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iPhone OS 3.0 Jailbroken, Apple Cracks Down

April 2nd, 2009

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A day after Apple released the second beta of iPhone OS 3.0, the Dev Team announced that they had jailbroken it. They had already broken 3.0 on March 19th, but they waited to announce it because of “resource-related” issues. Along with the announcement came the usual list of caveats. They’ve updated QuickPwn to support the […]

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Steve Woz Approves of Hackintoshing?

March 26th, 2009

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Mathew PB is one of the luckiest bastards on Earth; he has a hacked Dell Mini 9 with The Woz’s signature on it: He met Woz at Dancing With The Stars and showed him his hackintosh: He said, “Oh my god, that is so COOL!” And: “Is that really the color you wanted?” Then he […]

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MacBook + Truck = Bad

March 26th, 2009

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Flickr user, Jase n tonic, has a friend who recently had a run-in with a truck. The guy’s O.K., thankfully, but his MacBook Pro didn’t fare so well: His bike was also a victim of the carnage, but who cares about that? Ever have one of your laptops get destroyed? Tell us about it in […]

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A New 17-inch iMac?

March 21st, 2009

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Apple may be about to introduce a new iMac. This image from Apple’s eNews publication talks about a new 17-inch iMac starting at $899: It may only be for schools, however. What do you think? Would you buy one? [via Gizmodo] Update: Turns out the “new” iMac is actually the old polycarbonate 17-incher from 2007 […]

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Apple Conned out of 9000 iPod Shuffles

March 20th, 2009

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In Michigan, an iPod repairman named Nicholas Woodhams manipulated Apple’s warranty system by guessing at iPod serial numbers and using defunct credit cards to score 9,075 free iPod Shuffles from Apple, who was predictably pissed and filed a lawsuit against him last July. The government has also filed federal charges against him and wants to […]

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