If you believe this video: and the blog post related to it, it appears that a hardware unlock solution has been discovered. Apparently it requires some complex soldering but they also claim that a software unlock will be forthcoming “in less time than it takes to ship a Turbo SIM”. Exciting stuff if it’s true!
As SXSW 2007 was winding down, Frank and I were discussing the possibility of presentating at next years conference. We even talked to a number of panelists to get some insight into the process (special thank you to Jonathon Snook for the extended chat at the Iron Cactus!). Once we got back home, we gave…
Apple is now selling refurbished iPhones…save $100 before you hack it! Unfortunately (and as expected) this doesn’t appear to be available on the Canadian Apple Store.
Last week a new method of ‘unlocking’ the iPhone to use it with any mobile carrier emerged. Using something called a Turbo SIM (which costs $80US), it tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s using an AT&T sim card while actually using your sim card of choice. How does it do this? You need to trim…
Spotted this Vancouver Canucks hat in the window of a Gastown shop on the way to BarCamp – have the bootlegger’s already started making new logo merchandise before it’s official? I couldn’t see any official branding from the NHL or tags on it. Some friends have the scoop on the new logo but nobody knows…
A few weeks ago, I attended the organizing meeting for Third Tuesday Vancouver organized by Joseph Thornley. I had heard about the Third Tuesday events in Toronto and Ottawa and thought it would be interesting to get involved in the local version myself instead of just being an attendee. I got to meet a bunch…
Pete couldn’t help but notice that these well-behaved locals hadn’t bothered to do any harm to their spacecraft’s lavish surveillance equipment. T*o*o b*a*d i*t w*a*s f*o*r a s*t*o*c*k p*u*m*p a*n*d d*u*m*p**e*m*a*i*l.
The 2007 BarCamp Vancouver is over and it was a lot of fun. This was my first BarCamp and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Friday night was the ‘bar’ part of BarCamp which comes before the main event all day Saturday. Got to meet and talk to a ton of cool people, some of…
Shaun Inman has posted a great tutorial on how to hack your iPhone so that you can easily install third party apps, play around with the NES emulator, take screenshots and generally do things that were never intended on your iPhone. Shaun has done an amazing job describing every step and linking all the necessary…
While vacationing in Sunnyvale last week, I took some time out to attend WordCamp 2007 in downtown San Francisco. It was about the only thing I had planned to do while down there as I mostly just wanted to hang out with my friend Jason who recently started working at my personal mecca, Apple. The…