From CNET: “Despite the best efforts of Apple and AT&T, it appears that the latest version of the iPhone has been unlocked via the same method as used on the original iPhone.
A Brazilian blog, TechGuru, posted the first report of it. Gizmodo checked it out, and said the method involves using a special SIM card adapter. It tricks the phone into thinking it’s on an approved network.
“This method forges the International Mobile Subscriber Identity, making the phone believe it’s working in the network in which it’s supposed to work,” Gizmodo writes.”
Maybe it is a bit too early to be true, but then again we wouldn’t be surprised if it has alread been unlocked. There is already a huge industry behind the unlocked version of the iPhone.
Palm has released a new Treo model, 800w. The device is loaded with Wi-Fi (802.11b/g, 802.1x (EAP-PEAP, EAP-TLS and EAP-TTLS), built-in GPS, Bluetooth, 2.0 megapixel camera, a micro USB port and it runs on Windows Mobile.
The phone is available on Sprint’s network for now, with no dates for a European realease being announced yet.
Tour de France 2008 is in full swing these days, until the 27th of July. It is always an exciting tour and year after year it seems to offer to its fans all the thrills they want out of cycling.
For your daily Tour de France fix you can go to the tour’s website from where you can get overall results, points, maps, weather updates and even buy that yellow jersey.
If you like your share of dance/electronic music and if you like Cavo Paradiso and the music played by some of the world’s best dj’s there, then this is for you.
Cavo Paradiso Radio of the famous Mykonian club is 24/7 on the internet and you can tune in any time, where you can listen to some groovy beats and sets.
The new iPhone 3G will be available this coming Friday at 8 a.m. According to Apple’s website (US) it will be available from Apple’s retail stores, as well as from AT&T outlets; Apple’s partner in the iPhone era.
If you click on the Apple site’s country settings now, you can also see that the iPhone will be available on the same day in another 20 countries, including Canada, Australia, Italy, UK and Norway to name a few.
It only remains to be seen now how long the queues will be on Thursday evening, outside the Apple and AT&T stores and how fast the phone will be unlocked and reach other countries where it is not officially on sale.
Maxthon is long gone (well from today). It started acting up and being slow (even though I haven’t installed any plug-ins lately or anything like that). So I decided to switch to Opera 9.51, which is the latest version of the Opera web browser.
One word describes it best; fast! Way faster than Maxthon. And in addition to its speed, it looks good with a revamped interface (the shiny black bar at the top does the trick).
Even though I haven’t used it for more than 2 hours, I can see some added features such as the speed-dial for websites, the widgets and the Page Info utility.
Final verdict? I will be using Opera in the coming months (unless some other browser has something better to offer…hhhmm Firefox 3 maybe) and drop everything else for now.
Here is the description from the Wubi website: “Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!”
It took me just a few minutes to install Ubuntu on my computer, after downloading the desktop edition of the operating system and placing it in the same folder as the Wubi installer (this is the alternative method of installing the OS if you don’t want Wubi to download it for you).
I dedicated 5 GB of space for the installation (more choices are available), no partition was needed and best of all…I have access to Windows files through the Ubuntu installation.
Slick, fast, no errors, no partition messing, and safe!
Jimmy Van M will be playing in Limassol @ Guaba Beach Bar, on the 13th of July 2008. I will not be wasting time in explaining who he is and what he has done nor how good of a dj he is. This is an event not to be missed.
This is a pretty decent Flash video player, that has been refined from its previous versions in a positive way. The user can zoom in to twice the original video size, as well as to full screen.
We also like the slick interface of the player, as well as the drag-and-drop functionality added. This means that you can now easily drag and drop a flv file onto the player’s window and the file will automatically start playing.
Skype have released a new version of their software, Skype 4.0 beta. The software has an updated interface than in previous versions and features full-screen video chat streams among other things.
Early reports say that the software may crash your computer (it is a beta afterall), however, this seems like a positive change from Skype and we like it a lot.
Republic Radio 100.3 streams out of Salonica, Greece and it’s the north’s answer to dance/electronic music. We have been listening to it for a while now and the guys there seem to be doing a pretty good job with providing us with quality tunes.
