Archive for March, 2008
iPhone pwnage tool delayed
Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, iPhone
I’ve been looking forward to the iPhone pwnage tool for some time now. When released, pwnage will allow you to load pre-customized iPhone firmware bundles via iTunes. This means that instead of jailbreaking your phone after updates, you can install already-jailbroken systems.
Yesterday, the iPhone dev team announced that [...]
HTML5 Client Side Database Storage + iPhone = ???
Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone
Will the next iPhone firmware release support client-side database storage? That’s what TUAW reader Jorge believes. Way back in October, we saw the HTML5 standard promising client-side persistence for Webkit-based browsers. Jorge apparently ran a client-side SQL check on the new Simulator-based Safari and found that it ran properly. Of [...]
iLiberty frees my iPhone
Filed under: iPhone
My refurb AT&T iPhone finally arrived and I found a chance to test out iLiberty+ this afternoon. After wasting a day jailbreaking and messing with my new iPhone, I just could not bypass that annoying activation screen. Yes, I could ssh into the unit and run stuff from the command line but I [...]
iPhone beta screen-shotting
Filed under: iPod Family, Developer, iPhone
TUAW reader Scott writes that he’s discovered how to grab screen shots from the iPhone or iPod touch running the new beta developer release. While attempting to reboot the phone, he noticed the “infamous” white flash I wrote about a few weeks ago. A little experimentation revealed the magic key [...]
iPhone forensics market developing
Filed under: Security, iPhone
Apparently something big is going down in the iPhone forensics world. TUAW has learned that about a half dozen different firms are actively hunting for developers who can assist law enforcement in reading data off unjailbroken iPhones, both the private and public partitions. We’ve been in touch with third-party Mac developers who [...]
.Mac syncing coming to iPhone 2.0?
Filed under: Rumors, .Mac, iPhone
One of the biggest questions that I had following the iPhone SDK event was how we non-Enterprise users were going to get the cool new wireless syncing features promised to ActiveSync Exchange users. My first guess was that Apple was planning to fold something like that into .Mac, and now iPhone [...]
AT&T refurb iPhones arrive with incorrect warranty coverage
Filed under: iPhone
Doug Toombs from Howard Forums tipped us off that those refurb AT&T iPhones many TUAW readers bought a few weeks ago might not have properly issued warranties. He sent me over to Apple’s warranty self-checking site and sure enough my new iPhone’s limited warranty is due to expire on July 22nd.
I gave Apple [...]
Apple seeds iPhone 2.0 beta firmware
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
According to our sister blog, Engadget, the iPhone 2.0 firmware has been seeded to developers. Before this update, the firmware was listed as version 1.2, but now shows up as version 2.0. Engadget says that the update didn’t provide many changes: Cisco VPN tweaked, root-level mail / ActiveSync settings were [...]
