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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Can you feel that? That electricity in the air? Yes, it means that the final release of iPhone OS 3.0 is closer than ever, and here is iPhone beta 5—build 7A312g—to demonstrate it:
You’re an attractive guy. You workout. You like to take semi-nude to full-nude pictures of yourself. Oh, and you own an iPhone!
As far as powerstrips go, Stanford’s Visible Energy UFO is as cool as it gets. It monitors and tracks the energy consumption of plugged-in devices, and the whole shebang is controlled via the iPhone.
Those designers at Core77 never stop. Today, one of them devised a super-simple but damn-if-it’s-not-worth-it business-card hack that finally gives you a way to stash those damn white earbuds. Share your attempts in comments. [Core77]
Apple recently applied for a patent for “movement-based interfaces for personal media devices,” which means a more advanced accelerometer and movement gestures for the iPhone.
QuickPWN for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices but the Touch 2G, but it could sabotage future unlocking, says the Dev Team. And so the untelevised procedural drama that is jailbreaking continues, forever. [QuickPWN]
To me, the biometric readers you see on most laptops are obnoxious blemishes—they really can’t make them more discrete? Apple feels the same way, so I like their ideas for seamless biometric security.
As the journey continues to find the most inexpensive, low-tech iPhone display stand (so far, thy name be “paper clips”), we can add this fairly obvious one to the mix. Yes, it’s a bean bag.
We know that the iPhone was a big success in Australia when it launched last year, but this is just mind-boggling. Suzanne Tindal over at ZDNet is reporting that according to analysts at IDC, Apple sold about 125,000 iPhone 3Gs. That works out at about 1,350 iPhones per day.
This weekend, I learned the hard way that trying to jailbreak an iPhone 3G using a Late 2008 MacBook Pro running 10.5.6 can totally freeze up the machine later on. Here are the specifics:
