The Odds a Firmware Update Will Relock Your iPhone: Very High

Just a word of caution in case Apple decides to release an iPhone firmware update, say… tomorrow —or next week or whenever: if you have a software-unlocked iPhone, don’t update until it gets confirmed that the unlock is not affected. All software unlocks are vulnerable to Apple’s firmware updates, say the Dev Team.[...] Thanks to mklopez for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

stealthboy: I think people are trying to make Apple look like they are being evil and will actively destroy efforts of the unlocks… I think the case is just a simple one of Apple not being in control of the third-party apps, so why in the world should they try to make sure they work with any future updates? Apple will no doubt be changing things for a while on the iPhone, and it’s not their responsibility to make sure hacks continue to work.

Hoshnasi: To all those who said “Apple doesn’t care if the iPhone gets unlocked”. Realize Apple is a worldwide corporation that has signed a contract with AT&T. If you think that the contract doesn’t make ANY stipulation on how the phone is to be locked your -one, Crazy. or two, fooling yourself into believing a wireless phone company wouldn’t be looking afters its proprietary agreement on iPhone usage.

Lets the hack wars begin!

iPhone Sales Triple After Price Cut (an Astronomical 200%); 27,000 per day!

…Combining estimate, with Apple’s sales figures for last quarter, it was determined that Apple would have had to sell 136,000 iPhones, approximately, between September 5 and September 9. This means that Apple was selling over 27,000 iPhones a day after the price cut, a three-fold, 200 percent increase over previous sales[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

fluidfoundation: Wouldnt triple be 300%?

Five Reasons to Buy Logic Studio

Following suit with Final Cut Studio, Apple today announced Logic Studio—an update not only to their Logic Pro application, but a bundle of applications and workflows that tie into each other. Here’s five reasons Logic Studio rocks.[...] Thanks to dhollister for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

DeadHerring: The best update IMO is the interface, the old one was like browsing a labyrinth backwards, blindfolded,and using one leg.

corevette: http://ubuntustudio.org

Why Apple Won’t Become A Phone Company

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has a problem: He’s taken Apple into the phone business with the iPhone. Yet he has to rely on partners such as AT&T and Starbucks to provide the wireless connections he needs to make those phones useful. For a control freak like Jobs, that’s not a pleasant situation.[...] Thanks to Blackmane for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

streak: “He’s taken Apple into the phone business with the iPhone.” And that doesn’t make Apple a phone company? Right. Neither is Nokia.

False Hacker Poses as iPhoneDevTeamUnlock Author, Tries to Grab $41,560

Tried to grab a $41,560 donation.[...] Thanks to xdcdx for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

strangePanda: What a cheeky little begger. Really good article, nice to see people like that get screwed outta their scam!

basye: The REAL STORY according to TUAW:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/12/the-real-story-behind-the-iphone-unlock-gui-drama/

bharbhar: Whats so false about it. He rewrote 80% of it. Its his shit if you ask me.

StephenCIreland: his details :

23, Belfast,
http://www.who.is/whois-net/ip-address/harr0.net/

David Harrison
Shamrock Court
Belfast, Northern Ireland BT6 8HT
United Kingdom
02890502612

Floris: I believe this is the same user that comes to our chat channel, he’s always bragging about how rich he is, etc. His profile on my site also says he’s 23, from the UK, and writes his name with upper R. I didn’t fully trust him then, and certainly won’t do so now. I am considering banning him from my vbulletin-fans.com site now.

basye: I hope his tiny little dick rots off, and that he loses all that money and then some in a suit. Erica worked hard on that code and deserves the credit for her efforts.

livevil: Erica Sadun get on a GPL license. GPL3 preferably and you can have better control over your code.

djtrypt: is anyone else sick of reading newsarticles about the overpriced phone which 99.9% of the worlds population doesn’t have

Urusai: Only one way to write UI code in Objective C? I guess it’s not Turing-complete. A corollary of Turing completeness is that there are infinite ways to do the same thing, most of which are going to be sub-optimal, of course.

secretivecoward: I would have stopped believing he was a hacker right about here:
“i dono what 50,000 AUD is “

According to Google Calculator, 50 000 Australian dollars = 41 360 U.S. dollars. Dollar just keeps falling.

skyfire1: Is that like a false lie?

mymate: mmm i live near belfast, ill kick his ass as soon as someone sends me contact information

womz: Donation?

Randinn: Some needs to post Harro’s personal info.

Proctor: All this iPhone unlocking stuff is overrated.

Why a Million iPhone Sales In 74 Days Is Better Than You Think

The iPhone has already proved most of the pundits wrong. If they want to claim that Apple didn’t meet their expectations, that’s fine. But any business writer or analyst who claims that selling a million units of a completely new product at an average price of $575 in a little over two months “isn’t a good number” just is trolling for traffic[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

fraul: There’s no way to hold the iPhone success at this new price.
Along with unblocking software of course.

xoineg: Everyone i know wants an Iphone, the main reason they have not gotten one is cause it was 600, now most of them are getting one. I think apple just wants the market share, imagine 10 millions iPhone users, apple will have another way to attract more people to the mac.

Ireland: That was a refreshing article on the iPhone, first time in a while.

People (well analysts anyway) see Apple’s lowering of the iPhone’s price as a weak move, they presume demand is low; “that must be why they did it”. I think demand is high though, you can feel the buzz for the iPhone. It’s just that the majority of people who desperately want it to be their next phone weren’t prepared to $599 for it, and a good number couldn’t even afford to spend $599 on a phone. We’ll see by early next year, but at $399 I smell a sales explosion for the iPhone coming this Christmas.

EPeters: Everyone forgets that the iPod was a slow-go in the beginning as well (due mostly to it’s Mac exclusivity). As soon as Sony, Google, and Microsoft come out with their phones, these products will sell faster.

Apple Releases Logic Studio

Apple released Logic Studio today. Logic Studio features Logic Pro 8, and introduces a new live performace application called MainStage. Logic Studio also includes Soundtrack Pro 2, Apple’s professional audio post production software; Studio Instruments, made up of 40 pristine quality instruments; …[...] Thanks to jfinke for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

jacobfarenzi: The new low price of Logic Studio baffles the mind.
The cost of those 5 bundled Jam Packs alone is $495, if bought separately!

tibbon: nonchai-
I think most of us “professionals” agreed that we didn’t need more softsynths, sample packs, etc…
We needed better audio editing, better post features, etc.. All the stuff that they gave us. I don’t need another softsynth. I don’t even use them, just get decent hardware.

nonchai: i am underwhelmed. no change at all to the suite of Virtual instruments. EXS24 – still no change.
A lot of the rest is just catching up with the competition.
Cubase 4 has by far the most intuitive and good looking interface. Extremely “logical”.

I think a lot of L8 is window dressing. one good thing is geting rid of the dongle.

secondspassed: Logic Express 8 now has almost all the features of Logic Pro 8. You only get a few more plug-ins, surround sound, the other studio apps and more content for going to Logic Pro Studio. If I wasn’t already gonna upgrade to Logic Studio 8 for $200 I’d just buy Express.

McDavies: Give the software away and sell them the hardware. Nice. The profit is on the machines. This is a further an example of the Apple inc. strategy. Once you go mac, its harder to go back, consider the cost.

inkworkstattoo: Ive been using logic 7 since it came out…and was using 6 before that.

Can’t wait to get ahold of 8 ! The price is amazing for what you are getting.

http://www.inkworkstattoo.com

Prod1gy: this is awesome news. i can’t wait to get my hands on it…and hopefully download it since of the removal of the dongle.

diggerphelps: Wait a minute.
Apple lowered a price and the Fanbois are not storming the gates in Cupertino?
Oh, I get it. It’s OK to lower the price when it’s not something you can flaunt in public.
//Apple fan, BTW.

helloluke: The new logic icon is a platinum record, so thats what this program can make you!

hermes369: Now, try to write a ringtone for your iPhone using it. Lol.

Stark: logic express 8 is out now too (at $199)
http://www.apple.com/logicexpress/#overview

cybertrader: I’m not gonna throw $500 on it! this is not new to the internet community! we have seen plenty of 3rd party solutions that can do better things than this shit bucket! buried this for pimping a useless apple shit.

representDLV: I’m sorry, but any audio engineer that takes himself seriously and wants to be taken seriously doesn’t use Logic

Gm7Cadd9: http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/logicpro/#writing

look at the bottom picture with the chord changes…IT’S FREEBIRD! nice easter egg!

staan: This is awesome. $500 is much more affordable, and Logic Express got a $100 price cut, too.

Turorial: iPhone Unlock in 7 Easy Steps (OS X)

Here is a very detailed tutorial with images covering how to unlock an iPhone with free software in OS X (Intel) in 7 simple steps. This one really is idiot proof.[...] Thanks to milezteg for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

mxpx720: i want something where there is only one step… can you do that dev team? cause that would be sweet

Update to give iTunes WiFi Music Store to Apple TV? Not so fast

One rumor site is reporting that “sources” say the Apple TV is about to get an update that would allow it to purchase video from the WiFi Music Store. We’re not so sure, however.[...] Thanks to obeezy for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

Parallels Desktop 3.0 Feature Update “really, really fast”

Parallels has now officially released the Feature Update for Desktop 3.0, with all the goodies you’ve heard about over the past few weeks. Coherence with Exposé, OS X home folders as “My Documents,” and less RAM usage… oh my![...] Thanks to obeezy for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

cwcentral: Nah, I just switched back to 3 laptops:
Mac- for KeyNote 3.0
Windows- for MS Visual Studio
Linux- for everything else

Neither crash and they all run pretty quick & consistent IMO. Do I use all 3 at the same time–usually no, so it works out great.

Fl4sh: Suddenly I can’t launch games and it thinks that my XP is not genuine, which it is. Not worth the update.

paradexes: Use VMware converter. I think it should be able to do the job. I am not sure if it is free tho. It is a little cludgy. I would not be surprised if VMware came out with some import tool seeing this exists already. Guess time will tell and the demand. Might want to press VMware on their forums about it.

Linh: I’d jump to Fusion, but I paid for the 3.0 upgrade before I found out about the pre-order vmware deal… that and fusion beta was not good for me.

I demo’d it now, and it has improved vastly, but copying to an NTFS external drive was impossible (large copy, 20GB). Fusion crashed hard. Parallels was slow, but it worked.

I’ll still probably switch to fusion one day, but for now, I’ll just use what I have paid for (it’s not like I use it often anyway)

epall: My VM on Parallels started locking up during startup and eventually kernel panicking. When I tried to create a new VM, the XP install repeatedly kernel panicked half way through the process. Parallels support had two answers: reinstall Parallels, and if that doesn’t work, format the Mac. I’ve switched to VMWare, and it’s most definitely faster than Parallels 2.0.

neondiet: I’m interested in making the jump from Parallels to Fusion too. But I’m not sure how I go about getting my OS installs out of Parallels and into Fusion. Some of them are quite customised and having to re-install from scratch would be a major pain in the ass. Anyone done this already and can recommend a workable solution?

RyomaNagare: Personally i had nothing but problems with fussion, granted its probably because i have only 1 gig ram but still upon installing it felt much better, faster and responsive, but as time went by it became increasingly slower, it took about 40 secs to resume from sleep, and a lot more to boot, also it was really really unstable with autocad 2006 running, the shared folders where a nightmare, i had to manually edit an ini in order to get sound, and so on and so forth.

parallels is a little slower and uses more ram when idle, but it runs the apps i need better, and that’s all that matters to me.
Speaking of parallels the new v build is faster and responsive, the CPU usage has really been lowered.
and the app start is fast as it can be.

in My experience parallels is better.
Just wanted to make clear that fussion is not the best solution for everyone, depends on the use and software you need from your VM

Stonekeeper: If people are comparing technologies, I’ll throw in that Virtual Box ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) is a nice choice. It’s free, faster than vmware (in my limited test cases) and now sports a coherence mode.

Twee: I don’t want to shell out the extra cash to purchase VMWare Fusion, so I’m stuck with using Parallels and Boot Camp.

websyndicate: yea Im not looking back ever when it comes to Parallels

colincornaby: “Coherence with Exposé” You mean like VMWare Fusion has done for months?

seanneko: From a VMWare Fusion user, does Parallels 3.0 have the bug* where overlapping applications in Windows will be drawn incorrectly when using Expose? That’s really my only criticism of Fusion – otherwise it does exactly what I want and expect.

* Yes, I know that it’s a technical limitation more than a bug, but there are ways to fix it.

MikeCerm: Which one will let me virtualize Mac on my PC? That’s what I’m waiting for. That, or a quad-core Mac with 4GB of RAM for under $1000. I’m not holding my breath.

shieldss: Does it finally support Vista Aero? For that matter, does VMWare?

OrangeTide: I don’t get it. Parallels 2.x runs like a champ for me. Although I’m running win2K not XP (or Vista! omg)

This might make my coworkers at VMWare cringe but I prefer Parallels, because it seems to be more compatible with various “strange” OSes than Fusion is. Fusion is probably the better product for running Vista though, but I don’t really use Windows other than to occasionally test my cross compiled apps on win2k to see if the code works well enough to commit to svn/cvs/perforce/git.