James Alan Miller

1. How to Set Any Picture as Wallpaper With the iPhone, you can use any picture that you’ve synced through iTunes or taken with the built-in camera as wallpaper. It is a great and simple way to add a little bit of your personality to your iPhone. Here’s how to do it: Press the home […]

Microsoft this week completed its purchase of Sidekick smartphone-maker Danger, an acquisition announced by the companies in February. Rather than Windows Mobile, which Redmond’s been pushing in one form or another for the past eight years, the Sidekick, available from T-Mobile in the U.S., runs on Danger’s own hiptop platform. And whereas Microsoft found most […]

So you’re enjoying all your smartphone has to offer but just as the day is winding down and you’re waiting for that last phone call, your battery dies. You already have the backlight low and screen shutting off after 3 idle minutes. What more can you do to reduce battery consumption without turning it off? […]

For all its faults—and, yes, it does have a few—the iPhone delivers the best mobile Web experience on the market. So it should come as no surprise that, according to recent research by M:Metrics, iPhoners access the Web through the device’s easy-to-use Safari application far more than users of other smartphones do through their browsers. So […]

When Apple said in a recent press release that only “a limited number of developers will be accepted into Apple’s new iPhone Developer Program,” it wasn’t kidding. Apple Friday sent out a mass e-mail to reject – at least for now – the majority of those who applied to take part in the beta of […]

Look like Apple will finally add the ability to search contacts in the iPhone’s address book when firmware upgrade 2.0 is released this June. This became apparent during Apple’s presentation introducing new enterprise features for the iPhone at the SDK launch event last week. You see, some sharp eyes detected a spotlight search icon just […]

Opera Software is changing its tune, in regard to search engines. No longer will Yahoo be the default search engine for its popular Opera Mini and Opera mobile Web browsers. Instead, just like with the iPhone, Google will now be the company’s browser of choice as it has been on the desktop for the last […]

Mark/Space has updated The Missing Sync for iPhone to version 1.0.1. The Missing Sync delivers a level of compatibility between handhelds, including smartphones, and Macs not delivered by mobile device vendors and Apple itself. This upgrade, free to current users of The Missing Sync for iPhone, adds the following:  The software is now localized into […]

At next week’s Mobile (formally 3GSM World Congress), Opera Software is planning the world premier of Opera Mobile 9.5—the latest version of its Web browser for PDAs, smartphones and advanced feature phones. This will eventually be followed by the roll out of a public beta. The update is supposed to offer a number of improvements […]

Nokia introduced the latest version of its S60 smartphone platform last fall, the first with a touch/gesture-based user interface. It plans to show the upgrade off at this month’s giant Mobile World Congress (formally the 3GSM Wold Congress), according to Nokia’s ‘See Into S60‘ blog. The new S60 interface, which also adds support for Haptic […]