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Tags: iphone - iphonedev - my little pwnieThoughts on Jailbreaking iPhones
August 18th, 2008 · Comments
Jailbreaking My iPhone
April 11th, 2008 · Comments
Ziphone. Installer app, BSD subsystem, SSH. Bricked iPhone. Terror. Long walk. Hard reset. Twitter Rant. Backlash. RTFM. Passwd borked. Blush.
Installer or Cydia. Fink-like fence-sitting. RTFM for 135 minutes. Cydia. Installing. Moving sensitive data across partitions. Do NOT reinstall BSD Subsystems, _Fake_BSD instead. SSH to iphone works. iPhoneNotes too. Time to dive into Cydia and see [...]
How to read PDF files on iPhone
March 9th, 2008 · Comments
Thought you couldn’t read PDF’s on the iPhone? Thanks to the data:URI feature in Safari, converting PDF’s to URI’s to read in Safari on your iPhone is easy. Create a bookmark with the URI in Safari, sync with iTunes and you’re all set.
Tags: iphone - pdf9/14 Links
September 14th, 2007 · Comments
Rapleaf Updates reputation widgets (login required).
Technorati introduces Topics. The hunt for a revenue stream continues. There are at least three people pitching better blog categorization last night.
Another reason to buy an iPhone, Edit your Movable Type blog from your iPhone.
I’ll buy my iPhone next year
June 27th, 2007 · Comments
Before you rush out and buy an iPhone tomorrow, think about the MacBookPro launch. Bad screens, fans, batteries and don’t forget the problems with the motherboard. Owning version 1.0 of any electronic product is a dicey proposition.
Apple just increased the battery life and went from a plastic to a glass screen. Think about that.
If you [...]
Steve Jobs in a Box
June 19th, 2007 · Comments
 John Heilemann has written about Steve Jobs in New York Magazine. Regarding his “fourth act”, the iPhone:
Apple’s competitors, by contrast, find the prospect of the iPhone terrifying. “The entire fucking Western world hopes that it’s a case of imperial overstretch,� says the CEO of one of the planet’s largest communications companies. “But everybody is quietly [...]
