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

Table of Contents

Dedication; CREDITS; About the Authors; Contributors; PREFACE; Computing and Communication; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Acknowledgments; We'd Like to Hear from You; Chapter 1: IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH HACKING BASICS; 1 Learn the Language of iPhone Hacking; 2 Discover Your iPhone's Hackability; 3 Open Your iPhone or iPod touch to Customization by Jailbreaking; 4 Install Third-Party Apps; 5 Manipulate Your iPhone's Filesystem; 6 Back Up Your iPhone's Files; Chapter 2: TROUBLESHOOT YOUR IPHONE OR IPOD TOUCH; 7 Triage Your iPhone; 8 Force Quit an iPhone Application; 9 Reboot Your iPhone; 10 Restore and Recover Your iPhone; 11 Enter DFU Mode; 12 Get Quality Support with iPhone Hacking; Chapter 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; Chapter 4: MEDIA AND DATA; 20 Carry a Portable File Server; 21 Convert Videos, DVDs, and Blu-Ray Discs to iPhone- and iPod touch–Ready Formats; 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 7: UNLOCKING AND ACTIVATION; 7.1 Methods of Unlocking; 7.2 General Unlocking Advice; 45 Buy an Unlocked iPhone from Apple; 46 Unlock Your iPhone with Software; 47 Unlock Your iPhone with a SIM Hack; 48 Configure Your iPhone After Unlocking; Chapter 8: CUSTOMIZATION; 49 Add Custom Ringtones to Your iPhone; 50 Skin Your iPhone and Change System Sounds; 51 Change Your Boot Screen; 52 Enhance Autocorrection with Address Book Entries; 53 Skin Your iPhone Externally; 54 Hide Unwanted Applications; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 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;

David Jurick was tragically born a siamese twin. His twin happened to be a PC computer with a 1394a umbilical cord linking the two. Thus, he's been around computers for a considerable amount of time. He has extensive experience in such topics as networking, hardware, software, and HTML programming. He graduated high school in 2001, and then went on to pursue a degree at U.C. Santa Barbara. While in school he helped found the Kappa Sigma fraternity at U.C.S.B. In 2006 he graduated with a B.S. degree in pharmacology. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Adam Stolarz is a writer, gadget-user, and gamer, who has been using and defending Apple products since his earliest technological memories. Before graduating high school in 2007, he worked in the field of in-car computers, dissecting and assembling carputers, and contributing to books about in-car hacking and internet video. As a tech-inclined Millennial, he has always kept a Mac laptop in his possession as the most stable, productive link in his computing chain, while keeping a PC as a lovable old crashable gaming machine. He is also an avid user of mobile information, maps, the web, communication, etc. He can't wait until his iPhone does every single thing his laptop can. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Damien Stolarz is an inventor with a decade of experience making different kinds of computers talk to each other. After studying Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UCLA, Damien co-founded Blue Falcon Networks (formerly Static Online, Inc.), where he supervised, architected and developed networking software for 7 years. He has written and spoken at conferences about Internet video, content delivery, and Peer-to-Peer networking, and created Robotarmy in 2002 to provide high-technology consulting in these areas.