Here’s a hardware unlock for the iPhone. It’s supposed to be safer than the usual method from the iPhone Development Team and the iPhone Elite and it’s way easier. No idea if Brando gives assurances that it won’t Brick your iPhone. It just needs to be attached to your SIM card and off to other [...]

Seems like the smart thing to do. Update to 1.1.3 to unbrick iPhone then downgrade it to 1.1.2 and jailbreak it. Found at Crunchgear. Lightbulb Unlock iPhone 1.1.3 bootloader 4.6 ok ! Hello all ! I can finally confirm about iPhone 1.1.3 unlocked ok at 8:30PM 15/01/2008 by our team and many help from GeoHot [...]

The iPhone Developement Team has published its official jailbreak for 1.1.3 firmware for the iPhone. They said they would and now it’s here. This is a working jailbreak for 1.1.3 but it only works as an upgrade. It will not work for a “married” AT&T iPhone. Your iPhone will need to be a jailbroken 1.1.1 [...]

Bill Gates Promotes MBA Rival XPS M1130

24 Jan 2008 In: News

The thin wars are on for notebooks, beginning with this candid photo of Microsoft’s Bill Gates lifting up the thin and light Dell XPS M1330 as if it were a bouquet of roses. On his right is a guy music fans might be familiar with. A lead singer of an rish band called U2, “Bono” [...]

MacBook Air’s Woeful Connectors

24 Jan 2008 In: MacBook Complaints

It’s not just that lone USB port that’s bugging some people about MBA. Look at what Gizmodo and Engadget found out: Other MagSafes can’t reach into MacBook Air’s power port: A USB 3G modem finds no purchase in MacBook Air’s USB port.

USA Today agrees with Mac Complainer that MacBook Air cannot be your lone computer. Stephen Levy of Newsweek says that McBook Air is a circumcised laptop. Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal repeats that MacBook Air is very thin and pretty , but hates the MacBook Air battery because it is non-removable, the single [...]

iPhone Sales Downgraded

24 Jan 2008 In: News

Apple is feeling the bad vibe from Davos, Switzerland. The iPhone, which just sold some 4 or 5 million (hey., they said 5 Steve Jobs announced 4, what can I do), will report a 1-1.2 million units sold for the fiscal quarter ending in March. This projection is steep downgrade from the prior projected number [...]

I apologize for not posting as much as I wanted in the past couple of days. You see, I’ve just been hit back Karmic-style because of this new site I lovingly titled “Mac Complainer.” I’ve been a totally satisfied Apple customer since I purchased my white Macbook back in September of 2007. There’s not one [...]

Engadget reports that Apple software engineers have been preparing native applications to be used for firmware update 1.1.3. Firmware 1.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a crucial platform for hastening these two multi-touch gadgets into the future. With 1.1.3, SpringBoard will be able to add apps with ease and SpringBoard itself will have [...]

Having problems with firmware 1.1.3 on your iPhone or iPod Touch? One solution reported is to downgrade iTunes from 7.6 to 7.4.2 temporarily while running iPhuc. Running the iPhone utility client with iTunes 7.6 will get you introuble but WickedPsyched has found a way to revert back to 7.4.2 while running iPhuc. Full instructions after [...]

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