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
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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 –>
Here is the updated QuickPwn for Windows, wrapped by Poorlad’s GUI. It contains our new bundles for the latest Apple iPhone v2.0.2 firmware, and we’ve added support for version 2.0 devices which means you can QuickPwn and jailbreak the device if it is running 2.0, 2.0.1 or 2.0.2.
Remember this is still beta software, so usual rules apply, no complaints ifanything goes wrong and use the tool at at your own risk!
Download here! SHA1 = 8e1ed2ce9e7e473d38a9dc7824a384a9ac34d7d0
NB: Using QuickPwn does not update the firmware itself, this tool is designed to ‘Pwn’ (the ability to install future custom non-Apple firmwares) , ‘Jailbreak’ and install Installer or Cydia on a given device. If your device is running 2.0.1 and you QuickPwn it, it’ll still be running 2.0.1, although it will now be Pwned and Jailbroken, similarly if your device is running 2.0.2 and you QuickPwn it, it will then be running 2.0.2 but the device will now be Pwned and Jailbroken. It will also activate (not unlock) devices that are being used outside of their intended territories and cannot be activated using iTunes.
Problem: You have an Apple iPhone, and after you have done a Restore on your iPhone – probably because you have just upgraded to the latest v2.0.1 Apple firmware – you now notice that when you attempt to open your MobileMail.app application (Mail) the application is “empty”, and simply closes, crashing back to the main dashboard.
What gives???
You will also notice that you can’t edit, add or remove any of the email account settings at all.
Reason for the Problem
This is caused by the sync of the backup from iTunes. The permissions on the mail folder are incorrect. The folder is supposed to be owned by “mobile”, but instead it is owned by “root”. This causes the application to crash, sending you back to the dashboard.
The Solution
The easiest fix is to run bossprefs (which you can install using Cydia), click more, and click “fix user dir permissions”. You may need to reboot.
You can also SSH into your iPhone, and take ownership of the folder directly – but this is the advanced way!
Tags: apple, firmware, iPhone, mobilemail, v2.0.1
For all you you Windows users, you know that you can’t use the PwnageTool, but don’t worry too much, since cwn has brought you the WinPwn v2.0.0.4 tool to use!
WinPwn 2.0.0.4 has been released for the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware and it includes Installer 4 beta support.
Download link: Winpwn_2.0.0.4_Setup.zip
Release Notes
- Support for both 1.1.4, 2.0, 2.0.1
- Root partition resize support
- Installer support
- Support for WinXP and Vista 32/64bit.Notes:
- You MUST do a full uninstall of winpwn before installing the new version
- Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes ( Currently 7.7)
- WinPwn uses 300MB of ram at peak due to the ipsw being extracted in memory
- You must first click browse and load an IPSW to use WinPwn (i thought this was clear)
- For 2.0 only the *5A347_Restore.ipsw files are valid. The 345 image will not work
- If you see Failed to load image catalog/payload catalog, this is fine and won’t cause problems
- If you already have service with AT&T do not activate or install Youtube Fix
Download, Install, and Enjoy!!!
Tags: firmware, iPhone, technology, v2.0.1, WinPwn
This is a turorial on how to use PwnageTool 2.0.2 and update your iPhone to 2.0.1. For Mac only!
Step 1. Download PwnageTool 2.0.2 here.
Step 2. Backup your iPhone to iTunes
Step 3. Open iTunes, and from the iPhone -> Summary tab, download (do not update) the latest iPhone firmware 2.0.1 (iPhone1,1_2.0.1_5B108_Restore.ipsw).
Step 4. Open PwnageTool 2.0.2.
Tags: firmware, iPhone, PwnageTool, technology, v2.0.1