Joy of Gadgets

Ok, I was suckered into something I said I wouldn’t do: I actually jaikbroke and unlocked my iPhone. George Hotz, a.k.a. geohot make it so easy with blackra1n. It was a super easy process to do, and if you do a restore, your iPhone is back to its Steve Jobs approved state.
For the most part, [...]

Since I’ve joined Check Point Software, I’ve done a fair bit of traveling–moreso than I’ve done in quite some time. Since I am ending up more random places, and have had the joy of going through airport security in Tel Aviv on two occasions so far (which makes the TSA experience seem relatively painless by [...]

Here is some feedback I have sent to Apple regarding the latest issues related to Apple killing “Google Voice” type applications in the App Store and Apple’s statements that jailbreaking your iPhone will cause the world to end. I would encourage you all to do the same.
I’ve seen a number of news stories that says [...]

Over the years, I’ve collected gobs of Nokia chargers. I have a box full of them, not to mention the half dozen or so I keep plugged in. Unfortunately, none of them do any good on the iPhone. This means trolling eBay looking for various iPhone chargers.
One of the chargers I found was this little [...]

Clearly, my current employer feels threatened by the current economic conditions as they’ve announced they are asking up to 1,000 people to leave on their own in order to lessen “the need for involuntary redundancies.” Internally, of course, there were other announcements along these lines, so seeing a public announcement about it is no shock.
What’s also [...]

Pat Phelan and others gotta be thinking about this: how to pair up their global SIM with the iPhone without, say, encouraging people to unlock their handset or using SIM hacking tools. My answer: become an authorized “carrier” partner with Apple. Sell the iPhone with your SIM. Make it easy for people to go iPhone [...]

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I would expect someone like Andy Abramson to be excited about his client, Truphone, getting an application on the Apple iPod Touch that makes it possible to make VoIP calls over WiFi. Eventually, according to MarketWatch, you’ll be able to receive calls as well, though I’m not sure how that will [...]

The folks from Radius Products sent me a pair of their Atomic Bass headphones to review when I was writing for The Gadgets Weblog. These headphones are clearly styled to go with an Apple iPod-and even have an iPhone friendly connector-but you can use them with other MP3 players as well. I used them with [...]

The folks at Blendtec have a really funny series of videos that ask the proverbial question: Will It Blend? They have blended oh-so-many interesting things with these blenders in an effort to prove that if their blenders can blend the crazy stuff they show in these videos, it will do just fine for your household [...]

I just read a thought-provoking piece about how Nokia’s S60 platform is not exactly the paragon of a great operating system. The authors think that S60 is “confusing, obscure, constantly changing and always hugely underpowered and unresponsive.” My opinion–not tainted by working at Nokia–is that the newer S60 3rd Edition handsets are making small, incremental [...]