http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:20:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/btstack-keyboard-jailbreak-app-provides-iphone-text-entry http://tech.peekbase.com/btstack-keyboard-jailbreak-app-provides-iphone-text-entry#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:00:02 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/btstack-keyboard-jailbreak-app-provides-iphone-text-entry December 23rd, 2009 Due to hit the Cydia store momentarily, Matthias Ringwald’s BTstack Keyboard app allows users to type text into any iPhone application using an external Bluetooth keyboard. Built on the open source BTstack project, BTstack Keyboard runs a daemon in the background of any jailbroken iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPod touch with ... 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