Following on AT&T’s launch of business/corporate iPhone accounts, Apple’s iPhone partner overseas has announced their intention to do the same. O2’s corporate/business customers in the UK will soon be able to take advantage of their corporate pricing discounts with the iPhone.

An O2 spokesperson stated that they “Want to offer it as a service for business users looking to use the smartphone in their office.”

If you’ve been waiting to link your iPhone to your corporate/business account, you’re wait is almost over. Business tariffs will be available for iPhones in 2008.

[Via: Pocket-Lint]

Well the iPhone didn’t really win, it just sorta walked away with its life. Here’s a quick little “How (NOT) To” guide for taking care of your iPhone:

• Don’t place iPhone on trunk of car on cold, windy, day in Kansas
• Don’t drive off with iPhone still sitting on said trunk - especially onto a highway
• Don’t stand on side of highway, waiting to retrieve fallen iPhone, causing a big-rig truck to run over iPhone

But, should you forget the above helpful tips, you’ll be glad to know that your iPhone can survive a run-in with an 18-wheeler and still work perfectly - albeit a bit scuffed up.

Mike Beauchamp, Kansas resident, apparently found out the hard way (or, really, the only way) that an iPhone can be run over by a multi-ton truck and still work.

As I watched helplessly from the shoulder, the semi plowed my phone at full speed, throwing it to the ditch on the other side of the highway. At this point, I figured I’d retrieve it just for the purpose of seeing the crushed iPhone in disarray, mangled and crunched lifeless in the grass…Much to my surprise, as I approached, I heard the familiar sound of my ringtone — the iPhone was alive and ringing! As I picked it up and cradled it gently in my hands, I saw the screen displaying my caller ID — the screen still worked! I slid my finger gently over the answer slide and paused as I held the tattered and torn device to my ear — my heart must have skipped a beat when I heard my mom’s voice at the other end of the phone — the phone still worked! I ran back to my car and sat on the side of the road for about 15 minutes inspecting it, testing it, and looking it over — how in the hell had it survived being trounced by an 18-wheeler at 70mph?!?”

Who knew the iPhone was a ruggedized handset?

If you’re in the Midwest or Southeast US and you’re trying to access AT&T’s data network, you may just be doing so in vain. AT&T has announced that it is experiencing problems with its data network in the Midwest and Southeast regions of the US.

An AT&T spokesperson said that some customers “may be experiencing trouble accessing data on some devices.” The list of affected devices includes the iPhone, and presumably many other handsets trying to connect to AT&T’s EDGE network.

The problem seems to be related to six GGSNs having “rolled over.”  Whatever, just get it fixed right quick, AT&T.

We can verify that the Los Angeles and New York networks are going strong. Anyone having problems?

[Via: Gizmodo]

Don’t know you have heard about MindMeister, but it’s a great web-based mind mapping tool which allows creation of mind maps by multiple users in real time — and which I personally use. And guess what, they’ve decided to get some media attention by adding support for Apple’s handset.

To be fair, it’s not the complete service you’ll be able to access from your iPhone. Rather the Germany-based company decided to “iPhone-ize” their Geistesblitz Tools, allowing users to quickly submit their ideas (or Geistesblitzes) to a default map in MindMeister. The ideas are inserted in a special branch top left of the root and remain there for you to copy to other maps, or move around within the default map.

Finally in case you’re wondering what the hack “Geistesblitz” means, it’s literally translated as mind flash - a sudden insight or idea, often brilliant and unexpected…

Users of the group-chat interface Campfire will be glad to hear that they can continue the group-conversation on their iPhone. 37signals has announced that their Campfire interface is now live on the iPhone. Any iPhone that visits a campfire site will find that a new iPhone-optimized interface is waiting for them.

The iPhone-specific Campfire sites have been designed to allow you to scroll through the chat-transcript, but you’ll need to use a “two-finger scroll” method.

If you use Campfire and the iPhone, head to your Campfire site and, uh, fire ‘er up! We don’t use Campfire, so let us know how you like the new iPhone interface.

[Via: 37signals]

If you haven’t already done so, you may want to consider updating your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. Whether you’re already rocking the new iPhone v1.1.3, or you are still playing with v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmwares (jailbroken or not), you can find instructions on how to upgrade to a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 here.

Then, after you update, you may notice that some SMS text messages appear “out of order.” The messaging application isn’t “broken” per se, but the text messages seem to have forgotten the flow of normal conversation.

Whereas a normal convo should read like:

me: hi
friend: wats up
me: nothing

Some users may notice that their convos read like this:

me: hi
me: nothing
friend: whats up

This problem has been cropping up ever since Apple launched the v1.1.3 iPhone firmware, and Apple has finally acknowledged the issue and has recommended a possible fix. If you’ve been dealing with wacky text messages, Apple suggests that you:

“Make sure iPhone is setup to receive the network time. Choose General > Date & Time and turn Set Automatically to ON. (Note that in some locations, network time may not be available and in some cases, you may not see this option).”

Admittedly, this solution may not fix your “out of order” text messages. In which case, you may want to try resetting your iPhone, or manually set your iPhone’s clock to sync-up with the time.gov time-server.

Let us know if you have further problems…

We’re not sure that many users will be taking advantage of an online photo-printing service for the iPhone. The iPhone’s camera isn’t anything special and the lack of a built-in flash turns night-shots into nightmare shots. But, that didn’t stop ECCE TERRAM from bringing an online photo-printing service to the iPhone.

ECCE TERRAM has announced that they will be launching an iPhone client that allows iPhone users to order prints of their pictures online, directly from their iPhone. It seems that the iPhone’s ability to store your digital picture album and multi-touch image manipulation makes the iPhone “the first attractive and user-friendly mobile phone photo print application that will be loved by its users.”

Users will be able to order picture-books and postcards printed from the image files on their iPhone - either taken with the iPhone’s camera or transferred from their computer. A

A final version of the ECCE TERRAM iPhone picture-printing service should be available shortly after Apple releases the official iPhone SDK.

[Via: Macworld]

Did Apple (or someone with the right connections) leak the iPhone application SDK key?

Well, according to those that know more about iPhone development than us, the code you see below is the official iPhone application SDK key.

The key was apparently going to be used to authenticate official third-party applications that were developed using the official iPhone SDK. But, now that the key has hit the ‘nets, we’re sure that Apple will be coming up with a new key when the SDK launches - which is to say, next month.

Still, the discovery of this key suggests that iPhone hackers are close to developing third-party applications that are recognized and installable through iTunes. If iPhone developers are able to home-in on a solution to load third-party applications onto the iPhone, via iTunes, firmware jailbreaks may become a thing of the past.

Let’s see what happens next month.

Here’s the iPhone application SDK key:

18 84 58 A6 D1 50 34 DF E3 86 F2 3B 61 D4 37 74

[Via: zibree]

In an apparent effort to spur sales of the iPhone in the UK, Apple’s iPhone partner, O2, has announced that they’ll be radically changing their iPhone wireless plans. Most O2 iPhone customers will see a three-fold increase in wireless minutes on the same monthly tariff.

O2 iPhone customers on the £35 wireless plan can look forward to 600 wireless minutes (up from 200) and “more than double” the number of bundled SMS text messages. Those with £45 plans can expect to get a bump up to 1,200 minutes and 500 SMS text messages - the same as the current £55 plan. O2 will be dissolving its £55 plan and replacing it with a £75 “super-tier” wireless plan. “Super-tier” customers will be offered 3,000 minutes and 500 included SMS text messages.

The iPhone’s on-contract (18 months) will remain unchanged at £269. Current customers on the  £55 plan can choose to save the  £10 or upgrade to the “super-tier.” The new plans should go into effect on February 1.

Now, that’s what O2 iPhone customers should have been offered from the beginning. These revised rate-plans may just help boost iPhone sales in the UK - adding to the 190,000 iPhones sold in the first 8 weeks of sales.

[Via: Apple Insider]

[Update 4]
ZiPhone 2.0 is now ready to make put all your jailbreaking woes to rest. ZiPhone 2.0 is available for Windows and Mac machines and is basically a GUI (graphical user interface) that uses the iPhone Dev Teams' jailbreak solution to automate the iPhone v1.1.4 jailbreak process to point-and-click simplicity. Download ZiPhone 2.4 here.

This guide has been updated to reflect the new, easier process.

[Update 3]
Added a tip for jailbreaking iPhone v1.1.1 with jailbreakme.com.

[Update 2]
Jailbreakme.com has been updated. You no longer have to install Oktoprep prior to updating your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 to a jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware.

[Updated]
The final steps of this jailbreak guide have been appended with a simpler and less involved method. A new third-party application is available through Installer.app (AppSnapp). Namely, the new iJailbreakMobile application makes updating to v1.1.3 jailbreak a breeze.

With the release of iJailbreakMobile, this guide is better used as a "downgrade" guide for anyone that wishes to update their baseband or has already updated to v1.1.3. Jailbroken iPhone with v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmware can ignore most of these steps.

Okay, if you're reading this, chances are that you've been scouring the web for some straight-up answers on how to upgrade your iPhone to the jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. For the uninitiated, a "jailbroken/jailbreaked" firmware simply means that the particular firmware version is capable of installing and running unofficial third-party applications. The new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware is most likely the firmware that Apple will use to distribute their official iPhone SDK-based third-party application, and so jailbreaking the v1.1.3 firmware offers the best of both worlds - official and unofficial third-party native iPhone applications.

Let's get down to the nitty gritty. This guide will walk you through the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak process, and should work regardless of your current firmware version. This tutorial uses the iPhone Dev Team's v1.1.3 jailbreak method, not Nate True's leaked solution:

The following is the updated instruction set:

• Download the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware package to your desktop.
  Download it here.
• Download the ZiPhone 2.4 iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak package. (Choose the Mac or Windows version, you should know which one you need)
  Download it here. (Make it easy, put it on your Desktop)
• Make sure you backup your data. (Just sync your iPhone with iTunes)
• Connect your iPhone to your computer and let iTunes start up.
• Goto the iPhone pane in iTunes and hit the "update" button.
  At this time, the iPhone v1.1.4 firmware is available through iTunes, so iTunes will likely want to upgrade your iPhone to v1.1.4 - DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN.
  • If you iTunes wants to update your iPhone to v1.1.4, press "Cancel."
  • Force your iPhone to restore itself to v1.1.3 by holding down the "Option" key while click "Restore" (Mac) or holding down the "Shift" key as you click "Restore."
  • Choose the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware package that you downloaded to your desktop.
• Quit iTunes.
• Fire up ZiPhone.
• Check the appropriate boxes and jailbreak/unlock/activate your iPhone v1.1.3.
• Enjoy! (Props to the iPhone Dev Team and Zibri!)

Keep reading if you feel like checking out the older iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak process.

• Make sure you backup your data. You will be "restoring" your iPhone several times.
• You need a WiFi connection which your iPhone and computer both share (they need to be on the same network).
• Your iPhone needs 300MB of free space.
• Even iPhones previously jailbroken using Nate True's method can be re-jailbroken with this more stable method.
• AT&T, O2 UK, T-Mobile Germany, Orange France customers can update their baseband to take advantage of iPhone v1.1.3's new features. To do this, simply update your iPhone to v1.1.3 via iTunes. Unlocked customers will want to avoid this step.
• Proceed slowly and carefully, some steps take time and you just need to be patient.

Here's what you'll need before we start (put everything on your desktop):

Mac users -

• Apple iPhone v1.1.1 firmware
• Apple iPhone v1.1.2 firmware
• iNdependence v1.3 beta 2
• v1.1.2 jailbreak package (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)
• v1.1.3 jailbreak package (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)
• Original lockdownd file (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)

Windows users -

• Apple iPhone v1.1.1 firmware
• Apple iPhone v1.1.2 firmware
• iBrickr
• v1.1.2 jailbreak package (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)
  
• v1.1.3 jailbreak package (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)
• Original lockdownd file (no longer necessary for iJailbreakMobile)

Starting with a factory/non-jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1

(in which we'll discuss how to downgrade your v1.1.2 or v1.1.3 iPhone to the non-jailbroken v1.1.1 starting point). Jailbroken iPhones using v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmwares will want to skip this step:

1. Download the Apple iPhone v1.1.1 firmware here. Place it on your desktop
2. Connect your iPhone to iTunes
3. Place your iPhone in DFU restore mode by holding down the "Home" and "Power" buttons simultaneously. You'll see the "Slide to turn off" button, keep holding those buttons
4. Wait until the screen goes black and release only the "Power" button - keep pressing the "Home" button. iTunes will recognize that the iPhone is in restore mode - the screen should be black. If you see the "Connect to iTunes" image, restart at Step 3 until you enter DFU restore mode. Again, if you do this correctly, you'll have a completely blacked-out screen while iTunes recognizes your iPhone in restore mode
5. Restore your iPhone to v1.1.1 firmware by holding down the "Option" key and clicking the "Restore" button (Mac OS X), or holding down the "Shift" key while clicking the "Restore" button (Windows)
6. Navigate and choose the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware file on your desktop (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
7. If you immediately get an error "(1)" you need to make sure you enter DFU restore mode - go back to Step 3
8. Let iTunes do its thing, you will get an error (1015) or (1013), that's okay, it's supposed to happen
9. Apply the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware again to ensure that the firmware "took"
10. At the error (1015) or (1013) prompt, you'll notice that your iPhone is in restore mode and iTunes doesn't want anything to do with it. Quit iTunes.
11. At this point, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) and wait a tick for it to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (it takes 30 seconds to a minute)
12. You should now be staring at a "Activate iPhone" screen. Quit iNdependence or iBrickr

Jailbreak your iPhone v1.1.1 firmware

Non-jailbroken (factory fresh iPhones) with v1.1.1 firmware start here:

1. Slide the "Slide for Emergency" slider.
2. Dial "*#307#" without quotes, obviously.
3. Hit "Call"
4. Delete the numbers and dial "0"
5. Hit "Call"
6. Hit "Answer"
7. Hit "Hold"
8. Hit "Decline"
9. Choose the "Contacts" tab and add a new contact by hitting the "+" button in the upper right corner
10. Hit "Add new URL"
11. Add "prefs:" and save
12. Hit "Add new URL" again
13. Add "http://jailbreakme.com" and save
14. Save the contact as "Z" or whatever you feel like naming it
15. Hit the "prefs:" URL
16. Navigate to "General" > "Auto-lock" and choose "Never"
17. Connect to your WiFi network, enter password if required
18. Press the "Home" button and you'll be back at the "Activate iPhone" screen
19. Slide that "Slide for Emergency" slider again
20. Dial "0"
21. Hit "Answer"
22. Hit "Hold"
23. Hit "Decline"
24. Choose your newly added contact
25. Hit the "http://jailbreakme.com" URL. This will open up Safari
26. Scroll down to "Install AppSnapp" and hit it
27. Safari will close, you'll be taken back to the "Activate iPhone" screen, wait until your iPhone reboots. If you are still staring at the "Activate iPhone" screen after 5 minutes, go back to Step 19. (TIP: as you wait for jailbreakme.com to finish the jailbreak, keep playing with the activation screen slider - keep sliding it halfway to keep the iPhone from turning off before jailbreakme.com has a chance to reboot the device)
28. iPhone will reboot to a freshly jailbroken v1.1.1 firmware with Installer.app/AppSnapp installed. You did good.

[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.1 iPhone a simple, one-click process.

You can ignore the rest of the instructions after this section. iJailbreakMobile only requires that you have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1. If you followed the instructions in the previous section, you should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1.

If you wish to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, skip this section and follow the instruction in the next section.

1. Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
2. Make sure you have "BSD Subsystem" installed. If not, do so now.
3. Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your "Source" list. If you don't know how, check out our tutorial
4. Refresh your "Source"
5. You should now see a new application category called "iJailbreak"
6. Within the "iJailbreak" category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.1 installer
7. Hit the "Home" button to return to your homescreen
8. Find the new icon "iJailbreak" and run it
9. Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
10. Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
11. That's it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.

Preparing your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 for upgrade/update to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2

If you'd rather update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, then follow the instructions in this step.

Jailbroken iPhones with v1.1.1 firmware start here:

1. Fire up "Installer.app" (aka AppSnapp)
2. Update the "Installer.app" application
3. Navigate to "Tweaks 1.1.1"
4. Download and install the "Oktoprep" package (Update: Ensure that it's installed)
5. Navigate to "General" > "Auto-lock" and choose "Never"
6. Open up iTunes
7. Update (DO NOT Restore)your iPhone by holding down "Option" while clicking "UPDATE" (Mac), or hold down "Shift" while clicking "UPDATE" (Windows) - DO NOT RESTORE
8. Navigate to and choose the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware (iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw)
9. When iTunes is done updating to v1.1.2, you will be stuck in restore mode (if not, then continue). If you are stuck in restore mode, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (as we did previously)
10. You will be returned to the "Emergency Call" screen - the logo is different, don't worry
11. Quit iNdependence or iBrickr
12. Quit iTunes
13. Remember that "1.1.2-jailbreak" package you downloaded to your desktop? Yea, open that up and double-click "jailbreak.jar" (Mac) or "windows.bat" (Windows)
14. After a couple minutes, the java application will finish up and hopefully reboot your iPhone. If you get to the completion dialog box and your iPhone is not rebooting (wait a bit before you take action, this stuff takes time), fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to return to the homescreen
15. Your iPhone will probably reboot again, let it
16. Once rebooted, you will have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2

[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.2 iPhone a simple, one-click process.

If you've decided to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware, then the instructions in this section are all you need to update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. If you'd rather do things manually (through terminal commands) then skip this step.

1. Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
2. Make sure you have "BSD Subsystem" installed. If not, do so now.
3. Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your "Source" list. If you don't know how, check out our tutorial
4. Refresh your "Source"
5. You should now see a new application category called "iJailbreak"
6. Within the "iJailbreak" category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.2 installer
7. Hit the "Home" button to return to your homescreen
8. Find the new icon "iJailbreak" and run it
9. Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
10. Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
11. That's it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.

Upgrade your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)

iPhones with jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware start here:

1. Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn't already connected
2. Navigate to "Settings">"WiFi" and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
3. Write down (or memorize, it ain't hard) your iPhone's IP adress
4. Fire up "Installer.app" and download/install "BSD Subsystem files" and "OpenSSH"
5. Make sure your "Installer.app" application is updated to the latest version (v3.0b10)
6. Navigate to "General" > "Auto-lock" and choose "Never"
7. Update to v1.1.3 firmware
   • Mac
     • Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
     • Start "Terminal" (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
     • Type the command:
       "scp -r ~/Desktop/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/" where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. "Jailbreak-1.1.3" is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "yes" and hit enter
     • At the password prompt, type in "alpine" (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered - that's okay, just type the password)
     • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
       If you hit an error that looks like "@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @", run the command "rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts" and go back to the "scp" command
     • Type the command: "ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>"
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "cd /"
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "sh install.sh"
   • Windows
     • Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
     • Start the command window by hitting the
       Start Menu then Run and typing in "cmd"
     • Type "cd desktop"
     • Type the command:
       "scp -r ~/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/" where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. "Jailbreak-1.1.3" is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "yes" and hit enter
     • At the password prompt, type in "alpine" (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered - that's okay, just type the password)
     • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
       If you hit an error that looks like "@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @", run the command "rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts" and go back to the "scp" command
     • Type the command: "ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>"
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "cd /"
     • Hit Enter
     • Type "sh install.sh"
8. Wait at least 15-20 minutes before you start getting antsy, this step takes some time - go watch some TV or something
9. Or, watch the command window it downloads the v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, upload it, patch it
10. Once done, the command window will terminate your SSH connection and reboot the iPhone
11. Close the terminal window
12. Restart the command window and SSH to your iPhone
    • Type:
      "ssh root@<IPADDRESS>" (Mac)
      "putty -ssh root@<IPADDRESS>" (Windows)
    • Hit Enter
    • Type "cd /Applications"
    • Hit Enter
    • Type "chmod +s Installer.app/Installer"
    • Hit Enter
    • Type "chown -R root:wheel Installer.app"
    • Hit Enter
13. Close the command window
14. That's it!
15. Well, actually, if you want phone-functionality, you'll want to keep reading

Restore phone functionality to your iPhone (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)

1. Fire up "Installer.app" and ensure that "BSD Subsystem" and "OpenSSH" are installed
2. Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn't already connected
3. Navigate to "Settings">"WiFi" and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
4. Write down (or memorize, it ain't hard) your iPhone's IP adress
5. On Mac
   • Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
   • Start "Terminal" (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
   • Type the command "chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd"
   • Hit Enter
   • Type "scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec" where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
   • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
     If you hit an error that looks like "@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @", run the command "rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts" and go back to the "scp" step
6. On Windows
   • Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
   • Start the command window by hitting the
     Start Menu then Run and typing in "cmd"
   • Type the command "chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd"
   • Hit Enter
   • Type "scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec" where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
   • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
     If you hit an error that looks like "@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @", run the command "rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts" and go back to Step 8
7. Hold down the "Power" button and slide the red slider to turn off the iPhone.
8. Turn it back on
9. Enjoy your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 in all its wiggly-homescreen-icon-Google Maps-My-Location-Installer.app glory!

Following on iPhone sales figures from Apple, Orange, and O2, T-Mobile Germany has finally chimed in on their own sales numbers.

T-Mobile Germany has apparently sold about 70,000 iPhones in its 11 weeks of sales. If you’ll recall, the iPhone hit the German market in November of last year, and has been selling at an average rate of 900 units per day. France’s Orange iPhone stands in stark contrast to Germany’s three-month iPhone sales performance. The French carrier sold 70,000 iPhones in its first month of sales - definitely an interesting look at the T-Mobile iPhone announcement.

Still, T-Mobile Germany’s Philipp Humm stated that “the iPhone is by far the most sold multimedia device in T-Mobile’s portfolio.”

[Via: Reuters]

Following the launch for the Mac Adress Book, Plaxo has announced that their popular Pulse service is now available via the iPhone.

Those not familiar should know Pulse is Plaxo’s “next generation” social network that allows members to stay connected to their contacts and everything they create on the Open Social Web. By bringing together all the feeds from popular Web 2.0 services such as Digg, Flickr, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube - Pulse enables users to get their information via streams that are separated by business, family or friend. In recent weeks, the service has seen tremendous growth and Plaxo has nearly 20 million members worldwide…

During this year’s Macworld, a startup called PimpMyNews.com launched a “talking” news application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch users.

The Web-based application, accessible through the Safari browser, searches the Internet for the latest news and converts text-based stories to audio, enabling users to get their daily dose of information while on-the-go.

At the moment, PimpMyNews features more than 200,000 talking stories across 59 categories, and more than 4,000 stories are added each day. Users can even create their own “personalized talking newspaper” by selecting categories and news sources. In addition, audio files can be shared with others and posted on popular social networking sites, including Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.

[Via: Yahoo]

Don’t know have you heard about Treasuremytext, but it’s quite a neat service. Basically, they are providing users with an SMS archive service, and as you can guess - they’ve just announced support for the Apple iPhone.

The application, still in beta, requires Jailbroken iPhone with “Installer App” and a Treasuremytext account. After you’ve installed the app, you’ll be able to delete individual text messages (a feature missing from the built in SMS application), archive SMS to your Treasuremytext account, and even send SMS free of charge (either via EDGE or Wifi). In addition, once you’ve archived your SMS, you’ll be able to access it via Treasuremytext’s website, where they (text messages) are saved with the original date sent and contact information. Nice!

Interested? Sure you are. However, there’s a catch. As we said the application is still in beta so getting it to work isn’t actually the easiest thing to do. You’ll need an invite and some tweaking on your iPhone. That being said, I’m better off leaving you to read the full post on Treasuremytext’s blog which has all the instructions. So here it goes and good luck!

Leave it up to the iPhone development community to release an instructional iPhone application programming book before Apple even releases the official iPhone SDK to the public. Jonathan Zdziarski, a prominent iPhone developer and one of the team members that helped craft the recently released iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak (against the team’s wishes), has already gone public with a book that delves into the inner workings of the iPhone’s software-platform.

In iPhone Open Application Development, Zdziarski explains how to use Apple’s iPhone toolkit and the open-source toolkit, with which he developed the first fully-functional third-party iPhone application, to create third-party iPhone applications for use with jailbroken iPhones. The book will teach iPhone developer-wannabes how to actually code applications in Objective-C and the iPhone API.

The book is scheduled to hit the printing presses in mid-May of this year, and will cost around $40 (although there are cheaper, PDF/e-book options available).

iPhone Open Application Development

[Via: iPhone Atlas]