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If you’ve ever wished to charge your precious iPhone 4 wirelessly without the need of plugging that ugly white cable into Ive’s metal washed in unicorn tears, heck - you need a PowerMat.
This $59.99 charging pad / case for iPhone indeed charges the device without any cables. It’s magical, I heard ‘em say. Or maybe it’s just the progress of science. Who knows.
You can go get a PowerMat here, and check out the pics below. [PowerMat via Gizmodo] Read more
Just like we previously reported, Apple has updated its official Apple Store iPhone app to include support for reservations, check-ins and locations services.
The free 1.1 update, available in the App Store here, also introduces support for engraving and free wrapping, the possibility to add reservations to iCal. iOS 4 is required to access the new check-in based features.
Screenshots and changelog below. Read more
Action Menu Voice is a free extension to Ryan Petrich’s amazing Action Menu tweak that brings proper text-to-speech features to jailbroken devices. With a “lips” button in Action Menu’s default interface, you can let your iPhone or iPad “speak” selected text pretty much like on OS X.
The latest 0.6-3 update (available as usual for free in Cydia), brings support for reading SMS and MMS. So if you, say, got that awkward text from your drunk friend last night and you’d like to make fun of him with a creepy robotic voice - well, now you can.
I don’t know why you’d want to, though.
PBS has launched a redesigned website with a new online player, a new iPad app, and they are targeting toward their grown-up viewers. It’s all part of a bigger plan to bring more local content to wider national audience.
Welcome to the new PBS.org. We’ve redesigned the site to provide users with a richer experience by highlighting content from local PBS stations, as well as the best of your favorite national programs. PBS.org now gives you easy access to videos, blog posts, articles and more from your community, and makes it easier to find TV schedule information and content specific to your stations. Visitors from more than 80 different communities across the country will be able to see links to locally produced content while browsing the site, with more areas coming soon.
Remember when iPhone users couldn’t copy and paste on their devices? Back in the iPhone OS 1.x and 2.x days, that was one of the most serious issues Apple had to face when haters attacked. Back in those same days, Cydia developers released independent implementations of copy & paste to enable users to have a better workflow.
Apple then introduced copy & paste through a popup menu in iPhone OS 3, and Ryan Petrich released its popular Action Menu hack in Cydia to make it better, with more features and more powerful. Now, with iOS 4 it’s time to make copy & paste faster. Read more
Nimbuzz is a popular mobile communication service that enables users to chat with their contacts (and make calls) on multiple social networks and external services such as MSN, AIM and Skype. According to the latest report by TechCrunch, the company has been asked to drop Skype support and will be announcing the news to its registered users later today. Read more
VLC, the popular media player already ported by developer Applidium to the iPad, is now available as a universal app for iPhone. The latest 1.1.0 update, approved last night, adds support for iPhone 4, 3GS and latest gen iPod Touches, introduces in-app file management without the need of having to go through iTunes to delete files and increases the compatibility of the app with different filetypes.
No word yet if the app supports beta versions of iOS 4.2, guess we’ll have to find out on our own.
VLC for iPhone and iPad is free and available here. Check out the screenshots and full changelog below. Read more
FullScreen for Safari is a great tweak available in Cydia at $1.49 which I previously reviewed here, that brings a lot more features to Apple’s default browser. Fullscreen navigation mode, gestures, customizable activation methods for almost anything you can do with Safari but Apple doesn’t let you act on.
FullScreen for Safari is undoubtedly the best way to make the best mobile browser out there even better. Read more
Pastebot, the excellent clipboard / data management utility from Tapbots, has just been updated to version 1.4 which, among other things, adds support for the much requested clipboard in the background. How that works, however, is a little different from what the developers originally had in mind. Read more
