I’ll be the first one to admit it – the reason to jailbreak your iPhone is at an all time low. If we look back a few years, we all had iPhones with no applications except for the default set, no chance of using video streaming or VoIP applications, and we had a 10MB cap for downloading applications over the cell connection. We live in a different world now. Our phones are chock full with 3rd party applications. We can use VoIP applications and Slingplayer over 3G connections. The download cap has been raised up to 20MB for applications. Things are looking rosier and rosier. However, all is not perfect in Apple land. Read on to hear about my top ten favorite jailbroken iPhone utilities and applications. BTW, Big shout out to the iPhone Dev Team for making it all possible.
Do you travel frequently? If you’re answer is no, then you may not be interested in this post. But if you’re answer is yes, then let me rock your world 
. When bouncing from airport to airport, sometimes on different carriers, it can be tough to keep up to date on flight delays, gate numbers, etc. FlightTrack Pro from Mobiata gives a great interface for tracking ALL of your flight information. Combine it with TripIt and you get all of your flight info automatically entered. Read on to hear how! Read more…
Just a quick post to brag that I beat Geo-Defense! This is a really great game for the iPhone, and I bought it when it went on sale a couple weeks ago. Posted a pic of my scores for the last of the hardest levels to prove it. It was a VERY challenging game. Time to delete it and move onto the next!
If you have read some of my recent posts about setting up a Thin Client or Sheevaplug to act as home server, capable of distributing music across the house with Squeezebox Server, acting as a NAS, or running cool apps like Tonido (here are my first impressions!), then perhaps you have wondered about the best way to get your personal music collection on that server. Or once it is on the server, what happens if you want to add more? How do you keep music on the server in sync with your laptop? I hope this article will give you a great solution to that answer! I’m very happy with how it has been working for me. All you need is RSYNC, SSH, and CRON! Read more…
Call me a sucker. If people are going to sell “Prada” but have the logo actually say “Praba” up close, that’s fine. I really get pissed when I buy something that I am told is genuine by a reputable seller on eBay, only to have a total piece of crap show up. My MacBook Pro battery only lasts for about 30 minutes, and OS X is telling me to replace it. Apple charges way too much for their batteries so I didn’t want to buy from them. Fastmac makes a battery that I have heard decent things about, and it sells for $80. But I found the GENUINE battery on eBay for only $60 so I went with that one. I wish I would have gone with the Fastmac. First off, it’s a knockoff. Take a look at the fonts in the picture above. The fake is on the right. You can really tell in the word “Mercury” that it’s not an original Apple battery. On top of that, it doesn’t even fit right! Take a look at the pic below.
Notice how the battery doesn’t even fit right in the slot! What a waste of $60… At least say the product is “similar to a real apple battery” or “pretty much sorta will fit in your laptop.” Marketing it as GENUINE really is a screw. I actually paid more for this battery over similar batteries on eBay that were not claiming to be authentic. In my case, the seller was plugplayers. Avoid at all costs.
I run a WDS network at home, instead of using Apple’s default “Extend a Wireless Network” options. The reason for this is because I can very specifically define which relays connect to which base stations. If I use Apple’s default options, I often have the case where the third router in a hop tries to connect to the first, bypassing the second, and giving poor throughput. WDS solves this by letting me use MAC Addresses to specifically say which device connects to which. I purchased one of the newer Airport Extremes this week, hoping to extend the range of one of the devices, but to my surprise, the option for participating in a WDS network is no longer there! This is pretty obnoxious… Can someone please tell me I’m totally missing something? If so, it would be worth looking a bit stupid in order to get my network back up and running! Otherwise, I’ll have to take this thing back to the Apple store and buy a Netgear router or something like that.
My friend had a pretty amazing idea… to dress up as iPhone apps on Halloween! We bought cardboard boxes and spraypainted them black. We then bought foam board and cut it into squares. We painted, as best we could, some of our favorite apps on the foam board. Then we rounded the foam board’s corners, super glued them onto the black boxes, and used paint markers to write the app name. We picked a variety of apps. Personally, I decided to do one of my favorite games, Doodle Jump! On the back of my box, I had to go with the jailbroken GV Mobile. Take a look at some of the pics below!
I thought I would just take a moment to brag . Flight Control has sold over 1.5 million copies. In the only level that matters, the hardest one, the aircraft carrier, I’m back in the top ten all time scores! 463 planes landed ranks me as 8th best in the WORLD (username: spaceballl). Now that I’m there, I’m taking a break from Flight Control. My thumbs have landed enough planes, and I need to find a new time waster. I expect to be knocked out of the top ten in the near future, but I won’t fight the inevitable this time… I’ll just let it happen… At least I got back in the top ten one last time….
When the iPhone 3GS was first announced, Apple said that they would be offering the iPhone 3G at a $99 price point. I predicted that this wouldn’t last. It just doesn’t make sense for Apple to manufacture two different versions of the same phone. Will I end up being right? Engadget thinks so!
So I was at the Apple Store on Chestnut Street yesterday to buy a Time Capsule and Airport Express. As I walked outside of the store, a man with a camera stopped me and asked me if I was an iPhone user (turns out he was from KRON 4). While I normally don’t stop to entertain random people on the street, I was intrigued about where he might go with this. I said, “Yeah I’m an iPhone user.” His response: “Did you hear about that new iPhone virus that’s supposed to be unleashed today – how does that make you feel?” I said, “Oh I think you’re talking about the SMS exploit. Yeah I think some researchers are going to explain how to do it today.” He fished on further and responded, “How does it make you feel that ANYONE could just TAKE OVER YOUR IPHONE with a TEXT MESSAGE?” I was like, “Um… well, it’s just a security hole that a researcher discovered. This happens a lot with all operating systems and usually the companies issue fixes pretty quickly.” He retorted, “There has been zero response from Apple and this is going to be a huge deal.” I said, “Okay.” He asked me if I wanted to share my feelings on camera – I said no and walked away. Anyhow, it’s pretty annoying how much the media will try and twist reality just to get some idiot on camera to say something ridiculous. More pics after the break.
UPDATE: APPLE ALREADY FIXED THE EXPLOIT.
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