Morning!

Just came across this super post regarding Voice Enabling the iPhone!  To wit:

Wouldn’t it be nice to never dial a number again. What if you could just push one button and call all your friends by name? That in a nutshell is what Mobivox does. She’s a call assistant. “Hi Stuart. Who would you like to call?” My video examples below show how you can voice-enable the iPhone; in fact any phone and put all your friends on one button. Or simpler still [Read more]

Sounds like an intriguing perk

to me!

…..An Apple iPhone or iPod Touch will become a central part of Abilene Christian University’s innovative learning experience this fall when all freshmen are provided one of these converged media devices, said Phil Schubert, ACU executive vice president.

At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.

ACU’s innovative plans for this technology have attracted the attention of Apple executives and leaders at Ivy League universities. In fact, Roberts returned to Abilene Monday from Cupertino, Calif., where he was asked to present ACU’s creative vision for converged media devices at Apple headquarters to executives and to selected leaders from universities including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton and UCLA, Schubert said….MORE….

I wonder what kind of deal Apple is giving them?

Anywhos, colleges nowadays are already taking advantage of the teaching opportunities such consumer electronics offer, for example:

• iPods at the Gate
• Stanford on iTunes
• University podcasts

I wonder when Princeton will follow?

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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As you probably know

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Apple released the iPhone 1.1.4 update. Yay!

Concerns were this morning that you could not update a jailbroken iPhone with this because your iphone would melt and then self-destruct into shiny little bits (okay, that’s a wee bit of an exaggeration).

However, The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports:

Our own Erica Sadun has confirmed that Zibri’s jailbreak does work with the 1.1.4 update, released today. We’re told that Nate True has tried it out with the new update installed, and that it does work.

So big news for jailbreakers — update away, because the jailbreak wasn’t one of the “bugs” fixed. Although if this update is, as we suspect, laying the groundwork for the SDK release, we may not have to worry about applications not working on the phone too much longer.

Update: While some users have upgraded with no problems, Zibri is asking that users not upgrade until the tool can be thoroughly checked with the new firmware. “People who donated will receive the next version a day before everyone else. Expect a new version in 2 days (3 days for non-donors),” he says….MORE….

Before you do ANYTHING, of course, I HIGHLY recommend you check out The Howard Forums take on it - 10+ pages of discussion and growing!

Here’s two more resources on the iPhone 1.1.4 update:

• iPhone 1.1.4 fixes Bluetooth, SMS ordering bugs
• ALERT: iPhone 1.1.4 can still be jailbroken; cannot be unofficially activated

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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Picture the following

- you happily flung away $400 or so for a brand new shiny iPhone (wheeee!).

What on earth will you do if it gets stolen? Hmmmmm?

Why, you want to prepare for that by…..the iPhone Lojack! To wit:

…Way back, one of our readers begged for an iPhone LoJack solution. He wanted his iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let’s be more realistic, theft. Over the past week, I finally had a chance to give this request some time, and I put together findme. It’s a command-line program that returns the location of the cell phone tower nearest to your iPhone. When run, it tells you the tower id, plus its latitude and longitude courtesy of Google Maps.

Still, how to get the location report to a place you can get it… but nobody else can… and without receiving a zillion SMSes? For this part of the puzzle, enter Twitter. Twitter dev Britt Selvitelle helped walk me through the setup for a private account that allows your iPhone to phone home but keeps the location data relatively secure.

To do this, create a new Twitter account just for your iPhone (it will need its own unique email address, separate from your main account, so have one handy). Open the Settings panel, and look for the “Protect My Updates” checkbox. It’s towards the bottom of the page, just above the Save button. Check this and click Save. With protected updates, only the Twitter users you approve will see the updates for this iPhone-only account (just you? you + spouse? spouse, kids, and “special friends?” Up to you).

After creating your phone’s Twitter account, you’re ready to set up your iPhone to tweet in on a regular basis. Here’s how.….MORE…..

What a brilliant idea! And it uses shell script! My life is complete!

But if you don’t worship and adore shell scripting and unix yourself, here are some resources to help you learn:

• Beginners iPhone Mod Guide
• iPhone Unix Help
• Help Unix

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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So you have your brand new

shiny iPhone, and you want to turbo power your experiences with it! What can you really do?

Here are some of the best resources online:

…

1. Two finger tap to zoom out in Google map. Most people know of the 1 finger tap to zoom in on the Google map. Try it with 2 fingers and it’ll reverse that process. Any two fingers would do, but I highly recommend index + middle fingers, it just works better, trust me.
2. Jump to top of a web page in Safari browser. When you get to the bottom of a long web page in the browser, you can tap the top of the screen, right under the time and it’ll bring you back to top of the page. I’m not aware of a way to jump to bottom of the page yet. If you do, share with moi
3. Don’t need to type .com in Safari browser. When you’re typing an URL, no need to type http://www or the .com portion. Simply enter the doman (e.g. apple) and click “Go”. Of course, this only applies to .com URLs.
4. Quick hover for numbers in keyboard. How do you type a number today? Click on “@123″ to change to number keyboard, type a number, then click on “ABC” to change back? Say you just want to enter a number in between your alphabets? Try this trick.

   Hover on “@123″ and the keyboard will switch to number keyboard, don’t let go of your finger, hover over to the number or symbol you want, then let go. It’ll insert the number or symbol and switch you back to the alphabet keyboard….MORE…

And don’t forget:

• 1000s of iPhone Tips
• iPhone topic Tips
• iPhone tips, tricks and alerts

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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This posting can be

quite a timesaver (if your phone uses the GSM standard):

…To check your Mobile Phone’s IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), key in the following digits on your phone: *#06# and the IMEI 15-digit code will appear on the screen or check it in Settings/About/IMEI or it is imprinted on the back of your iPhone. This IMEI number is unique to your iPhone. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.

If your iPhone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the the thief changes the SIM Card, your iPhone will be totally useless…MORE….

A good thing to know!

And if you’re looking for more phone security ideas, consider:

• Bluetooth Security Review
• Cell Phone Security
• Tips on keeping cell phone data from prying eyes

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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The one thing

you don’t want your iPhone to experience is anything bad.

Well now, duh. But let’s take that concept a bit further - what if it was disabled? If you couldn’t use it? If your $400 critical communication device was SOL????

Believe it or not, it could happen. To wit:

… McAfee Avert Labs Blogger Jimmy Shah identified a Denial of Service vulnerability in the iPhone’s Safari browser in a blog post on Wednesday.

“The researchers who found the vulnerability were looking for a method to unlock the filesystem on iPhones with the latest firmware (1.1.3). Unlocking the file system allows the installing of custom ringtones and third party applications. With the last firmware version you could automatically unlock your iPhone by visiting a particular website with the Mobile Safari browser,” Shah wrote.

The DoS vulnerability can be exploited by visiting the proof of concept page and clicking a button that will launch a warning and the exploit code will run. The iPhone is then unresponsive before rebooting a less than a minute later, Shah wrote.

“The DoS bug exploit is partially based on JavaScript code from the Month of Browser Bugs(MOBB). During the MOBB a group of security researchers released an exploit for a web browser vulnerability every single day. While the original exploit was targeted at desktop browsers, the modified version simply attempts to fill memory and crash the phone,”….MORE…..

Scary! Here are some forums that discuss it further:

• Remote iPhone Denial of Service vulnerability exploit attacks 16GB iPhones (and 32GB Apple iPod Touch)
• iPhone denial of service exploit still in new handsets
• DoS attack on iPhone causes memory leak, freeze

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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So appropriate for Friday!

But if you really want to put 10,000 songs on your iPhone, check this out:

…

I bought an iPhone and I’m pretty happy with it but there’s one problem: it’s too small to hold my entire iTunes library. I’m already using my Mac as a web server and I’m usually home or somewhere with wireless access so I figured ot a way to have all of my songs available to me at all times. I don’t have much time right this second to give a lot of detail so I’ll give a quick overview of what I’m doing and flesh it out later. .

This is pretty simple if you’re already familiar with running a PHP-enabled web server on your Mac. Standard disclaimers apply: if you get your machine hacked because you’re running a public websever, or if the RIAA learns that you’ve got all your music in a world-viewable directory, or if your ISP cuts you off for doing this, it’s not my fault.

Even if you don’t have a world-accessible server, you can still use this to make your music available on your wireless LAN at home or work. Just go to your computer’s LAN IP address instead of a regular URL. (Note that iPhones won’t recognize Rendezvous/Bonjour names. I think. I haven’t actually tested, but I haven’t heard that they do.) (Update: I was right, the iPhone didn’t come with Rendezvous/BonjourZeroConf of any sort, but that has been added in the 1.1.1 update. I don’t know if it’s in iPod touch’s or not; if it isn’t, I’m sure it will be soon. This also means that trailing slashes (see below) aren’t essential when browsing on your local network; however, they’re still needed from the outside world and are a good thing to do in general.)

Basically, all I’m doing is making the iTunes music directory available to the web server….MORE….

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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So you’re yearning

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to get the latest iPhone or PDA or what have you…and then you find out, you’re still locked into your current mobile phone or wireless contract.

Are you SOL?

No indeed! There are several resources online where you can swap your mobile contract or have someone else take it over. Take CellSwapper, for example:

… If you are currently dissatisfied with your cell phone or plan, or simply want to cancel your current service, there are Not Many viable ways to get out of your contract. Due to the High Early Termination Fees, ranging between $150 to $250 per plan, you are may be one of almost half of all cell phone customers who are forced to remain stuck in their contract.* With Cellswapper.com, you can find somebody to take over your cell phone contract and Avoid paying Any early termination fees…..

…Savings can be:

• AT&T: $175 per Phone Line
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• Sprint: $150 per Phone Line
• Cingular: $150 per Phone Line or up to $240 per Phone Line in NY
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CellSwapper.com has discovered that your carrier will only charge you an early termination fee if they don’t have somebody to pay the monthly fees for the remainder of the contract. By finding another party to takeover your plan, the Carrier is ensured that somebody else will continue paying them a monthly fee….MORE…

CellSwapper.com isn’t the only resource you can use - others include:

• Cell Trade USA
• Get Out of Your Plan
• Trade My Cellular

And if you need to discuss your carrier, check out these great forums:

• Howard Forums
• Into Mobile

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

And if you want a new phone without a contract:

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Here’s a great rumor from GearLive:

…. We’ve been waiting for Flash support to hit the iPhone ever since…well…it launched. We’ve had to make do without Flash for almost eight months, and YouTube even had to convert a bunch of their catalog to H.264 in order for the service to be enjoyed on the iPhone. Well, we’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon. Speculating a bit further on our own, we are guessing that it would be pretty convenient for Flash support to be introduced alongside the iPhone SDK, wouldn’t you say? Now, we know that there isn’t much information here, but you also know how strong our sources are too - Flash on the iPhone is coming, just take our word for it, okay?

EDIT: We already have had a couple people ask about the supposed battery and CPU issues that were holding Flash back from being included on the iPhone in the first place. From what I am hearing, it was a complete fabrication. Flash has not yet made it to the iPhone solely due to business negotiations. As we said, it is now on its way…MORE…

Sounds intriguing!

And if you’re interested in Flash for iPods, check out:

• The 32Gb Compact Flash Ipod
• Put Flash Video (YouTube) On Your iPod or Other Video Capable MP3 Player

Here’s a video to help out as well.

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

ps - want flash and ipods now?

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