In case you have not heard, no the bird is not the word, no really if you haven’t heard: You can jailbreak you iOS4.0 and iOS4.0.1 iDevices more easily than ever. How? Simple as going to: jailbreakme.com on your iDevice. This simple jailbreak operation seems to work flawlessly. This brings me back to the original jailbreak that was done via keeping the phone unactivated, opening an emergency call, typing a code, adding a contact and enabling the preferences, joining a wifi network, and then hitting the contacts website to go to, the very same site that we are using now! It’s funny how things seem to go back to where they started. Anyway this is simple and worked perfectly fine for my iPhone 4. Now that I am jailbroken, which was recently made LEGAL, although Apple never sued anyone who did jailbreak, we can customize our phones the way we went. There has only really been 1 problem and that is with Winterboard. If you don’t know, Winterboard is an app that is used to customize your theme, not everything is working correctly on the iPhone 4 since there has been some change to theme items names because of the HD retina display. Regardless, with my Elite Pro theme, my phone looks bad ass even though all of the customizations won’t kick in until Winterboard is updated. So to recap: if you want to jailbreak your wonderful phone to unlock its true power, go to jailbreakme.com on your device and jailbreak away.  Read more here...

iPhone Reception

Whether you have an iPhone or are looking to get what I am sure you have heard about the issues that early buyers seem to be having. Many people have posted videos demonstrating the “death grip” which can drop the phone from 5 bars to searching within seconds. I can not get my phone to do this. I have watched several videos and tried every grip yet no matter what I try I do not lose any signal. I have tried moistening my hands, using metal etc. Supposedly the issue is in the lower left corner where 2 bands are separated by a black strip. By touching both of these bands the antennas “short out” causing the loss of signal. If you read my earlier post you would know I did not get into the first batch of pre orders instead I ordered my iPhone on June 25th and received it July 9th. What this tells me is that the first batch of iPhones had a problem and were shipped anyway and the problem no longer exists for later batches of phones which also tells me that the problem most likely was occurring in the manufacturing process (maybe that’s why we haven’t seen the white IPhone yet). Although this is pure speculation on my part I feel it has a decent foundation.  Read more here...

I just got my new iPhone 4 from FedEx a few days early and I am loving it. I need to sync with my Mac when I get home from work but I threw some apps on to get started. I am using WordPress’s app to write this post and should be posting some pictures and more review info in the next few days!! Enjoy

I usually do not buy expensive accessories for my iPhone aside from the occasional blue-tooth device which usually ends up lost, missing, or even thrown out. Generally I have been successful with getting a cheap case+screen protector from eBay and updating the case every few months. When I had my original iPhone First Generation I found an awesome little screen protector and body protector called Invisible Shield by ZAGG. The shield covered the entire body of the phone and was some what difficult to put on. With all of the curves on the original iPhone it was very hard to apply the shield correctly. The case did an awesome job of protecting the phone there was no scratches at all. After a short time I removed the case because with all of the curves the corners kept coming off making the case some what hard to use. When I ordered the iPhone 4 I also went to ZAGG and ordered the new iPhone 4 Invisible Shield.  Read more here...

I was surprised when my fiancee told me she was getting me the iPhone 4 as my Father’s Day gift. She didn’t tell me this until after 6/15, which if she had told me before would have allowed me to pre-order on the 15th. Regardless I placed my “pre-order” on 6/21 with the information of  Ships By: 7/14 Delivered By: 7/15-19. I was very excited to see that my order shipped on 6/5 and the new delivery time seems to be 7/13 via FedEx. It sucks having to wait for something this exciting but I suppose the wait will make it all the more worth while. I haven’t upgraded my iPhone in 2 years, I do all of my development and testing on the iPhone 3g/iPod Touch. Well enough about me lets talk about the problems that have been reported so far.  Read more here...

There has been a lot of news about the leaking of the new iPhone 4G by Gizmodo. Gizmodo apparently paid between $5,000-$10,000 for this “prototype” iPhone. The story basically goes like this: Apple Software Engineer gets drunk at bar, and leaves the prototype hidden in an iPhone 3GS case. Someone finds the phone, tries to find its owner, then brings it home and tries to contact Apple. Apple does not respond, Gizmodo catches wind, and buys the device from the finder. The Apple employee reportedly still works for Apple, a month after all this has happened, Apple remotely killed the device, and sent a letter to Gizmodo asking that the device be returned. Is this proof that this device really is the iPhone 4g? Perhaps, but the story seems to have a lot of lucky coincidences that just don’t make much sense. Here is the Gizmodo story:  Read more here...

I made this little batch program to help at work. I figured that other people may have a use for it so here it is. It is used to look up IP addresses when you have a list of server/computer names. I used it on a list of about 200 servers and it took about 8 minutes, manually would have taken much longer.  Read more here...

My Dell XPS m1530 is up for sale on ebay! Check it out and happy bidding!!
eBay auction

I literally StumbledUpon this program (pun intended) when checking out Ben Nadels Blog (bennadel.com). So far the site has some bugs but works very well at building web site traffic.The web site is su.pr.

You have to sign up for an account but they are only approving a few per week, you can try this invitation code: “suprbeta” to see if you can get in. StumbleUpon has created a site that allows you to link your Facebook and Twitter accounts to this supr account. This is great to get your website out there, the best part is it creates small links for each of the posts you make, and then analyzes each url for number of clicks, followers, etc. This means you can track how many people are visiting your site from your facebook status or tweets, and also lets you see what articles people seem most interested in.  Read more here...

The official iPhone Dev-team jailbreak has been released. It is now called redsn0w and can be used on all iPhones except 3GS. The iPhone Dev Team have a great blog with precautions and information on their projects. Check out the redsn0w entry here. Official rules and instructions:  Read more here...

1. GOLDEN RULE: If you are using a 3G iPhone with yellowsn0w and rely on yellowsn0w to obtain cellular service, then you should NOT use redsn0w right now. Ultrasn0w (the 3G carrier unlock) is not included with this release and therefore your baseband will be locked and unable to use an operator other than the official one it was bought for. UltraSn0w will be released via APT (cydia and icy) soon. If you have an original iPhone (1st generation) then 3.0 carrier unlock works with this redsn0w release.

After my first article about how to hack your carrier file to enable MMS and Tethering on unjailbroken AT&T phones, I discovered that I couldn’t tether with my hackintosh. Why? Well the problem seemed easy enough to fix, I had removed iTunes since my phone is synced with my Dell XPS, and had no need for it on my small 16gb hackintosh ssd. So I just simply reinstalled the latest version of itunes, and bam my phone showed up as an ethernet device, allowing me to tether from my phone to my computer over USB (I haven’t tested Bluetooth yet, as I don’t have bluetooth on my computer). The tethering worked perfectly. I am curious now as to why so many other people have had trouble tethering with a mac, most people said the solution was to install the iPhone 3.0 SDK which I also removed to save space.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any problems these instruction may cause you. AT&T “may” be able to charge you tethering so extra charges are not my fault same as if they drop your contract. Use at your own risk

Many people are having this problem after downloading the 3.0 firmware:
When you go to up date, iTunes cannot talk to the Activation server and cancels your setup. Here is a simple fix:

When you are ready to update, click update and disconnect your computer from the internet, this will allow you to install the firmware without the stupid activation server error!! For a laptop you can just hit your wifi switch off, desktop just unplug your ethernet connection. After the install begins you can reconnect to the internet.

According to many sources the iPhone 3.0 update will be available for download via iTunes 8.2 at 1pm EST today. Don’t bother trying to update until this afternoon.

So after the WWDC for 2009 passed, we are left with a wealth of helpful information. The majority of the news was already predicted, as far as what pertains to the iPhone anyway. So the new iPhone firmware 3.0 will be made available for free for all iPhone 1st and 2nd gen users on June 17th! For all iPod touch users, you will have to pay a $9.99 fee to upgrade to 3.0, just like 2.0. So the news about the firmware, was already expected and the release date just lets us know that the firmware is coming. More importantly the 3rd gen iPhone information has been released. The new model will be called “iPhone 3G S” of course the S stands for speed and that is what the new phone is all about.
Increased processor performance, added more RAM, a new higher megapixel camera, but maintains the 3G phone’s look. Now for those of you who have been putting off the iPhone, whether it be price or what have you, the 2nd gen iPhone (iPhone 3G) will still be available for $99, a direct blow to Palm’s new Pre. The new iPhone will come in 16GB and 32GB for $199 and $299 respectably. The new phone will be available June 19th, two days after the new firmware.  Read more here...