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New Free iPhone unlock might break Network,Youtube and Push Notification

November 5, 2009

 

 

George Hotz’s  (aka Geohot)  free iphone unlock released yesterday might be causing big problems with newly unlocked iPhones.

It’s been reported that some devices unlocked with Blacksn0w might be experiencing problems with Network connectivity, Youtube and the Push Notification.

Personally I think that no network is a big problem for most,  so I would hold off and wait for a new release.

Below is a quote from George’s blog.

“It appears some users are having wifi issues. Try a “Reset Network Settings”. If someone can come up with a way to replicate wifi issues, I will investigate further as I have not yet seen these issues firsthand.

Push and YouTube issues are caused by hacktivation. The dev team has a fix for YouTube which they are posting on Cydia shortly.”

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Brand new iPhone unlock released today

November 3, 2009

From George’s site:

Today 11/3/09 is a sn0w day.

School is officially cancelled, and all your iPhones will be unlocked. Remember getting those calls? At Noon EST, I will be making it sn0w, and I’m looking to see “#blacksn0w” trending.

Blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.

Read more at http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/2009/11/sn0wday.html

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FREE iPhone 3GS unlock found, but others sell it

November 1, 2009

Jody Sanders is up to his old tricks again. This scammer is now passing off the new FREE iPhone unlock as his own work and charging for it (again). The one a only real iPhone unlockers are George Hotz and the collective known as The iPhone Dev team.

Please spread the word that Jody and other like him are scammers and ripping people off as the iPhone unlock is FREE and available from George and The iPhone Dev team. Another trusted free iPhone info site is www.iclarified.com.

 

From George’s site..

Sunday, November 1, 2009

An Information Campaign

I have an unlock for 05.11.07. I will be releasing on 11/04/09, for $0.00

First off, Jody Sanders, I am declining your $10,000. Why? Because you, and the rest of the iPhone unlock sites out there are scum. You make money selling freeware; that’s not cool, and I am in no way going to legitimize it.
Seriously, the people who really lose here are the customers. These sites are full of blatant lies, claiming to have unlocks for 05.11.07 People buy them, and are told the unlock is in development, and the release date is unknown. Imagine you bought a cup of coffee and were told it’s in development? Recently, many of these sites sent out e-mails saying they made major breakthroughs and the unlock will be ready 11/04/09. Coincidence that that’s the release date of blacksn0w?
I’m not going to post all these scam sites here, as I don’t want to give them the pagerank boost. Rather I’ll give you a whitelist, two people make unlocks, me and the dev team. Every iPhone unlock site you see out there is selling our stuff, repackaged in some form or another. Same goes for jailbreaks, although ih8sn0w and chronicdev are legit. Notice what all the legit ones have in common? They are free.
Now despite rumors of the ferocity of my legal team, they actually are pretty poor lawyers. And the scum who run these websites are the type who get off on legal battles. So we have to fight them in another way, and I’m asking for everyones help on this. Our weapon is information. Get the truth out, that all iPhone unlocks and jailbreaks are free, and if you are buying something, you aren’t getting anything a simple google search couldn’t get you, and are probably funding someones crack habit.
This is the first time I have tried to make something simple for the end users, and it enrages me to see people selling it. Let’s shut all these assholes down, and tell the iPhone owning world all they need is at blackra1n.com, including blacksn0w instructions on it’s release date, 11/04/09(yes, will support hacktivation). You do your part, and I’ll do mine making things as simple, reliable, and straightforward as possible.

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How to fix the Nikon D40x ‘Error. Press shutter release button again’

October 13, 2009

D40x underside

Pic from John C Ayr

Do you have a D40x with showing the error   ‘Error. Press shutter release button again’ ?
The shutter won’t function when the button is pressed?

Here’s how I fixed mine.

Get a very small cross head screwdriver (watchmaker size)
A can of WD40
Sticky tape
A good light

Remove the Battery and SD card
Open up the bottom of the D40x putting the small screws onto the sticky tape in order of removal.

You might want to take pic with another camera so you know where all the screws go.
Then remove the metal plate (used for the tripod mount, you will need to remove the back of the D40x as well, it’s only 2 screws)

Now look at John C Ayr’s pic of the D40x above

Spray a SMALL amount of WD40 onto the red and white gear wheels.
(Don’t use so much that it drips down onto the optics, you don’t want oil in there!!!)

Put the battery in and hold it down to make contact, put in the sd card and switch on the camera and try the shutter button. (switch it to manual focus or it might try hunting around for ages for focus)

It might start working, if not move the red wheel a few stops and try again.

Once it’s lubed up and the wheels move it should be ok.
Keep taking pics until you feel it’s ok.

Then reassemble following the screws backwards on the sticky tape.

Enjoy your D40x once again ;-)

Flickr site at www.jacko.co.uk

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Iphone 3g unlock Scammer Exposed

January 3, 2009

Thanks to the guys over at blog.iphone-dev.org the Iphone 3G is now able to be used on any network!

It’s FREE and the unlock software should never be sold to anyone, but there is a scammer in the UK reselling the software. His name is Jody Sanders and runs an unlock company that charges £19.99 for software that’s free.

So its no surprise that he’s pissed off quite a few people including The iphone Dev team, Guardian and here in the hackint0sh forums. So don’t forget to become a member of the Facebook called “Us against Jody Sanders”

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How to charge your iPod with a onion

November 15, 2007

I thought i had seen it all, but this is just crazy !

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BBC news reports: Man has sex with bicycle and is arrested

November 15, 2007

A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.

I hope he used some lube as it could chafe.

Chafe, just the right word ;-)

1 [ trans. ] (of something restrictive or too tight) make (a part of the body) sore by rubbing against it : the collar chafed his neck.
• [ intrans. ] (of a part of the body) be or become sore as a result of such rubbing.

Click here

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Problems with the iPhone

November 11, 2007

Apple iPhone

On Friday the 9th at 6.02pm, I “fell hook line and sinker” for the Apple iPhone hype and bought a “Jesus phone”, but after using it for a few hours I have found some disappointing problems with this £269 gadget.

  • Copying music to the iPhone: Unlike the iPod, you can’t manually sync your music from iTunes to the iPhone. You must create a playlist and then sync the iPhone, why is that? It’s driving me crazy UPDATE: It seems that Flash memory based iPods always copy the music this way. Still weird..
  • Bluetooth: The Bluetooth seems only work with Headsets. You can’t connect to another phone or computer.
  • Ringtones: You can’t use any of your mp3’s that you already own to use as a ringtone. You must buy ringtones from Apple. UPDATE: From version 1.1.2  Firmware and iTunes 7.5 you can rename your music and it can be used as a ringtone. More info here

  • Ringtone volume: All the ringtone’s that are pre-loaded are not loud enough. UPDATE: Try a custom ringtone that’s louder

  • Camera: Why no video or flash?

UPDATE:  The new iPhone 3GS has video, but still no flash


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    A German Energy Drink with a very wrong name.

    November 3, 2007

    Black Bastard

    While surfing the InterTubes I founds this. Yes, an Energy Drink has been launched in Germany called “Black Bastard”.It’s no joke it’s very real. At first I thought the German’s might not know what the word Bastard means, then I found out that it’s exactly the same meaning and spelling in German!

    So now I just can’t understand how they are able to sell a drink with that name.I started to think about situations like being in a club and asking a black barman for a “Black Bastard” or being that black barman and having to wear that promotional T-Shirt while working behind the bar!

    Anyway check out the site for yourself. Blackbastard Energy Drink

    UPDATE: Seems like the website is offline, I wonder if they have been shut down?

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    Wireless Network MAC address cloning

    October 25, 2007

    Have you ever found an open network and tried to connect, only to find that it connects with a nice signal but you don’t get an IP address.
    Whatever you try you just can’t get any traffic onto the Internet even though you are connected?

    Well the reason normally is that the Wireless access point you are trying to connect to is not using any encryption, but instead is using MAC filtering.
    Read on to see how to get round this and connect to the Access Point.

    Basically your computer talks to the wireless router by sending small packets of data. After each packet is sent to the router a reply is sent to confirm it has successfully received the data, if not it’s sent again.

    All this happens extremely fast, we are talking within milli seconds here. The device receiving the data (computer or router) needs to know which device it came from. Think about it, if you have more than one device on the network the packets would get all messed up and the data packets would get delivered to the wrong device!

    The way to stop this happening is to give everything that connects to a network a unique number, this is called a MAC address (At this low level IP addresses are not used).
    That stands for Media Access Control an example is 01:23:45:67:89:ab. Every packet sent contains this data so that it knows where to go. (This is important for hacking as you will see later)

    I hope you got that so far, basically all devices on a network have a MAC address and that way the packets of data get sent to the correct place. That’s great but what about if you want to stop computers using your wireless connection.
    You don’t want you neighbors downloading god knows what and pushing up your monthly usage limit that your ISP might enforce. You could be charged with downloading films or music and it wasn’t even you!

    So one way is MAC address filtering, it’s simple. Just tell the wireless router to only allow your MAC address. If you do that it’s going to stop everyone else. Well…. that’s the idea!

    There’s a really big security problem with this, let me try to explain.

    Change your computers MAC address to match one that’s been allowed in the wireless router. But how do i know the MAC address’s that’s allowed?

    EASY…

    Remember I said that every packet has the MAC number in it. Because of that you can use software to “Sniff” the wireless packets and see the MAC addresses (amongst other things). Then you just need to set our MAC address the same as one that’s been allowed by the wireless router.

    The Sniffing software will tell you the MAC addresses of all the computers connected to the network. Next change your MAC address to a MAC address that’s currently on the network. That’s it !!Bingo (as Steve Jobs says) your in … How insecure is that!!

    To recap:

    1. Sniff network traffic
    2. Find MAC addresses on that network
    3. Change your MAC address to match one on the target network.

    Wireless sniffing software for a Apple Mac use Kismac.

    In the following screen shot, you can see that the encryption is “disabled” and the righthand window pane shows two computers connected to the MAC filtered network.
    You need to set your computer to one of these MAC addresses.

    Kismac Screen Shot

    Apple OSX

    To change your MAC address on an Apple Mac OSX 10.4.10 use the following commands in the terminal window:

    sudo ifconfig en1 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

    Or try SpoofMAC

     

    Windows

     

    Windows network wireless sniffer Netstumbler
    Windows MAC Address changer MACShift