Winners List:

iFlashReady: Andy, Eric, iBlackguy, Tarah, Tom VBS

FX Reel Mono:  Chris, Tony, Ali B, Justin, Richard

Winners will receive an email with details.  Please be sure to check out our next contest coming out soon!

Hey guys, well, we are at week 3 with our month of giveaways! Weeks 1 & 2 were awesome, and we hope to continue that trend.

Well, enough of that, well, this week we have 2 gems to giveaway from our good friends at Imaging Luminary, LLC!

This time, you can reintroduce yourself with iFlashReady and its cousin FX Reel Mono! We are giving away 5 copies of each!

We know how much you loved iFlashReady so we’re bringing it to you again! If you didn’t win before, make sure to get in on the action for another chance to win it!

(Now, to tell you the truth, I do not have much for week 4, lol, I’m trying, but if you have any suggestions, post them with your contest entry!)

NO DOUBLE, TRIPLE, OR WHATEVER POSTING WHEN DOING THIS!

I bent the rules last time, but that will not happen this time. So tell me what you would like to see us giveaway on week 4, and I will talk to the corresponding developers.

Again, our standard rules apply:

•Leave a comment below. You can say something nice, you can say “I want it!”, or even “I love you (Alan/Mike)!” if you feel the need.

•You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified. We have iPhone OS enabled robots, that not only kick ass, but they also check to ensure fairness. In other words, be careful when commenting or our very own iBot will be very angry.

•NO DOUBLE POSTING! Period.

•Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
Winner will be chosen randomly.

This time, the giveaway officially starts on Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 12:00:am (central time) and will officially end on Sunday, August 9, 2009 @ 11:59:pm (central time)!

So there you go ladies and gentlemen, you know how this goes down! Have at it!

Good luck!

Yes everyone, you know what time it is, its time for another review by yours truly! This time, its iFlashReady’s turn. iFlashReady is by Imaging Luminary, LLC.

Basically, this application utilizes very complex HDR algorithms that they have developed (and then ported and optimized for the iPhone OS) in order to give you an effect which could be considered a “digital flash”. Its amazing, let me tell you more

As we all know, the iPhone 3G’s camera isn’t great but it doesn’t suck for occasional pictures. We also know that Apple hasn’t gotten the basic idea of a built in flash. Now, they are even stupid, because this could easily be implemented using the Apple logo (already on the phone) to burst a flash of light (and you could light it up for night use via the touch screen’s own light).

Now, they have told me that on the iPhone, they have had to do somethings that they hadn’t done before such as HDR tonemapping algorithm with a regular jpeg source, which they stated this:

“We have made tremendous amount of changes in our algorithm in order to be more effective with iPhone”

Now, this app is amazing! OMG, this is so useful and it does exactly as advertised, create a digital flash by lighting up every pixel and it really an amazing outcome when applied to an image.

Its very user friendly as it uses a very simple UI (as seen above).

Now, I’m going to be honest, I really didn’t think this was going to work at all like it really did, but after I used it and I got an “under-the-hood” explanation on how everything works, I gotta tell you, I was/am blown away!

Now, you can light up any image you want (as long as its in your camera roll), I also purposely took some low light photos with my iPhone (and images I already had).

I also noticed that even during the day (like midday, when its supposed to be bright out) I had really dark photos. You’ll see what I mean…

So here you can see a picture of Best Buy (I’m at Home Depot’s parking, so it really is a bit far away):

ORIGINAL:

After iFlashReady:

So there you go! You can totally see the difference. Here’s another example, this was a car that was in front of our car:

ORIGINAL:

After iFlashReady:

This app is great! It does a really great job! This is one of my favorite applications! It earned a spot on my iPhone’s 2nd homescreen (where I have my favorites, I like to keep my 1st homescreen looking how Apple intended) due to its near perfect functionality.

Now, iFlashReady isn’t just limited to lighting up and sharpening images, it can also allow you to change their color scheme between “Full Color”, “Black & White”, or “Sepia”.

I do have one small concern (that is easily implemented, I have already told them and hope that they will update their app with this,) its that it doesn’t have a built in camera pane to take pictures from within the application. This is something that I would think is pretty basic, but like I said, I told them and this is so easy to add in. (Well, maybe a little more difficult to have full 3G S support, damn you and your awesome cameras! )

Other than that, this app is perfect.

iFlashReady is available for 99 cents on the App Store! It can be used with iPhone OS 2.x.x and iPhone OS 3.0 on the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3G S. Check it out as soon as you can, because you will not regret buying this app at all!

Also, don’t forget to check out their Midas application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista, Midas does the same exact thing iFlashReady does, except it is more powerful and its for a computer. If you buy iFlashReady, you can get a code to purchase Midas for only $4.99!

http://iFlashReady.com

Special thanks to Bo Yuan for helping us out and letting us review iFlashReady!

So there you go guys! Stay tuned for some sweet announcements starting Monday @ midnight…

Hey everyone. Well, as I had said earlier, I was attempting to enable “Jibbler” (voice-control), Accessibility, and “Victoria” (Nike+) and that I had found some “references” to some strange things that I had found. Well, I think its about time that I update everyone on my progress.

Well, before I start, I would like to thank MuscleNerd and GeoHot for the killer iPhone 3G S ramdisk key, and a thank you to Mike (Limited Edition iPhone) for decrypting the 3G S firmware (due to me being on a PC, I could not have decrypted it without him and his Mac).

Alright, well, status report on “Victoria” (Nike+ support), to tell you the truth, I haven’t really been working on this as extensively or rigorously as “Jibbler” or Accessibility. I have the files to attempt to enable “Victoria”, but I won’t get to this until I resolve the other issues first.

Next up, Accessibility. Well, thanks to the iPhone 3G S OS dump, I have the necessary frameworks and bundles on the 3G successfully. The problem is, I can’t get it to work! The Accessibility pane in the Preferences application (Settings) shows up, but when you try to get into it, it just shows a blank settings panel. I have the bundles in place, but no effect whatsoever. I am still trying to get this to work, but it will take some time.

Next, is “Jibbler”. Now “Jibbler” is my main focus, I have added (what I believe to be) most of the files necessary to use it, frameworks, bundles, and SpringBoard plugins, but nothing! I looked inside of a launch daemon file for voiced, and it said I needed a com.apple.enabled.voiced.plist from the preferences folder inside of var/mobile/library. It seems that I still need files from a real (jailbroken) iPhone 3G S.

Now, some good news, I have managed to enable one thing (that I didn’t even know the iPhone 3G S actually had enabled from Apple) its a battery indicator. I found this a long time ago (I think bigboss put it into his SbSettings app). I found this in 3.0 beta 2. Its called the gas-gauge-battery, just add this to your M68AP.plist and set it to true. Then respring. Now go to Settings->General->Usage and turn “Battery Percentage” on.

I also found something that increases the overall performance of your camera. Now, this may or may not work for you, but I actually saw some improvement (I’m pretty sure its not my imagination). Add auto-focus-camera to your N82AP.plist in System/library/CoreServices/SprongBoard.app and then set it to true. Now respring, and check out your camera. It won’t give you the little blue box, but I found it to increase the cameras performance, by slightly reducing blur when you move the camera around.

Now to some references I found. Well, I can confirm an iPod touch 3rd generation. I found boot sequences and other nice little hardware scripts in the 3.0 software. They reference an iPod 3,1 model. I can also say that the next iPod touch will have a camera. Now, I can’t say it will be a regular old iPhone 3G or EDGE camera or an iPhone 3G S camera, but if I were Apple, I would add a 3 mega-pixel auto-focus camera like on the 3G S that would also be video capable.

To close this update, I want to say that I found a “sensitive-ui” reference in the OS. I have not found anything that would need this capability, but this may reference a new touchscreen. Apple filed for a patent on where you could feel what you were touching by the touchscreen moving (and having bumps where the application had controls).

So thats it for now. Not much to report, but I am working on it as diligently as I can. If you have an iPhone 3G S and would like to help me (and all other iPhone owners), restore the firmware to 3.0, and jailbreak. Install OpenSSH, and using an SSH client, go to the / directory (root) and make a folder in your desktop, and name it 3G S firmware.

Then, hit “select all” in the root directory, and drag everything to the folder, when its done, zip up the folder (to reduce size), and upload it somewhere, I really need your firmware in order to make voice-control (and everything else I talked about) available to us non 3G S users.

Don’t worry, I’m not interested in your personal data, so don’t sync your 3G S at all when transferring the filesystem to the folder. (plus it reduces the .zip file’s size if it doesn’t have your media or data on it).

Thanks guys. If you have anything to tell me about this, email me at

alan@limitededitioniphone.com

Thanks everyone!