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« Previous EntriesA new 3D iPhone game ! Written by one man ! Amazing !
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Today I realised that iPhone programmers, who have struggled and battled with programming the iPhone since it’s release, using their own custom-written toolchains, have won.
When I read that somebody released a 3D game for the (jailbroken) iPhone, where you can walk about, and attack and be attacked, and he’s done it all on windows using [...]
If Cydia installer jumps back to Springboard - fix
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I recently updated the Cydia package installer, and something went wrong. It crashed back to Springboard while updating itself, and refused to start up again.
All is not lost however. Remember that Cydia is actually a graphical front-end to the iphone port of apt-get, so you can still install applications via the command line. So drop [...]
Firmware 1.1.4 and Ziphone
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I don’t know if Apple is giving up, or if the hackers are getting better and better, but this is following the same hacking curve as that of the psp : the first few firmwares were really hard to hack, and then it got easier, and after it there was nothing to it (at least, [...]
Youtube Activation on iPhone Firmware 1.1.3
Monday, February 25th, 2008I’m struggling to activate Youtube on my iPhone, now running on firmware 1.1.3. When using firmware 1.1.3 this used to run just fine, but ever since I upgraded, it seems I no longer can use it.
I wasn’t exactly using it a lot, but it rankles me to have an application that is not working. So [...]
iPhone installer.app ?
Monday, February 18th, 2008Seems like everybody is waiting for the SDK to come along… rumors are wild, and people are believing everything they read. Only to find out it’s a fake all along.
Meanwhile, the well of free iphone programs called installer.app has been dry for the last 3 days, which is starting to bother me.
Since I had the [...]
A quick tip : adding a birthday to a contact in your MAC OS X Address Book
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008I find it very hard to add additional information to the Mac OS X Address book : there are only some basic fields, but when you want to add something like a birthday field I can’t find it, unless it’s a custom field.
I know the birthday field exists, as it is added in some of [...]
iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 now “unlockable”
Friday, February 8th, 2008While the latest iPhone firmware version 1.1.3 was already jailbroken, it seems that it is also now unlocked so that you can use any sim card in it.
This is not even from the iPhone Dev/Elite team, somebody else called GeoHot (or George Hotz ) is responsible. However, from what I read, this only describes how [...]
Open helix structures in space contain liquids better than closed containers.
Friday, January 25th, 2008Instead of using coffee cups in space, dear spaceman, try drinking your coffee from corkscrew (helix) cups.
I have a hard time to see how somebody on Earth managed to find this solution to a problem in space, but it is very cool ! Potentially, it could also have big implications in nano workings, where things [...]
Macbook Air costs 1699 euros in Europe, 1799 dollars in the States
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Buying a Macbook Air in Europe costs 1699 euros. Converted to dollars you pay 2499 dollars instead of 1799 dollars if you bought it in the States. A price difference of 600 dollars !!
Conclusion : Europe is richer than America.
How the iPhone blew up the Phone Industry
Sunday, January 13th, 2008There’s a great article on the Wired website on the strubbles and tribulations that went with developing the iPhone and selling it to the wireless divisions of the phone companies.
Highly recommended to get a glimpse of how much effort went into developing and marketing the iPhone.
No more external sound from your iPhone ?
Monday, December 17th, 2007In case you have the following problem scenario on your iPhone, here’s a quick tip :
sound via headphones, no sound via the speakers
your phone rings ok, but
everything else you can’t hear except via the headphones
Then you need to plug in-and-out your headphones. Go on, have some iPhone intercourse !
Do that about 3 to 6 [...]
iPhone mysterious 1604 boot error
Friday, December 14th, 2007Some people get error 1604 when they are booting their phone.
Here’s the apparent fix for this error, though I’m not sure if you need exactly iTunes 7.4 and firmware 1.1. or if you can do this with all versions of firmware and iTunes.
This is a fix if you get a Unknown Error (1604) screen.
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