Here’s a pretty cool web app for the iPhone that lets you input a message of your choice and by turning your iPhone horizontally, will scroll your LED message across your iPhone. Just perfect for showing how cool you are with your iPhone. Or not. Point your iPhone at http://38i.biz/ledmessage/ to try it out.

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Nav N Go looks to be preparing a GPS navigation solution for the iPhone using 3D navigation maps of terrain, road elevation, landmarks and buildings using the visualization engine of Nav N Go iGO 8.

We’re all familiar by now of changes that the 1.1.3 firmware has brought with regards to applications, enhancements, etc… but Nate True delves deeper into the inner workings of the 1.1.3 firmware and he found some interesting things.

From Nate True:

- SpringBoard no longer needs to be modified (via SummerBoard) in order to show extra applications in the /Applications folder.
- All applications now run as the user ‘mobile’ instead of as root.
- Preferences are now stored in /var/mobile rather than in /var/root.

What does this all mean? I’ll tell you what it means.

The iPhone 1.1.3 firmware is ready for official installable applications.

Even though there are no applications available for purchase (besides the iPod Touch’s $20 “upgrade package”), the installation architecture appears to be there already.

It also appears that the frameworks have undergone many changes, ostensibly to make it easier for official SDK developers to make programs. It does, however, break many of the existing applications including most of mine (Lights Off still works though :D).

Additionally, the SpringBoard app appears to have widget support - it contains a class called SBWidgetApplication which manages the package location and icon.

I will update this post with more details as I find them, so keep checking back.

VoiceSignal, a leading supplier of speech recognition solutions, have ported several of VoiceSignal’s applications to the iPhone. These initial proof-of-concept applications include VSearch (mobile local search by voice) and VTunes (voice enabled music player). No info as of yet on the release of the native iPhone applications.

Vsearch:

Vtunes: