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[Bezman]

Sooo basically for someone who is new to this i phone thing.....if you bought a new i phone with iOS 4.1 you can jailbreak it with either limera1n or greenpois0n...but you can't unlock it because ultrasn0w won't work until Apple releases 4.2 and they bring out a new jailbreak and new version of ultrasn0w...

if you have an older version of iOS (like 4.0.1) you can upgrade to 4.1 using tinyumbrella to save your SHSH blobs and preserve your old carrier baseband so that the ultrasn0w can continue to work. Or use a pwnage tool to modify firmware files to do the same thing..

Because geohot stole comex's exploit and brought out his limera1n before greenpois0n (who were apparently working on a different exploit)...they held back the SHAtter exploit so that Apple wouldn't be able to patch both exploits in the realease of 4.2 in November...


Anybody else find this is too much drama for a fuggin phone??

I found so since 2.0 and that's why i stopped blogging and unlocking phones and fixing them etc, it's just not worth the frigging headache..

i will buy and unlocked IPhone4 from canada and relax my batty with that.

[SRASC]

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This just in: Apple will be holding a media event titled “Back to the Mac” on October 20. The invitation seems to indicate that the focus of the meeting will be on/around Mac OS X 10.7 — maybe to be called “Lion”? — and the Mac. That’s all for now. Let the speculation begin.

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Boom: Apple was just awarded a patent on pinch-to-zoom for multitouch displays. That's the first directly applicable patent we've seen on the gesture since we first started looking during the Apple / Palm war of words in January 2009, and it certainly gives Apple some potent ammunition against its competitors -- although there are some specific limitations on what Apple's been granted that will prove to be important. Let's break it down, shall we? Patent #7,812,826 was first applied for on December 29, 2006, and over the course of the patent process the claims have been significantly narrowed to cover a very specific set of actions:
A multitouch display detects at least two contacts.
Those contacts perform a first gesture.
That gesture adjusts an image in some way: magnification, orientation and rotation are specifically claimed, but the patent is broad enough to cover virtually any adjustment.
The first set of contacts is broken.
A second set of contacts is detected.
The second contacts perform another gesture within a pre-determined period of time.
The gesture continues to adjust the image in the same way.
It's steps 5, 6, and 7 that are critically important here: Apple doesn't have a patent on "pinch-to-zoom" generally, but rather pinching to zoom, and then pinching to zoom again within some fixed period of time. How long that period lasts is totally up in the air, but it has to be defined somewhere -- this patent doesn't really apply unless there's a clock running and a second gesture takes place. Still, it's the first granted patent on the now-ubiquitous gesture we've seen, and based on its filing history it's essentially effective as of December 30, 2005 -- long before anything multitouch products with pinch to zoom had arrived on the market. That's no small weapon to bear -- we'll see what Apple does with it.

P.S.- Apple was also awarded some 17 other patents yesterday, including two more that deal with multitouch, but none of 'em are nearly as interesting as this one.

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The US Patent and Trademark office has just approved an patent that Apple had submitted back in 2008. The patent is for something that is being describe as a “Text-based communication control for personal communication device”.

If you didn't understand the jargon, let us inform you that this is basically an application that would control the content of text messages arriving and going from your communication device like the iPhone.


Although it might be called whatever Apple has called it, lets face it, its basically an anti-sexting application. You know what we are on about, right? In the patent application, Apple adds that as of now there is no way to monitor and control text communication. This is a cause of concern for parents who have handed over phones to their kids and are worried about the kind of messages they receive or send.

As to how it works, well the patent application has detailed that as well. A parental control application, which uses the patent scans messages coming to the device and evaluates the text in the message.

After that, if it finds any “offensive” words - depending on the way it has been configured, it either alerts the administrator who has configured the application or simply deletes the offending text and if needed, the entire message.



Apple believes that the feature could be used to not only to block objectionable text but can also be used in an educational environment to encourage proper spelling, grammar and punctuation based on the user's designated skill level.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs intends giving each of the Chilean miners rescued from deep beneath the Earth an iPod, a French report claims.

Jobs joins a list of benefactors impressed at the stoicism and courage of the 33 miners who survived 68 days of being literally buried alive. Luiz Urzua, the miner’s leader, himself emerged from the mine last overnight. It is understood the team plan to jointly release a book. They hope not to have to mine again, or so previous reports have claimed.

Le Figaro describes the iPods as “personal gifts from Steve Jobs.” No word on what make or model, but we’d anticipate a top-of-the-range iPod touch, (NB: the miners will likely also need a Mac to sync their devices). The miners have also been offered one week trips to Greece by a Greek mining firm and a trip to South Korea by Chile’s football league.

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The popular media player, VLC, made its way to the iPad just a few weeks ago, and the company behind the application, Applidium, has just submitted a version for the iPhone. Here’s our exclusive hands-on of VLC Media Player for iPhone:



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Jealous that your PC friends just got a new version of Skype? Fear not Mac faithful, Skype has a new version en route for Mac as well.

[M_2NR]

Sooo basically for someone who is new to this i phone thing.....if you bought a new i phone with iOS 4.1 you can jailbreak it with either limera1n or greenpois0n...but you can't unlock it because ultrasn0w won't work until Apple releases 4.2 and they bring out a new jailbreak and new version of ultrasn0w...

if you have an older version of iOS (like 4.0.1) you can upgrade to 4.1 using tinyumbrella to save your SHSH blobs and preserve your old carrier baseband so that the ultrasn0w can continue to work. Or use a pwnage tool to modify firmware files to do the same thing..

Because geohot stole comex's exploit and brought out his limera1n before greenpois0n (who were apparently working on a different exploit)...they held back the SHAtter exploit so that Apple wouldn't be able to patch both exploits in the realease of 4.2 in November...


Anybody else find this is too much drama for a fuggin phone??

I found so since 2.0 and that's why i stopped blogging and unlocking phones and fixing them etc, it's just not worth the frigging headache..

i will buy and unlocked IPhone4 from canada and relax my batty with that.

i agree with bez.. next year... iphone 5 from CAN...

ohh and silver... you have the drama wrong

geohot eh steal the exploit.. the untethering patch was taken and used without comex permission.. this was a userland hole... (one of many apparently that @comex has) that was gonna be used with SHAtter. limera1n was another bootrom exploit.

anyway i frigging agree... its just too much now just to get an unlocked device.. yes i find it's entertaining and all but thankfully i eh reach the volume of ppl like Bez was handling..

what keeps me going on iOS is the way how everyday something new comes up... yesterday live clock dropped on cydia.. yes i not even going to bother to put it cuz it;s rice but.. everyday or at least every week its something...


btw, where z(scrugby)?

[SRASC]

The White iPhone 4 has been spotted in the hands of Stephen Fry at the T3 Gadget Awards 2010. According to T3, Fry was talking about the Windows Phone 7 launch that he had attended earlier that day. When he reached for the new Windows Phone 7 that Microsoft had given him, however, Fry inadvertently pulled out his White iPhone 4.
Fry proceeded to taunt the audience and claimed that it was “The only white iPhone 4 currently in Europe”.
With the white iPhone 4 still unavailable to order from Apple, people are speculating how Stephen got his hands on the device. Was it an aftermarket job or is he in possession of one of the ‘ready-to-go’ white iPhone units? If the latter, could we see the white iPhone 4 before the holiday season?



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Former Apple CEO John Sculley, famous for helping force Steve Jobs from the company he co-founded in 1985, admitted in an interview that his hiring as CEO was a "big mistake" and that Jobs should have been given the job instead.

Sculley was recruited from his role as President of Pepsi to join Apple as CEO in 1983. During his tenure, he grew Apple's sales from $800 million to $8 billion, but also garnered criticism for his role in several controversial decisions, including the ousting of Jobs in 1985 and the transition of the Mac to the PowerPC platform. Sculley was himself forced out in 1993 after Apple's stock and profits suffered a sharp decline.

In an unprecedented interview with Leander Kahney of Cult of Mac, the former Apple executive frankly pointed out that he "came in not knowing anything about computers." At the time, the board felt Jobs was too young to be CEO and decided to use a head hunter, said Sculley. Apple's board hoped Sculley, who was well-known for his marketing success at Pepsi, would help mass market the Mac to consumers.

Jobs and Sculley were meant to "work as partners," with Jobs dealing with the technical side of the company and Sculley focusing on marketing. From the outset, though, the situation seemed destined for a power struggle. "[Jobs] was chairman of the board, the largest shareholder, and he ran the Macintosh division, so he was above me and below me," said Sculley.

"It was a little bit of a façade," the former CEO continued. "My guess is that we never would have had the breakup if the board had done a better job of thinking through not just how do we get a CEO to come and join the company that Steve will approve of, but how do we make sure that we create a situation where this thing is going to be successful over time?"

Sculley also admitted that he "still didn't know very much about computers" when Jobs left Apple in 1986. He first focused on fixing the company, but "didn't know how," deciding to continue on with Jobs' methodology and philosophy.

All of Sculley's successes during that time were Jobs' ideas before leaving the company, Sculley admitted. "All the design ideas were clearly Steve's. The one who should really be given credit for all that stuff while I was there is really Steve."

During the interview, Kahney asked Sculley, who no longer has any contact with Jobs, what the secrets to Jobs' success have been. Sculley, who is impressed with how Jobs "sticks to his same first principles years later," shared 11 of those principles: beautiful design; customer experience; no focus groups; perfectionism; vision; minimalism; hire the best; sweat the details; keep it small; reject bad work; perfection and systems thinker.

Jobs is apparently "still mad he got pushed out," according to an email Sculley sent Kahney prior to the interview, but Sculley has moved on. "My Apple experience is now ancient history and I have gone on with my life and I’m not looking for any publicity or have any ax to grind,” he said.

[SRASC]

New York band Atomic Tom's instruments were stolen by some bastard(s). But rather than cry and break up, they brandished iPhones and executed an awesome, impromptu Subway performance. Neat! Or maybe just a viral video attempt. Sigh.

Authentic or not, the dudes sound great with a very minimal setup, and their fellow passengers seem entertained enough—which is more than you can say for your average Subway crooner. Note to future bands: maybe you don't need the pricy instruments to begin with?

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The feature to use GPS coordinates inside geotagged photos as a waypoint to navigate to is an obvious one, but actually a pretty clever use if you think about it. Good job, TomTom.

Instead of writing down addresses when you visit somewhere new, just snap a photo of something at that location and you'll be able to get back there no problem. Need to direct someone to your house, or to a coffee shop? Snap a photo, email that to them and you're done.

Geocachers will be pretty thrilled at this too, having coordinates be integrated into photos of the thing you're looking for.

It's free if you already have the TomTom app, otherwise it's $50 for the US maps, $60 for the US & Canada/US & Mexico.

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Back in July, Apple officially announced that they would be delaying the white iPhone 4 to a non-specific date (sometime later in 2010, according to an email exchange) because they were turning out “to be more challenging to manufacture than [Apple] originally expected”.

No one knew what was so challenging about something so seemingly simple as producing white iPhone 4… until today.



Pocket Lint stumbled upon a tastefully dressed man at a New York City press event today who was in possession of a white iPhone 4. They took some scandalous photographs and then went ahead to talk to the person to find out the what, the how and the why…

The person first requested anonymity. After being granted namelessness, he responded by saying that Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino were swimming with white iPhone 4s and that a friend of his managed to get him one.

He further informed Pocket Lint that the reason behind the white iPhone 4 delay is that the color of the home button isn’t exactly matching the color of the front face plate.

We all know how Steve Jobs is picky with his designs and attention to detail. Apple, in all its perfectionistic wisdom, would of course never let an imperfect product release so easily.

This isn’t the official Apple’s version of the reason behind the delay, but it sure it sounds like a legitimate justification!

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It's been a thorn in any Android user's side, but finally the full Angry Birds game is now available on Android phones...only, not in the Android Market. Instead, Rovio chose to release it, for free, on the GetJar store.

Lucky bastards.

[SRASC]

A photo claiming to be that of the new MacBook Air without room for a hard drive has been posted online by Engadget.

We just received this shot of what is purportedly the inside of the new MacBook Air. Contrary to popular belief, the machine appears to be another 13.3-incher, with the primary modification being extra room for battery cells and apparently no room for a hard drive. Of course, this is only one SKU, so who knows what else Apple has in store. From what we can tell from the photo, Apple is taking its unibody styling and construction and running with it here, not that the MacBook Air was too far off from the MacBook Pro to begin with. The telltale sign is the black hinge, though it also appears Apple has done away with the drop-down side ports.

AppleInsider reported yesterday that "the new models will do away with existing options for a conventional hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) in favor something described as an 'SSD Card' that lacks a traditional drive enclosure and more closely resembles a stick of RAM, yet is not easily user-replaceable."

Apple is expected to announce the notebook at their "Back to the Mac" event on October 20th.



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Even more details have surfaced on the new MacBook Air that is expected to be announced next week.

AppleInsider sources told the site:
● The 11.6-inch MacBook Air won't replace the 13.3-inch model, but will instead complement it as a more aggressively-priced option.
● Both the new 11.6- and 13.3-inch models sport matching outfits in the form of new, all-unibody designs and single button trackpads.
● The port door found on the existing MacBook Air is gone from the new designs, which feature a port layout similar to the existing MacBook Pros.
● The new "SSD card" storage is based off an SATA connection.
● The base component of both models is just slightly thicker than a standard USB port at its thickest point.

Other details derived from the posted image and system profile:
● SSD card sits above and to the left of the battery chamber
● Two USB ports, one on each side
● MagSafe power adapter, mini DisplayPort, and SD card reader
● The prototype features same 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor as current model
● 2GB of memory
● Bus speed clocks in at 1.07GHz
● Identified as MacBook Air 3,1

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The iPhone Dev-Team may have found a method to jailbreak all future firmware versions for iDevices with the A4 chip.

According to MuscleNerd the jailbreak would be untethered.

Think we've figured out a way to extend PwnageTool+limera1n+@comex hacks to untethered JBs for all future A4 firmwares



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It would appear likely, not only because everyone else (including iChat) allows multiple video chat but also because there is a kext string in the FaceTime code which seems to indicate it is on the way:

Code: Select all

<key>AllowsMultipleConnections</key>
   <false/>

We’re also hearing Facetime is coming to the desktop as well.

[kurpal_v2]

So update to my trials..


After being bored with my seemingly no baseband fix I decided to hit the *reset iphone* options in settings that seemingly erases your entire phone. Huge no no if you have cedia on your device.

The phone will erase everything on it but I think it has a problem dealing with cedia and *crashes* to some extent. You will notice your phone stuck at the apple logo and a little *loading* circle stuck in the middle. The device will never get past that, it wont load, it will just restart every time and itunes wont recognize the device(hell I know).

After 3hours of thinkering I found this method to put the phone in recovery mode.

1) Hold buttons sleep + home untill iPhone turns off
2) Open iTunes
3) Hold home button and plug the phone to your computer. The phone will turn on and the iTunes cable thingy screen will pop up
4) iTunes will recover you phone from unsuccessful recovery process.

I agree this headache and feeling of wanting to call steve jobs up @ 3am and butt secks him verbally can get to you sometimes..

[kurpal_v2]

So update to my trials..


After being bored with my seemingly no baseband fix I decided to hit the *reset iphone* options in settings that seemingly erases your entire phone. Huge no no if you have cedia on your device.

The phone will erase everything on it but I think it has a problem dealing with cedia and *crashes* to some extent. You will notice your phone stuck at the apple logo and a little *loading* circle stuck in the middle. The device will never get past that, it wont load, it will just restart every time and itunes wont recognize the device(hell I know).

After 3hours of thinkering I found this method to put the phone in recovery mode.

1) Hold buttons sleep + home untill iPhone turns off
2) Open iTunes
3) Hold home button and plug the phone to your computer. The phone will turn on and the iTunes cable thingy screen will pop up
4) iTunes will recover you phone from unsuccessful recovery process.

I agree this headache and feeling of wanting to call steve jobs up @ 3am and butt secks him verbally can get to you sometimes..

[badart]

those who hav the iphone4 how did u go about converting ur normal sim to a micro sim? i knw there are different ways to do it just want to knw wht is the best and the easiest. also any of the networks offering micro sims now?

[sexyicon]

Not sure if any of the local networks started to offer micro sims are yet. Butcherin' the sim

Heres a guide here

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... sim-681020

[SRASC]

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/06/how- ... one-4.html

[badart]

thanks! wud try it on an old sim first..any1 ever use a micro sim cutter which is sold online?

[JoKeR1980]

(Mashable) -- Stuart Hughes, the British jeweler known for his expensive remakes of popular gadgets, is at it again, this time with a diamond-clad iPhone 4 with a price tag of 5 million pounds, or roughly $8 million.

The handmade bezel contains approximately 500 individual flawless diamonds that total more than 100 carats.

There's 53 additional diamonds in the back, and the main navigation button is made of platinum, holding a single cut 7.4 carat pink diamond.

If you know diamonds, all of this probably means something to you. To us, it just sounds really, really expensive.

Only two of these will ever be made, so don't worry: if you buy one, the chances of bumping into someone who has the exact same phone at a party are quite slim.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile ... l?hpt=Sbin

[M_2NR]

thanks! wud try it on an old sim first..any1 ever use a micro sim cutter which is sold online?

a tuner was offering the service. i too would as well once the owner of the cutter lets me do so. I still have to visit them to unlock their devices...
any news on Pwnagetool? i cant wait to go 4.1

[kurpal_v2]

^^ By chance, you ever got a connect to itunes error screen after an update?

[M_2NR]

yea i just and leave it and it boots fully after or hard reset i think. sometimes when u just jb, u see it for a 5 seconds and then it boots fully.

if not, redo the whole process (cuz i was too lazy) now i think u can use iReb and/or TinyUmbrella to throw it out of recovery. (i hated the preceding and i think the latter is only for i4)

[kurpal_v2]

I actually got 4.0 to load on the device strangely...


Will restore it again and see

[kurpal_v2]

Heres a kick,

Itunes says sim is not accepted, so theres no restore option there.

Tiny umbrella dosnt allow me to *kickout of recovery*

Wut?


This is what I see

[M_2NR]

did it restore successfully?

if yes, run redsn0w
that should hacktivate u

[sexyicon]

Does itunes give you an error after trying to restore ? I had a problem similar to this before

[SRASC]

While beaming over Apple's mega-amazing summer—over 14 million iPhones!—Steve Jobs very interestingly promises, "We still have a few surprises left for the remainder of this calendar year." MacBook Air? Verizon iPhone? Either way, there's definitely going to be something.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

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Boy Genius Report claims that Apple’s CMDA/Verizon iPhone has just hit “AP” status which means the device is currently being field tested and is rocking final hardware. This is the final step before the final software gets loaded on the device and this is the step right before retail.

For comparison, this is the stage after the stage of Gizmodo’s iPhone 4 prototype. So, we’re clearly pretty close to that Verizon iPhone if BGR’s sources know what they’re talking about – they usually do. One important feature of this CDMA iPhone is a SIM card slot. BGR speculates that this Verizon iPhone will be the CMDA/GSM model. Or, the SIM card could be for international users.

BGR also states, that this iPhone 3,2 may not even be the CMDA iPhone, but just an improved iPhone 4 without the antenna issues. – This would be a major party buster though.

Boy Genius Report also claims that Apple’s 5th-generation iPhone is in EVT-mode and this is the development stage directly prior to the stage Gizmodo’s leak was in. This means Apple is currently testing the engineering aspects of the device and is almost ready to being testing final hardware. BGR does not discuss any features of Apple’s next-gen device.

[kurpal_v2]

did it restore successfully?

if yes, run redsn0w
that should hacktivate u

redsnow takes it back to the recovery screen.

[kurpal_v2]

Does itunes give you an error after trying to restore ? I had a problem similar to this before

No no, itunes has no error

[bigga514]

how bout take out the sim, restore via itunes then

[M_2NR]

how bout take out the sim, restore via itunes then

wait he wasnt doing this all the time

[bigga514]

Itunes says sim is not accepted, so theres no restore option there.

maybe i misread what he saying?

[kurpal_v2]

how bout take out the sim, restore via itunes then

Still doesnt give me the option to restore, put it in dfu and nada

[bigga514]

what does the computer recognize the iphone as? does itunes see it at all.
iphone or usb device or usbhdd.......

[kurpal_v2]

iphone


It goes straight to the "insert sim" screen

[M_2NR]

call the pundit.. tell him he last jahreh eh wuk.

So geohot isnt that bad as it may seem... he burnt comex's exploit to save one of his exploits... hrmmm something not like him...

and...



eeeeeeepp!!!!!! can't wait
i think i will do my hackintosh again.. just for this! I'm too excited!!!