Awhile back, we showed you a jailbreak theme called “OS7? that replicated Windows Phone 7?s interface on the iPhone. Some of you installed the theme and played around with it. The theme’s attention to detail and resemblance to Windows Phone 7 was striking.

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In the US, there’s finally a choice of iPhone carriers (something we’ve always enjoyed in Australia), so there’s going to be a rush of new iPhone buyers who didn’t want the slow AT&T network but are tempted by Verizon. Even in Australia, some people may have held off buying an iPhone because of supply difficulties. So let’s imagine you’ve ditched your stop-gap of an Android phone for what you really wanted all along.

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By far my favorite, and easily the most differentiating feature of the new Verizon iPhone 4, is the personal hotspot feature. It’s smart, and like most everything else on the iPhone, simple to use. I primarily used it via Wi-Fi, but I could just have easily tethered it to my laptop via USB or connected over Bluetooth.

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Problem: I wanted to take full advantage of the mapping and other car-friendly features on my Android phone without having to look down or have the phone slide under off my leg and under my foot, especially when traveling in rental cars.

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Apple last week rolled out a major update for its mobile operating system iOS 4, and among the new features is a nifty free tool: Find My iPhone.

As its name suggests, Find My iPhone is a tracking feature to locate a missing iPhone 4, iPad or fourth-generation iPod Touch.

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With the introduction of Lion came a slew of new features, of which, Mission Control seemed to stand out the most. Essentially, it makes you iMac look and feel like an iOS device complete with icons, pages and folders. I thought the added 3D effect when calling up Mission Control was awesome, so I set out to try and find a way to bring it to the iPhone without the need for jail breaking. Try this on for size.

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4.2 and its automated release schedule make your life easy but is not your friend if you’re in a hurry to get your hands on it as soon as possible. That’s because while iTunes periodically checks with Apple’s servers to see if the latest operating system update for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch is ready for download, it doesn’t do so every day.

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Want to lay down some tracks but all you’ve got is your iOS device and a Mac? With an OpenSound Control (OSC) app on your iPhone and server on your Mac you can record a virtual keyboard over Wi-Fi.

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My trademark phrase: Jailbreakers have all the fun! Getting Android on your iPhone is nothing new to the market, but getting it done in an easy fashion is a whole different ball game.

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The latest iPhone and iPod touch are nearly identical devices, ignoring the pesky reality that the latter isn’t a phone. We can fix that. Here’s how to turn your iPod touch into a viable (and cheaper) iPhone alternative out of the box.

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When you think of Apple’s most intriguing applications, it’s unlikely Address Book springs to mind. It offers anything but the sexiness of an iLife or iWork application. However, thanks to its close ties to Apple’s Mail and iCal as well as your iOS devices, it’s actually one of the applications you use the most. Make the time you spend with it more productive with these tips and tricks.

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Did you lose your iPhone? Or are you looking for a way to move all the files from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4? Well now you can easily recover data from your lost iPhone or transfer files if you have taken an iTunes backup earlier. After syncing an iPhone, iTunes splits the iPhone’s backup data (including messages, contacts, images from the iPhone camera, and lots of other stuff) into several files. Access these files into readable formats is an easy task.

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Yahoo! Messenger, the immensely popular social networking app, has reached version 2.0 on the iOS platform, adding free video call support over WiFi, the ability to place and receive voice calls, and multitasking, for devices running firmware 4.0 and greater.

“Connect with your IM friends using video and voice with the newest Yahoo! Messenger app for your iPhone,” reads the update from Yahoo!.

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With its iOS 4.1 update, Apple rolled out a fun new feature just for iPhone 4 users – an HDR (high dynamic range) setting for the iPhone 4’s rear-facing camera. Dynamic range is the spectrum of light to dark that an eye, or a camera sensor, can read. Apple’s HDR setting takes three images at different exposures (underexposed, overexposed, in the middle) and combines them for an image with increased dynamic range. The resulting iPhone photos are closer to what the human eye really sees, with more details in the shadows and highlights than a standard image would have.

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If you have a 3G iPhone and you installed the latest iOS4 you may experience sluggish performance, which can be quite annoying. Unfortunately the hardware of these phones can’t handle well the features iOS4 provides, but there are a couple of tricks you can do to regain the quick response time you’re used to.

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Apple took the functionality to buy a ringtone out of iTunes 10 for some reason, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have custom ringtones. You can make your own free iPhone ringtones directly within iTunes 10, this is the best way to go since you don’t have to get any additional software or pay for a service to create the files. Don’t download or pay for one of the iPhone ringtone maker apps, just launch iTunes and follow this guide, it’s easy to do and totally free.

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A quick, very cheap, easy-to-undo and safe way of making the iPhone 4 work with the TomTom car kit / mount from the 3G/3GS. All it takes is a tiny strip of foam rubber about 2mm thick and the iPhone 4 fits into the mount perfectly.

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Whether you’ve taken to the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard like a duck to water, or are more of a one-finger-at-a-time typist, there are plenty of shortcuts, tips and tricks that can improve your iTyping experience.

Here, we’ve rounded up ten useful ways to be faster and more productive with your iPhone’s keyboard. We hope these tricks are handy for anyone new to the platform, or those who have not had the time to really experiment.

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In this tutorial, we will see how to downgrade the iPhone from 4.0.2 to 4.0.1 but the steps are the same if you want to downgrade to iOS 4 or even 3.1.3.

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It seems as if Apple dodged a bullet. Ever since the Steve Jobs press conference a couple of weeks ago, in which Apple offered free carrying-case bumpers (or full refunds) to anyone whose iPhone 4 exhibited the “signal drops when you hold the phone a certain way” problem, the jeering and mockery online seems to have gone into hibernation.

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