Thomas Robinson has started a really cool project that enables XBOX 360 owners to use their iPhone as an XBOX Media Center Remote, controlled via WiFi. A simple menu-driven interface allows you to play music, video, DVDs, photo slideshows, and more. I like!
The project is fully open source and can be downloaded free from Thomas’s website.
Brando is now offering a fully user-replaceable battery kit, available for the low price of just $20. The kit includes one battery, a screwdriver, spacer, and instruction manual. Be warned, replacing the battery on your own is not for the faint of heart. It requires lots of patience and practice.
Boy Genius recently bricked his beloved iPhone while trying to swap out back covers. An act that he came to regret.
YouTube junkies looking for an easy way to transfer and view Flash video to your iPhone, in place of Apple’s ill-equipped streaming client, can now breath a sigh of relief. TubeTV makes saving and converting any Flash video content to iPhone/iPod format quick and easy, just the way we like it.
Download this free application now so you watch all those wonderful videos of cats wearing hats and sweater vests.
Organizers behind Office 2.0 Conference have come up with an ingenious, if costly, incentive to drive attendance to their upcoming developer/partner conference. Registered attendees and speakers will receive free 4GB iPhones. Where do I sign up? Well not so fast. A single attendee registration costs $995 through July 31 (that’s tomorrow), after which the registration price jumps to $1,495. If you’re a developer living in the Bay area, and had already planned to attend O2O, this is a no brainer. However, this conference price (even with iPhone) seems unusually high to me.
GameDaily reports that PopCap Games has released a free web based version of its popular Bejeweled puzzle game for iPhone. Users can access the game by visiting www.popcap.com on their iPhones - Bejeweled loads automatically. I tried it out myself and found the experience to be incredibly disappointing. It’s nearly impossible to precisely select a specific jem, and often my taps weren’t recognized at all.
But, hey it’s free. So who can argue with that?
The folks of iFuntastic have already released a new version of their app. Instead of just ringtones, they now allow you to re-order application icons, and change the carrier logo.
Insanely Great Tees recently released an application called Filemark Maker. To use it, you can drag and drop a file onto it, and it will encode the images in a higher resolution than the native Photo app will show. Also included is a Perl script that will do the same thing for those that prefer the command line.
The internet rumor mill is at it again, and there’s a bevy of rumors indicating updates soon. Most of what I’m reading indicates a fix for the wi-fi security vulnerability posted earlier, though at least one site thinks a patch for the volume issue is imminent. I’d put money on just the security fix; I doubt we’ll see a feature update until Leopard comes out. Not that I wouldn’t prefer to be wrong, mind you.
There’s a spate of games available for the iPhone over at MacMost.com. Those heavy hitting games are Word Spell, Reversi, Solitaire, Poker, Minesweeper, Match 3, Blocks, Sudoku, Word Search, Think Ahead, Knight&Squire, and Assassin. If you think Knight&Squire is an action game like Ghosts ‘N’ Goblins, or Wizards & Warriors, well, you’re hopelessly wrong. [via]
There are many magazines available for reading on the iPhone as part of Texterity’s beta program. The list includes: Popular Science, Make, Craft, ReadyMade, Vibe, Rachael Ray, Quick & Simple, Taste of Home, Quest MAgazine, Northern Home & Cottage, and many more business and internet-heavy publications. I doubt this service will stay free for long, so enjoy it while you can.
  
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