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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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Tags: Technical

Space Time Play, A Catalog of How Video Games Change Our Landscape

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
» Book Website (spacetimeplay.org)
» Table of Contents (PDF)
» Introduction (PDF)
Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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iPhone Mod Guide for Beginners and FAQ

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments

How to install Native Applications onto an iPhone

Introduction↓
Getting Started↓
How to install NES Game ROMs↓
How to get sound working in NES↓
How to get PICO working in iPhone Remote Terminal↓
How to change the SSH root password↓
How to Remove (Uninstall) applications↓
How to Find your iPhone’s IP Address↓

Introduction
This guide is written for Mac users who are not familiar with [...]

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iPhone Mod

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments

After pulling an all-nighter, iPhone has been modded
As companies embed full-fledged computers into consumer entertainment products, such as Sony PSP, Apple TV, and iPhone, and then proceed to lock them down to restrict their functionality in the name of stability and security, legions of enthusiasts heed the call to open them up again, to [...]

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Tags: Technical

Reading: “Global Nomads in the Digital Veldt” by Joshua Meyrowitz

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Sporting provocative bullet points, this essay may not be new news, but it speaks refreshing truths while standing the test of time.
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This scholarly paper by was originally presented as a talk for the conference Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects, held on April 29-30, 2003 in Budapest, and is collected in Mobile [...]

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Tags: Academic Essay