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Why limit emoji?

March 3, 2009

We’re jailbreakers, so news that Apple is pulling emoji-enabling applications from the iPhone AppStore doesn’t really affect us (emoji can be enabled by a download available on Cydia). That said, it wasn’t until very recently that we enabled emoji on our first-generation iPhone, and truth be told, we’re sort of indifferent on the matter. At [...]

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mendax.iphone

February 9, 2009

v3.0 Apple’s iPhone has changed the way many of us go about our daily lives, not because the iPhone is the most revolutionary handheld device ever conceived, but because Apple’s polish made the iPhone’s features accessible to a large audience (and the subsidized price hasn’t hurt). Even a stock iPhone has many useful features, but [...]

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Apple hates hackers.

January 14, 2009

After Wired hosted a video tutorial on how to install OS X on an MSI Wind notebook, they received a cease-and-desist letter from Apple. The step-by-step instructions were apparently too explicit for Apple, who felt threatened enough to take legal action. Ultimately, Wired took the video down, though would-be hackers can still find the video [...]

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Ten-percent of all iPhones unlocked.

October 4, 2007

This number, 10%, is not unrealistic, despite what others are claiming. In fact, this “analysis” by Apple Insider is consistent with claims by third-party iPhone software developers, who claim that they’ve had over 100,000 downloads of their respective software packages. This was back when Apple was purporting sales of just over 1,000,000 iPhones, which my [...]

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iPhones are not being bricked.

September 28, 2007

It wasn’t that long ago that real “tech words” never entered Average Joe’s vernacular. These days, the dumb media, and in turn, Average Joe himself, misuses geek terminology like they’re reinventing a word from scratch. Case in point: the recent Apple-upgrades-iPhone-firmware fiasco, in which thousands of stupid iPhone users hacked their phones and didn’t think [...]

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On unlocking my iPhone.

September 12, 2007

Those following my Twitter status know that I finally broke down and purchased an iPhone, with the obvious intent to unlock it for use on T-Mobile. After arguing with Maxator about the iPhone’s merits versus the upcoming iPod Touch, I sat down with what turned out to be a three-hour hack session that is now [...]

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