redsnow (redsn0w) ready for jailbreaking iPhone 3.0 3G, but NOT 3GS And now we have Redsn0w!! {UPDATE} 3GS is jailbroken also. Link to story. First off, right from the Dev-Team Blog.. Read this… I’m serious!! READ THIS!! Here is the link. REDSN0W PROVIDES SIMILAR FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKPWN. If you want to build custom firmware files with more flexibility it is suggested that you use ‘PwnageTool’ on… Read More
Special #iranElection search filter added to twittFilter I put this together pretty quickly in just a few hours, so I’m sure there are plenty of bugs, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# A problem I have with twitter search during the election is some many RT’ed messages saying the same thing.… Read More
to DDoS or not to DDoS iranElection. That is the question. There has been a movement to launch denial of service attached on various iranian pro government sites using standard DDoS tools to simple reload scripts like http://www.pagereboot.com/ Although I can understand the desire to increase the volume of expressed displeasure with the election, I’m not sure this is really helping. Because the government is already… Read More
Zannel creates a #iranelection channel Today Zannel released a modification to its service to follow hashtags from twitter to support people posting media regarding the #iranElection hashtag. This would have been really useful 24 hours ago, but still, a great potential resource. Since this was just live today, there has not been a lot of action on the site, but… Read More
Twitter, #iranelection and social networks {update} I created a search on twittFilter that hides duplicate from a twitter search. This is useful for #iranElection here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# I’m sure most of you who use twitter are already aware of what has been going on. Because of the media blocks in Iran, social media tools like twitter, friendfeed, flickr… Read More
Twitter reschedules in response to Iranian protests This is how you know your having an impact on the world. When you cannot perform an upgrade to your service because a group of users, say.. IRAN! is relaying on your system to communicate with each other because the government is blocking media systems. Tonight, twitter was suppose to go down for 90min (which… Read More
Twitterrific fix is now available. When the Twitpocalypse kicked off 2 days back, (story here) I figured most major apps would have been ready for it. I was wrong. I also figured, well, there will be a fix in 24 hrs. Wrong again. Its Sunday night and I finally saw Twitterrific after I manually refreshed updates. I installed the update and… Read More
Twitpocalypse claims more iPhone victims then I would have guessed Its not like we were not warned or anything. I knew this was coming 2 weeks ago. Twitpocalypse is twitters version of Y2K where the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. This afternoon, I spend all of 10 min fixing the db in twittFilter to handle the changes and all good. (lux… Read More
How cool! A Stencil Interface Template for iPhone apps Just saw this in Gizmodo. How cool is this? Now, according to Gizmodo, there are only 100 of these, so go get it. Here is the link. www.designcommission.com The template is 16.95 USD which also includes the Zebra mechanical pencil seen in the pic. They also have a pdf you can download which has 3 prints of… Read More
An odd twitter bug if you’ve changed your password {note: if you are looking for the stencil story, click here } I’m drafting an article about twitter applications for the iphone. (if you have a fav iphone twitter app, let me know). I changed my password while I test out some apps and I’ve experienced some login issues. It’s even messed up twittFilter. (for… Read More
Palm Pre’s keyboard is too small, now its down to G1 or iPhone(S) I waited till after the weekend to check out the Palm Pre. I was not happy when I saw the first iamges and they had a portrait keyboard instead of a landscape like the G1. Well, I still held out hope. … Hopes were dashed. First the plus sides. The device feels good in my… Read More
Notes from WWDC2009.. HTML5 and Video I’m not going to go over everything, you can find that anywhere.. I’m instead going to look at a few things that I think are really interesting… HTML5 support! Why is this so important? HTML5 is like having flash lite without the plug-in! (I still wish I had flash though). But take a look at… Read More
How Twitter became my second email system I’m not the first to realise this, but I find I’m sending far more DMs (direct messages) through twitter then I’m sending emails to communicate with people. And why is this? Well.. … its not because I can write more. Only 140 char and no attachments. … its not because notification is better. I get… Read More
Update on Flash coming to the iPhone. Nope, still nothing soon.. But the Pre and Android? Later this year So, we get a story in the Wall Street Journal talking about Flash on mobile devices. Adobe says access to mobile is key! So what is new? Nothing!! Apple and RIM still ‘Do not want!’ and Android, Palm and Nokia ‘Do want!’. I have my HTC from googleIO with Android 1.5. Looking forward to experimenting… Read More
How to make a simple iphone app that will sell. Just put sexy in the title I was reading a rant on Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz , talking about buying ‘sexy screen wash’ and it started me thinking, who buys this stuff?? I mean it’s pretty obvious it’s crap because it’s in the Apple Store. Now once we get a rating system in place (my proposal here) then we may see a bit more… Read More
How to use promo, redeem, access, discount or whatever codes in itunes Every now and again, I get an email asking me to review an iphone app or provide feedback as its being developed. Sometimes I’m asked pretty early so I’m sent screen shots or compiled code, but most of the time its in the App store. Someone once asked me how to put in the code… Read More
Why I hate spymaster, but was fine with SXSW Assassin A new twitter game has started up called Spymaster. The backlash has already started, but there is still enough spymaster messages out there that make me want to write a filter (on twittfilter) to hide all tweets with spymaster on it. Now if you remember back at SXSW, there was something similar called Assassin where… Read More
Another cool update to Backgrounder on the iphone. Icons showing active jobs! Coolness Ok, this is just cool. I updated SBSetting last night and now I get an icon for active threads. Now since I have folders, I do not see everything, but still, kinda cool. 🙂 That is all. {update} I was just made aware that this is part of backgrounder. Which makes sense when you think… Read More
Unboxing the free Andriod Phone at GoogleIO – with images! First off, Ta to Google for the HTC (not G-1) phone and the 30 day phone chip. The chip is 30 days from when you turn it on, so I will stick with the wifi for awhile. I do need to lookup how long this chip is good for. I turned on the phone and… Read More
Why PdaNet, iPhone tethering and Jailbreak rocks!! Again!! Yes, AGAIN, PdaNet to the rescue. At the 140tc conference today, the wireless was in and out. I needed to do some updates to twittfilter and the FTP updates failed because of the wireless. I then gave up on the wireless and pulled out the trusty PdaNet app. Here is a hint though, if you… Read More