Steve Jobs announces three new applications of iPhone 2.0: eBay, “loopt” and TypePad. eBay looks pretty cool, it lets you watch, bid, look at pics, etc. “loopt” shows your friends on a Google Map in relation to you, can see what your friends have been doing today (pictures, comments, etc.), and even it can use with your friends on other carriers, other OSes. TypePad will be available for free-Lets you blog easily on iPhone interface, use camera, post photos, post to different categories. The most important thing is they are all free.
A certain, unnamed individual sent TUAW some pictures of the latest build of the iPhone firmware showing .Mac push e-mail. The picture shows the main Settings page with a new button: “Fetch new data.” When you click the button, you are taken to a list of your mail accounts, where you can choose between either “fetch” or “push.”
According to Mr. Anonymous, while .Mac is offering push e-mail, you are currently not able to do contact or calendar syncing.
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I found Apple offically add Chinese keyboard IME and handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0(5A274d) lastest beta firmware. Does that mean Apple will go to China, the biggest mobile phone market in the world?
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More and more 3G iPhone photo appear, are they true or fake? 
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- White version 3G iPhone
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- Black version 3G iPhone
Today Apple released the new version of iPhone SDK and firmware. There are some big changes in the new SDK (build 9M2173a, beta 5):
- API reference largely updated to beta 5 API.
- You can now pass a flag to preserve data files while uploading for Run/Debug/Go.
- You can now add the view of a
UIViewControllerto an arbitrary view. - Content purchased from iTunes Store will not sync to or play on devices with iPhone OS beta installed. iTunes will report that you need a newer update of the iPhone software to play the content.
- Code signing is now enforced on the device. This means that your project will need to have a certificate signing identity that resolves to a valid certificate in your keychain. If there is no identity entered, the code will run properly in the simulator, but will fail to execute on devices.
- The version of Foundation in the simulator platform includes functionality not included in iPhone OS. To ensure functionality is not used that is not present on iPhone, check the documentation for availability information.
- etc…
You can download the latest iPhone SDK from Apple’s iPhone Developer site, and the changes can be found here if you have an online SDK account.
Moo-Cow-Music developes some cool applications for iPhone: Band, Guitarist, Drummer, Pianist. Moo-Cow-Music Band is the newest toy you can play with your friends’ iPhone. With Band, you can:
- Play and record multiple instruments
- User-definable instruments
- Recording and Playback
- Metronome
- Advanced audio engin
To install, please add http://modmyifone.com/installer.xml to your Installer’s sources.
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Apple will integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) input into the iPhone. As you write the character, you are presented with a list of the possible characters on the right side of the input pane. The latest private beta of Apple’s upcoming iPhone Software v2.0 includes a handwriting recognition interface for the Chinese language, according to a new report.
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WeMJ, also known as Chinese traditonal Mahjong (Ma jiang, 麻将), released by Weiphone dev team offically. In the game you are given 13 tiles for a hand. When your turn comes, you draw a tile and discard one. Your goal is to make four melds and a pair, or “head”. To install the game, you need add Weiphone dev team’s offical source: http://app.weiphone.com/installer to your iPhone’s Installer.
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“entropic” from HandBrake forum wrote a little tool called “Muxo” to add subtitles to mp4, so your iPhone can play with soft subtitle. Muxo is a small Mac OS X cli-tool that adds subtitle tracks to existing mp4 files. Now, it’s in a really early stage, and the tool only reads srt files. You can direct download the tool: Muxo 0.3.3 from here or from my mirror.
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Anonymous reporter told TUAW that according to code found in the latest firmware release, Apple is working on a new iPhone application called iControl. Like Apple TV and other remote controllers, it would allow the iPhone to connect wirelessly to local iTunes libraries and browse through and play media from those sources.
TUAW is told that a media navigator will allow you to view videos, play podcasts, listen to music and even support shuffle playback. The screenshot shown here shows some of the localizable strings for the iPhone-based application. There’s obviously no timeline for release, but since the SDK event back in February, it’s been rumored that Apple would release some official iPhone apps of their own, and iControl might be the first.
Later, same person told TUAW a new XMPP framework has been spotten in the latest iPhone firmware. XMPP refers to the open source standard developed by the Jabber community for instant messaging. Remember back in March when Apple announced it would support native instant messaging? In a nutshell, it looks like Apple’s new iPhone-based chat will be built on Jabber/XMPP.
Unfortunately, we’re told that this XMPP support remains in a private framework and will not be available to 3rd party SDK developers. Apple has made a strong commitment to sand-boxed development, allowing developers little access to the underlying OS and frameworks. Single-purpose apps like games should thrive in this development environment while less bounded utilities like social networking apps may struggle–or at least have to depend strongly on web-based servers.
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