If you want to make your iPhone 3G close-focus and are brave enough to do it yourself, then you're in good luck. defor has posted a step-by-step how-to, and you'll just need a good sense to follow directions accurately and some stable hands.

Have you taken a look around the App Store yet? It's been around since early last month, and already, there's been a lot of downloading going on. If you still haven't taken the plunge yet, go grab your iPhone and see what's in store by reading the full article.

The iphone-dev team has released updates for the PwnageTool and QuickPwn Release Candidate. These are minor updates to squash some incompatibility errors that have been reported from their previous versions.

Download: PwnageTool 2.0.3.1
Download: QuickPwn RC3

For those of you waiting for a public release of the new build, the wait is finally over. ZodTTD recently announced that gpSPhone v2.5.0, which includes all of the new features previewed in the beta release of the homebrew emulator a couple of weeks ago - including support for Apple's firmware 2.0. Find out the details to the public release of gpSPhone v2.5.0 in our full article.

If having Spore on your computer isn't enough, then get yourself a copy of Spore Origins. It's a spin-off of the game for mobile platforms. The game isn't out on all platforms yet, but it is out for the Classic iPod and iPod Nano. Details in the full article.

Don't look now, but the iphone-dev team recently released a new version of the iPhone and iPod touch jailbreaking tool, PwnageTool. The latest version bumps itself up to 2.0.3 and includes a lot of useful new additions for any freedom-loving Apple gadget user. You can view the complete list of changes in our full article.

Download: PwnageTool 2.0.3

I'm sure that iPhone 3G users would have heard of the persisting network problems users have been experiencing. Perhaps you may even be one of them. I even heard of one woman who sued Apple for false advertising over the speed of the iPhone 3G's connection.

A new independent research says that it doesn't have anything to do with the device's hardware at all - the problem lies with the carrier networks. More in the full article.

We've had a couple rumors dropping in for the past couple of months about upcoming plans for Apple's future line of hardware and software products. Recent rumors suggest that all these changes are growing imminent: the next-gen iPod Nano and iPod Touch, the latest iTunes update, and Mac OS X 10.5.6 introducing Blu-ray might be just around the corner!

Another dock for your iPhone! Not another one? Not just another one - this one sticks to your wall! Ok, that's basically the only thing that sets the CVT i310 apart, but it's still pretty cool. At least it saves on the tabletop space. More details in the full article.

If you're not exactly the tidy kind of person, or if you've got sweaty hands or you're just clumsy all over, spilling drinks on everything, then this item is certainly not for you. Apple's iPhone has now been released in the UK, and we're sure there are many out there who'd love to have it for themselves, although not exactly qualified to take care of anything that is colored white.