Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Hackers can help make the iPad Better

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

With all the things wrong, or that have been complained about the iPad, the community can most likely be able to fix or come up with work arounds. This can be done by the same people who have come up with solutions for the iphone and ipod touch. It is clear that apple just wanted to make a glorified ebook reader. But in their efforts to do so they ended up making it too powerful to be just this. It wants to be much more. So hopefully Apple can see these complaints and make changes soon. Rival the Kindle DX? Yeah I would rather buy this than that because it does more for almost the same amount of money.

Multitasking.
Backgrounder has been doing this job for a long time now. Now with more battery to play with you can have applications running in the background for longer than before. But less than 10 hours.

Camera.
I’m certain that a camera add on can be made. This can attach to the docking port to allow video conferencing capabilities. We know that Fring was waiting on apple to make a front facing camera. There latest update makes use of the iphone camera. So we know its definitely possible.

Hulu?
The Lack of flash makes this option not possible. Hulu would make this a killer device. Perhaps they do not want the network to be clogged with people streaming video. But face it this is the time we are living in. The demand is needed therefore the business should adjust to it. Not the other way around. What ever happened to supply vs demand. If Hulu re-encodes there video much like youtube has done then im sure this will sell more device. It could be that apple only wishes for people to use their store to buy tv shows. But why buy them when I can just see them for free on my TV or Computer.

BTStack.
This hack made it possible to use a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Why not use that instead of an ugly docking station. Keep selling us things that we already own or we can re purpose things we already own in a more useful manner.

What do you think?

Get your iPhone 3G ready for Unlocking Windows

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

In anticipation for the New Years unlocking festivities it is recommended that you definitely jailbrake your iPhone. Here is the reason why. The iphone dev team will be releasing the unlock via cydia. So why not make things easy for your self and get it ready now so all you have to do is install via cydia. It benefits everyone here because there no longer is a need to create separate windows/mac applications. No operating restrictions means easy unlock. But dont jump the gun here please please please dont update to 2.2 firmware because this update will also update your baseband and ruin your chances for software unlocking. I don’t put is past the dev team that they will undoubtedly have an unlock for this baseband sometime in the future. However until then lets get somethings ready that you will need for this upcoming unlock.

I suggest that you use the firmware right beneath 2.2 so use 2.1 so you don’t accidentally update your baseband.

1. iPhone 3G
2. 2.1 apple firmware
3. Quickpwn

If you are on a firmware that is below 2.1 then I recommend updating to at least 2.1 nothing past this. To update open up itunes and hold down shift and browse for the firmware image. If you have an out of the box iphone then put it in DFU mode to update. Once you are on 2.1 simply pwn your phone by using the program quickpwn. Quickpwn will pwn your phone and jailbrake it. You have the option to install cydia installer or make custom boot image. But I like leaving it with default setting and install cydia. That’s it your done and jailbroken on your iPhone 3G so the next step is to wait for new years and the unlock via cydia. This should leave you prepared enough. If I had a mac then I will be able to use pwnage tool and make a how to for you via mac maybe I will invest in one soon. I was lucky that the iphone 3g i purchased was on 2.1 but I has no way of being certain since it was otb. So I blindly jailbroke mine. If you are unsure what firmware you are on because you just purchased it then I wouldn’t recommend doing what I did (Guesstimating) you might end up getting 2.2 if you purchase it today.

Downgrade iPhone 1.1.2 to 1.1.1 and unlock.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008


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When I first unlocked my phone I have never used an iPhone before so I was hesitant on what I should do or how I should go about doing it. Here is a video representation of some information I have gathered over the internet in addition to some simple steps. ***Windows Only*** (more…)