Hack the iPhone





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Links

I'm happy to add a link here that should be included. I however, do not list personal blog sites or undeveloped/underdeveloped sites. If I did, it would overpopulate this list, defeating its purpose, and no one would read this page. I only list sites that have the widest appeal and offer something important to the community. These days everyone and his brother has an iPhone site, and far too many are not unique, and instead just rehash the same information.


Add Fone   The iPhone applications search engine. It would be great if there was a central repository for all the applications developed for the iPhone. This site has just as good a chance as any to take off. It currently lists 605 applications.


Apple Developer Connection   Apple is informing developers how to create content for the iPhone with a set of very informative guidelines.


Apple Insider   A major rumor site for all of Apple's products.


Apple.com Support   This is the official support forum for the iPhone.


Appleopolis   A website where people can create their own accounts, add, delete and manage all their web applications for the iPhone from one central location. They offer applications and games for both the iPhone and the desktop.







Bee Jive provides chat service for AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo Chat.


Cellular Nationwide Network offers many internal spare parts for the iPhone for sale. They are located in Hong Kong, so shipping could take a little longer.


Conceited Software offers a repository for many popular add on 3rd party programs and utilities like: Python, Perl, Ruby, Apache, Tinproxy, BitchX, DNS Tools, iRCm, MobileTwitteriffic, ncftp, iLauncher, Term-vt100, Mines, MobileChat, iShare, et cetera.


Daily Motion provides their own version of YouTube for the iPhone.


eBuddy mobile provides chat service for AOL Instant Messenger, MSN and Yahoo Chat.


gOffice for iPhone   Lets you create Word documents on your iPhone. Email results to your iPhone or others. Use a library of common letters to reduce typing. Send docs by mail worldwide. Verify your results with print preview. You can also use this at a desktop computer.


Hackint0sh   This site's efforts are based on getting at the inner workings of the iPhone to aid in modding, breaking AT&T activation, unlocking the phone to work with other carrier's SIM cards and running third party applications, among other things. This link goes directly to the iPhone forum, there are others here for Apple TV and x86 projects.


The iBrickr PXL Repository hosts many 3rd party applications and utilities like: Apollo IM, Aquarium, BinKit, BitchX, Dock, Erica's Utilities, Frotz, iBlackjack, Pong, Mobile Finder, Mobile RSS, et cetera.


iFixit not only offers free guides for disassembly of the iPhone, they also sell many internal spare parts as well.


iPhone Alley   Keep up on the latest iPhone news. Read reviews on accessories and get tips for using your iPhone. You can also download graphics to personalize your iPhone here and have a place to discuss all things iPhone in their forum section.


iPhone Applications List   Looking for some more applications for your iPhone? Try here.


iPhone Apps   A small collection of some of the many programs via the AppTapp Installer.


The iPhone Dev Wiki   This website is dedicated to finding additional uses for the iPhone by (legitimately) enabling its potential capabilities, and is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions. It is for informational purposes only. This is the group responsible for making all the progress to open up the iPhone by way of deactivating and unlocking it. They maintain a couple channels on irc. irc.osx86.hu and head to room #iphone   This is the general discussion chat room. If you find other iPhone rooms, please don't bother the developers with trivial questions or requests.   As far as using IRC on a Mac, I have always preferred the Snak client. You can get Snak here. It has a 30 day free trial. For Windows users, I've always preferred mIRC, which you can get here.


iPhone service FAQ   The answers to 28 questions await you here.


Jajah is a service that lets iPhone users save "up to 90%" on their international calls (3 cents per minute compared to AT&T's 23 cents per minute). Sign up to get a web-based account with no contracts, activation fees or downloads.


Mac Minute   Mac news first. Daily news stories from around the 'net.


Macmost iPhone games    Free games.


Mac Rumors   News and rumors you care about. Don't forget to check out the iPhone forum section.






Meebo   This site combines the power of AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo Chat and lets you talk to all your friends through the Meebo website.


Mac Surfer's Headline News   The most comprehensive gathering of links to daily news stories from around the 'net.


Mod my iFone   Here you can share your interest with other modders dedicated to making the iPhone the next great cell phone. Learn about mods, get the latest downloads and news and chat with fellow iPhone fans.


Nate True's iPhone Site hosts many programs and files needed to modify the iPhone like: WebShell, Apache, BinKit, Python, Ruby, Mach O Toolchain, et cetera.


Previous versions of iTunes are hosted at Toggle.com, and at Old apps.com.


Ringtones are being amassed at this site. They are in the proper .m4a format. If you speak IRC you can head over here irc.osx86.hu and join room #iphone-test-tunes.


Ross Barkman's GPRS Info Page. A giant list of data, sorted by country, detailing APN, user name, password, DNS, and SMTP information.


SciPhone is home to over 700+ wallpaper images in numerous categories including: abstract art, animals, architecture, cars, fantasy, fine art, food, games, military, movies, music, nature, skies, space, technology, textures and travel. Check back often, new material is added daily.


Squared 5   MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video converter, player and editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.


Think Secret   Another good rumor site about all of Apple's products.


Trillian Astra   A Trillian client for the iPhone. An alpha release will be along shortly... In the mean time you can sign up to be an tester here.


The Unofficial Apple Weblog   A nice, up to date news site for information about the iPhone and the latest secrets that people have discovered. There is also coverage of daily Apple news and product announcements.






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