MacRumors iPhone and iPad Blog: Apps, News, and Rumors

The first iPhoneDevCamp takes place this weekend in San Francisco, CA. The 3 day event invites interested individuals to come develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for the iPhone. It's a non-commercial event with free attendance. Attendees will be able to: Create new web applications for iPhone. Optimize existing web applications for iPhone. Migrate Dashboard Widgets to ...

David Pogue, of the New York Times, published an iPhone music video on the NYTimes.com sung to the tune "If I Had it My Way". Very well done and worth a...

Michael Ducker, former senior editor of TreoCentral, offers his impressions of the iPhone (at phonedifferent.com) from the perspective of a long term Treo user. He covers the typical areas which he feels the iPhone succeeded (touch interface, camera, transitions, keyboard) and areas that need improvement (dialing, stability, consistency, data entry), but does feel the iPhone is a game-changing ...

Arkadiusz Młynarczyk (forum name: myiphone) has created a web-based game designed for the iPhone called Diamenty. The web based game is a clone of PopCap's Bejeweled and provides an impressive interface for an entirely web/javascript game. He is also the author of http://sudoku.myiphone.pl/, a Suduko port also designed for the iPhone. The game is being distributed as...

Lunch time. I take off my embroidered toy store apron, clock out in the POS, and scamper off to Whole Foods for a quick lunch of vegetarian lentil and spinach soup and a ciabatta roll. Eating my soup, browsing the internet on EDGE, listening to some sweet, sweet Matt the Electrician. I click into a text box on Facebook and start typing. The music cuts off, and I return to the home screen. ...

This tip may prove useful to some. Forum user, technocoy noticed that the Safari on the iPhone intercepts a double-finger scroll differently than the usual single-touch scroll. One issue for some web applications, including David Cann's iPhoneChat (iPhone Link) is the inability to scroll framed elements. In iPhoneiChat, this means users are unable to scroll long buddy lists with a simple...

Interested to see how your EDGE (or Wifi) network speed compares to others across the country? iPhoneNetworkTest.com provides a simple iPhone interface to test the download speed of your iPhone. As of this writing, the Average WiFi speed was 1146.6153 kbps and the Average EDGE speed was 212.6743 kbps. MacRumors users have been posting their speeds and locations in the comment thread....

There are a number of ongoing efforts to unlock/activate or otherwise customize the iPhone. One of the (seemingly) more successful ones has managed to get a full listing of the iPhone's filesystem. There isn't a whole lot revealed in the iPhone's file system contents, but one tidbit is that Ringtones appear to be stored as .m4a (unprotected AAC) files, suggesting that adding custom ringtones...

Newswireless.net claims that AT&T has activated 600,000 iPhones as of Monday night. As a result, they believe that Apple will hit one million iPhone sales by Wednesday/Thursday. Newswireless is the same publication that believed that the European iPhone deal was to be announced on Monday. Now, they say that the European launch ...

Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) has posted a method that allows users to take a new iPhone and activate it without connecting to AT&T servers or supplying any personal information. The method allows users take an iPhone and activate it to allow iPod and Wifi functionality, but without signing up for mobile telephone service with AT&T. This has also be accomplished by canceling AT&T service in the...

Expanding on the Typing Period Quickly Tip posted by David Pogue earlier today, iPodHacks notes that the same sequence can be used for the shift to to allow you to quickly capitalize a letter without disrupting your typing. Just touch the shift key and then slide your finger across the screen to the target letter. Your moving finger will trigger the confirmation pop-ups for the letters you're...

The lack of a true instant messaging client for the iPhone has been an issue for some. Meebo.com is a popular web-based client which offers support for AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, and MSN -- all in one interface. Unfortunately, the iPhone was unable to use the Meebo interface due to the lack of a "Send" button. iPhone users were unable to otherwise submit their instant messages. It looks...

This tip comes from David Pogue's Missing Manual and is appropriately titled "Pogue's Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut. One difficulity in typing on the iPhone is adding proper punctuation as the punctuation keys are on an alternate keyboard, requiring you to press the ".?123" to switch to the puncutation keyboard and then click on "ABC" key to return to the Qwerty keyboard. But no...

Techonline reports on a chip level teardown of the iPhone, identifying the various componenets it is made up of. Many of the chips are Apple branded components, making their exact identification more...

One minor annoyance in iPhone's Safari is that the URL bar scrolls off the top of the screen along with the rest of the page when you scroll down a web page. As a result, in order to enter a new url, you are required to scroll all the way back up before being able to enter a new address. Forum member dharrison9 described a very useful tip to address this issue. 1. You're at the bottom (or...

On iPhone night, I picked up the Skintight from Speck. It cost $29.95 and included in the box were two cases and a belt clip. I slipped on the case as per the instructions and.... It fits ridiculously! Ive tried both the clear and the pink, and theyre both utterly terrible. They pucker at both ends, they dont sit flat, the phone will pop out of the clip if you move at all! The plastic also ...

Scooterdman describes how to stream Google Videos straight to your iPhone. For example, in the MacRumors Interview video, you simply choose Video iPod/PSP from the Download popup, and the download will start and automatically launch in Apple's Video viewer on the...

Jason Friend of 37 Signals reveals that TaDaList.com's iPhone version is now live. Ta-Da List is a web-based to-do list tool. The iPhone version is available at the same web address: TaDaList.com -- simply browse there with your iPhone. Jason provides more screenshots in his blog....