Could you be tracked by your iPhone 3G
June 24, 2008
During WWDC 2008 there was a great presentation given about a new social application, Loopt, that utilize GPS technology to show you friends/contacts around you.
Using location-based technologies, Loopt lets you know where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. Loopt even lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re nearby so that you never miss an opportunity to meet.
Loopt give you control as to when people can track you… but what if someone was using a similar application to track your every move? Would you be able to notice it? Not if it is integrated well enough in some friendly looking application.
I don’t know what Apple is looking at when they accept application for the future app store but they better make sure no one is hiding some sort of tracking code that can tell your very move. Read more
iPhoneBrowser: browse your iPhone’s file system
May 31, 2008
Getting access to your iPhone’s file system can be pretty difficult. But if you’re a Windows iPhone user, you can take advantage of the free BSD-licensed IPhone file system browser iPhoneBrowser. You can browse your IPhone’s files, drag and drop stuff onto it, and copy your MP3s and movies back to your hard drive. iPhoneBrowser also offers a backup system for keeping your iPhone files safe.
iPhone’s Raging Thunder: the Developer Interview
May 29, 2008
TUAW was lucky enough to spend a little time recently chatting with Anders Nilsson of Polarbit.com. Polarbit is an independent game developer based in Europe. They recently ported their mobile Raging Thunder racing game to the iPhone and released it as a free beta to the jailbreak community. Read more
