Before selling your iPhone on eBay, sending it to Apple, or otherwise sharing it, note the following: performing a “Restore” operation on the iPhone does not delete personal data from the device. In fact, mail, contacts, and various other data remain intact on the device after a restore, making the process unsuitable as a preparatory […]

Apple has posted a new Knowledge Base article about iPhone/iPod Touch backups that is definitely worth a read. The article describes when backups occur, the difference between syncing and backing up, and how to restore from backups. It also details the process for deleting unwanted backups:

“You can also use iTunes to create a backup of […]

Though it’s somewhat buggy and a significant drain on battery, a new unofficial application distributed under the jailbreak umbrella allows users to replace the static wallpaper (background) image on their iPhones with dynamic videos in the .mov format.

In order to use this application, dubbed vWallpaper, use our guide to jailbreak your iPhone and get it […]

There are a number of solutions for streaming media (music, movies, etc.) to the iPhone and iPod touch, including a native application and several Web-based offerings. They all offer replicas of the standard mobile OS X iTunes interface, most making use of simple sliding-style navigation schemes. A new update to one of the Web-based tools, […]

Pwnage, released earlier this week by the iPhone Dev team for Mac OS X (Windows edition coming soon), is an amazing piece of work. The tool exploits a low-level vulnerability in the iPhone’s boot process to allow the installation of custom OS files. The potential ramifications are huge: pwnage could embody a future-proof method for […]

A new service converts any well formed XML RSS feed to an iPhone-optimized version with the typical sliding style interface. For instance (if you’re on an iPhone right now) here’s the iPhone Atlas feed, and here’s the Google News feed.

Jim Liddle, one of the creators of the service, told iPhone Atlas “You can book mark […]

Dual-booting is an oft-used solution in the desktop realm, where users value the capability to boot multiple versions of an operating system from the same volume (e.g. Windows Vista and XP, Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, Mac OS X and Windows on Intel-based Macs). Now a similar solution has been released for the iPhone, […]

In a new Knowledge Base document, Apple encourages users who “experience unexpected results when tapping the Location button in Maps” to submit WiFi location information to Skyhook — the service used by the iPhone’s quasi-GPS function — in the hope of establishing better accuracy.

Submitting an access point to Skyhook is easy. Navigate to this page, […]

Though we’ve seen some entertaining descriptions and demonstrations of how it could work, no coder has managed to fulfill perhaps the most requested gap on the iPhone, Copy and Paste functionality — until now. Preston Monroe has developed a bookmarklet that delivers the ability to copy and paste within Safari on the iPhone with surprisingly […]

Getting contacts off your old mobile phone and onto the iPhone may or may not be a straightforward process. If you already have your contacts stored neatly in Outlook (Windows), Address Book (Mac) or a Yahoo! Address Book (Mac/Windows), the process is as simple as syncing via iTunes. If all you have is a set […]