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Sunday, July 13, 2008

iPhone 2.0 update breaks Jailbreak

I should have known it! As soon as I updated the iPhone to 2.0, Jailbreak installer and all the programs I had downloaded before are "GONE"! There are a few new apps on iTunes, but I find the process of downloading them extremely cumbersome. All apps have to be downloaded from iTunes, unlike the jailbreak installer which installs the apps wirelessly.

And none of my favorite apps are available yet on iTunes! There are others of course, but I miss the "Shoplist" app, the "chess game", "Go game" and many others which I found so invaluable over the last six months.

I guess I will have to "jailbreak" my iPhone again!

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

ZiPhone - Hack For iPhone

I have been waiting for Apple to open the iPhone SDK for a while, and recently they did open iPhone for others to develop games and other apps. But it will be a while before new apps become available. So I couldn't resist the temptation to download ZiPhone. ZiPhone downloads Installer onto the main desktop, which when cilicked, opens up a whole new world of apps to you! So now I have many many apps to play with - including Chess and Go games, a to-do list maker, an ebooks reader etc.

Undoubtedly there will be many new and interesting apps that will come to us soon via Apple website. But in the meanwhile, I can put my iPhone to a better use with ZiPhone.

Happy iPhoning!

UPDATE:-------------
Well, as I expected things didn't go smoothly. The new apps worked fine, and so I thought everything was fine. But then I realized that I was not receiving any phone calls, I wasn't able to receive my messages, and finally the podcasts were not working. PANIC CITY!!
A quick google search indicated that I wasn't alone. However the fix to these problems didn't seem simple. So I basically gave up and decided to reset the settings, erasing all the contents. After I erased all the settings and contents (Settings > General > Reset >Erase All Contents and Settings ) and restored the older version, the installer was still in my iPhone, the new apps were also still there, but I started receiving the phone calls, and could listen to the messages as well. So all is well! Whew!

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