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One more self-made iPhone/iPod dock
Yesterday we wrote about .
This idea of self-made dock is quite popular. Now what you need are notebook clips 
iPhone paper clip stand
Here is a nice and cheap self-made stand for iPhone. Watch the video:
Want to create one? Here are the instructions:
iFunBox - iPhone file browser
iFunBox is an iPhone file browser for MS Windows. It is quite useful. I use iPhoneBrowser tool, and this one I like very much. It is free, download .
| iPhone File Manager > Navigation, Upload and Download > Quick Preview, Drag&Drop > Delete, Rename and Move > Asian / Long Filename Support |
iPhone Portable Disk > Realtime Progress Indicator > High Speed Data Transmission > Scheduled Data Transferring > Recursive Copy Subfolders |
Managing iPod Music & Movie > iTunes© Managed Media Files > Upload Songs and Movie > Sort and Selection > Copy to PC with Friendly Title |
Upload Wallpaper in Batch > Wallpapers in iPhone > Batch Uploading and Conversion > Change Image Resolution > High Quality Image Resizing |
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XiPhone
Recently a new project has been started, called XiPhone. It will be based on XPWN. So functionality similar to WinPwn and Pwnage will be present (jailbreak, unlock, etc). In addition to that developers plan to include:
- Auto downloading of stock firmware files from apple’s site (no need to hunt for it then select it)
- Wizard based modern GUI (created with .net 2.0), and Vista Style UI.
- Export of firmware settings so users can pass around an XML file which contains a configuration that works for them.
- Auto updates to the XiPhone software.
- Community based wallpapers used for Bootscreen, Restore screen and others
- Enabling / Disabling of options available based on the device you select.
Unfortunately, only Windows platform users will be able to use XiPhone.
BigBoss Fantasy Pack winterboard theme
This is a WinterBoard theme (will not work on Summerboard or such). It features 100 fantasy wallpapers that rotate randomly every 15 seconds in a fading slide show. The awesome Winterboard app is required. I recommend you situate your icons onto other pages so that the desktop is relatively clear so you can benefit from these outstanding backgrounds. Avaliable... yes, via Cydia.
WinterBoard - HTML as a background
Winterboard is amazing. Saurik, the developer of Winterboard, has just added dynamic backgrounds. Your background can now be an HTML web page using webkit. The possibilities are endless. He threw together a small theme called “Saurik” that fades in and out between two images as an example. But so much more can be done with this.
Comments from Saurik:
So, while staring at the desktop, I realized “wait, why don’t I make that a website? then you could do all kinds of neat things with it!”. This dream has been made a reality with the latest version of WinterBoard. There is a new file you can add called Wallpaper.html which puts a UIWebDocumentView behind SpringBoard.
Safari benchmark - 2.0 is faster than 1.1.4
There is not much defference between Safari 1.1.4 and 2.0. But Under the hood, MobileSafari 2.0's performance is hugely improved over 1.1.4. Everything related to web surfing feels faster, web pages consistently load faster on 2.0, both via Wi-Fi and EDGE. This has nothing to do with the new iPhone 3G hardware — this is about dramatic performance improvements on original iPhones upgraded to the 2.0 OS.
Using MobileSafari simply feels faster, especially with web applications. Feel is by nature subjective, but JavaScript benchmarks back this up.
In August last year, to compare the iPhone's processing power and JavaScript interpreter against Safari 3 running on a Mac with a 1.83 GHz Core Duo. At that time, the current version of the iPhone OS was 1.0.1. Here are the results of those same benchmarks on original iPhones running the 1.1.4 and new 2.0 OS versions, with Hockenberry’s 1.0.1 results included for comparison:
| Test | 1.0.1 | 1.1.4 | 2.0 | Vs. 1.0.1 / 1.1.4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 iterations | 3.209 | 1.096 | 0.145 | 22× / 8× |
| 10,000 divisions | 0.413 | 0.181 | 0.029 | 14× / 6× |
| 10,000 sin(x) calls | 0.709 | 0.373 | 0.140 | 5× / 3× |
| 10,000 string allocations | 0.777 | 0.434 | 0.133 | 6× / 3× |
| 10,000 function calls | 0.904 | 0.595 | 0.115 | 8× / 5× |
The last column shows how many times faster the 2.0 version of MobileSafari was versus 1.0.1 and 1.1.4. The same results, charted (smaller bars are faster) can be viewed above.
The results are obvious. WebKit JavaScript performance has improved steadily and significantly in just one year, with a huge jump between 1.1.4 and the new 2.0.0. In side-by-side page loading tests between two original iPhones running 1.1.4 and 2.0.0, the new version consistently finished at least a few seconds faster.
For all the hubbub regarding the new App Store, most “iPhone software” runs in the web browser. But improvements in WebKit performance often help native iPhone app performance, too — a slew of my favorite native iPhone apps have built-in WebKit browsers (e.g., NetNewsWire, Twitterrific, Instapaper, and Cocktails). When WebKit performance improves, any app that uses WebKit improves, and WebKit improved a lot between iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0.0.
via daringfireball.net
How much is the IPhone 3G in Russia?
Russian newspaper Vedomosti investigated how much the new IPhone 3G costs in Russia, country where users cannot buy IPhone officially. The results are impressive.
Several russian web sites offer IPhone 3G 8Gb for $1200. Rumors say that In Moscow it is possible to find one foe $775, but it is not easy. However $1200 is not the limit at all. In some big shopping center in Moscow one can buy IPhone 3G for $3449.
Some analysts report, that there are about 400,000 IPhones in Russia. Every month this number increases by approximately 33,000.