Archive for the 'Software' Category

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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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 [...]

Firefox 3: download status in status bar

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I noticed today that Firefox 3 shows the status of my active downloads in the, well, status bar. Nice touch I think!

Now if only it used the ~/Downloads folder on the Mac instead of littering my desktop, it would’ve made for an even better out-of-the-box experience.

A guide to Indian languages on Mac OS X

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Mac OS X Leopard has decent support for Indian scripts and languages. Out of the box, Leopard comes with fonts and keyboards for Devnagri, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil.
Reading Indian language text:
There is nothing that you need to install to be able to correctly view data in these scripts. For example, if you visit the BBC’s [...]