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Jailbreaking iPhone 3G with 2.0 firmware. Not!

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Be careful, I did this on my iPhone 3G and everything seemed to work, but the phone network doesn’t, so I’m restoring my iPhone now to vanilla 2.0. Too bad, I like Mac Pacman!
iClarified has a tutorial for jailbreaking your iPhone 3G so that you can load all kinds of cool games. As if the [...]

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MacBook Air and Belkin 4-port Travel USB Hub

April 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Geek

Well, the MacBook Air has a single USB port and I thought this wouldn’t be too much of a problem because I’d just buy a 4-port travel hub. Little did I realize how often the MacBook Air requires that you plug in directly otherwise things don’t work. So beware, here are the things I’ve found [...]

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iPhone cannot restore error 6 , -50, etc.

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Wow, my iPhone got wedged with the Apple logo coming up and then the spinning wheel going on forever. This is apparently fairly common and there are not many good resolutions for error or unknown error
All the resolutions come down it seems to a single thing:

Get the iPhone into what is called DFU or restore [...]

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