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Flash for iPhone: The Missing “Middle” Flash Product is in the AIR

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Launches of iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR Foreshadow Possible Strategy
Steve Jobs “just says no” to Flash on iPhone. Well, on first glance, that’s just what he says now, and we all know, like a good episode of Lost, there’s always more to unpack and nothing is what it seems. Considering Adobe’s product line, the [...]

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Tags: Technical

YouTube plugin for Mobile Safari Suggests No Flash in iPhone 2.0

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Specula-palooza Rocks On
The latest in Flash and iPhone rumor-mongering suggests a YouTube plug-in for Mobile Safari will accompany this summer’s Touch OS 2.0 update. An uncorroborated claim indicates that this plug-in is contained within the recently seeded developer iPhone SDK 2.0 beta firmware.
This would theoretically enable embedded YouTube movies to work on the billions of [...]

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Macworld 2008

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Macworld 2008: Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
Despite furious speculation, Jobs releases incremental product improvements, rather than fundamental game-changing gear

Apple announced four new products today in San Francisco:

Time Capsule, wireless base station and network storage device
iPhone and iPod Touch firmware updates
Apple TV 2.0 and iTunes Video Rentals
MacBook Air ultra-thin notebook
One more thing… There is NO “one more thing!”

Interestingly, [...]

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Tags: Gadget Review

Back to jail. Firmware 1.1.3 Coming Soon?

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Our iPhone jailbreaking research has concluded. We have restored our devices back to a semi-factory fresh state of firmware 1.1.2 and no longer revel in AppTapping. The inevitable occurred: compulsively updating and installing third-party apps resulted in unfortunate instability of an unknown sort. With Mail and iPod functions quitting and crashing, the only marginally useful [...]

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Instant One-Touch Jailbreak Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s never been easier to install custom applications
You can now jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch to install third-party applications with extraordinary ease. Visit the URL pictured above with your Mobile Safari and in an instant your device’s file system will be opened and the AppTapp Installer will appear on your Springboard after a restart.
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Tags: Software Review