Jan 31

Dev-Team Blog – Close the stable door

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pwnagetoolPwnageTool and QuickPwn updated, compatible with 2.2.1, Yesterday the iPhone Dev-Team announced the availability of the latest release of PwnageTool and QuickPwn. The newest version offers the ability to jailbreak the latest iPhoen firmwear (2.2.1). Be sure to head over to the Dev-Team’s Blog. when you get a chance as they allso offer information regarding Fixing DFU mode on 10.5.6 (My solution was to not upgrade) for now its a temporary fix invloving installing a developer debug package of the USB kernel extension. but I’m just holding off upgrading to 10.5.6 untill a bit more stable fix is found.

The ‘baseband’ is the generic name given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone, it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network. Think of it like a cable modem or other peripheral that is attached to your home PC that needs occasional updates. When a software update is released and presented to you within iTunes the baseband is sometimes updated (to fix bugs or add new features). The 2.2.1 update for the iPhone 3G contains such an update, so running the vanilla updater straight away with iTunes will reprogram and update the baseband. This could be bad for certain people, depending on your ultimate aim.

via Dev-Team Blog – Close the stable door.

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Apr 14

Twinkle, my new favorite iPhone app.

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If your a regular reader of my blog you already know I’ve Jailbroken my iPhone. I try and keep the software I run fairly up to date so I’ve visiting installer.app quite often to check for new updates. We’ll recenlty I’ve discovered a few nifty programs on the “Featured” section as soon as you launch installer.app, Wallpaper, Collage, and Tap Tap Revolution to name a few, but by far my new favorite is Twinkle.

Hello? Where are you?

Twinkle is a native Twitter client (yes you HAVE to have a jailboken phone to use this application). No more wasting txt messages to update Twitter, but whats really neat about this little beauty is that its location aware, meaning when you write a Tweet you have the option of having it display your current location. the downside? only users viewing your twitter updates on another Twinkle enabled iPhone can see your location.The Twinkle main screen Which honsetly is fine with me, I’m just jazzed at having a easier way to update tiwtter while on the go. The location feature is just a bonus.

But wait! Theres more!

Thats right they didn’t stop there they also added the ability to link a picture to your twitter post, but! again, the image can only be seen by another Twinkle enabled iPhone, other users can still see the text but not the image or location data attached to the tweet.

So what do I need to get Twinkle?

Easy! All you need is the following

  1. A Jailbroken iPhone
  2. Add “http://www.polarbearfarm.com/repo/” to your sources
    • Sources Icon
    • Click “Edit”
    • Click “Add”
    • Add above URL
  3. Then Twinkle will be on the Featured page at the beginning of installer.app
    • If not simply click “Install > All Packages” and scroll down to the “T” section you’ll see Twinkle there.
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Apr 05

K2 Back!

Design, Open Source, Projects, Software 2 Comments »

K2 is back, but is RC5 out? nope, I did a bit of research and discovered the reason k2 was not working with Wordpress 2.5 was actually the fault of the new Wordpress 2.5 dashboard. While the new Dashboard is pretty impressive it now uses widgets.

Herein lies the problem k2 blocks the wordpress widgets to instead use its built in sidebar, now I love this sidebar. so the solution to getting k2 to function is to disable its ability to block widgets when displaying the admin screen. this can be done by modifying the widgets-removal.php located in:

wp-content/themes/k2b/app/includes

simply update the entire contents of that file to the following.

<?php
if(get_option(‘k2sidebarmanager’) !== 1) {
    remove_action(‘plugins_loaded’, ‘wp_maybe_load_widgets’, 0);
    if( is_admin() ){ // If someone is trying to access the admin page
        global $pagenow;
        if( $pagenow == ‘index.php’ ) wp_maybe_load_widgets();
    }
}
?>

I’ve also noticed that in a few cases you will still receive errors when trying to view the admin panel. I was able to solve this by renaming the k2 directory to something different k2b for example. then under the themes section of the admin control panel reactivate k2.

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