This one is for our very own Dieter Bohn… For those of you who do not know, and it pains me to say this, Dieter loves his Windows Mobile.
It seems like the tables have turned here for this edition of “Send in the iClones”. I suppose it is only fair that we as iPhone owners have the tables turned on us sometimes. What we have here is called iPhoneFLO. It is a simple theme you can use if you have Summerboard on your Jailbroken iPhone. To find it go into the installer.app and search for iPhoneFLO. Be sure to have Summerboard installed as well, which can also be installed via the installer.app.
For more information please visit our section of the forums devoted to Jailbreaking. Anyone going to give this a shot and Jailbrake simply for this theme?
Trouble finding a certain app in the app store? Well, there is a new website out there called iPhonexe (mobile version can be found here) that gives everyone with a iPhone a alternative to using Apple’s official app store. While I personally have not checked for every single app currently in the app store, iPhonexe claims to include them all, broken down into categories ready for nice and easy browsing. Keep in mind that this does not bypass Apple’s app store completely. If you click “Buy Now” you are taken directly to the app in the app store to purchase it via iTunes.
But wait! I’ve saved the best feature (by far) for last: the ability to search Jailbroken apps! I know there are other sites out there that you can use to see what is available on that side of the iPhone world but none do it this nicely. It is worth a look for sure.
A few weeks back Rene reported that starting September 7th Best Buy would be selling the iPhone 3g. Well that day is rapidly approaching and look what has landed on the cover of next weeks Best Buy’s circular.
AppleInsider reports that Best Buy is having a promotion for customers who purchase one of four accessory packages. Packages start at $106 all the way up to $234. What great deal have they cooked up for you? Free phone and email setup! As Rene would say… ZOMG! Last time I checked, this is something that any Apple store will do for you for free.
Come on Best Buy, surely you can do a better than that?
It started innocently enough. Prince Mclean over at Apple Insider commented in passing:
Data transaction security in MobileMe’s web apps is based upon authenticated handling of JSON data exchanges between the self contained JavaScript client apps and Apple’s cloud, rather than the SSL web page encryption used by HTTPS. The only real web pages MobileMe exchanges with the server are the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files that make up the application, which have no need for SSL encryption following the initial user authentication. This has caused some unnecessary panic among web users who have equated their browser’s SSL lock icon with web security. And of course, Internet email is not a secured medium anyway once it leaves your server.
If Apple applied SSL encryption in the browser, it would only slow down every data exchange without really improving security, and instead only provide pundits with a false sense of security that distracts from real security threats.
And the web went wild. Daniel Eran Dilger, took the crown off to retort them all over at Roughly Drafted:
For the record: Apple’s MobileMe desktop email can be secured via encrypted SMTP and IMAP; Apple presents details on how to ensure this is set up, as users may not have this enabled by default. Address Book and iCal sync on Mac OS X is secured automatically when it transacts with Apple’s server cloud. Windows apps use the same security when syncing their data via Outlook through iTunes for Windows. The iPhone and iPod touch also support encrypted email and all push messages are also secured via encryption.
Our take? If you’re super sensitive about your data, only ever browse via SSL over a VPN while sending with a strong PGP key, and hope no intelligence service is willing to spend serious money and assets on snooping in your general direction.
Other than that, use common sense. Don’t risk information you can’t afford getting out, and take advantage of every security feature your chosen system implements.
What’s coming on Sept 9th? What’s going on with the 3G radio on ATT? What’s included in the Real Internet? What are you waiting for? Listen in!
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This cool piece of video came to us from a email tip from 18 year old Josef Průša. Have some time to spare? Have a old remote control car laying around? Well that’s what Josef had and he and his brother took “only one afternoon” to get this up and running!
As for controlling the car, you simply have five buttons. Four of which can be used to drive and the fifth button is used to toggle control via the accelerometer on and off, similar to any of the current racing games in the App Store. Pretty cool trick indeed…
If you want to try and give this a shot be sure to head on over to Josef’s blog for the full how to guide, which can be found here (Note, you will need to have a PC around to act as an intermediary between the iPhone and the RC car).
Now I’m off to see if I can find any old R/C cars laying around…
Look, advertising is a mysterious thing, okay? It takes some crazy genius can figure out how to make you want things without you even realizing that’s what’s happening. Any Don Draper monologue can tell you that.
But, as Rene asked, who were the geniuses who came up with this one?
Alright: devil’s advocate time: We get it, time spent humanizing Bill Gates is time spent humanizing Microsoft; we even get the secret ‘anti-switcher’ message for hardcore Seinfeld fans who remember the Mac in his apartment. Heck: we get that Bill/Microsoft1 is a mensch and shops at regular stores for regular people, not some overpriced, all white and chrome, well-designed… you get where we’re going with this.
So, like the Apple ads, we get some cute humor with a heart of gold — it’s as though Microsoft went ahead and took PC, admitted straight up he’s Bill Gates himself, and then ran with it. Ok, we’re a little sold that this will help people warm up Microsoft. Feeling better about Vista (or, yes, Windows Mobile2) — not so much.
Finally, and we hesitate to even mention this, but was it really necessary to make us not only watch that little derriere-shake at the end, but anticipate and wait for it? Jerry Seinfeld: you imp you.
Yes, Gates has retired, but he’s still the soul of the company and not a bad soul at all. Plus, can you imagine this commercial with Steve Ballmer instead of Bill? The horror. The horror.
Ha HA! The iPhone-related angle is finally revealed!
Okay, so we pretty much all now know what the iPod Nano 4G will look like, but what about the iPod Touch 2G? If iLounge’s sources are right — surprise, surprise — the upcoming refresh will see it slightly thicker but more tapered, just like what happened to the iPhone back in June. What else?
What appears to be an antenna enclosure is shown on its rear top left, with the same headphone port and Dock Connector port arrangement at its bottom. Notably, the drawings show what appear to be volume controls on the left side, addressing a key concern of iPod touch users; the added thickness might be attributable to changes in the battery.
Following on yesterday’s Net Applications MobileSafari metrics, which showed ever increasing iPhone browser share, TUAW now tells us Investor Village has found yet another obscure path to sales deviation. This method involves tracking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) code on each individual iPhone sold, and using it:
researchers have figured out that Apple has manufactured at least 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. Add that to the 2.4 million 1st generation iPhones sold in 2008, and you arrive at 8 million iPhones.
Now, we’re admittedly as mathlexic as Fake Steve himself, and we’re still not entirely convinced this isn’t tea leaf reading of one sort or another, but we’ll likely know for sure come September 9th “Let’s Rock” event.
Apple promised us 10 million sold in 2008 , and with the holiday season still coming, looks like they may not just make those numbers, but break them.
Were you an early adopter of the iPhone 2G? How about an early adopter of the iPhone monolithic-slice-of-tech-heaven 3G? Are you still contemplating a migration from your 2G to a shiny 3G? Is the 3G in your hand and the 2G in your nightstand drawer, collecting dust? Questions, questions. What should you do with that 2G? Read on for this week’s Tip!
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