iPhone World:
The latest (v1.1.3) iPhone firmware allows you to bookmark your favorite websites on iPhone’s home screen; however since it’s still a relatively new feature not all website owners know how to create those nice icons to be displayed on the screen. But there is a simple solution of how you can do this yourself:
Apple’s iPhone Dev Center posted step-by-step instructions on how to do this. Those familiar with favicons should have no problem creating an iPhone web clip, since the process is very similar.
So if you are a site owner, or just want to change icon to something you like more, here is how you do this:
* Open your image editing program, such as Photoshop, and create an image that’s 57 x 57 pixels. Larger images will be cropped by Safari.
* Save the icon in your computer as an 8-bit PNG file, and name it “apple-touch-icon.png.”
* Upload the image to your site’s root directory, just like you would save a favicon image.
* Now open up your site on your iPhone/iPod Touch, tap the plus sign at the bottom of the screen, and select ‘Add to Home Screen.’ Rename site if necessary.
* Hit the home button, and admire your new shiny icon.
And of course as a user you can reorganize and delete icons on your home screen by:
* Clicking and holding one of the icons until they start to wiggle
* To move icons, hold and drag them to the desired position
* To delete an icon, simply tap the “X” next to each icon
* Click the home button when you’re satisfied
Of course we’ve also made a nice web icon for iPhone World. Give it a try!
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Written by David on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Only a few hours ago a Windows-only method for jailbreaking v1.1.3 iPhones was released. Because the jailbreak relied on a special version iBrickr for patching and uploading the proper files, Mac users were out of luck. Fortunately for us however, Nate has just released a Mac version and we're happy to report that it's faster than the Windows version. The only drawback is that it runs in Terminal, although no command-line knowledge is required. If you have any trouble, ask in the forums. Let us know how it works out!
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Written by Michael Johnston on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone World:
iPhone Dev Team and iPhone Elite Team have put their minds together and finally managed to release an iPhone firmware v1.1.3 jailbreak to the public, in the form of a new version of iBrickr.
To use this iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak hack you will first need to have 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 jailbroked phone. Once your iPhone is ready for the above requirement, you will need the iBrickr image creator (It’s only available on Windows for now, sorry Mac users) which you can download directly here!
Then do the following:
- Plug in your phone via USB to your computer and run iBrickr.
- iBrickr will determine what firmware you are running on your phone and make sure you can run the update.
- iBrickr will then guide you through the process of obtaining and modifying the 1.1.3 firmware (make sure to read everything thoroughly).
- iBrickr will upload the new firmware image to your phone. Note that this only puts the file on your phone and does not modify it at all, yet.
- When iBrickr finishes (should take about 10 minutes), it will tell you to go to Installer and install the “1.1.3 soft upgrade” package. Do that.
- When the installer finishes (this should take another 10-15 minutes), your phone should reboot with a fresh activated 1.1.3 firmware.
There is also a way to get Google Maps Locations working with jailbroken 1.1.3:
*You must have a legal simcard (at&t, orange, o2,t-mobile)
*jailbreak it (see above).
*Then just replace /usr/libexec/lockdownd with original one, from 1.1.3
*Your phone will have Google Maps Locations working.
Now you may be wondering how this jailbreak works. Here is a breakdown:
- iBrickr grabs the 1.1.3 iPhone firmware image and extracts, decrypts, and decompresses the disk image.
- Then it applies a patch, jailbreaking the disk image and activating it, and installing Installer.app.
- It uploads this new modified image to the phone, as 113_upgrade_image.bin.
- The “1.1.3 soft upgrade” app flashes the phone with the image and reboots.
- You have a perfect, jailbroken, upgraded 1.1.3 phone, with all your settings and music intact!
Thanks: netkas
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Written by David on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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The much-awaited battle for the 700MHz frequency band has begun. The FCC opened up the auction today for bids. it is expected that whoever wins the auction will use it for wireless internet. Leading compeditors include AT&T, Verizon, and Google.
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Written by Edward Kirk on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone World:
If you plan to use iPhone for your corporate needs, firstly you should be able to access your mail with the device. But to be able to check emails, mail server should be configured for IMAP to allow access from iPhone. You can’t do it yourself hence you should ask your IT department to do the following:
Step 1
*Open port 993 to allow email to be received through the firewall.
*The proxy server must be set to IMAP over SSL only. SSL ensures that mail is securely encrypted during wireless transmission.
Step 2
*As a best practice and for additional security protection, install a digital certificate on the server from a trusted certificate authority such as Verisign.
*Installing a certificate from a certificate authority (CA) is an important step in ensuring that your proxy server is a trusted entity within your corporate infrastructure.
Step 3
*Either port 587, 465, or 25 must be opened to allow email to be sent from iPhone.
*When sending a message, iPhone automatically checks first for port 587, then 465, and then 25. Apple recommends opening 587 as the most reliable, secure port because it requires user authentication. Port 25 is considered to be the least secure because it’s been around the longest and is subject to more attacks by hackers. It’s also the port that some ISPs block by default to prevent unsolicited spam.
So now your corporation is one step closer to full integration with the iPhone.
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