Archive for July, 2008

Unlock your iPhone with firmware 2.0: Pwnage 2.0 released

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

9 days after firmware 2.0 was released, the iPhone Dev team (bunch of hackers from around the world) has released Pwnage 2.0 a tool which unlocks iPhones with the new firmware.
2 caveats, it works only on the Mac and unlocks only the first generation iPhone. It can only jailbreak iPhone 3G but not unlock it.
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App Store: The update story

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Quite a few apps that I had purchased from the App Store recently, have updates available already. The update process has been directly integrated into the iTunes Applications section:

You can click the Check for Updates link to have iTunes check for updates for any of your applications. You’ll be prompted to sign into the iTunes [...]

App Store: Needed badly – some quality checks

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The App Store in India is already beginning to look a little staid. We traded in the freedom of the Jailbroken bazaar for Apple’s App Store cathedral. Apple created this walled garden so that they could do some QA on the apps before letting them in. But I think that in the excitement of ramping [...]

And so it begins…

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, and just 3 days to reach that number with the new 3G version.
In a press release Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is happy to announce these figures and adds “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” and “…the new iPhone 3G is clearly off [...]

Get Dropbox invites here

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

From Webware:
Dropbox is a promising new tool for online storage, file sync, and sharing. The cross-platform system plug-in gives you a shared drop box where you can dump files and access them from multiple computers just like you would on the home machine. It also keeps track of any changes to the files, which can [...]