hook up their phone...

By Adam Pash Camera/Photos tweaks: Your Camera and Photo apps both saw some minor but cool feature updates. Pictured, you'll see that the Camera app now sports a tiny thumbnail of the last picture you took that, when tapped, takes you to your Camera Roll. When you're sending, copying, or deleting photo...

By Kevin Purdy Here's our list of five apps that make tracking, remembering, and motivating your resolutions easier than willpower alone. All of them (except RunKeeper) run on both iPhones and iPod touch models. That's our flight of five apps, but we want to hear what free or paid iPhone/iPod apps work fo...

By Adam Pash When the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software update hit devices this summer, users were thrilled that they could enjoy Apple-approved third-party apps on their hardware—but that doesn't mean they don't want to have their cake and eat it, too. Our guide to jailbreaking your iPhone running 2....

By Gina Trapani What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic "jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved applications for your iPhone...

By Gina Trapani Turn any MP3 on your phone to a ringtone without touching your desktop with Ringdroid. Using the app you select the start and end of your tone on a song timeline, and preview it before you save. (That sound you hear is iPhone owners eating their hearts out while they manually sync ringtones fro...

By Adam Pash Mac users got their QuickPwn on a week ago for iPhones running the latest 2.1 software update, and now the latest version of the iPhone-jailbreak tool is also available for Windows. Happy jailbreaking! [via]

By Adam Pash If you don't feel like you're getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, then jailbreaking is for you. We've already shown you how to jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 on a Mac, but yesterday the Windows version of the iPhone jailbreak tool—c...

By Gina Trapani As per the very helpful Mac OSx86 blog: People with old iPhone V1 (2G) will need to download this firmware from Apple : iPhone 2.0 (5A347) firmware for 2G (10121)People with new iPhone V2 (3G) will need to download this firmware from Apple :

By Adam Pash Now any time you update your contacts from Address Book, just head to the Sync Now option in your menu bar. Once you do that, check out your contacts on your iPhone and you'll see your newly synced info automatically pushed to your iPhone. Nice.

By Adam Pash Google has already begun incorporating geotagged photos in Google Maps, giving users a more personal look at locations than the birds eye or even street views can offer. Again, jailbroken iPhone users can already install an application called iFlickr that geotags your photos as you tak...

By Adam Pash Now that you've got that, start up your FTP client of choice, enter the IP address as you server, and use root for your username and alpine as your password. Once connected, navigate to the Applications folder (just above the root folder). That's where your iPhone and iPod touch keep all of th...

By Adam Pash Quit iTunes. (This may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good practice.) Choose the option that applies to you: iPod touch jailbreak or iPhone jailbreak. ZiPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your iPhone or iPod touch will be officia...

By Adam Pash Last week we showed you how to install third party apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, and since then a new firmware preview has leaked its way to the 'nets with saucy new features that—once released—may tempt you to abandon your jailbreak for the newly introduced features. Fact is, until the...

By Adam Pash Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you've been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install Ap...

By Tamar Weinberg Google Calendar and Google Reader are now iPhone (and iPod Touch) friendly and Gmail has also undergone a graphical user interface overhaul which looks great on the iPhone, too. Thanks, Ian!

By Adam Pash In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple. Today I'll show you how to download, install, and manage t...