Daily Archives: November 23, 2008

Cool iphone timer feature in 2.2 firmware

Posted on November 23, 2008 by prasanth

I am not sure if this is a new feature or not. But this is the first time I have noticed it.

If you look in the clock app of the iphone in the timer feature, if you select the option to set the ring tone now there is a option to put to "sleep ipod".

iphone_timer1 iphone_timer

Which means you stop the music after a certain time. This is a cool feature I was searching for in other app’s. Once you set timer the music is stopped without any warnings or beeps.

Now I can put the iphone on 15 min timer and sleep. After 15 min the iphone timer will stop the music and I can dream on.

I didn’t see this feature mentioned any where else that is the reason for writing this post.

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Unlock and upgrade your iphone to 2.2

Posted on November 23, 2008 by prasanth

quickpwn

I did it just now. And it went smoothly.

Here are the links you will need to get things going.

First the iphone dev team have with in a day after the official release of the iphone firmware have released a software to jailbreak and unlock the iphone.

Go here for the software and to know what you need to do to jail brake your iphone.

Once you download the software from iphone dev team. Which is around 16 Mb, you will need the actual 2.2 firmware from apple.

Go here to get the direct links to the iphone firmware which you can use to download using any download manager for fast downloads.

The 2.2 firmware is 250 Mb download.

Using itunes restore you iphone. Select the shift key on your keyboard and click the restore button in itunes. And itunes will ask you to select the firmware. Select the firmware you just downloaded and it will do the rest.

Once iphone reboots it will be updated but locked, to unlock and jail brake read on.

Run quickpwn it will ask for the firmware, point to it and then it will ask you what installer you want to use and also give you the unlock option.

The it will ask you for the 3.9 and 4.6 bootloaders which you can download from here, they are very small downloads. Once you select both the files quickpwn does the rest.

And you should have a jail broken and unlocked iphone. If itunes gives error in restoring, just select it as a new iphone and it should work fine.

Thank you iphone dev team for such a simple program and thank you Apple for such a cool iphone.

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Reincarnation of Buddha

Posted on November 23, 2008 by prasanth

Saw this photo on Yahoo News site you can see more pictures there of him blessing people and talking etc.

new_buddha Ram Bahadur Bamjan, right, believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha, looks on as devotees come to seek his blessings, in Nijgadh town, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. Bamjan, 18, has re-emerged from the jungle in southern Nepal, attracting thousands of devotees, officials said Tuesday. After retreating into the jungle for more than a year, he re-emerged Monday.

Very interesting…

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