A 2-megapixel camera may not seem like much, but add Web access, a pocket-size Mac, and third-party apps to the mix, and that humble camera is now a personal assistant and digital video tool in one. The following are just a few of the ways you can expand the use of your camera.

We got an email the other day from a reader that was asking us, how to get some old messages into back into his iPhone. Luckily he had all the backups still on his computer, so the answer was simple: iPhone Backup Extractor.

Email I received from iPhoneunlockuk hackers today
Subject: Information regarding iPhoneUnlockUK

Dear iPhone user,

you are receiving this email because your address was found in iPhoneUnlockUK's customer database.
We would like to make you aware that Jody Sanders of iPhoneUnlockUK has been selling software which is available to download for free. Jody has passed off the work of the iPhone Dev Team, George Hotz and others as his own without giving credit or attribution. The real authors of the software take a dim view of this activity:

Do you have more than an iphone at home? Use your apps on both phones legally with no hacks.

The fact that my wife and I both have iPhones is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because well… we both have iPhones. But it’s also a curse.

It has become another gadget to upgrade, to pimp up and gulp- to depreciate quickly . We were both going to get the 2nd generation iPhones but after weighting in the fact that the original ones are upgradable via software, it became hard to justify the cost of a whole new phone. Sorry, 2 new phones.

Apple is known for loading its software with handy shortcuts and tricks to make your life easier. You will struggle to find a definitive list of these in the documentation, and many people actually discover them by accident.
With the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple designed a whole new operating system. Essentially a stripped down version of Mac OS X, the iPhone/iPod OS has some great hidden shortcuts and timesavers, which could make your everyday use of the device quicker and easier.

The release of iPhone OS3.1 (September 25, 2009) allows iPhone owners to finally send photos via text message. The long awaited feature is now a reality for those who upgrade to OS3.1 and the carrier to AT&T 5.5. If you are new to an iPhone, if you do not text a lot, or are not iPhone savvy like some, here are step by step instructions on how to send a picture by text messaging. Make sure to that the iPhone is upgraded with OS3.1 and the AT&T 5.5 carrier.

To do this:

So you are looking for a brand new iPhone for your girlfriend ,wife or for yourself you have to be very careful . Do you know how to be sure that you will not buy a fake iPhone because there are very similar ones on the market. If you have visited online shops like eBay, mazumamobile, auctionquests or yahoo you might see some fake iPhones which really looks so real.

If you're an Apple iPhone user and security's not on your mind, you're at risk; at risk of having a Web mail account hacked; at risk of having your online identity stolen; and at risk of losing valuable personal information, such as wireless service account data, that could result in financial losses, among other disasters.

In earlier versions of iPhone firmwares, you were able to go to Home page or force quit an application with the Home button on your iPhone. But since iPhone OS 3.0 a variety of actions that can be performed with iPhone Home button.

Landscape TV Out is a new iPhone hack developed by Daniel Juhn which let you view apps fullscreen with fast framerate on your TV using a TV out cable. Landscape TV Out is based on TVOut by ashikase.

It's a sad fact of life: iPhone batteries wear out. Most users learn this about 18 months after they buy one, when the phone can barely last a day without running out of juice. Sadder still: With iPhones sealed up tighter than an astronaut's flight suit, there's no easy way to replace a worn-out battery.

According to this DIYer, you can sew conductive thread onto the fingertips of your gloves to allow you to use the iPhone with your gloves on.  And probably also would work on any other smartphones with touch screen.