More Gaming: Turbo Subs released for the iPhone

Today happens to be a very gaming centric day for our iPhone reporting, it seems. I-Play has announced the release of Turbo Subs, a strategy/action casual title for the iPhone. Here’s the details from the creators’ web site: “I-Play, Oberon Media’s publishing division and the world’s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today announced the launch of Turbo [...]

iPhone 101: How to Reset Your Home Screen Icons to Default

Welcome to iPhone 101, where TiPb helps new iPhone users use their new iPhones — or just gives you a handy link to send to your new iPhone using friends.

This time we’re tackling something near and dear to every child-caring adult’s heart: how to resent your iPhone Home Screen to default. Because as we all know, you let your child at your iPhone, and they can switch around your icons — even blank your Home Screen — in no time flat (and yes, the above is a real screenshot of an iPhone after a 3 year old spent about 5 minutes on it…)

Luckily, there must be a lot of parents at Apple, because they’ve made it lickity-split simple to restore.

From the home screen, tap Settings (yeah, if you can find it — but at least they can’t delete that or any built-in application).

From Settings, hit General, then choose Reset.

From the Reset menu, choose Reset Home Screen Layout. When it asks you to confirm, tap the big red Reset Home Screen button.

And you’re done. Your iPhone’s icons will be back to the way Apple ships them… until your child gets a hold of them again!

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iPhone 101: How to Reset Your Home Screen Icons to Default

New Belkin iPod/iPhone dock plays music and acts as speakerphone for iPhone in your car

Belkin, and others, have been making similar car docks for a while now so your probably know how this new model works. There are two versions coming: the TuneBase FM has a FM modulator and the TuneBase Direct outputs via a 3.5mm jack. Both will get your iPod/iPhone hooked up to your car’s speakers while [...]

Command and Conquer: Red Alert release for iPhone soon?

Here’s the lovely iPhone game rumor of the week, although to be fair it looks like more than just a rumor. The gist is that the massively popular Command & Conquer real-time strategy game series is coming to the iPhone soon – according to Planet Command & Conquer: “Apoc has just confirmed on his Twitter [...]

Postino turns your iPhone pictures into real postcards

Postino is a new iPhone application that transforms your iPhone pictures into real, physical postcards that you can have sent worldwide.

iPhone 3G Supply Running Low at Best Buy

We are all aware that WWDC is only one week away. If history is any indication of what is to come, that means we should be introduced to the next-generation of Apple’s iPhone and if we follow previous patterns, we should start seeing the iPhone 3G supply starting to run thin on all levels.

AppleInsider is now reporting that Best Buy headquarters has sent out a memo to all of it’s stores saying to expect little to nothing in terms of iPhone 3G supply for the next few weeks. Last year we saw similar shortages but they occurred a few months prior to WWDC, April to be exact.

So, after all the previous rumors covering Austria to Australia, Canada and back what do you readers think? Ready to pick yourself up a new iPhone? Sound off in the comments!

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iPhone 3G Supply Running Low at Best Buy

Belkin’s new TuneBase FM and TuneBase Direct pack speakerphones

Belkin's milking its TuneBase product line for all it's worth, today introducing two new wares that are just marginally different than those we've seen before. The new TuneBase FM and TuneBase Direct both enable iPhone users pick up a call handsfree (via the built-in speakerphone) as well as channel tunes to one's stereo via an auxiliary input jack (that's the 'Direct') or FM transmitter (and that's the 'FM'). The TuneBase FM is set to hit shelves next month in the US for $89.99, while the TuneBase Direct should make its way out this month for $69.99.

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals

Belkin's new TuneBase FM and TuneBase Direct pack speakerphones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Safari Browser 3.0 for iPhone is GPS-aware

Filed under: OS, iPhone, SDK

One of the relatively unsung features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware is that the new version of Safari for iPhone will use geolocation. This means that the browser can request location information from the iPhone's GPS receiver, and can also provide that location information to websites that you're visiting.

ComputerWorld's Seth Weintraub reports that the beta versions of the firmware are working well with sample web-aware websites. This capability is not only planned for the iPhone's implementation of Safari, but many upcoming browsers for Mac as well.

Geolocation capabilities make it simple for developers to create web apps that no longer need to ask you for an address or zip code. Google, for instance, is planning on making their Latitude application a 3.0-only web app rather than a standalone application on the iPhone. Latitude will leverage the geolocation features of Safari by knowing exactly where you are at a particular point in time and sending that info to the Latitude servers, then returning the whereabouts of your friends while informing them where you are.

For those of you who don't want your 3.0-enabled iPhone to let the world know exactly where you are, remember that you can always turn off Location Services in the General Settings or just answer "Don't Allow" when asked if Safari or a particular website would like to use your current location.

Safari Browser 3.0 for iPhone is GPS-aware originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Safari Browser 3.0 for iPhone is GPS-aware originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Quickoffice Files for iPhone

Quickoffice Files lets you transfer files to and from your iPhone, view many different file types, and work with your iDisk.

Best Buy iPhone Shortages and More iPhone Production Rumors

Best Buy is reported to have issued a memo indicating that iPhone 3G supplies were now in constraint, according to AppleInsider. The reports follows other claims that 16GB iPhone had been "end of life'd" in Australia.

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DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone controls Canon digital cameras

OnOne has produced an iPhone app that lets you remotely control a Canon DSLR camera tethered to a Mac or PC.

Japanese university tracking students via free iPhones

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends, Developer, iPhone

If you happen to be enrolling in Aoyama Gakuin University's School of Social Informatics in Tokyo this year, make sure to stop by the admissions office to pick up your free iPhone -- the school made a deal with Softbank Corporation, the iPhone's vendor in Japan, to give the phones to 550 students for school usage. But oh, there is one catch: they're also going to use the phones' GPS to track students, and make sure they're attending class on time.

It looks like skipping class is an issue -- the students at the school, despite having to answer an attendance check and/or hand in an attendance card, are still skipping out on class and having their classmates cover them. But apparently university officials think the iPhone plan will work better, because students will be less inclined, they believe, to pass off their iPhone to a buddy.

Need to keep track of truant students? There is, apparently, an app for that.

[via Ars]

Japanese university tracking students via free iPhones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Japanese university tracking students via free iPhones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hands on with the Sims 3 for iPhone and iPod touch

The Sims 3 for iPhone is being released simultaneously with the Mac and PC versions -- Chris Holt has a first look

iPhone Jailbreak 101: What Are Those Swirly Black Badges on Mail, Phone, iPod?

Confession: Jeremy can’t believe we’re posting this, but after a bunch of forum questions, email queries, and a mini Twitter ’splosion, we figured we’d put this up as a public service message to the Jailbreak community.

First: don’t panic.

Second: those strange little black icon badges that have suddenly popped up on your Phone, Email, iPod, and perhaps other apps? Yeah, that’s because you installed Backgrounder, and that’s how Backgrounder shows you which applications, built-in or user-enabled, are currently running background tasks (multitasking).

Third: enjoy.

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iPhone Jailbreak 101: What Are Those Swirly Black Badges on Mail, Phone, iPod?

Opinion: How much work can you do on an iPhone?

It's hard not to look at an iPhone and wonder whether you could chuck your laptop and use it to do all your work instead. In that spirit, InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman finds out how far you can you go relying exclusively on an iPhone for work.

iPhone 3.0: Safari Geo-Location Not Just for Google’s Latitude

Last week we posted on Google’s Latitude service coming to the iPhone by way of Safari. Of course, as Computerworld (via MacRumors) points out, for the location-tracking buddy service to work in the browser, the browser must support geo-location, and not just for Google.

According to BrowserSphere developers were told back in March that Safari would support the Geolocation JavaScript classes, which “work with the onboard location services to retrieve the current location of the device.”

So we guess IP addresses won’t be the only way for annoying web ads to try and localize us any more?

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iPhone 3.0: Safari Geo-Location Not Just for Google’s Latitude

Review: Birdhouse for iPhone

If you're the kind of person who only wants to post a perfectly-composed tweet to Twitter, Birdhouse is the app for you.