The iPhone (or iPod Touch) as an internet tablet - it’s almost perfectly suited for surfing through your favorite online forums, shopping sites, and, ahem, TMZ.com. There’s just one thing missing. If only there was a way to download all that cool web-content straight to your iPhone.

Well, now there is! iPhone hacker hachu has gone ahead and developed a plug-in for your iPhone’s Safari browser. The plug-in allows you to download (rather than stream/playback), say, an MP3 file to the var/root/Downloads directory on your iPhone’s local disk. You can find instructions for installing the plug-in here. After installation, whenever you click on a link to any media (like a ZIP file), a green “Download” button will appear. There’s a bit of .plist editing required, so if that kind of “hacking” makes you break out in cold-sweats, you might want to stay away from this one.

Anyway, Erica Sadun from TUAW has modified her SendFile application to allow you to playback said MP3 files from your iPhone’s local-disk (even while offline). SendFile will now search your ~/Downloads and ~/Media/Documents directories for any media that you might want to send, share, email, and now playback. Grab the modified SendFile application here.

Make sure you check the hackint0sh forum for installation instructions.

Or, keep reading for a quick rundown on the installation procedure.

Here’s a rough idea of what you’ll need to do:

• Download the Safari plug-in here.
• Copy the plug-in bundle to “/System/Library/Internet Plug-Ins” and reboot the iPhone
• Add this string to your Info.plist (use a standard text editor as opposed to Mac OSX’s editor) in order to download AVI files
  <key>video/x-msvideo</key>
  <dict>
  <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
  <array>
  <string>avi</string>
  </array>
  <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
  <string>avi File</string>
  <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
  <true/>
  </dict>
• Add this string to your Info.plist in order to download MP3 files
  <key>audio/mpeg</key>
  <dict>
  <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
  <array>
  <string>mpeg</string>
  <string>mpg</string>
  <string>mp3</string>
  <string>swa</string>
  </array>
  <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
  <string>MPEG audio</string>
  <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
  <true/>
  </dict>
  <key>audio/mpeg3</key>
  <dict>
  <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
  <array>
  <string>mp3</string>
  <string>swa</string>
  </array>
  <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
  <string>MP3 audio</string>
  <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
  <true/>
  </dict>

• Here’s the string for downloading RAR files
  <key>application/x-rar-compressed</key>
  <dict>
  <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
  <array>
  <string>rar</string>
  </array>
  <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
  <string>rar File</string>
  <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
  <true/>
  </dict>
• Torrent files
  <key>application/x-bittorrent</key>
  <dict>
  <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
  <array>
  <string>torrent</string>
  </array>
  <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
  <string>torrent File</string>
  <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
  <true/>
  </dict>

Keep in mind, these are rough instructions to give you an idea of what’s in store for you if you decide to implement this plug-in. Head on over to hackint0sh and read the thread to get a complete picture of the installation procedure.

[Via: TUAW]

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As a proud owner of iPhone you know pretty well the fun of viewing hot movies right on your iPhone. The excitement of listening to electrifying music turns pale in comparison to the thrill of watching full length music video on your iPhone. As for me I like playing current games on the mobile device. To sum up: this amazing device can fill 18 hours of 24 hour day with lot of fun and frolic.

But the hardware of iPhone alone can not do all these things for you. To get boat load of fun out of your magic machine you need to keep your iPhone filled up will all the latest software, hot music and movies.

Many guys and gals after getting their iPhone keep buying new media for few weeks and after that they find paying close to $1 for each download quite high and they stop buying new goodies and keep using their iPhone like a standard mobile phone. What a massive wastage!

But there is a way out, you can download as much software, movies, music, TV shows and e-books as you like for your iPhone without paying money on per download basis. Actually there are services on Internet where you subscribe for life by paying a one time fee (usually less than $50). And they allow you to download anything you want from their store of millions of movies, music, games and software files.

There are many benefits you get when you subscribe to these services:

You get chance to choose from millions of files that means unlimited hours of fun at your finger tip. You need not worry about spending money on media that you discover not that good afterwards.

But there are certain things that you should look for when subscribing to these types of services.

Firstly: really how good their collection is. Beware, it is not the collection size what actually matters, quality of the collection is the most important factor.

How powerful their server is. It is important as this will affect your download speed. Certainly you’ll not like to spend hours to down load your files.

Whether they offer advanced search function. To get hold of the music or movie file that you want you need the ability to search their database easily and efficiently.

Autor: Tapan Sarkar

Do you want to know about the service I prefer to use. Read more about it here

Added: December 26, 2007
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/

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Here is a nice video comparing the Nokia E61i and the Apple iPhone. The video is in German though…

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The PSX Emulator for iPhone that we mentioned earlier this month is now downloadable in version 0.1. Given that the iPhone is quite underpowered compared to a PSX (especially on the graphics side), expect the games to run slowly, if at all. As you can see, the buttons are also emulated on the iPhone’s touch-screen and I don’t have to be a genious to predict that the Tekken 10-hit combos are doing to be seriously hard to pull-off. Other than that, it’s a very interesting project form a technical view. (video in the full post)

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There’s no lack of third-party gaming applications for the iPhone as it is - we have NES games, card games, puzzle games, and so on - and now we have PlayStation games. As expected, the psx4iPhone application has just been released through Installer.app, basically turning your iPhone into a PSP with touchscreen controls!

The developer, zodtt, had previously kept their iPhone PlayStation emulator private - only accessible through a paid-beta program. Well, now us lay-folk can have at it. Fire up your Installer.app and find psx4iPhone. Install the emulator and you’re ready to start installing PlayStation ROM’s!

Install the SSH client that is freely available through Installer.app and transfer (via SFTP - CyberDuck works great on Macs) your PS ROMs to the iPhone. Find your iPhone’s IP address by viewing the details of the WiFi connection (hit the little arrow to the right of the connection name). SFTP to your iPhone’s IP address and upload the ROM to the /var/root/Media/ROMs/PSX directory. That’s it, you’ll be up and running in no time.

We have a feeling that a good number of productive hours are going to be spent playing PlayStation games on our iPhone. Oh well.

Check the video below to see how psx4iPhone works.

[Via: ifoneguru]

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Insiders tell us that Apple expects to announce sales of roughly five million iPhones at Macworld 2008 in January. Of these, around one million are expected to come from Europe. Apple is seeing very strong Christmas sales despite AT&T’s announcement that a 3G iPhone will be hitting in 2008 (May-June is our best guess at this point) that could’ve hampered demand.

Apple sold 1 million iPhones in 74 days around the same time it dropped the price to $399 from $599. Also, Apple opened in Europe’s three biggest markets in November - just in time for the holidays.

Some sources expect Apple to release a 16Gb iPhone upgrade at Macworld in mid January, however, no hard evidence to this effect has hit our ears.

Apple had originally expected to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 and reaching the halfway point this early is likely to bolster Apple’s stock price. Apple’s iPhone is a leader in the smartphone charge in the US and has gained marketshare at an unprecedented pace.

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Yes folks, the iPhone like scrolling of your contacts is possible on Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones. As you can see from the image on the left and much better from the short demo video after the jump, the application is quite neat and easy to use. Best of all, it goes beyond scrolling, enabling you to quickly find the contact you’re looking for.

I still haven’t tried it, but I plan to. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts, please use our comments form.

One more (bad) thing about it — it’s not free (costs $14.95) and is not a native but a J2ME application. Still, you can try it for free from our application store and if you like it, buy the full version. Now, on with the demo video…

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In case your New Year celebration involves a Karaoke party and you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch owner, here’s a site that will help you prepare better for the crazy night. It’s simply called iPhone Lyrics and, as the name suggests, provides you with the quick access to many of the popular songs’ lyrics. As a matter of fact, there are already 75,000 songs in the database with more coming every day. You can search songs either by song title or artist name, while browsing is limited by the name of artist. Very simple…

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Well, if 9to5mac is on point with this latest speculation, then Apple is poised to announce that they’ve pushed 5 million iPhone handsets onto the smartphone market. We’re looking for Steve Jobs to announce the blistering sales numbers during his keynote at MacWorld Expo on January 15th.

The iPhone just recently broke through the 1 million-handset market, and with European iPhone sales shrouded in doubt (some reports indicate incredible sales, others paint a much dimmer picture), we find it hard to believe that Apple is already halfway to their 10 million-handset end-of-2008 goal. Still, we could be wrong, and the iPhone could deliver another giant blow to Windows Mobile’s market. We’ll know if  a few weeks time…

[Via: MacRumors]

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We’ve seen plenty of applications where the iPhone is used as a remote controller, of sorts. From sound engineering to your music collection, the iPhone’s capacitance-based multi-touch display is ideal for remote-control-use.

Cinemar has announced that they’ll be brining iPhone and iPod Touch support for their Cinemar Mainlobby home-automation. Using an AJAX web-app, Mainlobby’s integrated web-server gives the iPhone complete control over everything in the home - lighting, security, home theater, thermostats, and movie/music collection. You’ll even be able to browse all the movies on your 400-disc DVD player or on an external hard-drive and check whether conditions. And, by the time Mainlobby goes commercial for the iPhone, we’re sure the guys at Cinemar will have built in even cooler features.

iPhone support is still in its infancy, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on Cinemar’s development progress.

Click on for a few more screenshots of Mainlobby on the iPhone.

[Via: Engadget Mobile]

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