Geek is chic.
The Get a Mac ads have been laid to rest, but Justin Long isn't ducking out of the spotlight just yet. He sat down with Jimmy Kimmel last night to promote his new movie Going the Distance, in which he costars with ex-girlfriend Drew Barrymore, and ended up talking in length about a texting mix-up he encountered with a stranger (something you guys are familiar with). But things got really Read more
Over the weekend, a web-based jailbreak solution was released to iPhone-toting masses called JailbreakMe. This jailbreak is accessed through a website on your iPhone's Safari browser, and all you have to do is follow a few simple steps to set your phone free of Apple restrictions. Sounds easy, but some folks have been complaining that it doesn't work, and after allowing the program to run, their Read more
The US Copyright Office released updated versions of a few laws yesterday morning, one of which says that bypassing your mobile phone's restrictions (aka jailbreaking) in order to download apps or take your phone to a carrier of your choice is totally legal. This could be great news for iPhone owners who want to ditch AT&T for, say, T-Mobile, but Apple warned customers yesterday afternoon Read more
The US Copyright Office made big moves this morning when it announced revisions to its copyright laws, and concluded that the act of jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping a DVD (for educational purposes) are now legal. Every three years the office reviews the laws in order to adjust to the changing digital environment, and this year, not only did it deem jailbreaking legal (in order to operate Read more
With all the iPhone 3G madness from the past week, I've had many people ask me about the taboo topic of "jailbreaking the iPhone 3G." Yes it is possible, with developers creating numerous ways to jailbreak the pristine iPhone 3G at this very moment. If your phone is jailbroken, you'll have read/write access, which will give you access to all of the official third-party apps plus the unofficial Read more
