Jolt Country

There was a pretty nasty bug in the iPhone's code, pre-3.0.1. It would allow hackers to take control of your phone if they sent you a specific SMS.

I would have run 2.2.1 for the rest of my life. I was that happy with it. But because of this, I had to upgrade.

I went into iTunes and had it put 3.0.1 on my system. I then wanted to jailbreak my phone again.

I had to use a program called "redsn0w". I used "quickpwn" before. I guess quickpwn isn't making any more releases, and yes, the names of these things are just as stupid as they look on the screen.

I wasn't having any luck getting redsn0w to work, but it occurred to me that I had my phone plugged into a USB hub. After three failures, I plugged the phone's cable directly into my PC and that did the trick.

It's a bit sad that it took me six months to get into my phone, and have it register as a proper extension to my PC. But I did, and that allowed me to make some changes.

Here's a screenshot of how it looks now:

I had to make the icons for Caltrops, TwitterFon, Facebook and At Bat 2009.

I also had to pick an icon for text messages, up in the upper-left hand corner. I thought the "Ladykiller" perk would be nicely ironic sad face.

The weather icon looks like the poor little dude is getting radiated by a sun gone nova.


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Well, in a way... aren't we all?

Incidentally, the Frotz developer posted on his Google Code page that Apple rejected his 1.3 update because the ability to download games from the IFDB violates the App Store TOS. It's completely baffling because it's been able to do this since 1.0, but they've just now decided it's a problem. He's resubmitted the update with the download ability removed and all compatible games in the IFDB with a three-star or greater rating are now bundled with the app.

This is an indicator of a problem endemic to the App Store: Apple's wildly inconsistent approval standards. Also, the approval queues for new apps and updates has gotten ridiculously long, to the tune of 3+ weeks, and shows no signs of getting shorter, so it'll be a while before we see the update. Hopefully Apple gives the App Store and the infrastructure behind it a major overhaul in the future, although since they have no real competition, meaningful change is unlikely.

Great Forum!! I'm Cesar and I'm new here, just browsing for some good stuff and informative posts..

That's better.....