I received a mail from our friends within Fring with some cool news. As i posted some time ago, Fring released their API publicly, see post here. Today they are publicly announcing the first fringAdd-ons developed by fring and 3rd party developers. The first flavors of fringAdd-ons are around social networking, videos and email notifications. As you can see in the screen shots below and in the YouTube clip fring users can already get Gmail notifications, vTap videos, interact with Facebook and Orkut buddies, with more to come.
» Fring released add-ons (orkut, gmail notifier, facebook and vTap videos)

I received the following mail today and decided to share it with you.

As you probably know, we have designed a fring pre –release version for the iPhone which we made available for the guys to play with around mid April. Also, while not originally designed for, by now we have huge number of iPodtouch users downloading and communicating via fring ….. and they tell us what needs more work.

So here’s a quick heads’ up: we releasing this morning an updated version of fring for iPhone. This version while designed for the iPhone is also addressing issues in the iPodTouch.

I didn’t yet have the time to test the updated version. But for now you can read my full review if you need to get some more detailed information.

The full fring review can be found here.

» Fring update for iPod Touch

NYTimes’ Technology blog reports that Apple is currently in active negotiations with music labels about providing more mobile music content on their iTunes store.

One executive quoted specifically states that “[Apple wants] a big launch in June”, presumably referring to the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) scheduled to start on June 9th 2008. However, since negotiations only started a few weeks ago, the deals may not be in place in time for a WWDC announcement.
Apple reportedly wants to expand its Ringtone library and introduce the sale of “Answer Tones”. Answer Tones are customized sounds played to callers instead of the traditional ringing sound.

Another area of negotiation is the distribution of iTunes songs over the cellular network. For now, the iPhone allows you to purchase iTunes music only over Wi-fi networks. This had been thought to be a limitation of the slower EDGE data network, but it appears this mobile music distribution must be specifically negotiated with the record labels.
» Apple in Mobile Music Negotiations… for WWDC?

Maps offline got an update to version 0.50 today.
I won’t be showing you guys all the screenshots as i have made some before.
What i can tell you is that the latest version let’s you search a saved map.
This is a great new feature from the guys of Nambrot and according to there site, a lot more features are coming.
» Maps Offline 0.50 let’s you search your map offline

My first tutorial for iPhonefreakz. Today we’re going to show you how to set the interval of automatic server checking from 15 minutes to 1 minute!

» “Push Email” on Your iPhone - HowTo

The guys from Fring just dropped me some news.

They have updated Fring to version 0.9785 and it resolves the famous SMS deletion problem.

Official post :

The new version includes the following fixes:

1. Issues resulting in deleted SMS (additional QA work on our side still in progress)
2. mVoIP calls on 1.1.2 are now fully supported.
3. Incoming SIP calls are also available with this new version
» Fring updated to version 0.9785. fixes sms bug!

I already showed you how you can upload and download files to the iPhone via wi-fi connection.
For a recap, click here
Today i have something better, what if you could manage the files via your USB cable??
That would be sweet no ?
Well read on and i’ll show you exactly how….

To get this working, you will need some tools.

» Manage your iPhone files via Usb cable (windows)

Maps offline must be one of the most viewed topics on my whole blog.
I’m happy that the developer has released an updated version, as this version actually resolves a problem a lot of users have.

When you save your map, and then reactivate it, sometimes it happens that the map app is not positioning you exactly above your saved map, so you could be anywhere in the whole world, but not on your saved map.

» Maps Offline v0.20

BossPrefs 1.66 just appeared into my installer.

It seems like the developers are releasing update almost every day, i’ve just written a review a few days ago .. see here and here.

so what are the new options the app brings us ..
» BossPrefs 1.66

This just got in.

There’s a new app released, it’s called Fring, and it let’s you use Skype, Sip, msn, twitter and icq over your wi-fi or EDGE connection. (no calls on edge . . yet )

Now this is a truly killer app!!

It’s a little buggy sometimes, but it’s ok.
I’ve tested the chat function and off course the skype dial function.

And that my friends actually works great.

but let me go on to the how to..

» Skype and instant messaging combined on your iPhone with Fring