I was actually thinking about this on Sunday while watching Football, how exactly does that yellow first down line make it onto the TV screen and look like it’s actually on the field? Well my questions have been answered and it’s a lot more in depth than I thought. Check out the video above to reveal the secret behind the Yellow First Down Line on broadcast Football.
What a let down…
Things announced today: iLife 09, iWork 09, new MacBook Pro 17″ Aluminum body non-removable battery, iTunes new pricing, DRM Free songs, and 3G downloading on the iPhone… that’s it. There was nothing mentioned about new iMacs or new Mac Minis, nothing about a new version of the iPhone, whether that be a bigger one or a smaller one, no mention of the push iChat functionality that the iPhone was supposed to get last September (which is what I’m waiting for)… nothing.
So chalk Macworld 2009 up as one lame announcement after another. I love Apple and their products, but I’m quite disappointed in what they did and didn’t announce today. What did you guys think?
….but it seems a lot of people are having problems.
The piece of code called yellowsn0w installs on your jailbroken iPhone via Cydia or Installer. Add one of the repo’s below, depending on your preference, and update your phone to the latest firmware, thus giving you the latest baseband, and then jailbreak and install the software. I would head on over to the iPhone Dev Blog first though and read up just to make sure you understand everything. It does appear that different sim cards are having problems, so you may want to hold off a little bit until everything gets sorted out.
For Cydia enter: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
For Installer enter: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/
Codename: yellowsn0w is the iPhone Dev Teams iPhone 3G unlocking project which is finally going to be released on New Years Eve. Musclenerd from the Dev team demoed the exploit over the weekend in a live stream via qik.com. He used a jailbroken 2G iPhone running the Qik application to stream live video of an iPhone 3G unlocking before our very eyes. Now remember, the exploit only works on phones that still have baseband 2.11.07 or earlier. So if you were one of those people that didn’t heed their warning, you are out of luck for now.
Head on over to the iPhone Dev blog (link in the center column) and see what they’ve got cooking. I’ll post links to the software on New Years when it’s released.
If you’re a fan of jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch be careful about updating to Apple’s latest 10.5.6 release of OS X. According to many reports, as well as the iPhone Dev Team, the update changes something at the system level that affects the DFU mode when flashing the firmware with the pwnage software. There are apparently a few ways around this which require replacing some of the framework files for the system, I wouldn’t recommend these. The iPhone dev team is working on figuring out the problem, which they don’t think is intentional. So hopefully in a few days they will figure out how to get around this. I’m already jailbroken on firmware 2.2 so I haven’t needed to try this out, anyone else having problems?
If you use bitTorrents to do your illegal bidding, then maybe you should check out some of these supposed Secret bitTorrents sites, that probably won’t be so secret anymore since this article has been posted everywhere.
Not that I’m a “stalker”, but I have run into this problem twice now and had I actually been stalking people, my identity would have been given away. So when you view peoples pictures on the iPhone Facebook App, you can scroll through them by swiping your finger from side to side, depending on which way you want to browse. No problem there, except for the fact that if you hold your finger on a picture for too long it will think you want to “tag” that picture. So two times now I’ve tagged myself in random pictures that I was not in, only because I was trying to swipe to the next picture, but instead the app thought I wanted to tag it and since I thought it was being unresponsive I lifted my finger and put it on the screen again just as the list of names came up, thus tagging myself in a picture.
So be careful when browsing pictures of people on the iPhone Facebook App, you could wind up tagging yourself and thus giving away the fact that you’re looking through someone’s pictures.
If you didn’t get in on the Mac streaming beta for Netflix a month or so ago, it’s now available to everyone. So those of you with Macs can now enjoy the small library of Play Instantly videos that I’ve been…. well not really enjoying, for the past month or so. They really need to add some more movies to this thing, it’s a great feature and I’d use it if there was a better selection of movies, especially HD movies.
If you’ve been waiting to update your iPhone to the latest 2.2 software until a new version of the pwnage software was released, you don’t have to wait any longer. Pwnage 2.2.1 was released this morning and so you can pwn the latest version of the iPhone firmware. Again, if you have an iPhone3G there are baseband adjustments made with the latest firmware and if you have any desire to soft unlock your phone in the future, it is recommended that you do not update.
Apple has released firmware version 2.2 for the iPhone. Some of the enhancements are safari tweaks, enhanced sound for visual voicemail, fewer dropped calls, and of course additions to Google maps, including Street view. You can get the update right now, however if you’re like me and have an unlocked and/or jailbroken 2G iphone you should probably hold off for a bit, if you have a 3G iPhone that you wish to possibly unlock in the future or is jailbroken, I would advise against updating at all. As the folks over at the iPhone Dev Blog have said, the 3G update does have a baseband update that could render all possibilities of a soft-unlock, useless. So as always give it a few days until the Dev Team can get a new version of pwnage out there that will work with the latest 2.2 firmware. I’ll make a post here when the software has been released.
