Archive for November, 2007
November 30, 2007
A while back AT&T enabled iPhone owners to edit their iphone service plans online to exclude EDGE data service from their plans, carving out a good $20 from their monthly fees. Unfortunately, AT&T recently removed their online editing of service plans for iPhone customers.
While it looks like no more customers will be able to remove EDGE from their wireless plans, it is unknown what AT&T will decide to do for those who have already removed the EDGE from their iPhone plans.
One reader of TUAW claims that this is not AT&T removing the feature, but a normal downtime screen. Have you tried to remove EDGE from your iPhone plan? If you try it out, let us know the results.
November 30, 2007
Erica Sadun released an app today that changes the iPhone’s carrier with ease. Previously you had to do a ton of command line stuff to change the carrier logo, but now all you have to do is type in the name after opening the app. After typing in the name, springboard will restart and show your new logo.
Make It Mine can be obtained in here.
November 30, 2007
TUAW reader Mauro writes that after running the 1.1.2 jailbreak, YouTube no longer works. He asks: “Any idea how to solve this problem?” Here is a simple guide from Ging of the South that will help.
The guide walks you through editing a particular property list to add a device certificate that authorizes your iPhone or iPod touch. The Ging page provides the certificate text for you to paste into Property List Editor. If you’re not on a Mac, you can use my plutil utility to convert the file to XML format and then edit it with your favorite text editor.
via http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/29/fixing-youtube-on-your-jailbroken-iphone/
November 30, 2007
Apple iPhones have preferences that doesn’t readily appear outright aside from the ones that instantly appear when it’s in use. For those who own iPhones and are curious about these preferences, accessing them won’t pose much difficulty even if you aren’t tech savvy in tinkering with configurations or code, as you would with Springboard hacks. Well, not if you use a useful iPhone utility, that is.
Eager to apply these said preferences, yet have no idea on which preference to use from more than a dozen available? No sweat. We have provided for you below descriptions of 5 fun and entertaining preferences for you to chose from to use on your iPhone.
- “Fake Time” Setting - In the SpringBoard file, two fake time preferences are offered: SBFakeTime and SBFakeTimeString. If you set SBFakeTime to “Yes”, the time at the top of your iPhone screen will be replaced by the contents of the SBFakeTimeSpring; replacing the actual time with an arbitrary text.
- “Fake Carrier” Setting - The SBFakeCarrier preference will enable you to change your carrier from AT&T to any carrier you fancy.
- Hide Chosen Apps for Keynotes - Through the SBEEnableAppReveal, you can hide your iPhone’s YouTube, iTunes, and Safari Apps from giving keynotes. Goofy, yes, but great for playing pranks on your buds!
- Change Docks - Given that the iPhone touch dock is different from it’s default dock, you can interchange these two through the SBUseNewDock.
- See Numerical Signal Strength Values - The iPhone’s SBShowGSMRSSI and SBShowRSSI enables iPhone users to see their cell and WiFi signal strengths as numerical figures instead of the standard pictures.
Aside from these preferences we’ve mentioned above, there are still quite more to chose from. Although these preferences, once set, won’t necessarily improve your iPhone’s efficiency, they can bring additional spice to your iPhone.
For a more detailed instructions on tweaking your iPhone’s SpringBoard, head on over to the link provided we’ve for you below. In fact, you will need to, because the utility we mentioned earlier is available at the source.
November 30, 2007
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Dell hopes to generate ‘product lust’ following mixed earnings bag. Joshua Greenbaum: Dell Buys the SaaS Platform Salesforce.com Wishes it Had.
Ryan Naraine: FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders.
Google SEO poisoning: The saga may continue. Google looking for anti-malware help.
Dan Farber: Working Webware: Can Zoho get a good share of the SMB […]
November 30, 2007
Updated: On November 6, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly launched the new services (Techmeme) that he expected to redefine the advertising business.
“People influence people. Nothing influences people more than are recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail […]
November 30, 2007
People complain about online privacy all the time, but we also suffer from the opposite problem: when you want to link online personas it’s impossible to do in a systematic way. Why would you want to link online information? Simple: linking data about ourselves together is how we build reputation offline. If […]
November 30, 2007
Dell reported third quarter earnings of $766 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $15.6 billion amid strong demand for notebooks. CEO Michael Dell said the PC maker is hoping to generate “product lust” with better designs to grow.
According to Thomson Financial, analysts were expecting earnings of 35 cents a share on […]
November 30, 2007
Rafe Needleman of Webware and I hooked up for a video show, called “Working Webware,” to look at some of the up and coming companies and products aimed at businesses. For our first show, Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho and its parent company AdventNet, was on the hot seat. Zoho is one of the leading […]
November 30, 2007
This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the curious case of the OpenDocument Format and the role of the OpenDocument Foundation. David takes a deep dive into the controversy that rose out of the OpenDocument Foundation proposing an alternative to the OpenDocument Format. It turns out to be more of a […]
November 29, 2007
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson stated the obvious: A 3G version of the iPhone is coming in 2008. But Stephenson’s comments may freeze demand for the iPhone. Why buy a relatively slow iPhone when you can get a 3G one next year?
Sometimes you have to wonder how coordinated Apple and AT&T are. Apple CEO Steve Jobs […]
November 29, 2007
Yahoo garnered a contextual advertising win by forging a partnership with Adobe to deliver ads inside PDFs.
Under the partnership with Adobe, Yahoo will deliver keyword text ads inside PDFs. The free beta program, announced late Wednesday (statement and Techmeme), will line up text ads to the right of PDF content, just like the Web. With […]
November 29, 2007
Guest post: Josh Taylor is the director of ZDNet and its sister site TechRepublic. Keep an eye out for Josh’s product review blog later this year. In the meantime, here’s his first impressions of the Kindle.
While my initial reactions to the Amazon Kindle were generally favorable, a five-day Thanksgiving jaunt to the Caribbean let me […]
November 29, 2007
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1. Vista SP1 Release Candidate expected next week.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Even Microsoft has trouble understanding what ‘Vista Capable’ means.
Performance profiles for Vista
Crysis on the Alienware m9750. Gallery at right.
David Morgenstern: Apple can even spin troubleshooting. Mary Jo Foley: Office 2008 for Mac […]
November 29, 2007
f vi and a bash shell are totally foreign to you, jump to this page
If you are command line (and vi) -friendly:
1. Jailbreak your iPhone, and install the following packages -
1 • BSD Subsystem
2 • Term-vt100
3 • Erica’s Utilities (be sure to edit your path to include /var/root/bin)
2. Fire up the terminal app on your phone and…
cd ~/Library/Preferences
plutil -c xml1 .GlobalPreferences.plist
vi .GlobalPreferences.plist
3. Find the following text:
<array>
<string>en US</string>
</array>
…and edit it to add a line so it looks like this:
<array>
<string>en US</string>
<string>ja</string>
</array>
4. Save and close the Terminal app.
When you visit any application that uses a keyboard now, there will be a globe next to the ‘123’ characters key. Selecting this will alternate between your US and Japanese keyboards. The Japanese keyboard is pretty easy to distinguish, because it is compressed to make room for a kanji/kana suggestion field, and has a long hyphen to the right of the ‘L’ key.
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