VNC on the iPhone is a thing of beauty, allowing you to view the screen of and control your Mac or PC. Unfortunately, solutions up to this point have been clunky: Web-based monstrosities that respond poorly even on a fast WiFi connection or native applications that are error-prone when attempting to scroll around the screen […]

PartFoundry has posted a video demonstration of a combined software/hardware GPS add-on for the iPhone that will purportedly ship in February and require the host iPhone to be jailbroken (able to receive unofficial third-party, native applications). So far, “GPS” solutions for the iPhone have been limited to unofficial applications, like Navizon, that make use of […]

Up until now, most native iPhone games, excepting some great emulators (NES and Gameboy Advance), have been less than entertaining. There are two relative newcomers, however, that beyond showing off the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer potential for gaming are actually fun.

The first is iBlackJack. All you need to know about this game, aside from it […]

With yesterday’s release of GarageBand 4.1.1, you can now “export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone,” according to Knowledge Base article #307108.

The process requires GarageBand 4.1.1 or later, iTunes 7.5 or later and an iPhone with software version 1.1.2 […]

It turns out that the officially (Apple-sanctioned) unlocked iPhone you bought for 649 Euros (about US$965) from Orange in France — which, according to some reports, accounts for up to 20% of total iPhone sales in France — is not really unlocked. It retains a country lock, meaning the device will only allow use of […]

Google is on an iPhone roll. A week after revising the way its mobile-optimized home page is displayed on the iPhone, the company has introduced an iPhone-optimized version of Picasa, its software and Web-based tool for uploading and organizing digital photos. From the Google Mobile blog:

“After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log […]

Aptly named Simplify Media recently launched a native third-party iPhone application that can stream music from any enabled Mac or PC (also running the Simplify Media software) directly to the iPhone over a WiFi or EDGE connection. Once you’ve made your iPhone ready accept third-party applications, the process for setting up Simplify Media is, well, […]

Users continue to report abysmal wireless network signals for the iPhone in areas where other phones pick up strong signals. A throng of users are reporting the problem in the UK after the iPhone’s launch on the O2 network there, and similar complaints continue steadily for AT&T customers in the US and T-Mobile users in […]

If you’re using an iPhone running software/firmware 1.1.2 or iPod Touch and have installed several third-party applications, you may begin receiving an error message that states “Warning: You are running out of disk space. Please delete some photos or videos,” even though there is still significant storage space on the device.

Here’s what’s actually happening: the […]

Apple has now increased the number of iPhones users can purchase through the online Apple Store to five from two, presumably in anticipation of holiday sales.

We previously reported that Apple was limiting iPhone purchases to two per customer, stopped accepting cash and gift certificates for iPhones, and apparently tracking how many iPhones each customer is […]