iPhone News Updated

Stacks for iPhone Adds Spring-Loaded Launcher

Stacks is an add-on for jailbroken, or hacked, iPhones which brings a distinctly Mac-like tweak to the iPhone UI. As the video shows, Stacks lets you replace the icons in the home row (the non-moving row of icons at the bottom of the screen) with, well, stacks.

Touch one with your finger and it expands to show a bendy column of extra icons. Think of it as piling up app shortcuts and then fanning them out like a pack of cards to pick one. Stacks has been around for a little while, but the video shows the soon-to-be-released v3 which adds renaming and drag’n’drop editing.

As Erica Sadun over at the Unofficial Apple Weblog notes, it’s a shame that you need a Jailbroken iPhone to run this neat and rather handy tweak. On the other hand, though, the OS 3.0 search feature all but renders this obsolete.

[Thanks: http://www.wired.com]

What we Craved this week: The iPhone 3G S aftermath

Now that the iPhone 3G S is officially in the wild–and selling at a pretty astounding pace–you might think there’d be fewer stories about Apple’s device.

You’d be wrong. However, plenty of other noteworthy stuff happened in gadget land this week too, and we made sure to include it below.

• Nudity briefly made its way onto the iPhone via an application, before Apple’s App Store overlords intervened.

• Hewlett-Packard’s vintage calculator emulator for the iPhone had some people drooling for a different reason.

• The newest iPhone also doubles as an underwater camera–at least for this guy.

• HTC announced something that’s not an iPhone: the Hero, which will run Android.

• Scientists have discovered a way to make a synthetic ‘tree’ that captures carbon 1,000 times faster than the actual carbon-based kind that grows in the ground.

• And finally, the PSP Go stopped by CNET’s offices for a quick demo on video. Make sure to check it out.

[Thanks: http://news.cnet.com]