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iPhone 3GS

This just in: iPhone 3GS dramatically increases intensity and flavour of chicken dinners

February 1, 2010

Here’s a picture I took of some half-baked, half-fried chicken we had last week. It was so ridiculously easy to snap a quick picture and do a little bit of editing and blurring with Photogene (review) and TiltShiftGen (review). I then threw it onto my Flickr account with FlickIt and am now trying to show [...]

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Has your iPhone turned into Big Brother? [iPhone Apps]

January 22, 2010

We all love our iPhones for the variety of tasks it can perform. Besides the standard calling and texting, Apple and its App Store enable us to do many different things with our phones. There are games, social networking apps, weather and sports score updates, RSS feeds, and a plethora of productivity applications. But what [...]

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Jailbreak, Backgrounding Apps & iPhone Battery Life

December 27, 2009

Over the last few months I’ve been enjoying running my iPhone jailbroken more than ever. It helps that I’m using a 3GS and the stability and speed of the thing just keep on rocking almost no matter what you throw at it.
One area that does not necessarily keep rocking quite as well is [...]

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Review & Torture Test: Otterbox Defender Series Case for iPhone 3G/3GS

October 21, 2009

It seems almost absurd when you think about it – Apple produces a stunning device with elegant lines and gorgeous craftsmanship, and we buy them and immediately hide them away in cases, never again to see the light of day. I’ve never been a fan of enclosing cases; I prefer to put my iPhone [...]

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Hello blackra1n, Welcome Back Jailbreak on the iPhone 3GS

October 11, 2009

Hurrah. My iPhone 3GS is jailbroken again, and running iPhone OS 3.1.2 – thanks to GeoHot’s new blackra1n jailbreak, which he released late last night.
As many of you know, and have teased me about , I updated to the 3.1 firmware a few weeks back and have been kicking myself about it [...]

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New blackra1n Jailbreak for all iPhones / Touches on 3.1 (and 3.1.2) Is Out

October 11, 2009

Blackra1n – the much-awaited new jailbreak for all iPhone and iPod Touch models on the 3.1 and 3.1.2 firmware – has been released, very late last night.
Here’s a brief rundown on it from its creator, GeoHot:
So, what is blackra1n? blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak. Even the ipt3, but the [...]

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Looks Like blackra1n, New Jailbreak for iPhone 3.1 and 3GS, Is Coming Very Soon

October 7, 2009

From the sound of the latest tweets from GeoHot this afternoon / evening, it seems like we may see his new ‘jailbreak that will jailbreak them all’ may be coming tomorrow – in line with his ‘2 days’ comments yesterday.
There’s a website up already for it – HERE – no announcement or words there [...]

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Video Demo of 3GS VoiceOver Feature for The Visually Impaired

September 17, 2009

I spotted this via a post at Daring Fireball this morning. I was vaguely aware of the iPhone’s accessibility features, but had not realized how powerful the VoiceOver (screen reader for the visually impaired) feature is. Check out the video demo HERE – it’s really very impressive.

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iPhone 3GS Jailbreak – After 3 Weeks: Stable, Fast & Not Feeling It with Themes

August 18, 2009

Well … it’s been a little over 3 weeks of running my iPhone 3GS jailbroken now (just over 23 days actually) – and I have to say I’m very happy with it.
Stability has settled down and is now almost as rock solid as when the 3GS was running ‘stock’. In fact, the phone has [...]

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iPhone 3GS – Jailbroken 12 Days, Stability & Performance Update

August 7, 2009

It’s been almost two weeks since I jailbroke my iPhone 3GS. My original jailbreak, back on July 26, was done with the purplera1n app. After the 3.0.1 iPhone urgent security update was released, I restored, updated and re-jailbroke with the Dev Team’s redsn0w method.
As it’s been nearly two weeks now (12 days), running the [...]

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iPhone 3GS – One Week Jailbroken – A Few More Quick Thoughts

August 3, 2009

It’s been a little over one week of running my iPhone 3GS jailbroken now. I’m a little surprised to say that I think I’ll be sticking with the jailbreak – at least for a while longer. As I’ve mentioned before, my main reason for staying jailbroken – by some distance – is the ability [...]

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