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GeoHot's "purplera1n" iPhone 3GS jailbreak hits the web
On the iPhone: http://bit.ly/4eYI6
A guy going by the developer name GeoHot has released the first application to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS so you can unlock it and install all sorts of homebrew apps on it. Right now it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is expected soon.Folks have been waiting for the Dev Team (the group that jailbroke the last iPhone) to do it but they decided to wait until iPhone OS 3.1 comes out and this guy... well, he didn't. Use at your own risk of course; it'd be tragic to brick your iPhone on 4th of July weekend.
Around the web: iphonejtag.blogspot.com (176 comments)
, techmeme.com (9 comments) , SlashGear , Engadget , TechCrunch (25 comments) , quickpwn.com , Geeky-Gadgets , Pocket-lint.co.uk Profile pages: Apple, Apple iPhone, Jailbreak, Apple iPhone 3GS
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Apple warning could address iPhone 3G and 3GS overheating issues
Gearlog: http://bit.ly/Kg4MQ
An Apple-written heat advisory document has been uncovered. It warns users not to use the iPhone 3G or 3GS where temperatures exceed 113 degrees, or to run graphics or CPU-intensive programs in direct sunlight or where temperatures are greater than 95 degrees. While some blogs are interpreting this as an admission of an overheating problem 3GS users have been complaining about, the document was written back in May. Still, the limitations described therein could explain some of the overheating problems. It depends; were you inside a car in Phoenix, Arizona with the windows closed when your 3GS overheated? Eh, probably not.
Around the web: Gearlog
, Techmeme (9 comments) , digg: Tech Popular , macworld.com , informationweek.com , ithinkdiff.com (2 comments) , eweek.com , pulse2.com Profile pages: Apple, Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPhone, CPU, Apple iPhone 3GS
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack plans discovered
ZDNet: http://bit.ly/2Xor8y
A reference to a "Family Pack" of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium was discovered in the license agreements included with a recent release candidate of the operating system. If Microsoft does release a Family Pack, you'll be able to buy several licenses of Windows 7 at a significant discount and install them on multiple computers in your home. Otherwise you would have to buy a whole new, full-priced copy of Windows for each computer.Around the web: Techmeme
, blogs.zdnet.com , downloadsquad.com (5 comments) , pcworld.com , technologizer.com (2 comments) , blogs.zdnet.com , news.softpedia.com , jkOnTheRun Profile pages: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Release candidate, Microsoft Windows 7
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Microsoft takes shot across the bow at Google, adds some Twitter results to Bing
Don't get too excited just yet, the additions are fairly minor; but do get excited about it as part of an emerging real time trend.
It's hard to get too excited about the implementation of this, because it's actually very small and specific — Bing is indexing the Twitter streams of a few thousand "prime movers" and digerati and showing those results for specific queries like "Kara Swisher tweets." Still, it is exciting to see some loud and vocal challenges finally coming to Google, who to date has essentially only faced small and scrappy Davids to its Goliath (if you forget about Yahoo which, sadly, is quite easy to do).
It's also another stake in what is going to be a heated battle over real-time web search, with a veritable fleet of small startups emerging to tackle the problem and now the major players acknowledging they simply must confront real time and beginning to make actual implementations. If you're interested in this space, check out a recent op-ed on TechCrunch by Mary Hodder that discusses some of the many issues to be teased out to solve the real time web search and discovery problem well.
By the way, although Google itself hasn't made any specific announcement surrounding the real time web, there are third parties providing a way to incorporate Twitter search results within Google:
Around the web: TechCrunch (38 comments)
, Mashable! , Alley Insider (6 comments) , bing.com (7 comments) , bits.blogs.nytimes.com (1 comment) Profile pages: Microsoft, Search engine, Google, Google, Bing, Twitter
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Psystar still trying to sell things... seriously?
Not even Chapter 11 bankruptcy is enough to keep Psystar down... for some reason.
For some companies, being smashed into dust and having to file for bankruptcy would be a sign that it might be time to throw in the towel. Not so for dubious-and-certainly-not-legal Apple clone maker Psystar, who recently emerged from Chapter 11 and have come out gunning with a new product and old hubris. They're calling the new Open(7) their "fastest and most quiet computing configuration" ever — maybe they're hoping it will be so quiet that Apple somehow won't notice.
Anywho, it's hard to imagine how this will end well, but as Gizmodo notes, at least it's not a celebrity death story — yet somehow it's almost as lurid.
The full email newsletter announcement is past the post break.
Around the web: Neowin.net / Main
, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (9 comments) , Gizmodo (3 comments) Profile pages: Apple, Open source, Psystar, Apple Mac OS X
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Windows 7 beta bi-hourly shutdowns begin today
Windows 7 Team Blog: http://bit.ly/tJT3R
Just in case you forgot, today is the day that the beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system expires. That means it will shut down automatically every two hours, just to make sure you're annoyed enough to consider installing the more recent release candidate version, which will last about a year before it starts doing the same thing. Naturally, the official release of Windows 7 won't ever do that (one hopes), but it's not out yet and when it does hit, it'll set you back at least $120.Around the web: The Windows Blog
, Engadget (23 comments) , gizmodo.com (3 comments) , trustedreviews.com (3 comments) , downloadsquad.com Profile pages: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Beta, Release candidate, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating system
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Gmail Labels get drag and drop and other improvements
Official Gmail Blog: http://bit.ly/PTBIW
Google just updated Gmail with a rejiggered labeling system. You've been able to apply labels to e-mails to sort them for a long time, but now you can do so by dragging e-mails to the labels and dropping them there as if Gmail were a desktop e-mail client. There are more change notes at the official Gmail blog.
Around the web: gmailblog.blogspot.com
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Review: Fever, self-hosted RSS reader tells you what's hot
We've spent the last several weeks using Fever, a self-hosted feed reading solution that costs $30.
Fever is a $30 RSS and Atom feed reading application created by Shaun Inman, the same developer who created Mint, the $30 website analytics application. Shaun has a video demo of Fever that you can watch on the website dedicated to the application, but unfortunately, there is no try-before-you-buy option with the software, which only runs after you have purchased a license and authenticated the installation on your server.
Besides the no-money-back $30 up front with no chance to try the application, the other big obstacle that will prevent many from giving this feed reader a try is that to run the application, you have to host it on a webserver somewhere that is accessible by a domain name that you own. Once it is hosted on your server, you can either update your feeds manually whenever you visit Fever in your browser or set up a regular cron job on your server to update the feeds. If you don't know what a cron job is, then this application is probably not for you.
In short, Fever is for people who are very serious about their feed reading. As such a person (I'm currently subscribed to 537 RSS feeds that I manage to skim in their entirety every other day), I thought I'd take the plunge, plop down my hard-earned $30, and give the application a thorough kicking of the tires.
After two weeks using Fever as my sole feed reader, I definitely like it, but I also am sure it's not for everyone.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 ads prompt head-scratching, lunch-losing
Wait... what?
How many layers of management do these things make it through to get approved, with no one injecting sense and reason into the process along the way? It's astonishing. The above ad is merely odd, a couple of the others in the series are equally odd, but I have to agree with Harry McCracken over at Technologizer that the following "use IE8 or you'll projectile vomit all over your husband" ad is flat out disgusting. If you've just eaten you might not want to watch this one after the break. Seriously, is this supposed to be "cutting edge"? It's just gross.
Around the web: Laughing Squid
, technologizer.com (40 comments) Profile pages: Microsoft, web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
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How to post photos to Twitter from your Flickr account
Flickr released a simple solution for Twittering your photos from your phone or photostream; here's how to set it up.
Twitter and Flickr: two great tastes that taste great together. And like peanut butter and chocolate before them, they're exceedingly simple to slap together, thanks to the new feature from the Flickr team allowing easy posting right to Twitter. If you've been using Flickr to post images to a blog or images from your phone already, you'll be familiar with how this works. For those who haven't tread those waters yet or anyone who'd like a quick runthrough, read on for a step-by-step setup how to.Profile pages: Yahoo!, Flickr, tweet, Twitter, Twitter, Inc.
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