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Aug 18 2010

Dial back your iPhone 3G or 3GS to a previous iOS

As mentioned before, iOS 4.0 on the 3G iPhone is not awesome—it’s slow, over heated, quickly drains the battery and is generally unstable. And though Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is working on fixing the situation, the rest of us need to get stuff done in the meantime.

My friend, Mike Bjorndal ( @mbjorndal ) pointed me to this iHackintosh article that allowed me to put my iPhone in DFU mode, restore an older firmware and boot back out of DFU mode again. After restoring my apps and settings in iTunes, I was back in business with a faster 3G iPhone experience running an older firmware.

Keep in mind, many of the apps you may be running now might require iOS 4.x and will be inaccessible from an older version of the OS. I take no responsibility for any lost data. Backup and then backup again…and then reconsider doing this hack.

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Dec 4 2007

Giving Leopard stripes and giving Tiger spots

This was a segment for The Lab with Leo Laporte that I just finished shooting on Friday but I can’t wait until it airs to tell you about it. I hope Leo doesn’t mind me letting you in on the show notes early.

The gist of Giving Leopard stripes and giving Tiger spots is simple; some people just bought new Macs with Leopard pre-installed and are pining for Tiger while some people have really old Macs and are feeling left out of the Leopard fun–this article gives you the goods to help you out.

I’ve given you several options in most cases (from Menu Bar Manipulators to Dock Dabblers) with my picks for the best of the best in each category. Check it out and I’ll link you back to the Lab and the posted video of the segment as soon as they are available.

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Aug 5 2007

Fake Steve Jobs unmasked and sponsored

fsjlyons 20070805 181529 Fake Steve Jobs unmasked and sponsoredJust when I was really starting to enjoy his writings, Fake Steve Jobs confesses to being Dan Lyons. Surely having a face to put to the writings like this is going to have an adverse affect on my ability to enjoy this blog. According to the Forbes article, the blog voiced by the Fake Steve Jobs will be published in association with Forbes.com starting tomorrow. It was much more fun to imagine my own Fake Steve Jobs with no corporate backing than to now associate the man pictured here in his suit and tie writing this blog I used to think was cool.

I really hope there’s a punchline coming to this soon.

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