Facebook’s redesign has been in the works for around a year now and after a few months of sample screenshots of the new design, Facebook is now allowing users to test out the new Facebook. Simply type new.facebook.com as the link in your browser and you should be directed to an unfamiliar look of Facebook. [...]
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Possibly being one of the most hyped movies ever to hit the big screen, this past Friday marked the release of The Dark Knight. After snatching up some tickets and seeing the movie, even though almost every showing was, and still is, sold out, it is easy to say that this is one of the best [...]
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The iPhone Dev Team has released the PwnageTool for iPhone firmware 2.0, which allows users to install a custom firmware that is jailbroken and can be unlocked. Unlike previous jailbreaks, this version uses Cydia, an alternative to the Installer.app that most users would be used to. The PwnageTool has a great graphical interface and is [...]
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For a while there, we thought Apple wasn’t responding to Psystar’s complete break of Apple’s EULA by running Mac OS X on a non-Apple authorized computer. When Steve Jobs reclaimed control of Apple way back in 1997, he ended agreements letting hardware companies use the Mac OS. Apple, as of July 3rd, has filed a [...]
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The iPhone Dev Team announced last week that it had officially unlocked and jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch firmware 2.0, and now they have done the same with iPhone 3G. The team posted a video of the jailbreak in action, but it works and users wanting to unlock their new iPhone 3G can finally do [...]
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RIM’s infamous BlackBerry Thunder, or as they call it internally “Apple Killer”, is rumored to have a top-notch unbelievable keyboard. CrackBerry managed to get some shots of the device, which in itself is rare, and shots of the keyboard in action, also rare. The keyboard will apparently have haptic (vibrating) feedback when you touch the [...]
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Apple has had some big days this past week with MobileMe’s launch (no matter how inconsistent it was), iPhone 2.0 and the App Store going live early, and of course iPhone 3G’s launch (even with those pesky activation problems). Apple’s announcement today proves how big this weekend really was: they sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs [...]
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Apple has dropped the price of their bluetooth headset to $99, from its original $129. The catch, however, is that they took out the dock for both the phone and the headset which retails for $49. So they dropped the price by $30, but they took out $50 worth. You’re now paying more if you [...]
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Both iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch 2.0 are fully available through iTunes, one problem however: DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR PHONE! The reason: iTunes servers are completely crashing right now, so if you download the update and start updating, iTunes servers won’t be able to confirm its the correct firmware and will leave your device unusable. [...]
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The heavy use of iTunes to activate iPhone 3G’s today has completely killed the iTunes servers. After getting in line at 5:30 am to be the 11th, 12th, and 13th, the blargKABOOM team didn’t get out of the AT&T store until 9:30 since activation took a near 30-40 minutes. AT&T eventually decided to semi-activate the [...]
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