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Since developers don’t have direct access to the device
’s operating system or a software development kit, development for the iPhone will have some unfortunate limits. For example, how much can you interact with the browser? And will we be able to access the iPhone’s camera and microphone?

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MacGyver and Apple both know a good tool when they see one. Check out the “Official iPhone Tool” they included with my warranty service packet.

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Legendary UK actor, writer, director and Mac enthusiast Stephen Fry has published an in-depth report contrasting some of the UK’s leading smartphones, including the iPhone.

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Listen Game is a collaborative game where players share opinions about music. As a short music clip plays, players select one of 6 words that describes the music best AND worst. Once both selections are made, players score points based on how many other players agree with them. A “freestyle” round lets you suggest a word to describe the music.

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The EFF has made a hilarious (scary?) video showing what might happen if hollywood’s lobbies are successful.

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Banner Competition for the SpreadBSD campaign
IXsystems the company financing the PC BSD project is currently involved in the development of a website to promote FreeBSD and PC. Read more …

Joe Sixpack is BSD!
“BSD has the reputation of being the most geeky OS, simply because it is” rarely used in the average user. The reason for this is that the average his opinion too complicated, which IMHO is far from the truth. The only thing with any OS is the fact that, when all his power, it takes some learning curve, no exceptions. “Read more …

PC 1.4: An initial look
“This is a release I have been waiting for quite a while, it is a convenient front-end installer for FreeBSD 6.2 (the newest and best version of FreeBSD), all of the hassle of installing a Unix-like system, which additional advantage that completely dummy-proof additional applications with a series of press installers (pbi) of this package all dependencies / support files in a single package, like the Installer for Windows programs (EXE) or Mac OS X (dw) do-not a chance in hell a dependency Linux (though still rare, it happens). ” Read more …

PC 1.4 Released!

The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 1.4 (DA VINCI edition)! This version will be made available to the efforts of many developers and testers who are in the last few months to refine and improve on the core PC experience. PC-BSD 1.4 retail editions are now available on our future business, which freebsdmall.com, or they can be downloaded free on the 1.4 download page.

This version of PC contains several notable highlights, including:

* If the FreeBSD base version to 6-STABLE
* Xorg 7.2
* KDE 3.5.7
* Compiz-Fusion 0.5.2
* Support for Flash7 in native BSD browser. (Konq, Opera, Firefox)
* Official NVIDIA drivers to simplify activation hardware acceleration.

For further information about this release:

* 1.4 Changelog
* 1.4 Release Notes

Fans of working in troglodyte mode should have a look at A1c0r’s latest creation, Nocturne, an application that generates a “night vision mode” for your Mac — similar to looking at a negative of a photo.

For years, you’ve been able to do something similar by hitting “ctrl-opt-cmd-8,” which invokes “Switch to black-on-white” in Universal Access options (go ahead and try it, then hit it again to return to normal).

While A1c0r’s improvements on this may seem subtle, they’re very useful for allowing you to tweak your own preferences and minimizing distracting, full-color solarization effects.

• Proper color correction in monochrome modes – you don’t lose all your blues or reds when you tint the screen.
• Window shadow toggling – if glowing windows aren’t your thing.
• Background removal – hide the desktop picture so you don’t see a inverted version.

I love that you can pick your own tint for how the monochrome image is colored. Want an old-time sepiatone writing environment? No problem.

My tip? If you enjoy sitting outside with your laptop, but the sun is making your screen almost illegible, try flipping Nocturne on — the contrast and darker backgrounds should help make reading and navigating much easier.

Like all Blacktree’s stuff, Nocturne is free of charge.

(material www.43folders.com)

Fortune Magazine has a lengthy article about the coming patent war between Microsoft and Linux users/distributors. As former Microsoft employee Robert Scoble points out, Microsoft has historically not used patents offensively (ie: sued for infringement), but this allegation and the recent deal between Novell & Microsoft suggests that Microsoft will use the courts to attack Linux.

( material www.copyrightings.com)

If your iPhone is rebooting endlessly from AppTapp v2.4 (Installer.app) this *might* help. This is for use with iTunes 7.4 and OSX ONLY!

iPhone + iTunes 7.4 Endless Reboot Fix

If your iPhone is rebooting endlessly from iTunes 7.4 this *might* help.

This is for use with iTunes 7.4 and Mac OS X ONLY!

New instructions

It may be best to reboot your Mac before performing the steps below:

Make sure you have at least iTunes 7.4 installed, then simply download and install the new 3.1 version of AppTapp Installer.

Old, obsolete instructions

Make sure iTunes and iTunesHelper isn’t running.
Download this.
Unzip it.

Run this command:

./iphonecomm -s 4 If it does work you can go ahead and run AppTapp 3.0
Next time be patient let us brick our phones when there is an iTunes update.
Buy the way, you can win apple iphone. You can read here about this promotion.

Mozilla Asa Dotzler marked an important milestone with a shoutout to the Firefox community: “Firefox reaches 400 million downloads, and showed that not even the world’s largest companies can ensure that people from a better, safer, faster and Web.”

On 9 November 2004, began a movement. Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contributors, lasted only 99 days to 25 million downloads of Firefox to a world of people desperate for a better Web — a site that does not overwhelm them with pop-ups, a network of non-infect their systems with viruses and spyware, a site that was fun again, simply said, a website that worked.

In less than six months, all doubled that number to 50 million downloads, Open Source in a household word, and reaffirmed the supremacy of choice and simplicity.

It took the Spread Firefox global community of activists only one year to reach the 100 million downloads mark to let the world know that innovation was again alive on the Internet.

And only a year ago all contributed to the fact that once again the number doubled to 200 million downloads. More than 50,000 of you, with Spread Firefox buttons and banners, not only helped achieve an amazing Firefox download milestone, but you all helped make Firefox a theworld’s most recognized and respected brands.

Today, you all have it again. With your amazing efforts, Firefox reaches 400 million downloads, and showed that not even the world’s largest companies can ensure that people from a better, safer, faster and Web. They all, the foundation and the heart of the Firefox movement, have helped hundreds of millions of people find that better, safer, faster and Web.

Thank you for the development of this movement. Thank you for your help Firefox to deliver on the promises of large Web. On behalf of the hundreds of millions of Firefox users, I thank you for everything you have done in just three years.