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Install iPhone Flash in 3 Easy Steps

We wrote about getting iPhone flash working earlier this morning. When we first came across Frash (the iPhone version of Flash), we came across a set of instructions with 8 steps to complete the installation process. The steps required you download the software, log in to you iPhone via SSH, enter a username and password along with port numbers as well as a bunch of other things.

Thankfully a more simple install process has already arrived thanks to a Cydia Repo. Rather than going through the whole process of SSH’ing in to your iPhone from a Mac, you can now simply do it in 3 or so steps. We say “or so” as jailbreaking is a requirement as well as tapping on the Cydia icon to load it up with the latter not really being a step as such.

Either way, jailbreak if you haven’t, open Cydia and add the following…

Add this source http://repo.benm.at Frash on iPhone 3
Go to search and type in Frash. Install it. Frash on iPhone

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Token Multitouch Surface for DJing

Check out the video below to see what the future of DJing could all be about.

The display is called the Token and it accepts multitouch inputs on a surface designed for DJ’s to use. The system works with a sheet of glass and a rear mounted projector. When the glass it touched, the input is detected and fed back to the computer to make the necessary changes to the video stream and to the audio stream that plays the music. [Read more…]

Nokia N8 Release Date – August 26 in UK – Rumour

The Nokia N8 was announced all the way back in April with the first hints of the new smartphone being found as early as March as well as even more details reaching back in to February.

All along we have been told to expect the end of August as the release date and in this instance, it seems Nokia [NOK] were exact in what they said as we hear now that the launch date in the UK will be August 26.

The information comes from a mobile phone retailer in the UK who called MobileFun who has the N8 listed on it’s site with an August 26 release date and a price tag of £419.95 inc VAT off contract we assume. [Read more…]

Sharp 3D Smartphone Launching this Year

Sharp looks set to be launching a 3D smartphone that requires no special 3D glasses to be used to see the effect. The screen is believed to work in a similar way to how the Nintendo 3DS screen works in that you need to look at it head on to get the full depth of the 3D screen.

Sharp is believed to be launching the 3D smartphone before the end of this year. As well as having a 3D screen it is also believed a 3D camera will be installed on the device allowing you to capture in 3D.

As for the operating system, it isn’t known if Sharp will use it’s own software or if it will use something like Google Android. [Read more…]

Apple iPad Gets Genius

For those of you with an Apple iPad, you might have noticed that on Friday, Apple [AAPL] added the Genius option to the menu on the App Store.

To access Genius you simply tap on the icon. Once done, you are presented with similar apps based on apps you already have installed. The list goes on for a number of pages depending on how many apps you already have installed. To let Apple know what you do and don’t like you can just tap the not interested button under each app for it to be taken out of the recommendation list. [Read more…]

Microsoft Kinect Teardown

The Microsoft Kinect has been torn down to reveal what’s inside.

The teardown doesn’t go in to the depth that we see with some of the Apple [AAPL] products, but you do get to see how the Kinect is put together and what is used to capture video.

It’s made of two main parts: a projector and an IR VGA camera. The former bounces out a laser (don’t worry, Microsoft insists it’s safe) across the entire field of play, which the camera picks up to separate you from your sofa on what’s called a ˜depth field.’ It’s essentially all the pixels that Kinect gets back as IR noise measured in varying colour dependant on how close they are to the system. That way bodies appear a bright shade of red, green etc, and things further away appear grey.

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Motorola Droid 2 Price Details

The price of the Motorola Droid 2 has been revealed unoficially. We say unoficiallt as the pricing details were captured from a display unit as pictured above.

When launched later this week, the Motorola Droid 2 will cost $199 which will require a 24 month contract to be signed. If you prefer it off contract then the price is $599.

The release date of the Motorola Droid 2 is rumoured to be August 12 which comes from some other leaked documents found last week. [Read more…]

Apple Covent Garden Store Opening Tomorrow at 10am

Apple [AAPL] is opening the Apple Covent Garden Store tomorrow at 10am. The store will become the worlds largest Apple store and will be looked after by 300 staff members.

Other interesting facts about the store include it’s two glass staircases, the largest Genius bar of any Apple store, and it will hold the most stock of any store in the world.

The Covent Garden store covers three floors and has a Start Up room where Apple employees can help you configure your newly purchased gadgets. [Read more…]

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Arriving at AT&T This Month

AT&T [T] could be getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 towards the end of this month. The information comes from details emailed to Engadget that reveal the dealers price on the X10 as well as a few other phones.

The Sony Ericsson X10 is a fairly decent smartphone although it does lack in that it runs Android 1.6 and now 2.1 or above, and the battery lasts just a few hours rather than over a day unless you manually tweak and remove software that automatically runs. [Read more…]

Motorola Droid X Android 2.2 Update Coming September

The Motorola Droid X Android 2.2 update is coming in September. This information comes thanks to a post over on the Motorola forums where one of the staff members responded to a long thread about problems with notifications for corporate email.

His response said that a fix was incoming and would be part of the Android 2.2 update scheduled for the Droid X in September.

Some Droid X users are experiencing an issue using Exchange 2003 email. Though the email is arriving on the Droid X, no notifications are appearing. A fix for this will be included in the upgrade to Android 2.2 scheduled for deployment by early September.

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Apple App Store Try Before you Buy Added

Apple [AAPL] has added a new section to the iPhone app store called “Try Before You Buy”. The title of it makes you think that apps will come free for maybe a couple of hours or couple of days at which point you can choose not to purchase them, or choose to purchase them.

However, it’s nothing like that at all unfortunately. Instead, what you get is just a list of “Lite” apps that give you a taster of what an app is about. These types of Lite apps have been around for a while now and simply provide a single level of a game, or limited functionality allowing you to test and then upgrade to the full version if you wish to keep it.

With that in mine, the “Try Before You Buy” section is merely a way to group all the free “Lite” apps under one list. [Read more…]

Apple Peel 520 iPod touch Phone Case

The Apple Peel 520 case is designed for the iPod touch and has been designed to turn the iPod touch in to an iPhone. The case of course is not an official Apple [AAPL] product and from what we have heard, it isn’t 100% perfect, but it does allow you to put a SIM card inside the case and make calls from the iPod touch.

Price wise, it will set you back about $57 when it launches although the product reviewed over at PCOnline is a prototype as the final models are not ready for launch just yet. [Read more…]