Idle Hands by xCube Labs is an iPhone game that is designed to make you the world's fastest virtual keyboard user, a feature that you got to master to do blogging, social networking and using the iPhone in a better fashion overall.
xCube Labs have launched yet another game after their three previous apps at the App Store-two engaging games Fire Drop and Rescue Angel and the pretty handy Healthcare and Fitness App - Health n Me. Their latest offering, Idle Hands, however, is a very different take on the gaming space. In a first of its kind game, xCube Labs Read More...
The iPhone has a two screens layout for the QWERTY keyboard and for the for the numbers/symbols display. That makes it a little annoying sometimes. Especially if you are trying to type in a sentence like. "Apple Store, California. USA!" which uses quite a few punctuation marks.
Switching between two keyboards is not a great idea. However, there is a simple way to avoid that.
While using the default keyboard and you arrive at a juncture where you need to use punctuation, i.e. the other keyboard. Just tap the "?123" button and don’t release it after you have reached the other screen. Read More...
With iPhone software version 2.1, crashing of the iPhone has become a very rare thing. However, it is good to know what to do when your iPhone sometimes act like it has seen a ghost. It will not respond to your tapping. Sometimes applications open, but just close again, strange! You are ifreezed.
You need to reset your iPhone. You can do this in two ways:
Force quit the application by pressing down the home button for 5-6 seconds.
Hold down the home button and the sleep/wake button to completely shut down the device.
Any of the steps above will fix minor issues. If Read More...
Launch of the first generation iPhone:
June 2007 was the Apocalypse month for RIM, the maker of BlackBerry and other smartphone manufacturers. The iPhone was born, so to say anointed to bring change to the smartphone market. One year down the line, we saw the rebirth of the device, in the form of the iPhone 3G. We still remember how we walked into Apple Stores, carrying an iPod, a cell phone and a PDA and came out with a single device that perform all the functions of the devices once we carry around with great pride. Apple did something great.
The iPhone Read More...
In matter of months the number of applications in the App Store has gone up to all time high. The total number of applications has crossed 4000 out of which 1113 are games. Now, the main concern as a buyer is how to select the best games? For free applications taking a wrong decision is not disastrous, however, buying a paid and a useless application is just burning your pocket. You cannot try out a game to make your purchase decision. The reviews were not helpful either, before Apple implemented that ‘purchase to comment policy.’ Now it’s good that only Read More...
You are in a business trip to Singapore, but your iPhone 3G prefers to be in a different time zone. Reportedly, some units have shown a special urge to go back to the Cupertino time zone. Some other units would rather prefer to display U.S., Pacific Coast time or GMT.
That’s annoying. But luckily there is a way to fix that. Update the iPhone OS to 2.0.2.
If the problem persists, try switching off the iPhone. Then take out and replace the SIM. Restart the iPhone and “Reset All Settings”. Setting the right time zone after this should give you the time Read More...
iTunes 8 is here, but it’s not completely bug free. Or trouble free that is. Here is another nagging one.
For some iPhone units, the iTunes 8 does not back up properly. While temporarily disabling the a Antivirus software solved the issue, I am looking for a smoother way to negotiate this.
One more question. When will Apple give us something absolutely perfect?
According to renowned iPhone hacker and and data-forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski, the iPhone takes a screenshot of all you recent actions – sending email, browsing a web page or even an SMS.
That’s a serious security flaw, but for a very innocuous reason. It is done to create the shrinking and disappearing effect of the window of application every time the “Home” button is pressed.
This in effect though caches all the latest actions performed on the iPhone. This latest image is deleted, but as with any other digital devices, this is retrievable. So while this might be good for tracking a Read More...
One problem the users encountered while connecting their iPhone/iPod touch to a Windows Vista system was the blue screen of death. As Apple acknowledged:
After installing iTunes 8 for Windows, some users may see a blue screen error message when connecting iPhone or iPod to a Windows Vista computer.
Now, with the iTunes 8 installer, this BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) has been erased.
This Apple Fix tells you to uninstall the Apple Mobile Device and then reinstall the new iTunes 8. For step by step details, check out the Apple support article .
If Kevin Kostner ever needed to use a phone in the Water World, he wouldn't be carrying an iPhone. Even though he could use it as a light under the dark depths of the oceans. This is why:
I was laying on the beach in Ibiza last week soaking up the sun, with my beach bag of holiday essentials… huge un-expected wave came over us and woke us up, making a mad dash for our belongings and bags, one of which was home to my mates brand new iPhone 3G!... We tested the Apple iPhone 3G and it was completely dead, Read More...