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Gaming industry corrupting the blogosphere?

September 18, 2008

When Wolfshead commented on Tobold’s ego several days ago, we didn’t intend to comment on it. Not because Wolfshead isn’t dead-on, but because we had nothing further to add. In short, commentary on Tobold’s ego came up after Tobold announced that Mythic handed him a media subscription to Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR). In other [...]

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Bring AppStore-banned apps to Cydia/Installer.app!

September 15, 2008

Per Nullriver’s own statement, Apple’s final judgement on NetShare is simple: perma-banned from the AppStore. Despite Apple previously publishing the utility and earning money from its sale, Apple pulled NetShare on what we assume are AT&T’s wishes. (NetShare enabled tethering of an iPhone’s data service, such that other computers could utilize the respecive internet service. [...]

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mendax.wow discontinued.

September 10, 2008

Sorry for those who’ve been hanging on, but it should have been clear by now: we stopped playing World of Warcraft (WoW) some time ago, and with that, mendax.wow was effectively killed. Should someone wish to resurrect this WoW add-on compilation, we’d be happy to continue hosting it, but unless that happens, expect mendax.wow v2.41 [...]

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Phone + bestiality = good design?

September 5, 2008

Somehow, at the 2008 Good Design Expo, Japanese company Willcom showcased a concept phone to what Forever Geek refers to as “the adoring public”. The phone is not only oversized, but in the shape of a teddy bear, and requires the user to talk into the bear’s crotch as though to give it fellatio. Fortunately, [...]

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Why Apple should embrace potty humour.

September 4, 2008

John Gruber reported earlier today that Apple denied listing an application on the iTunes AppStore that plays a variety of fart sounds. Apple “determined” that the application was “of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod Touch user community”. Yet, as Gruber points out, Apple has no problems listing the vast amount of shovelware [...]

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Upgrading a jailbroken iPhone from 2.0 to 2.0.1.

August 10, 2008

It was only a couple weeks ago that we detailed our process for upgrading a 2G iPhone to firmware 2.0. This process, thanks to PwnageTool, allowed us to make use of the latest iPhone features (like signed third-party applications) on our jailbroken/unlocked iPhone. Since then, Apple released the 2.0.1 firmware update, which fixes some of [...]

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