geohot twitter conversation
Rob Gilmour clearly has a LOAD of “scooter envy” at the moment as is clearly evident by his recent twitter comments regarding this specific mode of transportation around the Cape Town CBD …
Serious scooter envy. http://post.ly/Ap5f
@geekrebel kinda leaning towards brand names over Chinese ones. Yamaha one looks good. Any other ideas? Anyone looking to sell a scooter?
I am getting a scooter. We are being ripped off to park in CT! http://post.ly/ABRX
So, I thought that I would help him out with this, envy, by adding to it. I decided to do a little undercover “scooter assessment” by checking out all of the scooters currently parked in my complex, and found the following:
 Some slightly old ... and purple! |
 Pimped out with real Ostrich leather seat! |
 Another "oldie" parked off in the corner |
 Closeup of the Ostrich leather seat |
 old or new? At least it's blue! Looks nice! |
 Something a little more "modern" for the kids |
 And finally ... something a little more "off road" |
Hope that you enjoyed the pics Rob!
Can’t wait to see which you decide to buy! |
Question 1: Do you have an iPhone?
Question 2: Did you have “devliery reports” for your SMS messages on your old phone?
Question 3: Do you miss the delivery reports on your iPhone?
Question 4: Would you like delivery reports on your iPhone?
If you answered YES to all of the above four questions, then you will probably LOVE the following “iPhoneDelivery” application for your iPhone! It is a very simple application that you can install on your iPhone, which will enable delivery reports that you have loved and missed!!
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Well, according to a recent post on the MyBroadBand forum the TomTom turn-by-turn GPS iPhone application has been “unofficially” launched for the South African market!
It is however apparently NOT available through the Apple AppStore, so you are going to have to come up with more constructive ways at downloading it.
It’s 147.24 MB in size, and works PERFECTLY !!!!!
Grab it while it is still available!
There is mention that you will need a jailbroken iPhone 3G or 3G[S] to install it however, so for those of you “legit” Vodacom users, you have a while to wait still!
The Latest Apple iTunes v9
Today at Apple’s “Let’s rock and roll” event in San Francisco, they officially announced the updated iTunes, releasing version 9 today.
iTunes 9 comes with Genius Mixes, with more than 54 billion songs to choose from, helping consumers find new music that relates to current library. Apple also announced Genius DJ built into iTunes 9 that seeks out songs and creates a playlist for endless possibilities, great for parties.
iTunes 9 also improves syncing with devices, for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Users can sync by artists, playlists, genres, and more possibilities. Apple also announced that iTunes now offers Home Sharing, allowing users to copy songs, movies, TV shows and more, for up to five computers around your house.
iTunes 9 comes with a built in application sorting feature for the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to customize the layout of their device directly from their computer, without having to painstakingly move dozens of applications and games around. The built in feature should make users organize their devices a little easier.
Download here: Apple iTunes v9 Windows XP & Vista x86 (88MB)
Apple releases 3.1 iPhone & iPod touch firmware
Apple has announced the release of iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 3.1, available for download later today. The free download, for both iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 users, is said to improve battery life.
The 3.1 firmware will improve video editing on the iPhone 3GS, that won’t overwrite the original clip when editing videos, preventing the loss of the original film. The new developer API’s allows third-party applications access to the videos and edit them, without having to use Apple’s editing tools for the iPhone 3GS. The update is said to increase the boot time of devices. The device will now vibrate when moving icons around to different locations.
Apple also included a “Fraud Protection” toggle switch for browsing, now available under the settings for Safari. The firmware update allows Voice Control over Bluetooth now. Users can also organize their icons through iTunes without having to move them around on their device.
Download v3.1 for iPhone 2G – iPhone1,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw (241MB)
Download v3.1 for iPhone 3G – iPhone1,2_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw (242MB)
Download v3.1 for iPhone 3GS – iPhone2,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw (306MB)
Get them while they are hot!
Well, we start off this morning with some quotes from the Monopoly City Streets official blog:
“Starting today, you’ll be able to play MONOPOLY as it’s never been played before: The whole world will be up for sale. Anyone, anywhere will be able to own real streets and build their own online city.”
“For everyone eager to buy their first choice street, we’re about 30 mins out from going live from 12:15pm GMT Wednesday 9/9/09″
Brilliant news! The game’s alive and working … or is it?
Monopoly City Streets
“The registration is slow due to the overwhelming response. Our servers are on fire! Thanks for everyone’s interest and patience – please keep trying.”
O no, major traffic jam ahead! Back to work for me then!
:-/
Tags: Interesting News, Latest, Monopoly, Websites
What is Trapster?
Simply put, Trapster is an application for getting speed trap alerts on your Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Android, Garmin, or TomTom device.
How does Trapster work?
When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user’s phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.
So how does it work? Our goal is to make it so simple that you don’t need to know. But in case you are interested, it combines technologies such as GPS and wireless location, voice transcription, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and SMS, with a central database server. It communicates in real time, using the Internet.
Tags: Applications, Functional, iPhone, South African
My new iPhone theme – looks just like the HTC Hero Sense UI – except that it’s an Apple iPhone!
We know that HTC Magic owners out there are pretty psyched at the news that the HTC Sense UI is available for their Android phone. However, based on this latest news, it appears that iPhone owners also have a reason to rejoice as they too can enjoy the benefits of this new user-interface!
Well, it looks kinda nice, but there is no real new functionality!
Enjoy the pics!
Guys,
I just have to show you this most beautiful iPhone mock-up that some graphics designer did! I think that it looks amazing, and I really hope that Apple will use a design similar to this for their 4th gen iPhone when it is announced in July 2010 !!! It’s still a while to go … but come on!
4th gen iPhone design
Say hello to the very first, ultra cool, super quick, Maserati GTS 2008 that has arrived in South Africa, and is currently being driven around the streets of The Mother City!!!
Ferrari owners, Porsche kiddies, Lambo Lovers eat your hearts out, because this beautiful car will turn heads quicker than any other car on the plant! (Okay, not as quick as the Bugatti, but still very quick!)
The 2008 Maserati GTS
Maserati have added the same bellowing 4.7-litre V8 to be found in the 8C Competizione to their GT, to give the GranTurismo S (GTS). It also benefits from some subtle visual surgery, boasting new wheels, and a leather and Alcantara interior with sport buckets.
Update: Click here to have a look at the pictures –>