bradKELLETT

I see it all the time – some new blog post detailing how to sync your Google calendar and contacts to somewhere, usually to the iPhone, using some new 3rd party service or crazy trick. Many people suggest NuevaSync to sync directly to the iPhone, or using CalDAV to get your calendars to iCal so [...]

David Walsh recently published a blog post detailing how to detect iPhone and iPod Touch users on your website via the user agent string, and while the concept is fine, I much prefer a slightly different method using regex to do the detection. In PHP: if(preg_match(‘/Apple.*Mobile.*Safari/’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’])  {       header(‘Location: http://yoursite.com/iphone’);     [...]

There has been a fair amount of talk lately about a feature introduced in iPhone firmware 2.0 and above that allows a developer to make a web application, once saved to a user’s iPhone home screen, run in a full-screen mode without the Safari toolbars. AppleInsider wrote about it, with a fantastic demo available on [...]

Schmap.com, a local city guide and travel information provider, is all set to launch a very sexy looking iPhone interface in public beta on Monday. The Schmap iPhone interface encompasses the company’s City Guides and Local Search services, plus a unique feature that auto generates maps when the iPhone is turned sideways. The Schmap guys [...]

For those that have iPhones that came with firmware version 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 out of the box, your pleas for a jailbreaking and unlocking solution have been answered. Thanks to the work of Zibri and the folks from Unlock.no, it is now dead simple to jailbreak and unlock these devices – even simpler than it [...]

After the resounding success of my firmware 1.1.2 guide, I have decided to put together a guide to upgrading an iPhone to firmware 1.1.3, both jailbroken and unlocked for use on any network. This guide involves a lot of steps, but it will ensure that you have the best possible result by the safest means. [...]

Comments for this post are now closed and the guide is made available for reference only. I have published my guide to jailbreaking and unlocking firmware 1.1.3, please refer to that to upgrade to the newer firmware version. I have been messing around for a day or so trying to get this to work, but [...]

Like many, I have been watching the news related to Google, among other’s, announcement of the Android mobile platform and the Open Handset Alliance. Until today’s release of several videos demonstrating the UI and parts of the system itself, there was not a lot of meat to get excited about. Now, I am filled with [...]

I have held off from blogging about the iPhone here much thus far, but I am going to chuck some opinion out there. This is not just about the iPhone though, it is more about how the industry needs to react because of it. Let me say this right off the bad: the iPhone is [...]

I have been in online journalism for several years now, surely not that long compared to a lot of the veterans I know, but enough to realize a few observations about the industry. I love journalism, and can’t imagine doing much else anymore, and I solidly believe that the place to be is not in [...]