Filed under: iPhone , Jailbreak/pwnage , App Review After writing about the GV Mobile situation on TUAW the other day, a helpful TUAW reader sent me a Google Voice invite (thanks Ian M! You rock!). I set up my account, hopped over to a jailbroken 3.0 iPod touch and downloaded a copy of the software via Cydia. I then copied it off the touch via sftp, signed it with my developer credentials and installed it through iTunes on a non-jailbroken iPhone to see what I'd been missing. View more →
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Filed under: Software , Reviews As Christina mentioned a while ago , 1Password version 3 is on the horizon, and we've got some sneak peeks to show you. There are some great improvements to the core, but more immediately noticeable are the visual tweaks to the interface. The entire UI has been overhauled, and I'm impressed. View more →
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Filed under: Software , Productivity , Troubleshooting A few weeks back, Microsoft released its Service Pack 2 update for Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac. While adding a host of features and refinements (such as Custom Path Animation in PowerPoint and increased speed and load times in Word and Excel), the service pack apparently packed too much of a punch. View more →
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Filed under: Hacks , Bugs/Recalls , Software Update , Security , iPhone Maybe it's already Saturday in the UK , or close to it: Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1 for iPhone, iPhone 3G & 3GS, an update that patches the phone to prevent bad actors from taking it over or taking it down with the just-demoed SMS exploit . The update weighs in at close to 300 MB about 230 MB (like all iPhone updates, it's a full image of the OS), and as far as we can tell there are no other fixes or tweaks; just...
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Filed under: Software , Friday Favorite Every so often I'll go through my Mac's hard drive and delete stuff that's just sitting around. View more →
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK Freeverse has picked a partner in the ongoing dance of social gaming networks on the iPhone. They've joined up with ngmoco and their Plus+ system for all of their games , including Flick Bowling , Flick Fishing , and Moto Thunder View more →
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Filed under: Apple , Security , iPhone Yesterday's news from the Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Las Vegas about the SMS security flaw affecting iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile smartphones was a bit unnerving. Through skillful manipulation of SMS messages, an attacker could gain control of a smartphone. BBC News reports that UK mobile provider O2 has received word from Apple about a patch for the security flaw on the iPhone. View more →
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