Book description
With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you'd expect of a mobile smartphone -- and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create innovative applications for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and unshackle these devices to run everything from network utilities to video game emulators.
This book will teach you how to:
- Import your entire movie collection, sync with multiple computers, and save YouTube videos
- Remotely access your home network, audio, and video, and even control your desktop
- Develop native applications for the iPhone and iPod touch on Linux, Windows, or Mac
- Check email, receive MMS messages, use IRC, and record full-motion video
- Run any application in the iPhone's background, and mirror its display on a TV
- Make your iPhone emulate old-school video game platforms, and play classic console and arcade games
- Integrate your iPhone with your car stereo
- Build your own electronic bridges to connect keyboards, serial devices, and more to your iPhone without "jailbreaking"
iPhone Hacks explains how to set up your iPhone the way you want it, and helps you give it capabilities that will rival your desktop computer. This cunning little handbook is exactly what you need to make the most of your iPhone.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- CREDITS
- PREFACE
- 1. IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH HACKING BASICS
- 2. TROUBLESHOOT YOUR IPHONE OR IPOD TOUCH
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3. MESSAGING AND COMMUNICATION
- 13. Get the Most from iPhone Email
- 14. Unleash the Full Power of Texting
- 15. Text Your iPhone with Your Desktop Instant Messenger
- 16. Enable MMS Picture Messaging on Your iPhone
- 17. Increase the Duration of Your iPhone’s SMS Alert
- 18. Use Instant Messaging on Your iPhone
- 19. Connect to IRC on Your iPhone
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4. MEDIA AND DATA
- 20. Carry a Portable File Server
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21. Convert Videos, DVDs, and Blu-Ray Discs to iPhone- and iPod touch–Ready Formats
- Video Compression 101
- HandBrake
- Command-Line HandBrake
- QuickTime Pro
- iMovie (OS X)
- Photo-JPEG
- Hardware Assist
- Videora (Windows)
- Web-based Conversions
- DVD and Blu-Ray on Your iPhone
- DVD and Blu-Ray Ripping
- Why Is It So Hard?
- Ripping on a Mac
- PC Ripping
- Encoding and Conversion
- Mac Encoding
- All-in-one Programs that Rip and Convert
- 22. Present PowerPoint on a Projector or TV Using Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 23. Sync Music and Videos from Multiple Computers to Your iPhone
- 24. Stream Music and Videos from Your Computer to Your iPhone
- 25. Read News, RSS, and Websites Quickly
- 26. Read e-Books on Your iPhone
- 27. Take Panoramas and Nightshots with Your Built-in Camera
- 28. Record and Upload Videos with Your iPhone
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5. GAME EMULATION
- 29. Understand the Homebrew and Emulation Scene
- 30. Play Nintendo Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 31. Play Sega Genesis Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 32. Play Nintendo Game Boy Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 33. Play Super Nintendo Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 34. Play Nintendo Game Boy Advance Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 35. Play PS1 Games on Your iPhone or iPod touch
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6. TELEPHONY HACKS
- 36. Use GSM Codes to Configure Phone Features
- 37. Add Speed Dial with Custom Icons
- 38. Access Your Asterisk Voicemails on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 39. Access Your Vonage Voicemails on Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 40. Use Voice over IP on Your iPhone or Second-Generation iPod touch
- 41. Get Visual Voicemail on T-Mobile or Other Carriers
- 42. Automatically Translate Your Voicemails to Text
- 43. Update Twitter or Your Blog with a Phone Call
- 44. Create a Podcast While Driving
- 7. UNLOCKING AND ACTIVATION
- 8. CUSTOMIZATION
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9. NETWORK HACKS
- 55. Use Your iPhone or iPod touch as a Trackpad
- 56. Control Your Desktop or Laptop with Your iPhone or iPod touch
- 57. Control Your iPhone or iPod touch with Your Desktop or Laptop
- 58. Connect to Your iPhone with a Secure Shell (SSH) Terminal Program
- 59. Administer Remote Servers with a Terminal Program
- 60. Mount the iPhone Filesystem on Your Mac with AppleTalk or SSH
- 61. Easily Manage All the Network Services on Your iPhone
- 62. Track and Recover Your iPhone
- 63. Track, Recover, and Control Your iPhone
- 64. Make Your iPhone or iPod touch a Web Server
- 65. Connect to Your iPhone or iPod touch from Outside Your Home/Office Network
- 66. Print from Your iPhone to Any Fax Machine
- 67. Tether Your iPhone’s EDGE/3G Network to Your Laptop
- 68. Run Applications in the Background
- 69. Keep Your Wi-Fi Running All the Time on Your iPhone
- 70. Trick Your Wi-Fi Apps into Working Over 3G
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10. APPLICATION HACKS
- 71. Create Music with the iPhone and iPod touch
- 72. Triangulate Distances with Your Built-in Camera and GPS
- 73. Add More Ways to Sync
- 74. Alter Your Voice and Outgoing Caller ID on the iPhone
- 75. Use Your iPhone as a Media Remote Control
- 76. Make Your iPhone or iPod touch Talk
- 77. Copy and Paste Between Applications
- 78. Download YouTube Videos Instead of Streaming
- 79. Acquire New Media with dTunes
- 80. Back Up Your Jailbroken Apps
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11. DEVELOPMENT HACKS
- 81. Turn Command-Line Scripts into iPhone Apps
- 82. Edit Mac OS X Property Lists (plists)
- 83. Create Periodic Tasks that Run in the Background
- 84. Manipulate iPhone Application Databases
- 85. Sync Your Call Log with iCal on Mac OS X
- 86. Choose Between the Apple SDK and Open Tools for iPhone Development
- 87. Develop iPhone Applications with Apple’s SDK
- 88. Self-Sign Your SDK Projects
- 89. Manually Install Applications
- 90. Use a Virtual Machine for Building iPhone Apps
- 91. Develop iPhone Applications on Your iPhone
- 92. Restart Your SpringBoard to Reveal Newly Installed Applications
- 93. Create a UI Without Interface Builder
- 94. Use API Explorer to Peek into Built-in Frameworks
- 95. Access Private APIs
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12. HARDWARE HACKS
- 96. Adapt Existing Headphones to Work with the Original iPhone
- 97. Make the Original iPhone Dock Work for the iPhone 3G
- 98. Make Noise-Cancelling iPhone Headset
- 99. Use the iPhone Camera for Close-Ups
- 100. Watch Your iPhone or iPod touch on a TV
- 101. Mirror or Output the iPhone Screen with TV-Out
- 102. Connect the iPhone to a Car
- 103. Use Your iPhone with Gloves On
- 104. Peek Inside Your Device
- 105. Disassemble and Reassemble Your Original iPhone
- 106. Disassemble and Reassemble Your iPhone 3G
- 107. Disassemble and Reassemble Your Original iPod touch
- 108. Disassemble and Reassemble Your Second-Generation iPod touch
- 109. Learn the Pinouts of the iPhone and iPod touch
- 110. Make an External Camera Illuminator for Your iPhone
- 111. Control the Physical World from Your iPhone
- 112. Charge Your iPhone from (Almost) Any Source
- 113. Connect Your iPhone to a Serial Port Using a Dock Connector
- 114. Remote Control Your iPhone or iPod touch with the Dock Connector
- 115. Read Signals from an Infrared Remote Control—Without Jailbreaking!
- 116. Connect a Serial Device to Your iPhone—Without Jailbreaking!
- 117. Connect a Keyboard to Your iPhone—Without Jailbreaking!
- 118. Use Your iPhone to Go Back in Time
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: iPhone Hacks
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2009
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596516642
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