Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Mobile Colloquy review – version 1.0

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Mobile Colloquy, the mobile counterpart of the popular Mac OS X IRC client, has hit Apples AppStore.

Even though this is the first release in its current form (there once was a version for jailbroken iPhones) and is only at version 1.0 right now, it already has quite a huge featurelist and a very polished UI. It’s built using the same framework, called Chat Core, as the desktop version.

The mobile version is opensource too, but unlike the desktop version – which is free – it costs $1.99 (€1.59). The sourcecode is freely available from SVN though, so you may build your own version – provided you do have Apples iPhone SDK.

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Client Review: Rooms for the iPhone

Friday, November 14th, 2008

When the iPhone first hit the stores, it was a long time where there was no native IRC client available for it and there was no other option than jailbreaking the phone to get one.

Luckily for all IRC users among the iPhone owners, Björn Teichmann created Rooms to fill that gap.

Now being available in version 0.6.8 (and 0.7.0 in a few days) from the AppStore, it already has matured quite a bit, is pretty usable and incorporates most features one could think of to make it a full-blown client that caters to almost everyones needs.

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Hacker Close to Cracking iPhone

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Hackers united in #iphone are close to cracking the iPhone, several media reported this week.

Once cracked, the phone can be used with different providers, and third party software can be used on the phone. Additionally, the phone can then be used in parts of the world where it is not released yet, such as Europe and Asia.

Jon Lech Johansen, well known as DVD Jon, was one of the first to release a hack for the iPhone. The hack would activate the phone and the Wi-Fi capabilities. The device can not yet operate as a telephone with this hack however, but Jon has an answer to that on his blog, “Stay tuned!”

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