iTunes 8 first experience….chinese iPhone…

Downloaded and installed iTunes 8 with my iPhone connected…. seems my phone is now chinese

 

….in windows that is… not the iPhone UI.
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Copy music back from your iPhone and iPod Touch with Touch Copy - works with iPhone 3G

After puzzling over an application (or at least the existence of one) that would allow me to copy music back off my iPhone…..I got hold of a trial / demo version of Touch Copy….
To say i was a little skeptical was an understatement.
I installed the software and connected my iPhone 3G (iTunes was not running) [...]

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We can all be ‘rich’ - It was only a matter of time!

The most expencive App on the App Store has been cloned! - I first spotted this on TUAW … and even then i was pretty sure that it wouldn’t take long to clone it….
I’m starting to try and learn how to code for the iPhone myself, i was even going to have a bash at it!
Well, here [...]

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Winpwn 3g iPhone - no carrier signal - solution found

OK so nearly every guide on the ‘net for Winpwn gives you instructions which do_not_work.
I followed the instructions on iClarified to no avail…. my phone did get jailbreaked but i had no signal.
I managed to find some further instructions to sit on top of the iClarified solution that i can confirm work perfectly.
> Restore your phone back [...]

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Apple Care to the rescue - possible [6] and [13] fix

So after resigning myself to the fact that i bricked my iPhone, i decided to call the store i got it from who directed my to Apple Care… i explained the situation to the guy and he asked me what OS i was running (Vista Business) and asked me to create a new local account [...]

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Recycle your old iPhone dock for use with your 3G iPhone

Last week i was donated an old first gen iPhone dock, which i took to our engineering dept and attacked with an electric precision grinder….the result is a little messy but very very usable.
I’m modifying another dock right now to give to a friend - based on that I decided that blogging it might be helpful [...]

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BBC Radio 1 Stream on the iPhone

As i have found out, Windows Media Streams and Real Audio Streams are not natively supported on the iPhone… while browsing my so far favorite application (Tuner - which is currently missing from the app store as it happens) i found the BBC Radio 1 Stream Relay (192k)
I’ve been on a few forums and people [...]

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Living with the iPhone 3G - Day 2

I know I’m probably a year late with this excitement, but Apple have truly gone way beyond what we used to rely on for predictive text. You don’t even need to spell the word you’re typing correctly…
For example, if i type “Gelko mu bame ia gaery abd I havr eues” it corrects each word as you [...]

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Living with the iPhone 3G - Day 1

I’m new to the iPhone world, i specifically didn’t jump on the bandwagon first time around because the first generation phone was simply not well enough equipped for me. I previously had a Nokia N95 which was - in my opinion - the best phone on the market for a long time (only beaten by [...]

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How to add custom ringtones to your iPhone (3G) without jailbreak

I’m pretty sure that this information is all over the net, but to be honest it’s here mostly as a resource for myself and my iPhone-owning friends to be easy to find.
To add a custom ringtone, you need to follow these steps.

Locate an mp3 you want to use as a ring tone
If its a full [...]

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