Posted on 11 July 2008 by Chris Davies
Cast aside all doubts: the iPhone Dev Team have released a video demonstrating them unlocking and Jailbreaking the iPhone 2.0 firmware with their new PwnageTool 2.0.
"We’ve added lots of new features, including 2.0 support, spotlight file indexing of .ipsws, canned websearches, installer custom configuration, custom root partitions and various other things that you’ll see on the release" iPhone Dev Team
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Posted on 10 July 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
It seems like you can now download iPhone 2.0 (iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw), according to MacRumors. It's important to understand that this unknown file from Apple's server may brick your iPhone or iPod touch. So make sure to read this knowledge base article in which Apple notes that your iPhone or iPod will be erased in order to perform 2.0 install.
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Posted on 11 June 2008 by ashoperon
The upcoming App Store is looking very exciting, the only problem is, Apple did not be so kind as to tell us when the App Store would be launching. It seems, thanks to Apple's website in Australia, that the App Store will launch on June 27th. This also means that by consequence, the iPhone 2.0 firmware will be launching on ...
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Posted on 04 June 2008 by ashoperon
Quite a few things can be done with the wonders of Bounjour. File transfers, and wireless streaming, all the things that you could ever want to do over a local network, can be done with Bonjour. One thing that would certainly be nice on the new iPhone would be the ability to sync your iTunes library without using that pesky ...
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Posted on 22 May 2008 by ashoperon
Geo tagging is a feature that is included on many higher end devices, especially Nokia's devices, and is becoming increasingly popular on non smart devices. The iPhone does not have the ability to geo tag pictures. not yet at least. Geo tagging is when a device writes its current position to the meta data of an image when the device ...
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Posted on 10 May 2008 by ashoperon
Ok, lets all just wait a minute before we get too into this one. There are a few sources saying this is all, and it almost completely unconfirmed. This image is what the preference would look like on the screen. It is claimed, that this information was located in the Network.plist file, that controls and saves preferences for the network ...
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Posted on 08 May 2008 by ashoperon
More information has been revealed about the latest iPhone firmware and SDK build. The latest build is called 5a274D. The new firmware was released on Tuesday, no warning was given, and it has taken a while for details to pour in. We finally have them though, and it seems there has been some significant changes to the build.
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Posted on 06 May 2008 by ashoperon
News is extremely limited at the moment, but TUAW reports that another version of the iPhone SDK and iPhone firmware have been released by Apple, and are available now to download. The news is still coming in from the developers that have gotten a hold of the new firmware and SDK.
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Posted on 23 April 2008 by ashoperon
Apple has made the 4th beta of it's iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) available to iPhone developers. The new version of the iPhone SDK has support for OpenGL ES for the iPhone emulator that is included in the SDK. Before the support for this came out, to truly and reliably test iPhone applications, the developers would have to load the ...
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Posted on 10 April 2008 by Chris Davies
The recently released iPhone SDK Beta 3 continues to give up juicy hints as to Apple's intents for the handset's next major update; not only has the 3G chipset been identified but new code referring to stereo Bluetooth headset support, suggestions of GPS and new functionality for mobile Safari and Google Maps. There are also signs that Apple may not be taking ...
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Posted on 09 April 2008 by Chris Davies
Soon to find its way to your iPhone homescreen, the AppStore logo is the subject of Apple's latest venture through the US Patent and Trademark Office, highlighting once again the Cupertino company's strong-handed control of each element that makes up the iPhone ecosystem. The icon itself resembles OS X Leopard's Application folder, with the 'A' made up of a paintbrush, pencil ...
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Posted on 30 March 2008 by Chris Davies
Poring through the latest iPhone 2.0 firmware that Apple has distributed to developers, The Boy Genius spotted that a new YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app has been added. At present, video embedded into webpages won't display in the iPhone's browser, and only YouTube content is visible in a separate program. It's unclear right now whether this new plugin will ...
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