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Slide to Unlock iPhone Doormat

11:40AM Jesus Diaz | If you slide your feet across this doormat, it will open your door, but only after you enter a four-digit code. OK, I lied. It won’t—but that’s what it does in my fantasies, ok? [Meninos] More »
Music

iPod Touch 2G redsn0w Video Shows Jailbreak In Action

3:10AM Jack Loftus | We brought you a pic of the Dev Team’s iPod touch 2g “redsn0w” jailbreak yesterday, and just as the team promised, a video proving the hack works was up and ready for viewing today. More »
Software

iPhone 3G Unlock Works Great Now

4:41AM Jesus Diaz | Most of the problems with yellowsn0w–the free iPhone 3G unlock program–have been worked out. I have Yellowsn0w 0.9.6 installed and it works like a charm, no problems whatsoever. Other people report the same. [Gizmodo Coverage] More »
Software

iPhone 3G Software Unlock Updated, Seems to Work Now

3:42AM Jesus Diaz | The iPhone Dev Team has updated yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G software unlock program, to version 0.9.4. It’s still a beta, but it has worked for me after some fiddling. Using Vodafone now. [Gizmodo coverage] More »
Software

Dev-Team Shows Live iPhone 3G Unlock ‘Yellowsn0w’ Demo

6:39AM Jack Loftus | This video is the first public demo of the iPhone 3G unlock, named “yellowsn0w”, courtesy of Dev-Team member MuscleNerd. With a wave of his hand, he goes from AT&T to T-Mobile, and makes a call. More »
Software

How to Re-Enable Unlock and Jailbreak in Mac OS X 10.5.6

4:55AM Jesus Diaz | The Mac OS X 10.5.6 update broke pwnage, the unlocking/jailbreaking program for the iPhone. Fortunately, there’s now an easy solution to fix this problem. You just need an Automator script and these simple instructions.
Phones

iPhone 3G Unlocked, Free Software Coming On New Years Eve

11:52PM John Mahoney | They did it again: iPhone Dev Team has unlocked the iPhone 3G. They are now packaging the user-friendly software for a December 31 release. More »
Software

Unlock BlackBerry 8000-9000 Series Phones For Free

6:20AM Jason Chen | IntoMobile just found an app that can unlock any BlackBerry 8000 or 9000 series device, free of charge. What’s the catch? More »
Phones

Vietnamese iPhone Unlock Isn’t for the Faint of Heart

7:20AM Adam Frucci | You might think you’re some kind of l337 h4×0r because you used software to unlock your iPhone. Big deal! You’ve got nothing on the Vietnamese hackers that’ll unlock your iPhone for you the hard way. More »
Phones

iPhone 3G Baseband Break-In, Unlock Closer

10:35PM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_3G_Unlock_Close_System_Core_Broke_In'; Get ready, because the iPhone 3G unlock is coming to an iPhone 3G near you. The iPhone Dev Team have been able to break in the baseband processor. As you may remember from the first-generation iPhone unlock, this is big news because it means they have access to the core of the system, which gives them the ability to fully manipulate the iPhone 3G hardware and, therefore, unlock it. They gave us all the technical details and posted a demo of it in action: This is a video of a custom application running on the iPhone 3G baseband, which is big news. More »