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To start, for all those who don’t care about the iPhone… Jane Fonda dropped the C-Bomb on the Today Show. You don’t need to read the rest.
Apologies if there’s weird spelling, I’m on the iPhone.
Last week I borked my phone so badly that turning it on created a flurry of operating system text to scoll by instead of the pretty pretty icons. I was understandably upset. But I managed to restore the phone back to factory settings with a huge sigh of relief.
Then I tried again.
This time I stuck with unlock.iPhone.no, word for word and here I am! I’m never going to use any other unlocking method other than what these guys post. They’ve saved my iButt many times.
I hope that in the near future, someone documents the rise of these super hackers and their struggle with apple, the lurking noons and even themselves. It would read as a soap opera for geeks. There’s been back stabbing, stealing, love affairs, triumphant successes resulting in big money buyouts (Geohot’s new job and car), more stealing, rallying, and even more stealing. The only thing missing is the shirtless guys (Thankfully. Some of these hackers are basement dwellers)
Magical iPhone App
Pay attention, Evil Panda. This might be the thing that makes you hack your iPhone.
Erica Sadun (instrumental in creating the first iPhone jailbreak) has created a killer app that listens to 5-6 seconds of a song from any speakers (radio, computer, Zune, etc), sends it off to a sound identifying service and sends back the name and album of that song. (more info at TUAW) Apparently this tech isn’t new but it’s pretty frikkin’ cool regardless. To me, it’s like magic. Arthur C Clark technology-as-magic kind of fun!
It’s Beta and available through the Installer App.
Just Testin’ For Weenies
I iPhone am iPhone a iPhone content stealing Britney Spears idiot. Hello! We are stealers of content! Please disregard this post. I’m leaving it up for all the spammers who troll for content to raise their page ranking and link farming. See, within seconds of putting up a post I get pingback content stealing and then I have to spend the time and actually check to see that my content is going to dirty, morally corrupt idiots who think they can make money by lifting whole articles from me and linking it back to a dead free blogger account.
What Have You Done Lately?
iJump onto the iTracks
This guy is my hero – he jumps onto the subway tracks to get his iPhone. I probably would have called a Maintenance guy to get it for me.
Post Shooters
Last night at the gym I had to work out beside two women who just would not stop talking. Trapped! They went across a wide spectrum of topics including spiritualism, dating, hair, dating, best friends boyfriends, psychics, cuteness, masculinity and dating. Best line: “He was French. So you know he wasn’t super-masculine.” Thank god SharkBoy didn’t hear that. Nearer to the end, the most talkative one asked “What’s your name again?”
I got a movie from a bin at my favorite video store called “Flight of the Living Dead” and thought “With a title like that, I am pretty sure that Meryl Streep wept when the script passed her by.” The tag line was “Outbreak on a Plane” and I think pluralizing the “outbreak” would have been a bigger wink to Samuel Jackson. For a crap zombie flick with all the quality of a made-for-SciFi-channel movie, it was a-fucking-mazing! It was as bad as you expected and yet so much more! All the cliches were there: a nun, a skanky air hostess, a good air hostess, a cop and his prisoner doing their best Odd Couple shtick, a “last flight before I retire” pilot, a mile high club scene interrupted by a zombie attack and marital drama saved by death. Please. Rent this movie.
I walked into my local pizza joint and the guy behind the counter says “Hey! iPhone guy!” That kind of freaked me out because I didn’t have it on me at the time.
Speaking of iPhone, Normlr (who like me, is a bit strapped for time to post. Pity), sent me screen shots of his new Crackberry. Too Cute! Yes, that is a screenshot of Kath and Kim. If you don’t know who these two are, I feel sad for you.
I’ve finished my first Xbox360 game: BioShock. In terms of engine, it’s uses the Unreal Tournament style of third person shooter, but for graphics, Hol Eee Poop! I loved how the story unraveled and the twist near the end came at a perfect time – not too close to the end to be a buzz kill and not too close to the middle to deflate your interest.
Futureshop store at Yonge and Dundas? Zzzz. We went on opening night and there were no visible deals to be had. They did have a special on product security alarms because they were going off every few seconds. Best Buy, despite their dubious business practices, is still a better store for gadget-gasms.
On a sad note, John, one of the owners of The Point Campsite died last night after a long struggle. He will be missed. Especially the many outrageous outfits and catty comments he would display behind the bar at the campsite.
Lemmie See
I don’t make a habit of writing about co-workers but I feel I need to share this as that it involves (roll eyes) my iPhone:
A co-worker (lets call him Brunty) a few days ago saw my iPhone on my desk and asked me a couple questions about it. Yesterday it was like a floodgate opened and he was bombarding me with emails. Of course, I’m in heaven talking about it and answering all his questions about how I did it, where I get resources, etc. At lunch, Brunty comes into my cube and says, “Let’s see the phone.”
No “hello!” No “Mother May I…?” Just straight out “Let’s see the phone.”
I blink. “Can I see your phone?”
He reaches for his hip.
“No, you don’t understand. This phone is like a Blackberry: it has a lot of personal information on it now.” I demonstrate by turning it on to this welcome screen picture:
I’m kind of freaked at his lack of concern for privacy. Especially when he works in IT…
Donning my Burka
I’ve been ordered no more iPhone stories around SharkBoy. Hence the Burka.
But he can’t silence me on the web!
Last night I successfully upgraded my phone to 1.1.1 with no problems using this method. The easiest method yet. Ironically they included a patch to safeguard against malicious attack which is basically how they broke the 1.1.1 update.
This morning, Apple released 1.1.2 which locks the phone down again and cuts off access to loaded 3rd party apps (but doesn’t wipe them out), but hours before they did, the Dev team had hacked it. Cory Doctorow wept!
And this was found and submitted to The Unofficial Apple Webblog: someone sent us up the webpage too soon! People are saying it’s just a cut and paste job from the US site, not valid at all. Sorry!
Currently Watching…
On my iPhone:
Crazy Rulers of the World – The Men Who Stare at Goats: a three part documentary aired on Channel 4 in England about the infiltration and misconstruction of new-age beliefs into the US military and beyond. The first episode is baffling funny – we search for the man who can stop goat hearts just by thinking about them and wind up with a video tape that isn’t quite the same caliber. The second uncomfortably funny – going further into the conspiracies, we find that the “Earth Battalion” methods of combat are being used with horrific results. The third makes you feel guilty for laughing. Conspiracy theorists will use this as porn. The narrator is Welsh (I think) and has a rather distracting accent, but creates a compelling argument that there actually ARE crazy people who wield power today.
BoingBoingTV: They’re not using Xeni Jardin so much as presenter these days, which is a shame, because Mark F. makes me think of a creepy science teacher who’s just asked you to stay after class to clean erasers. The content of this podcast is 90% weird and wonderful (The plushies episode still makes me want to wash my eyes).
CuteWithChris.com: He’s becoming unapologetic to dissatisfied parents who poo poo his show as being dirty, taunting them into admitting that “what they had to do to become parents is dirty”. Fave character on any show to date: Pervy the Horse. Predominantly a teen viewership, but he did have a nice shout out to hairy bears who watch his shows a couple episodes back.
On my PVR:
Sarah Silverman. Doody. Rob Schrab directs and produces (creator of Scud the Disposable Assassin and Robot Bastard). ‘Nuff said.
The usual array of reality TV that I can’t seem to shake like an addiction to bed time chips: Amazing Race (Go Goths!), Survivor (ho hum), Dancing With the Stars (anyone notice that they’ve started to use a “camera shake” effect every time they show Marie Osmond hitting the floor in her infamous live faint?), Miami/LA Ink (not so much these days, it’s becoming as set up as The Hills, which I DO NOT WATCH), and of course, Miss Tyra Banks and her lovely gaggle of goosey Glamour goddesses, America’s Next Top Model.
Heroes: After a slow start, last night’s episode was like a defibulator to the series. Wham! Thank god Hiro is out of feudal Japan. That was getting a bit drawn out.
Movies:
Very dry this year, you may have noticed. Shelly is pouting. We did see Superbad (laughed), American Gangster (liked it), and uh…others. But nothing has compelled me to write about them. We’re going to see No Country For Old Men this weekend, by order of SharkBoy. I expect it will be good.