Linked List: January 2, 2009

Friday, 2 January 2009

According to Ars 

Erica Sadun:

In order to unlock a 3G iPhone, you’ll need to upgrade your iPhone to baseband 02.28.00. This is the baseband that ships with the latest 2.2 firmware update from Apple. It’s also the baseband and update that the dev team (and we here at Ars) have been warning you not to upgrade to.

So now it’s Ars Technica policy to recommend that users not upgrade their iPhones until jailbreak experts say so? Great advice.

Update: They’ve edited the above-quoted paragraph, removing the “(and we here at Ars)” parenthetical.

Delicious Library 2 

My thanks to Delicious Monster for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Delicious Library 2, their award-winning tool for cataloging your books, movies, software, toys, tools, electronics, and video games. Sounds dull, I know — who ever says “Let’s go catalog stuff for fun”, right? But just one look at a screenshot and you can see that Delicious Library is, at the very least, not dull. It’s got more of an Apple-style user interface than many of Apple’s own apps.

Delicious Library sells for $40, and you can purchase it, and find out more information, at their web site. Delicious Monster is also exhibiting at next week’s Macworld Expo in booth 2602, where, supposedly, they’re going to have something new to show.

Chuq von Rospach on Macworld Expo From Inside Apple 

Long piece by Chuq von Rospach for The Guardian:

Even two years after I left Apple, I still feel like I celebrate two Christmases: the one I celebrate with my family, and the one in January that we celebrate when Steve Jobs gets up on stage and says: “I have a few things to show you today that I think you’ll really like.”

Exploded Phone 

Sweet new t-shirt. Just bought one.

JPG Magazine Goes Under 

JPG Magazine never seemed quite the same after 8020 forced out founding editor Derek Powazek in May 2007. Can’t say I’m sad, or surprised, that they didn’t survive, but it was a grand idea.