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A New Kind Of Heist: Six Apps For Free

Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
The first ever MacHeist Nano won’t cost you a penny. You can download, without charge, fully licensed copies of ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, TinyGrab, and Hordes of Orcs. If 500,000 people take part (which I think is a pretty safe [...]

Getting More iPhone Home Screens – And Keeping Them

A couple of weeks back, I wrote Temporarily Get More iPhone Home Screens Via Cunning Bug Exploit, but had heard staying away from the iTunes Applications tab within my iPhone was probably a Very Good Idea. Reader Larry Pressnell noted that since the most recent iTunes update, his extra screens have been accessible in iTunes.
Since [...]

Cult of Mac Favorite: MobileStacks Is the Best Reason To Jailbreak. Period.

I really like Stacks on my Mac. Stacks makes it fast and easy to find files, folders and apps right from the Dock. It makes managing a Mac pretty slick with all sorts of little UI tricks. That’s why I recently gave MobileStack a go on my jailbroken iPhone.
I must say that it lives up to the [...]

Gallery: Behind the Scenes From Two Classic Apple TV Ads

Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
Ken Segall, the TBWA ad man responsible for naming the iMac and Think Different, reveals the truth after the jump. He also shares some rare [...]

iPhone 2.0 Unlocked

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The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken, according to Gizmodo blogger Jesus Diaz.

After taking months to crack the code on last summer’s inaugural release, the iPhone Dev Team has opened the gates to unsigned software on the iPhone 3G before its US debut. The Pwnage tool that will allow unofficial carriers access to the phone and give users full read/write access to the filesystem to enable installation of unofficial, “jailbreak” applications is “imminent,” according to CNet, though no firm release date has been announced.

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6 comments

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    Lonnie: The Pwnage tool will unlock iPhone 2g 2.0 software, there isn’t any assurance as of yet that it will unlock iPhone 3G.

    Further, as T-Mobile lacks a 3G data network in the US, there’s really is no point in having a jailbroken iPhone 3G in the US right now.

    As I understand it, it’s less about the carrier this time around and more about having access to software through Installer.app?

    The screenshot shows AppStore and Installer.app residing side-by-side… I guess we’ll know more in time.

    let me tell you folks that the 3G is available on tmobile but not yet in all cities, for further info call them and u will see. I am a tmobile customer but i have not yet tested the 2.0 on my unlocked iphone 2g. the tmobile 3g will be in major cities around dec 2008.

    T-Mobile had 3G before ANYONE else. It was leased out to the US Government. The Government contract has ended & 3G has been returned to T-Mobile for public use. Let it be known that T-Mobile’s 3G is even faster than all the other carriers.

    The power of the hacker never ceases to amaze me!