Word Virus

After having a full day to soak up all the iPad news, here are my thoughts and reactions to Apple’s latest device. It’s an iPod Touch on steroids. Steve called the device magical yesterday, and I have yet to see anything magical about it, other than the price and the fact that AT&T [...]

About 3 weeks ago, my mom went shopping for a laptop. Of course, I suggested getting a Mac. She said they didn’t want to spend the money on a Mac, and they were at the store looking at some Dell laptops for around $700.  I’ve already posted about my experience trying to get this laptop [...]

So, the DROID is here, remember the device that was going to save the day against the evil iPhone and AT&T’s horrid service. Engadget has been posting articles all week, along with reviews, etc. In the process of reading these, I stumbled upon an interesting story about DROID tethering plans. Looks like you’re going [...]

If you haven’t heard by now, a kid started taking over jailbroken iPhones in the Netherlands. The exploit is really simple, but just goes to show why lots of jailbreakers have no idea what they are doing. The very first thing you should do, following the jailbreak install, is change all the passwords on your [...]

I’m a Jailbreaker, I admit it. I can’t imagine having an iPhone without it being Jailbroken.  I’ve tried, twice, and the iPhone without all the possibilities of Jailbreaking just isn’t that useful for me.  Having said that, Apple’s latest attempt to stop Jailbreaking on the 3Gs shows they are beginning to take jailbreaking seriously.  Apple [...]

I had a bit of a fiasco with jailbreaking to 3.1.2 last night. For the first time ever, my iPhone would not activate after the jailbreak.  At first I didn’t notice it, since it was connected through Wi-Fi, but about an hour in to getting everything set back up, I noticed that I had no [...]

If you’re like me, then your iTunes library has all sorts of missing or broken tags. Here’s a little app that can clean all that up for you, Pollux. Currently this is donateware, but it’s pretty handy, so expect it to be payware eventually.  I’d be willing to give these guys a few bucks [...]

I’ve been trying to remember how to do this for a couple of days, since I realized I’m almost out of free space on the root partition of my iPhone. Starting with the 2.0 firmware, Apple changed the root partition from 300mb to 500mb, in order to handle the changes to the firmware.  However, they [...]

So, you bought Snow Leopard, and you thought everything would just work. Guess what, you were wrong.  By default, Snow Leopard boots in 32-bit mode, not 64-bit. This was a decision on Apple’s part, and after readying why, I understand why they did it.  However, I want full 64-bit mode.  First, you need to verify [...]

By now, we’ve all heard about the iPhone SMS hack.  Once again, Jailbreak users are ahead of the curve, and have a solution.
If you’re using a jailbroken iPhone then you can SSH to your iPhone, navigate to the Applications directory and then remove all permissions from MobileSMS.app. This prevents SMS application from running on the [...]