AT&T has finally announced they will be offering free, that’s right free, Wi-Fi access to iPhone users at thousands of nationwide hotspots!

AT&T knows Wi-Fi is hot, and FREE Wi-Fi is even hotter. Which is why FREE AT&T Wi-Fi access is now available for Apple iPhone at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks*. Users can relax and access music, email and web browsing services with their favorite blend in hand from the comfort of their nearest location.

In order to access AT&T Wi-Fi from your iPhone you must follow these steps:

1. Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
2. Select “attwifi” from the list of available networks
3. Enter your 10-digit mobile number and check the box to agree to the Acceptable Use Policy. Tap ‘continue’
4. You will receive a text message from AT&T with a secure link to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. You will not be charged for the text message.
5. The SMS link will only be valid for 24 hours at the location it was requested. Another request must be submitted when using another hotspot location.
6. Open the text message and tap on the link for 24-hour access to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot

Customers can locate Wi-Fi spots through AT&T’s online tool or can locate a Starbucks using their tool.

- source: att.com

Google has released their awesome desktop application, Google Earth, to the AppStore! That’s right, Google Earth on the iPhone/iPod Touch! Now you have those beautiful satellite images of Earth everywhere you go (assuming you’re connected to the net) on the palm of your hand.

Hold the world in the palm of your hand.

With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger.

Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.

Features:

• Satellite and aerial imagery: View the same imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth.
• Local search: Search for cities, places, and businesses around the globe with Google local search.
• Motion detection: Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view of mountainous terrain.
• Panoramio photo layer: Show the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world.
• Wikipedia layer: View geo-located Wikipedia articles.

Google Earth for iPhone is completely free and you can download it Here or search for Google Earth in the Appstore

The iPhone Dev Team is still hard at work unlocking the iPhone 3G for us, a signifigant milestone has now been reached with the ability to run a custom baseband.

Here’s a screenshot of a 3G iPhone whose baseband has been modified. And even though it’s modified — and fails the integrity check — it’s still running…
…Running modified baseband code is a very useful ability, but it’s still not possible to accurately estimate how close we are to the ultimate goal.

Check out the video here.

If you’re a windows user then you’re most likely familiar with iPhoneBrowser. If you don’t know what iPhoneBrowser is, it’s a program that allows file transfer via USB cable from a Windows computer to iPhone or iPod Touch. Until now OS X users have been without a USB file transfer program and have relied on sftp to access the iPhone’s file system via Wi-Fi.

DiskAid is a tool for PC and Mac which enables to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as external Disk.
With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer.

• DiskAid is a Freeware, 100% free of charge
• PC Windows & Mac OSX compatibility
• Supports iPhone 1, 3G and all iPod Touch
• Auto detection feature, just plugin it in !
• Copy Files & Folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer
• Files & Folders Browser
• Drag & Drop
• Features rich file organization including folder creation, renaming… etc.
• No jailbreak needed
• Supported firmware versions : 1.1.1 to 2.1

Download them from our iPhone Downloads section:
DiskAid v1.5 (Windows) Download
DiskAid v1.5 (Mac) Download

Apple released iTunes 8.0.1 fixing bugs and improving stability! According the Mac OS X’s Software Update, iTunes 8 and iTunes U are now accessible with VoiceOver on your Mac.

iTunes 8.0.1 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.
• Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.
• Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.
• Improves checking for updates from the App Store
• Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
• Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.

You can grab the updated version in Mac OS X’s Software Update or at Apple.com

Adobe Systems’ Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem was quoted for the first time talking about Flash on the iPhone at this year’s Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton, U.K.

My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it’s a closed platform.

It was hinted at that the hold up was in Apple’s court now and as soon as Apple gives the go ahead a Flash player for the iPhone could be released quite rapidly. Rumors are still swirling that the reason behind the hold up is that Flash just simply can’t work properly without some compromises in the iPhone SDK.

Is this isn’t the first time Adobe executives have talked openly about working on bringing Flash to the iPhone. (more…)