iPhone Hacks: Pushing the iPhone and iPod Touch Beyond Their Limits - Softcover

Jurick, David; Stolarz, Adam; Stolarz, Damien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596516649 ISBN 13: 9780596516642

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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Synopsis:

The product approach for iPhone and iPod Touch is right out of the Apple playbook: control the software, control the hardware, and use the style and minimalist design that made iPod and iMac so appealing. But it's an open hardware world today, and we want more from these devices. "iPhone Hacks" gives you exactly that: new ways to get more out of an iPhone or iPod Touch in spite of Apple's close-to-the-vest constraints. With "iPhone Hacks", you can make your iPhone or iPod Touch do everything and anything you'd expect of a mobile converged device. Learn all the tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find (and create!) great web-based applications for it, and unshackle it to run everything from network utilities to video game emulators - all without impairing the toaster - like simplicity of this Apple appliance.This book offers you hacks to: watch DVDs, sync with multiple computers, convert Videos to mobile-ready formats, view RSS feeds, and more; develop native apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, use apps created by others, and get web-based apps to fit iPhone's screen; check email, use IRC, and attend conference calls and videoconferences; play Sudoku, Nintendo, Zork, Doom, and other games; control your desktop or laptop from your iPhone or iPod Touch; tether your computer's web browser to the wireless network; convert Mac OS X widgets to iPhone and iPod Touch applications, and upgrade from the default calculator to something useful; troubleshoot and restore your device, install third-party apps, and backup its files; connect to a Bluetooth headset, or listen to your music from car speakers; customize the ringtones, system sounds, icons, and more.

"iPhone Hacks" also explains how to set up your iPhone or iPod Touch the way you want it, optimize the speed of the Edge network, sync more than just music, and maximize your battery life. Many of the hacks are applicable to both Mac and PC users. This cunning little handbook is exactly what you need to coax the genie out of the bottle.

About this edition

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0596516649
• ISBN 13: 9780596516642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480