I updated to iPhone firmware 1.1.1 yesterday. The upgrade went without a hitch–I did a full restore, rather than hope the update played well with the 3rd-party-app hacks. It went flawlessly. The wireless iTunes store is interesting, but does not have the main things I would be listening to (podcasts and audiobooks.) Live, streaming 30-second … Continue reading iPhone Firmware 1.1.1
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iPhone hacking: not good, not bad
I’m sure many of you have seen this, but Apple’s head marketing guy says Apple is staying neutral on iPhone hacks. Apple doesn’t hate the fact that people are writing 3rd party apps for the phone, but they’re also not directly supporting it. They won’t make firmware updates specifically to break people’s native apps, but … Continue reading iPhone hacking: not good, not bad
iPhone / netnice
Similar to what they did with Aperture rebates a while back, they’ll be doing the same thing with the iPhone. $100 ain’t too shabby. Do any of you Unix-heads know if there is some network-equivalent of the “nice” command for limiting bandwidth under Linux and/or OS X? For instance, it might let me issue a … Continue reading iPhone / netnice
iPhones and iPods
Dear Internet: Stop whining about the iPhone price drop. Yes, it dropped by $200 today, only 67 days after its initial release. Yes, that is $3/day. Yes, that is a rather quick price drop for any piece of popular new technology (the crappy technology that nobody wants is an entirely different matter…) But it’s no … Continue reading iPhones and iPods
Update: AT&T’s Paper-Wasting Department
It looks like AT&T is going to stop sending out crazy-long bills. See previously: Netninja, iJustine Posted in:
Hacking the iPhone
Apple released some new iPhone firmware today. Fortunately, they left in all of the loopholes for hacking your own apps into it. The last time I hacked my phone, it took about half a day. This time, it took about 13 minutes (10 of which were waiting for something to download.) This is all it … Continue reading Hacking the iPhone
AT&T’s Paper-Wasting Department
The colossal waste of paper known as the iPhone bill arrived today. The previous bill was relatively short, as it only covered a week or so of usage and I had not yet become a power user. Today’s bill was 51 pages, about 45 of which consisted of pages and pages of line items that … Continue reading AT&T’s Paper-Wasting Department
iPhone turnkey hackery
Back in my day, we got an iPhone and we hacked it by hand! We fiddled with shell scripts and USB connections and compilers until everything eventually worked! You kids, these days, with your fancy GUI installers take all the fun out of things! So, yes, a few weeks ago, I hacked my iPhone. The … Continue reading iPhone turnkey hackery
iPhone NES
Even the new speed-enhanced NES emulator for the iPhone (version 13L at this writing) is virtually unplayable. Sure, the speed is pretty close to the real thing, if not exact, but you’re still jabbing at virtual buttons behind a piece of glass. I wonder if this is what it would be like to play a … Continue reading iPhone NES
Destroy the whore-crux!
One of those things that was never really a blip on my radar is the “Mr. and Mrs. {guy’s first name} {guy’s last name}” nomenclature. Kim keeping her name/business-name made me acutely aware of it. I do not know if it is traditionalism and/or implied sexism/girl-as-property-of-guy, but it is still a (fairly new) pet peeve … Continue reading Destroy the whore-crux!