iPhone Passion

Zibri just announced the release of ZiPhone 3.0, which has lots of great cool features:

New Features:

- No more need of fix nvram!
- Solution for GREYED wifi!
- No need for YouTube Fixes!
- Embedded apps installer!
- Customized plugins !

I just reformatted yesterday my iPhone (using the DFU method) and already spent quite a bit of time reinstalling several cool iPhone apps, but I can’t refrain myself from doing it again, so that I can test ZiPhone 3.0

Congrats to Zibri, and don’t forget to donate him a penny or two, as rewards for his great work.

iClarified.com brings thorough instructions about unlocking an 1.1.2, 1.1.3 OTB iPhone. The instructions assume you have already jailbroken the particular firmware you would like to be on. This works from 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 firmware, but only if you are on a 4.6 BL iPhone. This means that your iPhone came with 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 Out of the Box. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DON’T DO THIS ON A 3.9 BL IPHONE!

Read the entire install/unlock process over at the iClarified website. Please tell us how it went..

If the already existing methods for jailbreaking the iPhone to the 1.1.3 firmware were too complex for you, the Jailbreak Dev Team has released a one-click solution that you simply install through Installer.app.

To be able to do that, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone with the 1.1.2 firmware(chances are that you already have one ) - here’s a step-by-step walkthrough to achieve this, over on Lifehacker.com.

After this, it’s a matter of patiently installing the software you download from here.

Read more on Lifehacker or Engadget.

The guys from iPhone Atlas have a sad piece news for most of you iPhone owners out there: as the title says, the jailbreak software for 1.1.3 firmware is likely to break a vital component of the new 1.1.3 firmware - namely, the “Nikita” library that deals with installing signed software.

It looks like Nate’s update causes Nikita to break (Nikita is the component on the iPhone/iTouch responsible for installing signed software, such as the iPod App Pack and likely SDK apps in the future),” adding “We believe this is because the soft-update method that was released doesn’t update the kernel cache, so users are likely still booting into the 111 or 112 kernel, which is lacking the necessary DRM components to verify/decrypt packages with Nikita.

Our piece of advice for you? Hold on a bit longer, salvation might be around the corner, I bet my lunch money that sometime next week we’ll see an update to the jailbreak software, that will fix this issue.

All you iPhone owners jump for joy!

The amazing team over at cre.ations.net did it at last!

As of today, there’s a complete iPhone jailbreak for firmware 1.1.3 available over at http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/iphone-113-jailbreak-released.
Just for your info, the application the amazing guys at cre.ations.net have created is called iBrickr and has an official website: iBrickr

Now you may be wondering how this jailbreak works. Here’s a breakdown:
- iBrickr grabs the 1.1.3 iPhone firmware image and extracts, decrypts, and decompresses the disk image.
- Then it applies a patch, jailbreaking the disk image and activating it, and also installing Installer.app.
- It uploads this new modified image to the phone, as 113_upgrade_image.bin.
- The “1.1.3 soft upgrade” app flashes the phone with the image and reboots.
- You have a perfect, jailbroken, upgraded 1.1.3 phone, with all your settings and music intact!

All in all, this app is not officially supported by Apple, so be aware that you’ll use it on your own risk.

(via TUAW)

Over on Hack the Day I wrote about the most important apps on the iPhone for the manager on the go. For a long list of useful office and productivity tools for the iPhone for productive purposes, go ahead and read the article.

Wait no more: Apple has just released the official guide for iPhone web apps developers. All the details on what you can do, how to do, compatibilities issues and many more are available on the adc website

• Understand the capabilities of iPhone.
• Follow established design practices for the web.
• Adopt iPhone-specific design principles.

The following guidelines will help you prepare web content and design a website or web-based application for iPhone. If you are a seasoned web developer, there are probably just a few refinements you can make to ensure that your site looks great and works best on iPhone. You’ll need to read only those guidelines that are unique to iPhone. If you are fairly new to web development, you’ll want to make sure that you understand web standards and established web design best practices before following any iPhone-specific guidelines.

All you web programmers out there, here’s another gadget you should start worrying being compatible about.

All you iPhone owners out there, enjoy: the start has been given for a plethora of iPhone compatible apps.

What could one do with the iPhone, you may ask?

Anything.

Even GTD (Getting Things Done) becomes more than a tangible task with Apple’s magic gadget.

This guy  talks about what the iPhone could do in order to become the ultimate organisation tool one could need. A must read for you organization freaks out there.

ArsTehnica points us to a Forbes article that tries to dismantle Steve Jobs’ promise that they’d sell ten million iPhones in 2008. The main reasons given by the author are based on Apple’s lock-in strategy, the expensive prise and the exclusive deal Apple has made with Cingular.

What will it be? Only time will tell. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to being among the first ten million iPhone users

The Register has a cool scoop on the history of the iPhone name, since it first appeared back in 1994:

The iPhone has been with us for many years, in a variety of forms, and its slow and painstaking development has taken many twists and turns before reaching its forthcoming destination.

Briefly: there was a band called Eyephone back in 1994; then a PC-to-PC VOIP software in 2001, then a Palm OS one in 2004, a voip service in 2004, etc..

Could this be the secret of the reality distortion field? If not, then at least it shows us something: Steve is a mere mortal..

via Seth Godin
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