Why I'm NOT getting the iPhone 3G! (and why I'm kicking myself ...)

Check these links out to see the iPhone 3G Cracks (Hairline, Stress Cracks at the plastic backside) developing as early as 7 days after it was released in July 11.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2321
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=525177

I sold my 1st Gen iPhone before the launch to take advantage of the resale value, but when these cracks came out... I was like "I shouldn't have sold my iPhone!!!"

Anyway, if you ask me, if you really need 3G and a GPS go for the Black 3G as the cracks are "hidden", but its more prone to smudges from regular use.

If you dont need the battery drain of a 3G and GPS Chip, I'd find myself a 1st Gen iPhone instead... same specs and a lot cheaper... then buy the new iPhone coming next year...(probably in June 2009)

Amazing App! Create your own "App" (its really just a webclip):)

Straight from the iPhone Apper Site:

"Tired of going all the way to MobileSafari on your iPhone to use web apps that were built with the "sweet" iPhone SDK?

Provide iPhone Apper with a URL, name, and icon... and iPhone Apper will provide you with an application to install* onto your iPhone. A quick reboot, and your favorite and most visited web application is available from the home screen."

It actually is as easy as it sounds...

1. Type a link to a website you frequent
2. Choose an icon you want for that "app"
3. Press "App Me!" and it downloads your "app" to your System.
4. Using your tool of choice (WinSCP for me) move the "app" you created (don't forget to untar it btw) into your /Applications dir in the iPhone
5. Go into the "app" folder and replace default.png with the default.png from MobileSafari.app (makes it look nicer IMHO!)
6. Change the permissions of the "Embark" file in the "app" folder from 0644 to 0755
7. Respring and the "app" with icon of your choice is waiting to be clicked on your homescreen and take you to the site directly!

http://www.jonsthoughtsoneverything.com/iphone_apper/

The easiest way to install customize on 1.1.4

I found this on one of my favorite iphone sites: http://www.applei.ph/one/

1. Open installer and add this source: www.kankon.org/kankon
2. Refresh and navigate to kankon category
3. Install kankon source and wait for refresh
4. Navigate to Kankon apps and install Customize for 1.1.4

Happy Modding!

So you wanna customize a summerboard theme?

I love how summerboard allows you to change everything from the wallpaper, to the dock and especially the icons! But what do you do if you want to put together icons you've collected, a mindblowing wallpaper and a kickass dock and there is NO theme available that puts all these for you?

The solution is to create your "own" summerboard theme!

This assumes you know how to "SSH into" your iphone using Cyberduck, WinSCP or your SSH tool of choice (I use WinSCP Portable woohoo!)

Step 1 Choose your favorite icons or create your own (remember that they have to be 60x60) They also have to be named exactly like the icon you want replaced e.g. iTunes; iPowerHour (mind the case as it wont change it unless it has exactly the name of the app's icon you're trying to replace)
Step 2 Save your icons in a folder named "icons" on your computer (remember where this is)
Step 3 Choose your favorite iPhone Wallpaper or create your own (I use GIMP to resize my fave walls to 320x480) and rename to "Wallpaper.png" (must be png as I've not tried using jpg for Summerboard themes)
Step 4 Choose your Favorite Dock and rename to "Dock.png"
Step 5 SSH into your iPhone and navigate to /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod"
Step 6 Copy your fave icons from your PC to the icons folder in /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod"
Step 7 Copy Wallpaper.png and Dock.png respectively from your PC to the /var/mobile/Library/Summerboard/Themes/"name of the theme you want to mod" directory
Step 8 While in WinSCP, for example, you could rename your modded themes' folder to something else
Step 9 Exit WinSCP and go to SMBPrefs on your iPhone and select the theme you just modded (dont distribute a theme thats not yours, which is precisely why I can't link to my personal modded themes as the icons are a compilation of the "Realize" style icons)

Enjoy your newly modded Summerboard Theme!

Good News for those who may want a completely reversible iPhone Unlock!

I have just been able to successfully Activate, Jailbreak and Unlock a friends iPhone (Week 48) using iPlus 2.0b! The great thing about this method is that it downgrades to a 3.9 Fake Blank Bootloader, which in short, means you can go back to 4.6BL (week 45 and up) via software method!

Too late for me, since I chose to go 3.9BL with ZiPhone (a non issue right now since GeoHot has not released his 4.6 GeoMod BL which you can only get if you have 4.6BL) I'm sure I'll be kicking myself when this comes out though, so I personally recommend using iPlus for now.

I do hope someone can put together a Cydia payload though since I'm not too hot on using the Nullriver BSD Subsystem.

I followed this tutorial from iclarified to use iPlus

Happy Unlocking!

ZiPhone Unlock in RealTime (1.1.3 OTB) last March 1, 2008

ZiPhone Unlock in Realtime done last March 1, 2008 as soon as I got home with my new iPhone!

Screenshot of Customize on 1.1.4

Here's a Screenie of Customize on my iPhone 1.1.4. As you can see, there is no "Carrier Icon" option. I guess I'll have to live with that for now!