It looks as though Apple has added a few new features to mobile me on the windows and the mac side. It looks as though they have added features such as video upload to the Mobile Me Gallery. Full Knowledge Base Article Below.
T.J.
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I currently have a 1st gen i-Phone that I use primarily for app development. Whenever Apple releases a new update to there software I have to leave my i-Phone in an un-updated state and wait for the folks over on the i-Phone dev team to find a way to jailbreak the device. They are getting very good at what they do over there, within a week of Apple releasing the new OS, they already have it unlocked and jail-broken. Below I am going to walk you through the process I used to Jailbreak my first gen i-Phone for the new OS 3.0.
Many people are using the new ”pwnage” tool that was released from the Dev team blog. I have built the necessary ipsw that is needed for the jail break (see below). Remember that this is for use with the 2g or 1st gen i-Phone. Here are the steps:
1. Download necessary firmware from here.
2. Next put your i-Phone into DFU mode
a. Turn off your i-Phone
b. Hold down the power and home button.
c. When you see the Apple logo, release the power button but continue holding the home button down.
d. Open i-Tunes and wait for it to tell you that its in restore mode.
3. Once i-Tunes opens up and tells you that the i-Phone connected is in recovery mode, on the Mac hold alt and click restore or on the PC hold shift and click restore. This will bring up a file explorer where you can find the firmware downloaded above and restore from here.
4. After that your i-Phone will get the custom Pineapple boot logo, and that’s it.
4 easy steps to jailbreak your i-Phone. Also in the install, you will see Cydia and ICY which are the Jailbroken versions of the app store. Browse around there is a good chance you will find some cool apps that you wouldn’t find in the App store. Look for an update for jailbreaking the i-Phone 3g and 3gs in the next week.
Till then
“Carpe Noctum”
Seize the night!
Ok the “Steve note” is done. The updates to Engadget have slowed down. Now that the dust has cleared lets go over the underwhelming announcements. I am not going to lie I refreshed Engadget all morning waiting to hear a big announcement. I feel that I am still waiting. After reading through the announcements and other blogs I’m not impressed.
i-Phone 3G Announcements:
· 3G (obviously)
· $199 Price Point
· Built in GPS
· Non recessed headphone jack (Not really a feature)
· The new firmware 2.0 ( Push e-mail, Mobile Me integration, wirelessly download applications)
As far as I can see that’s it. There was a quote on a blog that states today’s announcements “Market over Mind”. There really wasn’t anything special that makes me want to purchase an i-phone. Actually for the past couple months I said I would get an i-phone when it went 3G. This is no longer my opinion.
Don’t get me wrong they fixed a lot of things that should have been in the first i-phone. I guess I was just expecting to hear some more big announcements ie: mms messaging, video recording, video chat, notes syncing… I guess I will be waiting another year for i-phones next birthday.
I must say I’m one of them. How many of us have Macworlds live update bookmarked? If you haven’t already done so here is the link.
I imagine that Steve Jobs is not going to dive right in on the new phone. This is a developers conference and I imagine that he will want to talk about the SDK. However if he wants to talk about new features on the iPhone than he will have to go into some detail.
On the flipside I doubt he expects to go in and do a keynote speech and walk out alive if he doesn’t release the new iPhone. In all seriousness the public has waited a long time for the phone. And holding out much longer is just going to make people lose interest.
Regardless, Apple sure does have a good marketing program. The Apple iPhone is one of the most hyped up products of all time. It has people checking the web constantly
We know it exists, Steve Jobs give us our Video Integrated Chat, 3G, GPS enabled iPhone or give us death.
Globus non suffice.
Scott
*picture is from www.ubergizmo.com
