iphone jailbreak for 3.0 will work for 3.0.1 July 31, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Well there you go. I have been having issues with my iphone and have been thinking of a clean whip, so based on what I read in ‘Crave’ I’m going to do it. From Crave.. … In fact, the current versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w work the same with the 3.0.1 firmware as they do… Read More
UPDATE: iphone should be secured tomorrow. Yeaaa for noise! July 31, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Read this in Gizmodo: Seem Apple will have a patch out to take care of the SMS hijack issue tomorrow after knowing for .. what .. 6 WEEKS?? Oh, but 24 hours after everyone knows about it, AND people are yelling their collective heads off for a fix, AND it gets demo’ed and released at… Read More
iPhone SMS hack not patched?? After 6 weeks? July 30, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment When this story first broke 2 days ago, I though; well they are going to release a patch pretty soon given that the vulnerability is going to be released today at the black hat hackers meeting. Well, guess what I read in CNET? Apple new about this for 6 weeks!!! Are you kidding me? From… Read More
iPhoneDevCamp! You know you want it! July 29, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Yup, almost time for another iphonedevcamp. What? You did not go last year? What’s wrong with you? If you have an iPhone and have ANY interest to building or help build what everyone will see either at the end of this weekend or the end of the year, this is the place to be. So,… Read More
Still want Google Voice? Get it for free via Cydia (jailbreak) July 29, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment They said yesterday that they would put it on Cydia and last night, ‘poof’ it appeared. I downloaded the app and it seems to work fine so far. So go get it already! Do not know what I’m talking about? Well Google Voice was submitted to the Apple Store, which was personally approved last April… Read More
Apple kicks Google Voice out of the iPhone bed. July 28, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments It never seems to end… Apple rejected Google Voice and removed GV Mobile from the app store. This is really a pain because I JUST got a work blackberry and will need to start managing my communication a little better. Being able to do that from my iPhone would be perfect. Seems Apple (read AT&T?)… Read More
Alternative to iTunes is here!! Oh wait.. Spotify is only in Europe July 27, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment As I’ve said before, I do not like iTunes, so I have been waiting for a good replacement. I REALLY hate that I cannot make changes to my playlist unless I’m connect to the ONE machine that has my playlist. Bollocks! There have been many I’ve played with, but I knew about Spotify (a Swedish… Read More
Twitter is the new business card July 24, 2009 | perivision | 3 Comments I ran out of business cards a few months back and never bothered to get more. As such, I find myself in a spot when people ask for my card. Normally I take theirs and intend to email them when I get home. However, as with business cards since as far back as I can… Read More
Augmented Reality Apps for iphone not coming till 3.1. Gezz July 24, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Read this in the LA Times. No Augmented Reality Apps till iphone 3.1 comes out. Why? Because part of what make this work is a function called ‘camera viewer’. This is a ‘restricted’ function and we should be playing with it. But, when 3.1 comes out, we can! huh? What difference does that make? Sure… Read More
New map options on the iphone? Part of Latitude? July 23, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment It might be. I just noticed today that when I go to maps I get a pop up for my location that allows me to share it out via email. I’m sure this is part of 3.0 and why I have noticed it till now I have no idea. If it IS new, then I’m… Read More
What is a cassette deck? R U kidding? July 22, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment This was funny. I have a number of cassettes from ‘back in the day’. Quite a large number in fact. So I decided that I would get my old cassette player and convert them to mp3 at work since I’m at the desk most of the day there anyway. So I packed my ‘ol cassette… Read More
Having lockup problems with intelliscreen and push notifications? Me too July 21, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment It seems intelliscreen can lockup if you get a push calendar notification as from exchange if you have unread email. The problem is when you get an alert, intelliscreen will ‘flip up’ so show the alert and a button to dismiss it. However, if you have unread email, you cannot access the slide bar to… Read More
Soft Porn is ok with the Apple store as long as its not from the interwebs July 20, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment “..Wobble iBoobs is not rated, and the classic first person shooter, Doom, is rated 12+. However, e-book reader Eucalyptus is rated 17+ because you can search the Internet and access the Kama Sutra.” Really? And now an app called ‘Cannabis’ (which helps you find legal pot stores) gets through. Now I’m fine with this app,… Read More
Using your iphone, blackberry and foursquare to get free food and drinks. If you work at it July 16, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment This is cool. Read this post in TC: Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services The idea is if you go to a place and check in with foursquare enough, you will be rewareded with free food, drinks, services, whatever.. What I like is this idea of tracking and rewarding users that help drive… Read More
Tether your iphone without jailbreak! With some warnings July 13, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments I just read this today on ismashiphone (link).. The posts describe the steps required to tether your iphone 3g(s) IF you are updated to the new 3.0 firmware. Since I use PDANet (paid for it too) I have not tried it personally, but I’m sure there are a few readers who love to have this… Read More
Ultra customize (pimp) your iphone with Supreme Preferences July 13, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments I’m not a big ‘pimping’ kind of guy when it comes to my iphone. In fact, I tend to keep as many thing off it as I can in order to increase speed (I’m the same with my desktop/laptops). However, when I saw ‘Supreme Preferences’ in Cydia last night, I thought I would give it… Read More
I want an iphone keyboard! N97 reviews are depressing July 10, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Warning, this is more of a rant then anything.. I want a bloody keyboard for my smart phone. There are many thing about the iphone that really pisses me off, but so far, only android comes close to the experience. I was excited about the palm pre till I tried the keyboard.. too small. The… Read More
redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock updated for iphone 3GS July 8, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment It was just a matter of time. I’m not happy that purplera1n was release because it uses a hole that the dev’rs were going to hold on to till 3.1 Since the cat is out of the bag, it does not matter now. So NOW we have to wait for a new hole for 3.1. … Read More
Sick of all the #MJ coverage? Well Budda .. just Budda July 5, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment As some who like to keep the news on in the background, it feels like entertainment tonight in on every channel. I thought I could not deal with one more MJ tribute… till I saw this comic. It’s from sinfest. Great stuff. BTW, thats Obama playing guitar at the end. Ref: for Obama as rock… Read More
Jailbreaking the iphone 3gs – purplera1n July 4, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment This did not take long did it? But the funny thing is that it did not come from the Dev-team, but instead instead from George Hotz. Now this is windows only (sorry mac people) but I’m sure it will be ported soon enough. Now remember this is 3.0, so if you are running the 3.1… Read More