With over 100,000 apps in its sleeve, Apple, beyond any doubt, has the largest number of Apps in its App Store. There is an App for almost anything that you can think off. To show off apps for 2009 Christmas eve, Apple today has released a new iPhone 3GS commercial which shows 12 apps you to enjoy your Christmas with.
Apple’s consumer electronic items are by far some of the best computer hardware available in the industry. We covered all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that were offered by Apple last month when the 2009 holiday season kicked-off. And now as the Christmas eve nears, Apple is offering fast and free shipping on everything you pick from the gift guide they have placed on the online Apple Store site to celebrate the 2009 Free Shipping Day.
In the last quarter, Apple sold out a huge number of iPhone’s, 7.5 million to be precise. The Cupertino based company earned are record US $9.87 billion in revenue and a quarterly profit of US $1.67 billion against the predicted revenue of US $9.4 billion. Major enhancement was seen in its profit share that went upto $1.8, against expected $1.4 per share. This was substantial and solid growth by Apple in this period of economic recession in the world. That’s simply remarkable.
Up until now, we all have seen countless concept prototypes that shows off the supposedly rumored Apple Tablet which the folks in Cupertino have been secretly working on. But none of them comes close to this one, published by a French site named NoWhereElse. This is the prototype that I for one wish was for real.
Black Friday has already started in some parts of the world which marks the beginning of the 2009 holiday shopping season. To celebrate this special day, Apple has launched its only sale of the year on almost all the popular product items. The sale offers by Apple are modest at best, when you compare them to what others like Microsoft are offering on this special day.
Apple’s latest mice sensation – the multi-touch capable Magic Mouse introduced iPhone-style touch capabilities in the world of mice for users running OS X. This amazing product of engineering which is a multi-touch descendant of the iPhone soon became the heartthrob of Mac users. Since Magic Mouse is officially supported to work on Macs only, PC users running Windows were left out in the dark since there is currently no multi-touch capable mouse available for PC market.
It was only yesterday when we reported the long awaited update to install0us (version 2.5) and now it seems like the developer of the app has already pushed a new update, version 2.5.1 via Cydia. The only thing new in this update is that it removes the expiry date that the developer forgot to remove from version 2.5. Version 2.5 of the app will be expired in 4 days from now. You must upgrade to version 2.5.1 in order to continue using this app. Here are the official words from the developer himself.
install0us 2.5 has gone Gold and is now available for download via Cydia for jailbroken iPhones. The new version 2.5 of install0us has been completely re-written from scratch and it boasts of brand new user interface with no dependencies of any kind with the older version of the app. Also added is a download manager which supports multiple files download at once, a full-fledged web browser and support for almost all types of file hosting sites. You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone with firmware 3.x or over in order to install this app.
In continuation from our last post, here is yet another development which took place in the last few days when some jailbroken iPhone users found their home screen background a little different than it was last seen by them. If your jailbroken iPhone has changed its background automatically to that of Rick Astley (some 80's singer) with the words "ikee is never going to give you up", then you are most likely a victim of ikee virus which infects iPhone’s via SSH. The virus in question has originated from Australia by a hacker named Ikee and it is now quickly spreading to other parts of the world. If you have been affected, luckily there is no harm done as this virus was more of an experiment than anything else.
The following guide will help you jailbreak and unlock iPhone 2G (aka EDGE) on 3.1.2 firmware with 05.11.07 baseband. We will use blackra1n RC3 to jailbreak iPhone 2G on 3.1.2 firmware and then later unlock it for any carrier using BootNeuter. blacksn0w unlock is for iPhone 3G and 3GS only and so we will have to use BootNeuter which can unlock iPhone 2G on 3.1.2 firmware with 05.11.07 baseband. Step by step guide on how to jailbreak and unlock is as follows.
