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I must say that I am extremely happy that I was able to jailbreak my phone. So far there is nothing but satisfaction. It did open realm of different opportunities that I was missing before. Now I have so much more power on the itouch than ever. I am unix admin, so unix is my world and I can now get into unix terminal shell and I can do anything I want with it. Installed openssh, I can connect to my servers and do anything that I desire and I do all day long at work.

There is only one thing that I did notice a bit as inconvenience, when I try to turn my iphone on sometimes its not turning on right away, sometimes I have to press power and home buttons together. It did improve from when I first started and I am not sure why this is happening, but its a very very minor glitch. Also I think when I am watching video on my itouch status bars are not transparent as they used to be, but I think I can address this with theme change or something like that.

The world of new possibilities that this itouch has now it is just incredible. For example, now I can have categories of my apps, so I can have beyond 141 apps installed, which is excellent. I’ve hears yesterday on one of my podcasts that people don’t use apps after they install them, that percentage is so low of used apps, even for apps that you pay, well most of the apps are I would call sensational, you want to check them out, have fun and then who cares about them.. So now you purchased so many apps what to do with them. I had so many apps and I wanted to try more but what should I do? some of the apps I did not want to delete because I did like them one way or the other, with jailbroken phone you can do that, I’m loving it. There are two programs that are out there which will let you know which apps did became free, appsniper and bargainbin, both of them are excellent, I like the second one as it looks pretty, but its slow. Anyway that gives you even more opportunities to install apps on your itouch, then with categories program you can just group them into different folders. This is so simple concept what they developed and I am just so surprised why apple did not adopt this or allowed to have in the app store to be purchased. The same is with cut&paste, why now? what is the reason behind not to include this?

Ehh, as I did say, I am more than happy to have my itouch jailbroken… its best that happen…

iPod touch 2G finally jailbroken with NitroKey

by Nilay Patel, posted Mar 10th 2009 at 9:40PM (taken from Engadget)

The iPhone Dev Team hackers have been teasing their redsn0w iPod touch jailbreak for what seems like forever now, but those you tired of waiting might want to check out the just-released NitroKey Slipstream. The $15 software does its thing on the 2.2.1 firmware, and automatically installs Cydia for all that jailbroken app action you crave — including the new paid apps store. Windows-only for now, but there’s apparently a Mac version in the works — hopefully we’ll see the free redsn0w take the lead back on that front. Report back if you take the plunge, would you?

www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/ipod-touch-2g-finally-jailbroken-with-nitrokey/

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My itouch every now and then gets its date screwed up, it is so annoying but I found a way to fix it. Fix is quite simple, all you have to do is open itunes, go to preferences menu and remove your backup file. Next time you sync your itouch or iphone it should get corrected date.

Ah, when we are on a subject, why the hell apple does not let programs access internal clock and be able to modify it? There are some nice clocks, one of them is atomic clock, if it only could set system’s time. Apple is freaking control freaking company, I hate this about apple since forever, that’s why I never got apple/mac before. Years ago, Apple, the same like Commodore Amiga wanted to control their market share, Commodore Amiga did not survive such idiotic path, and to be honest apple also almost did not survive, all of a sudden they did turn around and today they are quite strong, but what made them able to do so was to open up their systems a little and not sell proprietary stuff. Its so funny people do argue that if Apple wanted they could make chip and inexpensive desktops and laptops but they do not want it… that’s why they do not have big market share… Apple is making money still, well because they have fanatics buying those systems, I am not saying that systems are not nice, they are actually very very nice, but for me they are way to expensive… Ehh, it is just a matter of taste and choice…

Apple, give people cut and paste already, freaking everyone is complaining about this. I have my itouch since what November? How many times since then I’ve heard complains about this? Ah, on the same tone, why the hell there is limit of 140 apps only? That is so damn stupid. I did fill up my limit of apps, I wish I could jailbreak my itouch, but its 2nd gen so hack is not possible at this moment, but I would hack it just for being able to install more applications. As I said Apple is so stupid, because if I had more space for apps I would purchase more of them, if I have no space I am limited to what I can buy, that’s like shutting yourself in a foot… Apple get your act together and do those simple things, make people happy, after all that’s why people are buying your stuff because it suppose to be amazing experience….

TED.COM stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design

 TED.COM stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Website is free of charge and they bring to the public best talks and performances from those conferences. More than 200 of those talks are available online. They are the most amazing talks you can ever hear from greatest thinkers of our generation, they have 18 minutes or less to wow the audience with their work. You can download their videos or like I do I subscribe via itunes podcast service where every day I can listen to a new and exciting presentation. Today there was a presentation given by Evan Williams who started up twitter. He explains how it all started and what it twitter, that it is a simple trivial concept, you say what you are doing in 140 characters or less, and people who are interested at you will get those updates, if they really interested they can get those updates on their cell phones as a  text message. Principal idea is that twitter will let people share moments of their lives whenever they like. When they can share those moments people feel more connected and in touch despite distance and real time. That was intent of the system that they did design, but they could not predict, how twitter could be used in different purposes, especially in emergency situations (massive fires etc). He is talking about this LA Korean BBQ Taco truck that drives around neighborhood and he is sending twitter messages whenever he will stop and there are lines forming before he actually arrives. It is just great talk amount others that they have…  Highly recommend this website and itune podcast J