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Get iPhone OS 3.0 For Free

June 13th, 2009

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Update: 3.0 is now live, but you still don’t need to shell out $10 for it. At the end of their WWDC keynote, Apple released the golden master of iPhone OS 3.0. This will be the final version unless some giant, unforeseen bug creeps out of the woodwork. It’s scheduled to be released June 17th. […]

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Change Your Display’s Gamma to Match Snow Leopard

June 12th, 2009

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One of the smaller refinements included with Snow Leopard will be the changing of the default gamma level from 1.8 to 2.2, which is the default for TVs and the current standard for Windows. Gamma affects the contrast on your screen; a higher level means higher contrast. To get the higher gamma level in Leopard, […]

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Dumb Teenager Runs in Traffic to Save her iPod

May 20th, 2009

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You know, I’d kick some major ass if someone tried to steal my iPod, but I would never jump in front of a pickup truck for it like a 16-year-old from Tampa, Florida did today. The girl had dropped her iPod in the street and was hit by the pickup when she tried to retrieve […]

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Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 2G With Redsn0w Beta

April 9th, 2009

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Update: All of this is irrelevant, as the Dev Team have released the final, GUI version of Redsn0w. Get it here. I’ve been wanting to jailbreak my 2nd-gen iPod Touch for quite awhile now, patiently watching the activity of the Dev Team, who creates most of the jailbreaking software. Recently, they’ve released a beta version […]

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A Rough Google Chrome Build for OS X

April 7th, 2009

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If you’re eager to try out Google’s new browser, and use OS X, there’s now an unofficial build of it over at TechSutra. This build slightly edges out the Safari 4 beta and the Windows version of Chrome 2.0 on the SunSpider Javascript Benchmark. It works like other Mac applications, using the menu bar instead […]

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