Linked List: June 12, 2009

Friday, 12 June 2009

Palm Pre Easily Jailbroken ★: Steven Troughton-Smith:

I gave up Tuesday eve because I couldn’t get the device into restore mode no matter what I did, but on Wednesday morning I figured it out: you have to hold the volume-up button while the device is off before plugging it into USB, and from there you can use Palm’s firmware flashers to do whatever you like with it. As the device can run unsigned firmware (!!!) I was easily able to hack out the activation check, and get up and running and enable the root shell. In that respect, I may just have the first jailbroken Pre in existence.
Groceries ★: My thanks to Sophiestication Software for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Groceries, the excellent grocery list manager for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Groceries has a beautiful look and feel, a slew of convenient features and clever design touches to accommodate real-world use of the app while you shop. Check out the screencast to see Groceries in action.
‘Sole Discretion’ ★: Erica Sadun writes about the latest trend in App Store rejection notices: language which simply states that the app has been rejected without even a hint as to the reason. One particularly absurd instance of this was rejecting version 1.1.1 of Kenneth Ballenegger’s iLaugh — a minor bug fix upgrade of an app already in the store.
Safari 4: 11 Million Downloads in 3 Days ★: Jim Dalrymple:

Apple’s Safari 4 Web browser was downloaded more than 11 million times in the first three days of release, the company said Friday. And more than 6 million of the downloads came from Windows users.