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3.2 Million dollar Apple iPhone 3GS

Stuart Hughes a British designer has created the most expensive mobile phone on the face of this planet and yes, it’s an iPhone!!! With 271g of 22 karat gold and 136 flawless diamonds, Hughes created an iPhone 3GS worth 3.2 million dollars in about 10 months. Hughes told PC advisor The iPhone is the phone with the most tricks on the market. What possibly could we do to trick it up more? Bless it with the finest precious metal and jewels. Most of the 10 months was spent trying to sour...

How to maximize your iPhone Battery Life

I love my iPhone 3G because it’s slick, powerful and has endless possibilities. The only major issue I find with this wonderful gadget is the battery life. I only wished it could last one full day without dieing on me. This is where I started tweaking some settings on it and believe it or not, it actually improved the battery life. Here are my personal recommendations. 1- Turn off 3G and manage to browse with EDGE. You’re probably thinking 3G is much faster than EDGE so why not use...

Auto-Lock your Mac using your iPhone or iPod Touch

How many times have we forgotten to lock our Macs while our minds are busy thinking about the next Blog to write? Introducing Airlock, an OS X application for 7.77 $ US that you install on your Mac and “pair” it with your iPhone or iPod touch. Once you leave the premises with it, your Mac automatically locks and vice versa when you get close enough it unlocks. It all works within the Bluetooth range. You are probably thinking; what if I forget my iPhone/iPod touch or the battery drains? Simp...

Control Arduino-Based Tank with iPhone [video]

Watch Chris Rojas control an Arduino-Based Tank using his iPhone via Wi-Fi, really cool. The Arduino based tank is controlled with the TouchOSC app for the iPhone to send OpenSoundControl signals to Processing which translates the signals to serial and sends it out via USB to an xBee module...which in turn get’s picked up by another xBee module on the Arduino Tank. The Arduino tank is using an Ardumoto motor driver shield and has a LiPoly battery charger connected to a solar panel fo...

Dragon Dictation for the iPhone available on the Apple Store FREE

Nuance announced the availability of its Dragon Dictation application on the Apple Store for FREE. For those of you living on the moon for the past few years, Nuance provides the speech recognition engine for Mac Speech Dictate and is also the developer of the famous Dragon Naturally Speaking for PC users. Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, is a speak recognition app that allows users to speak naturally in the MIC that will transform it to text instead of typing it. You then have the o...

Why Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch?

Why should I Jailbreak? Once your device is jailbroken, you will be able to install customized themes to change the look of your device, add video recording capabilities (iPhone 2G/3G), enable Bluetooth file transfer, and the list goes on. Transparent and Risk Free process Jailbreaking is NOT illegal and will only add features to your iPhone or iPod Touch, everything that worked before will continue working after the jailbreak. The process is risk free and will not void your warranty. You c...

What is Jailbreaking ?

What is Jailbreaking? A lot of people ask me if Jailbreaking is Unlocking...the answer is, no it's not! Jailbreaking essentially means that you can install 3rd party applications on your iPhone or iPod Touch via cydia witch is an alternative of the Apple Store. This means that you can run non Apple Store applications and modify your device any way you can possible imagine. Apple has very strict rules about what goes through to the Apple Store. These rules, keep control of the iPhone and iP...

iPhones are being used as musical instruments at the University of Michigan [video]

The University of Michigan’s “Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble” course has put together an interesting show by using modified iPhone’s as musical instrument. Basically, to build an instrument on an iPhone, they programmed the device to play back as sound information it receives from one if its multitude of sensors. The touch-screen, microphone, GPS, compass, wireless sensor and accelerometer were all transformed or modified so when you run your finger across the display, blow air into th...

Turn your iPhone into a universal remote control for your home entertainment center

Most of us love technology, especially when it comes to having an all-in-one gadget like the iPhone or iPod Touch. While most of us were on the Apple Store downloading applications or reading on blogs about the latest news, geeks at ThikFlood, came up with the idea of your own personal remote control called RedEye. With the RedEye system you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch to control your TV, stereo, cable box, DVD player, and many other devices that receive standard (infrared) signals....

iMediaShare: Share media from iPhone to PS3 or XBOX 360

AppleHarmony [rating:3.5] Works with: iPhone / iPod Touch Prince: Free Bianor developed a nice application for the iPhone and iPod Touch called iMediaShare. This application provides you the comfort of watching your iPhone or iPod Touch photos directly on your TV screen. You can do this via a PS3, XBOX 360 or any other UPnP compatible device. It's fast and easy - no cables, computers or any other complicated software needed. Just get connected to the wireless network, start iMediaShare a...