iPhone Hacks: Pushing the iPhone and iPod touch Beyond Their Limits

New from O’Reilly: Over 100 Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of Your iPhone & iPod Touch.

With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you’d expect of a smartphone — and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create innovative applications for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and unshackle these devices to run everything from network utilities to video game emulators.

This book will teach you how to:

• Import your entire movie collection, sync with multiple computers, and save YouTube videos
• Remotely access your home network, audio, and video, and even control your desktop
• Develop native applications for the iPhone and iPod touch on Linux, Windows, or Mac
• Check email, receive MMS messages, use IRC, and record full-motion video
• Run any application in the iPhone’s background, and mirror its display on a TV
• Make your iPhone emulate old-school video game platforms, and play classic console and arcade games
• Integrate your iPhone with your car stereo
• Build your own electronic bridges to connect keyboards, serial devices, and more to your iPhone without “jailbreaking”

iPhone Hacks explains how to set up your iPhone the way you want it, and helps you give it capabilities that will rival your desktop computer. This cunning little handbook is exactly what you need to make the most of your iPhone.

The Classics on your iPhone

I know there are thousands of cool apps you can download, but this one is pretty sweet. You get 18 books currently with more books coming via a free app update. This from the developer:

“Escape into some of the greatest stories ever written. Experience digital reading in a way that is so natural, and so obvious, it just feels right. It begins with a collection of over a dozen hand-picked, literary masterpieces..”

The Collection:

• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Frankenstein
• Dracula
• Treasure Island
• Pride & Prejudice
• A Christmas Carol
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Gulliver’s Travels
• The Time Machine
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Call of the Wild
• Flatland
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Jungle Book
• The metamorphosis
• Paradise Lost
• Hound of the Baskervilles
• More books coming via free app updates!

You can download the app here, and no I don’t get any cut of the sales. The only money I get on the blog would be if you clicked on any of the Google ads placed strategically along the sides:)