All About the Features of iPhone 3.0 OS

The news of the release of iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation of operating system for iPhone and iPod Touch has spread like a forest fire across the world. People, including every iPhone developer have been waiting with huge expectation from this new generation OS, which promises new and improved features as well as many other innovative and amazing applications. In this article you will find the list of features that you will be able to enjoy with the iPhone 3.0 OS.

iPhone OS 3.0 Features: New and Improved

The new iPhone OS 3.0, with its more than 100 new features seems to become successful as soon as it hits the market. Here is a list of the basic features that you will find on this new generation OS.
Text Copy & Paste: A bubble dialog box will appear as soon as you double-tap over any text with the option Cut-Copy and Paste. And if you double-tap again, a bubble appears with the Paste option indicating whether there is anything pre-stored in your clipboard or not. This feature will work across all the applications. To undo any action all you got to do is shake the device.

Photo Copy & Paste: On this new OS, copy pasting photos become easy and simple. You can select multiple photos at a time for emailing by simply tapping the action button.

The Mail, Calendar and iPod applications have specific search interfaces. Even though the search option in Mail does not yet support the message content, it fully supports searching in IMAP servers.

The new Spotlight feature will let you to search any information that is present in your iPhone. It will further allow you to search the data of any application that is designed to support the Spotlight feature.

Apple has further added the landscape keyboard mode to some of the applications like SMS, Mail and Notes.

With the 3G Tethering feature you will be able to connect your iPhone to your laptop and use it as a modem in order to access the Internet.

The new and awesome MMS (multimedia messaging) feature will allow you to send images, videos, sound and many more.

With the improved version of the stocks application you will be able to read all stock market related news.

The iPhone 3.0 OS will support syncing notes with iTunes.

Just like a headphone or a speaker, you will be able to connect your iPhone 3.0 with a stereo Bluetooth A2DP device.

The new version of Safari, which will be featured in iPhone 3.0 will have the ability to remember your login credentials.

The new Mobile Safari will warn you about the malicious sites that might try to scam you.

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Learn How to Screen Capture from Your iPhone and Enjoy the Advantages of Dual Display

Capturing the screen of your iPhone or iPod Touch on your computer is a rather simple and easy task. But, mind it you can implement this method only on a jail broken device. Well, it would be quite interesting to be able to view your iPhone screen on your computer, but to be honest it might not be as useful as it seems. Although, most iPhone users consider jail breaking unethical, yet some people think it is absolutely cool and worthwhile.

However, to screen record directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch, you need to follow certain method and require few specific programs and applications. In this article you will find a step-by-step instruction on how to proceed with the process of screen recording from your iPhone.

The step-by-step instruction:

To start with, first you need to download the application known as “Screensplitr” from Cydia onto your iPhone.

On your PC or Mac machine open Safari and go to the bookmark tab.

Click on the “Show all Bookmarks” option.

Under the History you will find the option “bonjour”.

Go back to your iPhone or iPod Touch and open the Screensplitr application.

Tap on the icon to activate it. Once activated, on the icon, you will find a text indicating that the Screensplitr is ON.

Locate your iPhone on the Bonjour list displayed on your computer.

Accept the screen connection from your iPhone. (the option will pop up on your iPhone screen automatically)

Get a screen capture program installed on your computer and capture the whole or part of your iPhone screen.


So, now that you know how to capture your iPhone or iPod Touch screen on your computer, you can enjoy all the advantages of this dual display.

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Flash on iPhone: The Controversy and Disappointment Continues!

There has been a huge controversy and disappointment regarding the 3G iPhone being incapable of supporting Flash. People using iPhones across the world have been tremendously disappointed with this evident disadvantage of the smart phone. But, when Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, was giving demonstration of the device, it was clearly noticed that the iPhone was, in fact using Flash. On the contrary, in March last year, during a conference call with reporters he made a remark on the regular Flash being too slow for the iPhone and Adobe’s mobile version of Flash Lite to be not enough advanced for the device.

However, Apple has been quite clear from the beginning that the iPhone would not be supporting Adobe’s Flash Player. Since the release of iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen had been quite positive about brining Flash to the iPhone platform. But, in his very recent discussion Narayen admitted that the company is facing some technical challenges in developing it, as the SDK does not provide enough access to the “innards” of iPhone OS, which is essentially required in order to provide such support.

Flash, as any web user would know, is one of the most common programs found on computers. On the web, Flash is primarily used to play videos on YouTube, Hulu etc or to create and play the animated ads on web pages. But, the limitation of the iPhone has forced every iPhone developer to create dedicated applications for the device, which would successfully deliver video to it without the support of Flash. However, this restricts the users to choose video formats according to their wish.

According to iPhone developer as well as users, since most of the Websites use Flash to support videos, the iPhone has indeed failed to deliver the complete experience of the Internet. Moreover, it has been almost a year since Adobe and Apple declared their partnership in brining Flash to the iPhone platform. iPhone users across the world are still waiting with much anticipation for the program to be released for the smart phone.

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iBelieve iPhone Application: Brings Out the Positive Spirit in You

iBelieve is an application that would awaken the spiritual side of every iPhone user. It has been developed after much research on human psychology. The iBelieve application primarily concerns the idea of “seeing and believing”. This extremely religious application will make you believe that you and the people living around you are happy in every respect and lead a healthy life; physically, mentally, spiritually as well as financially.

iBelieve is perhaps one of the most unique and innovative Lifestyle applications that have been developed for the iPhone platform so far. It is a simple, yet extremely valuable application that every user would surely want to have on their iPhone, especially the ones who are inclined towards spiritualism. iBelieve is featured under the Lifestyle category and is available for $0.99 in the iTunes App Store.

What is iBelieve about?

The iBelieve application has been developed with simple yet unique features. The app offers four basic categories; I am, You are, I am/ You are and We are. Each of the categories has several images with 10 distinct messages inscribed on them; I am safe, I am physically happy, I am mentally happy, I am emotionally happy, I am spiritually happy, I am financially happy, my heart is open, my mind is clear, I live with ease and I ………… These images are repeated for several times in each of the categories. The application further offers 152 images of Beads that can be used for various spiritual purposes.

The basic idea of the application is to make the viewer believe what they see on their iPhone screens. It has been proved that humans tend to believe things that they view. The iBelieve application has been designed keeping in mind this unique aspect of human psychology. According to the developers, when a user read these messages for several times, he or she will automatically start believing it.

iBelieve Features

On iBelieve you can view the images as a slideshow or can manage it manually. From the Setting menu, you can make few changes in the application according to your wish or requirement. You can specify the playing time of each slide, choose the style of transition, keep the Repeat option on or off and even select the Shuffle option to display random images.

One of the best features of iBelieve is that you can use any of the images as your iPhone wallpaper. This way you will be able to view the message even when you are not using the application. You can also share these images with your friends though emails, where you have the option of adding your own messages as well. Ymedia Labs, the iPhone developer of the iBelieve application has designed it with extremely easy user interface. You can navigate and use the application by simply touching your iPhone screen.

iBelieve, with its spiritual functionality will not only bring out the positive spirit in you, but will also help you to stay calm and relaxed whenever you are restless or disturbed

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New Improved Web-based Gmail: Now on Your iPhone!

For all iPhone users, the release of the new and upgraded Web-based version of Gmail on the iPhone platform is probably one of the greatest news of this year, so far. Google has released this new version of Gmail that promises a much faster and sophisticated version of the web-based email service including access to messenger and more elaborate user interface. The messenger in this version not only works faster, but you can also access it even when offline.

Google, while demonstrating their new Web based Gmail version for the mobile platform highlighted the fast functioning ability of it. With this application, performing actions such as opening e-mail, searching and navigating will become much quicker and easier. One of the best features about this Gmail application is that you can open a recently read mail even if suddenly get disconnected. Moreover, you can compose a mail over a non-existing or very poor network connection.

The most significant feature of the iPhone Gmail app is that the application doesn’t need to be downloaded through the App Store of Apple Inc. It automatically runs as the user points the browser to gmail.com. With this application, Google has once again proved how powerful the Web browsers of mobile phones have become. The browsers not only help surfing the web, but also successfully run web-based applications.


Here are some of the additional features of the Google iPhone app that you can enjoy:

New elaborated interface

Multiple messages can be selected, deleted, archived, marked as read or unread or spam at the same time.

Floating toolbar

The Search button on top of the screen allows easier recovery of older messages.


Although, some people have pointed out few drawbacks in the application, most of the users as well as iPhone developer have found Goggle’s new Gmail app extremely useful and convenient.

Free iPhone Apps: Is it a Thing of the Past?

In recent study it has been revealed that almost 30% of iPhone users around the world delete the non-pay or free apps after the first install. This revelation has indeed left every iPhone developer, who creates free software for the iPhone platform into a dilemma. There are more than thousands of iPhone applications that can be downloaded from the Apple Inc’s App Store on to an iPhone for absolutely free. This was in fact a very tempting offer for all iPhone users. But, now it has become a trend among smart phone users to get new apps and then vacate them after the first installation.

Different media, app developers, corporate personnel and iPhone users from all over the world have made diverse comments on this matter. A spokesperson from the Pinch Media said that “Paid applications generally retain their users longer than free applications, although the drop-off is still pretty steep”.



The long term controversy regarding the popularity of the Apple iPhone and the RIM BlackBerry however went in favor of the device that provided more number of free applications. The recent revelation from the study is quite astonishing for everybody and experts think that it is probably a prelude of what the condition of free apps would be in future.

Pinch Media further said that “Users stop using the average applications pretty quickly. Long-term audiences are generally one percent of total downloads”. Despite of this weird trend, developers are still continuing to design free apps for the Apple’s iPhone, RIM BlackBerry Storm as well as for Google Android.

But the question that spoke into every reader’s mind is that, what is the point in doing so if anyway users delete the apps after a while? However, developers can really take advantage of the situation and determine a price for their apps. It has also been proved that dropping the price of an app increases its demand by almost 130%. While on the other hand raising it decreases the demand by 25%.

Even when researchers are doing their best to get to the root of this unnatural trend, 60% of iPhone users are continuing to enjoy the luxury of downloading free apps from the App Store and installing it onto their iPhones.

The Success of Apple App Store Drives the Application Marketing Trend

The success of the App Store of App Inc. and the huge application marketplace has indeed opened up a new horizon for advertisers. It has become one of the biggest platforms for advertising. Experts and market analysts are predicting that, within five years the number of application store users will exceed 5 million. No matter, whether it’s television, airport lounge, subways, shopping malls or other public areas; advertisement will follow wherever there is innovation. And without a doubt it has spread over the iPhone platform like wild-fire.

The first reason behind this is the huge success of the Apple iPhone. This success has indeed changed the way people thought of mobile phones and the way they used them. This victory has further helped to increase the number of mobile application downloads as well as smart phone browsing.

A recent In-Stat report said, “The App Store Is Born: Smartphones Enable New Marketing and Advertising Opportunities Worldwide”. Further it discussed the different opportunities that mobile advertising on smartphone browsers can bring. However, the report says that is the beginning of a new age advertising way known as “application marketing”. In-Stat also assumes that within a period of five years the number of mobile application users will reach 100 million.

It is a very well-known fact that the Apple App Store has been leading this trend of application downloads from the beginning. It is because of the unparallel effort and dedication of all application development companies and every individual iPhone developer that the App Store today has more than 25,000 unique applications to offer to its worldwide users and thus has received more than 800 million downloads within a time span of 8 months