Those of you torn between having an SNES emulator and vibrating icons need worry no more — a team of iPhone hackers led by the illustrious Nate True has just posted an iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak. There are some hacker politics between the iPhone Dev Team and Nate involved, and the jailbreak is currently only for Windows users with previously-jailbroken 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 iPhones, but it’s still sweet, sweet freedom. We’re busy getting it up on one of our iPhones here at Engadget HQ, we’ll let you know all the gory details when we’re done. #
This jailbreak, like the 1.1.2 jailbreak, comes as an upgrade. This means you need to have a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone already, before you can begin.
I have a rather mixed review of the movie.
I liked the movie but I just don’t know how to accept it. I acknowledge the fact that it wasn’t a monster movie, I understood that it was a shaky cam movie and I expected the mystery that J.J. Abrams demands. I just can’t say it was a “great” movie.
I would say that it was a “good” film and I was glad to see it but in a few weeks it’ll be forgettable until I want to see it again on DVD. I mention it as a “film” because it had a lot of depth, charactor development and a sense of connection. At least that’s how I see it.
I do hope everyone who is thinking about seeing Cloverfield does, especially in the theaters. It was a good film, not a good action flick, but a film.
[minor spoiler alert]
I’m suspecting that they’re going to position it for sequels. Since the movie’s secondary plot was the monster they could easily create another with the monster backdrop, by simply tagging the script at the beginning. A sequel would catch my interest a lot, I’d even be excited for a sequel with the military vantage point whether it finished with the monster plot or not.
I really haven’t been in the blog posting mood lately. I’ve been extremely busy at work which could attribute to not spending the time to post. And I’m constantly thinking about those things I’ve meant to post about: Macworld was last week and I ended up posting squat, I’ve had an iPhone for ever now, I have a 360 again and I’ve learned a lot of interesting things in the enterprise web space.
Maybe I’ll start posting shorter posts because I’m not slowing down at pownce, where I might be posting more because I can not only post short quips but easily on my iPhone.
With the expected announcement of the 3G iPhone next week I wont be too disappointed, since 3G is supported in the blue area on the map below and we live in the orange, also known as the tough shit zone.
Or maybe I will because I’ll figure I need high speed outside of my house. Let me check my work where it makes most sense…damn I am going to want the 3g iphone after all, maybe.
Pioneer: ‘Our 720p set is better than 1080p’ – News – Tech.co.uk
“Only about five minutes ago, when all TVs were CRT, they all had the same resolution. Every one of them. So then, why were some better than others?
Resolution, explains Catcheside, is only one tiny element of the picture. People should consider what the black quality does to the overall colour palette and what happens when you turn the ambient light down (an Achilles heel for LCD technology).
“Lots of things go into making a better picture,” explains Catcheside. “Colour, contrast, black levels. All those things are equally important.”
Agreed.
Bill Gates is quoted at his final CES keynote to have stated,
“Finally, the third and most underestimated: the power of the natural user interface.”
It’s about time you recognize that people don’t like clunky devices, regardless of their “features”.
“We’ve seen new interfaces: touch on the Windows PC, touch on the iPhone.” Oh? “The reaction to those natural interface implementations has been very dramatic. People are interested in a simpler way of accessing their information. All of these things come together with the other elements to create very new experiences. We’re just at the beginning of this. This is something the software industry will build into the platform.“
Since you’re “at the beginning” your starting late to a race Apple has been winning for years.
I’ve posted a few other notes on Pownce: name dropping, Windows ID, ABC on Live
