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[corolla_2nr]

@rene,
sorry dont know of anyone off hand.

[Travis]

[sexyicon]

Thanks ill give it a shot..

[sexyicon]

btw FYI
(Haven't tried it yet)


blacksn0w is live
blacksn0w is a free unlock for the latest iPhone 3G and 3GS
blackra1n is a super simple jailbreak used to install unlock
new visitors, go to blackra1n.com download and have fun

blackra1n RC3 is also live for both Windows and Mac!!! Clean firmware 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07 are recommended.

Updates:
Unlock!!!
Hacktivation
Keep legit activation if activated before running app
15 seconds faster, you'll feel it
Tiger + PPC support

Go to blackra1n.com to download
For support, blackra1n.support at gmail...but read this first

blacksn0w is also available on Cydia, add blackra1n.com as repo

http://blackra1n.com/

[Travis]

i now try the blackrain in work, but i need an unblocked wifi to do the final unlock

you need the original ipsw file from apple though cause when i tried it with a custom ipsw blackrain didn't install... it was done on a macbook

[rene181]

I TRIED THIS black snow thing but my phone is stuck in simlock need help

[rene181]

Back rain suppose to help me because sat gone i updated my phone in itunes they say black rain will help i gess not because my phone is in simlock

[rene181]

Omg ppl Black snow is the bessssssssssssssssssss myphone was in sim lock for 2 days now its jail broken and fixed yayyyyyy black snow saved me a 300 ppl use my phone was in a mess

[SRASC]

ZodTTD is working on a port of N64 for the iPhone 3GS and the iPod touch 3G.

The port is being developed for these two models because:
- They're the fastest Apple handhelds in term of raw CPU performance.
- They both have a faster GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) which allows for OpenGL ES 2.0 specifications.

So yes you may soon see N64 on your favorite Apple device. But I can't promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say. There's hope though, with a 3D accelerated graphics plugin, as well as an ARM dynarec. If you have a previous generation device, I can use software rendering, but it will slow things down further, along with the slower CPU.

[SRASC]

Looks like Adobe is getting increasingly restless about Apple's lackadaisical approch towards bringing Flash to the iPhone.

Now in a seeming attempt to place the blame squarely on Apple, Adobe is taking the issue to the iPhone users themselves.

Now iPhone users trying to access Flash content on their handsets are shown this message from Adobe:

"Apple restricts use of technologies required by product like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch".



It sounds like a last-ditch effort by Adobe to bring Flash to the iPhone users. Many previous attempts to talk to Apple about bringing Flash have only ended up in empty promises. This has been because Apple has always suspected the Flash player of bringing down the performance levels of the iPhone and Steve Jobs has in fact gone on air saying that he has not been particularly impressed with Adobe's offer for the iPhone.

Recently, Adobe had launched a beta version of Flash Professional CS5 that enabled app developers to port their Flash applications to the iPhone platform. However, users looking to access Flash based web content on their iPhones have remained unlucky so far.

Will this fresh salvo from Adobe help them finally push the Flash Player on to the iPhone? Why do you think Apple has stayed its ground on this issue for over two years now? Please put forward your opinion in the comments.

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Sources indicate that AT&T may be considering the launch of an 8GB iPhone 3GS, according to the BoyGeniusReport.

"Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We’ve heard now from two sources that AT&T, and we guess Apple, are contemplating launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at the $99 price point before Christmas. One source said this was AT&T’s way of combating the DROID madness."

This would actually make sense given the recent press attention to the Motorola DROID.

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EA has released an update to The Sims 3 for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In The Sims 3 you can create lifelike Sims with a unique personality and take them anywhere in the neighborhood. The powerful Create-a-Sim tool allows you to create Sims that are more realistic than ever. Select from dozens of personality traits such as brave, artistic, kleptomaniac, clumsy, paranoid and romantic. With Create-a-Sim, you can create a limitless number of truly unique Sims. The Sims 3 allows for infinite possibilities to design the interior and exterior of your Sims’ surroundings using the Create-a-Style feature. Additionally, you can enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards! Based on personality traits, skills and career choices, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant, fun challenges and so many things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards or not!

Whats New In This Version:
- New Sims Store with exciting new stuff for your Sims and their homes
- Redecorate your Sim's house by customizing your wall coverings and flooring
- Change your Sim's appearance at any time during your game
- New Car Dealer Shop is featured on the Town Map
- New Driveway is featured in front of the Sims houses for a better view of their cars
- iPod Media Play back - through Main Menu and Stereo objects in-game
- Sims can be rotated in Create-A-Sim
- Minor bug fixes

You can download The Sims 3 from the App Store for $6.99.

[idlemind]

DOOM Classic (Released 30/10/09)


DOOM Classic

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION

Welcome to Hell! Prepare to relive the First Person Shooter that defined a generation with the legendary original DOOM – now on the iPhone. As a space marine stationed on the planet Mars, you are all that stands between the armies of Hell and their invasion of planet Earth!
DOOM Classic includes the original three episodes as well as Episode Four, Thy Flesh Consumed, spread across 36 levels of non-stop carnage and action.

Choose from customizable control schemes, all designed by id Software co-founder and industry legend, John Carmack. Wield unforgettable weapons like the Chainsaw and the BFG 9000 while fighting through notorious monsters like the Imp, Cacodemon, and Hell Knight!
In DOOM Classic, multiplayer action is reborn! With a wireless connection, battle up to four players in Deathmatch mode, or work together cooperatively and fight back against the demons of Hell.

Features:
• Play the legendary first person shooter, DOOM, with an iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Fight through 36 missions in four action-packed episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead, Shores of Hell, Inferno, and Thy Flesh Consumed
• Experience DOOM multiplayer on your mobile device, including Deathmatch and Cooperative play for up to four players via wireless internet.
• Choose from three different control types and customize the interface to suit your style
• Explore the depths of Mars while utilizing the topdown map to help you explore and save your game on the fly.
• Listen to the original soundtrack or disable it and use your own iPod music

NEW IN THIS VERSION

LANGUAGES
English

REQUIREMENTS
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later

Download

[corolla_2nr]

idlemind, i dont tink yuh should post warez meng. its illegal.

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Want to know why your baby is crying? There's an App for that!



Having trouble understanding your baby’s burbles, screeches and noisy, wheedling screams? There’s an app for that.


The Cry Translator listens to a whining child and analyzes the pitch, volume, tone and inflection of his nerve-jangling noise. Ten seconds later, it provides you with one of five “translations”: hungry, sleepy, stressed, annoyed or bored.

The idea of this $30 iPhone application, apart from preying on the anxieties of new parents, is to help teach you the meanings of the distinctive sounds and to help out babysitters who might otherwise try to feed your three-month old (hunger) instead of just switching over to the Family Guy from American Idol (bored). The application even gives advice on what to do, depending on the translation.

According to the seller, Biloop Technologic, clinical tests have proven the app to be accurate 96% of the time, and it will “continue to translate crying regardless of the age of the child”. This last is an excellent feature, and will help me determine the cause the next time the Lady starts to blubber. On previous experience, I can guess it will most likely be “annoyed” or “bored”. On sale until November 11th for $10.


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if you ever wanted to try some paid apps....
http://iphone-enthusiast.blogspot.com/2009/10/special-cydia-repos.html

but remember.. supports the Dev's.

Guys, did u all ever buy a cydia app? like is it an easy process?

[corolla_2nr]

ohh and if your having problems with the blacksn0w unlock. WRT to youtube, wifi, etc.

Just reset network settings n hard reboot:
1. On iphone select ;
Settings / General / Reset / Reset Network Settings

2. You will now be prompted with "Reset Network Settings" button, select it

3. Hard re-boot your iphone, hold down the home and power button, when prompted, slide to turn off

4. Turn device back on by holding down power button until apple logo appears

Thats it, you should be back up and running, unless of course your one of the very unfortunate few who have reported that every time they re-boot, they get the same problems again! If this is you, follow procedure again, but dont switch off device.

[SRASC]

O2 will allow customers to unlock their iPhones once Orange begins selling the iPhone on November 10th.

Matthew Key, head of O2, told Times Online, "Once the iPhone becomes available on other UK networks, we will allow O2 customers to unlock their iPhones, although of course they will still need to honour any outstanding contract period they have. At the end of their contract period, they are entirely free to move to another operator — though naturally we hope they won’t want to! "

When asked why O2's 3G network was struggling, Key made these comments.

"The O2 network has seen an 18-fold increase in data carried over the network in the last year and traffic continues to double every three months..."

..."We are investing more than £30 million to address capacity issues in London alone between now and Christmas and I’m confident that we’ll see much improved levels of service as a result."

AT&T... take a cue

[SRASC]

Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010

A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers, and specifically to Verizon Wireless in the US.

The report by OTR Global, provided to AppleInsider by an industry analyst, says the new "worldmode" iPhone will gain compatibility with CDMA2000 networks (including Verizon's US network, which is currently incompatible with existing iPhone models) while retaining compatibility with UMTS 3G networks globally using a new hybrid chip produced by Qualcomm.

According to OTR's sources, Asustek subsidiary Pegatron will build the new hybrid phone devices for Apple rather than Hon Hai, the iPhone's current manufacturer. This decision was reportedly made to prevent the company from being "constrained by a single-source assembler."

A smaller body

The research note also identified the new phone as having a 2.8" screen, which is significantly smaller than the current iPhone's 3.5" display.

Last summer, component pictures indicating the development of a smaller 2.8" iPhone model appeared on the web next to the standard 3.5" parts currently in production, and a Chinese-language newspaper reported that an upcoming model of the iPhone would be smaller and lighter.

Without any mention of both larger and smaller versions in OTR's report, it appears but has not yet been confirmed that next year's iPhone will scale down in size while also gaining compatibility with all major mobile networks.



CDMA vs. WCDMA

The American technological rift between CDMA providers (including Sprint and Verizon) and GSM/UMTS providers (T-Moblie and AT&T) was widely expected to remain in place until Verizon moved to LTE, the next generation of UMTS service.

In other countries, CDMA providers have either shut down their networks and moved entirely to UMTS service (as Telstra did in Australia) or added a UMTS overlay to their existing CDMA service (as Bell and Telus just recently did in Canada). In the US, Verizon decided to do neither, and instead will only be investing in a new next generation LTE network that won't be completed for years.

This appeared to leave little opportunity for a Verizon iPhone before 2011, but Qualcomm's "worldmode" hybrid component enables Apple to continue offering a single iPhone version that can be sold by both AT&T and Verizon in the US, and on virtually every carrier outside the US.

UMTS is the 3G service associated with GSM providers, but it uses radio carrier technology (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) similar to but incompatible with Qualcomm's CDMA2000/EVDO used by Verizon. Despite the technical similarities, CDMA2000 and UMTS/WCDMA are competing, non-interoperable 3G technologies. With nearly all mobile carriers having announced plans to shift to UMTS or LTE in the future, CDMA2000 represents a dead end.

It still remains widely deployed in various markets however, including the US, where Verizon's CDMA2000 3G network is widely regarded as having wider reach and providing better data service than AT&T's newer UMTS 3G network. AT&T's 3G service is rated particularly poorly in San Francisco and New York City, where coverage holes have been exacerbated by a huge influx of data-hungry iPhone users. AT&T has yet to introduce its 3G MicroCell to enable users to solve their own dead zones at home or work.

Qualcomm's new hybrid CDMA/WCDMA chip offers the potential for a single, global iPhone that users can take to any major carrier, solving the network fractionalization problem. It also solves other issues that had served as roadblocks, including the issue of user confusion that would result from Apple selling separate CDMA and GSM/UMTS versions of the iPhone.

With one phone that works on both types of networks, any differences between the two (such as in features like conference calling and simultaneous voice and data, unique to UMTS) will be more apparently tied to the provider's network rather than to an iPhone model itself.

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Verizon's DROID, cancelation fee launch

Verizon's merciless attacks on AT&T's 3G network coverage in ads spoofing the iPhone's "there's an app for that" slogan were another factor which left some observers to think that Verizon could not possibly be in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone anytime soon, but the OTR report indicates that Verizon and Apple have already hammered out an agreement to sell the new iPhone model within the year.

Verizon recently launched two smartphones aimed squarely at the iPhone: the BlackBerry Storm 2 and Motorola Droid. At the same time, the provider also announced a new cancelation policy that charges users a hefty $350 when they attempt to back out of contracts involving "advanced devices."

Last year, the company found little lasting enthusiasm from users who assumed that the original Storm would be closer to the iPhone in terms of features; whether the new fee is an attempt to penalize unsatisfied users or to profit from switchers next year, it may result in users rethinking their purchases right now.

With reports breaking the news that Verizon will be selling the iPhone within the year, sales of the Storm 2, Droid, and next year's Palm Pre may end up repressed if customers decide they'd rather wait for the iPhone to arrive instead of facing the prospect of a major cancelation penalty and the loss of their subsidy credit by buying an alternative device now.

Droid reviews have largely described it as a second place alternative for users who want to stick with Verizon. That being the case, the prospect of a Verizon iPhone appears poised to deflate Droid sales this holiday season.

End of AT&T exclusivity

The news might not be good for AT&T either, considering that many users have switched to AT&T solely because they wanted to get the iPhone. The availability of a Verizon iPhone may cause AT&T buyers to hold off on new purchases until they see what kinds of competitive deals AT&T and Verizon will offer once the iPhone's exclusivity with AT&T ends next summer and the new "worldmode" iPhone appears.

It does however give AT&T a year to improve its 3G network and roll out the 3G MicroCell before being hit with mass defections from iPhone users irate over service issues. AT&T can still advertise that its 3G network is faster than Verizon's CDMA2000 coverage, and that it offers some features that CDMA2000 does not, including simultaneous voice and data and easy to use, multiple party conference calling.

AT&T has struggled to keep up with the pace of iPhone development, failing to immediately implement iPhone 3.0's MMS and tethering features, and remaining unable to take advantage of the faster 7.2 Mbps HSPA data potential of the iPhone 3GS. The threat posed by a "worldmode" iPhone should push AT&T to deliver a year of high priority network upgrades, and potentially result in more competitive service plans.

[corolla_2nr]

just sharing some info, with regards to syncing contacts.

I was attempting to use the shiddy Sony Ericsson PC Suite to sync 800+ contacts from a p990. Half that got onto outlook were names without numbers.

I somehow came across this guide (this man has no conduct... f word all over so ill summarize:
http://blogs.myspace.com/in...=9934763&blogId=507819308

1) Get a yahoo! account.
2) Obtain the vcf file from your phone. I used the Backup.
3) Go to Yahoo site, login, and go.. tools>Import Contacts.
4) Browse and load the vcf file.
5) Import them.
6) Plug in iPhone, and sync contacts by Yahoo! Contacts.
7) you will then be asked to login.
Voila ALL your contacts will be there with all your details.

Thanks to the guy on my space.

[TK!]

i cannot see my wifi network at all. worked for a a day afetr the rain... but then nothing las nite.

i tried the reset and reboot. nothing. will work on a soln.

other than this, everything worked. a note to add... according to the documentation, an already jailbreaked iphone should work with blackra1n. but no, it did not. ie - a 3gs that's previously jailbroken needs to be restored in itunes and then you can try yhe ra1n.

only after that will u see the ra1n icon on your phone. dont fear.. updating via the itunes will lock and upgrade the phone and tell apple u'r not using the right sim. but ra1n jailbreaks the phone after that an then sn0w unlocks for any carrier.

[TK!]

[SRASC]

RadioShack has announced that they will carry the iPhone in stores beginning later this month.

[TK!]

upddate to my update... wireless still dropping everytime i reboot. youtube also cannot connect.

edit:
http://modmyi.com/forums/un...ckra1n-loses-youtube.html