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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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Nov 21 2007

Brilliant Leopard tip– Add a ‘recent things’ stack to the Dock

newstack 20071121 194938 Brilliant Leopard tip Add a recent things stack to the DockThis tip titled Add a ‘recent things’ stack to the Dock has been making the rounds over the last few days. But, in case you didn’t happen to see it anywhere else, I’ll link it here.

The simple Terminal command detailed at the link above will add a new Stack to your Leopard Dock that will hold your recent apps, documents, or servers or favorite volumes or items. It such a no-brainer that it should be a button click in the System Preferences, not a geeky Terminal hack.

[ Via MacOSXHints.com ]

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Oct 15 2007

Hacking your iPod Video to look like an iPod Classic

Posted over at driven-design.net, this hacked iPod Video firmware changes the look and functionality of an iPod Video to resemble that of the new iPod Classics. As you can see in the video embedded here, the Now Playing screen has been redesigned, menus have been split and a search function appears to have been added as well. Though it all seems to “work” the it seems like a bit of a work in progress. Use it at your own risk.
Currently there appear to be no clear instructions on how to apply this hack to your iPod via a Mac. The hackers that created the iPod Classic Project have used a Windows-only utility called iPod Wizard but are investigating Mac development of the program. A post on iPod Wizard’s forums lists Mac-oriented programs for editing your iPod’s firmware, but the links are rather useless: either dead or leading to outdated software.

I would take this as a sign folks. Don’t hack your iPod. If you want the iPod Classic interface, go buy an iPod Classic.
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