Check Out iPhone’s Firmware Updates History
January 29th, 2008
I’ve just collected all of the iphone’s published firmware features in one page here. So if you want to know what those ff version exactly means, either for fun or decision-making of whether or not to do the upgrade now, you may take a look.
And i’ll keep it up to date.
For me, I’ll do the 1.1.3 soft-upgrade once any Chinese IME(either iCosta or NativeCN) is ready for 1.1.3. Very soon, i guess.
Google Reader for iPhone: Two UI Tweaks
January 28th, 2008
1. Newly added ‘Add subscription’
See screenshots above. By clicking that link, you will be navigated to the feed discovering page, where you can easily search and add more subscriptions you like.
2. clicking ‘See original’ will Open a new browser window
See the picture below for the page where the ‘See original’ link is.
It’s a much more browsing-friendly than before while opening the link in the same window. You will know it if you read news via feeds every day like me.
Mobile Firefox Touch Screen UI Design Published
January 24th, 2008
It seems the designers have done a very deep research and study on iphone’s Safari. ‘Coz the whole layout of the browser window is very similar to Safari’s, from the top address bar, the middle main browser window, to the bottom toolbar.
Sure it’s just a spec and very far from a product yet. However, it’s a real first step anyway, just as Mozilla Links says so. So I feel excited about it ‘coz it means my dream of seeing firefox on iphone comes closer than before.
iPhone 1.1.2 OTB H/W Unlocked!!
January 18th, 2008
iPhone 1.1.3 H/W Unlocked!!
January 18th, 2008
Believe it or not, iPhone 1.1.3 firmware just released three days ago has been hardware unlocked!!
Photo by the unlock team.
TOTALLY UNBELIVABLE!!
It’s said that unlocking process is very complicated, totally different from the software unlocking, and it’s not for normal users, so it won’t be open to the public.
However, there’s an old saying: if winter passed already, then spring is not far away, right? 
Youtube Is BACK in China!
January 16th, 2008
This afternoon I helped one of my friends to jailbreak and activate his brand new 1.1.2 OTB iphone following this tutorial on hackintosh. After done and show him some tips and tricks about the use of iphone, i suddenly found that youtube WORKS now.
Just couples of minutes ago I patched youtube again on my 1.0.2 iphone. I just wanna make sure if the success has something to do with the ff version. And the answer is no, ‘coz I can watch youtube video on my iphone as well, which is for sure not possible before.
So the only reason is google has unblocked the disallowable access from chinese ip addresses. A gift to the coming of chinese Spring Festival? maybe.
yidong.google.com
January 16th, 2008
If you enter google.com in iphone’s safari browser, by default you will redirect to google.cn sometime, which may not be what you want. If so, try yidong.google.com.
I know it’s a Chinese PinYin for the word ‘mobile’(移动), but it does be able to take you to google’s default global-search, other than the Chinese-only one.
Besides,there you can also see the google’s new move on web apps esp. for iphone as below.
PR Update To 3
January 12th, 2008
Not too much news on this PageRank update so far. But now that both Search Engine Roundtable and searchnewz have reported similar PR drop cases, guess i should say today is my day
Well, it’s not easy anyway. About two and an half months has passed since the last update on the end of Oct. 2007. and during these days this site has been kept posting new and original articles all along. Google may see this and think time to present a reward now
Cheers
OpenID Enabled
January 9th, 2008
I love OpenID, ‘coz i do think it’s the future of the mechanism of authentication and authorization. The more you learn about it, the cooler you will think it is. No wonder why so many big companies are chasing it now, including google,yahoo and microsoft.
And i’ve tried several times to make my site support OpenID by installing some found plugins. but all failed.
Until today i’ve figured it out finally. If your site is powered by the latest wordpress 2.3.2 and you wanna openid, here’s how:
1. install this plugin(by now, it’s version 2.1.2);
2. modify the \openid\Auth\Yadis\Yadis.php according to this comment. as said, remove the “=null” part. that is, from the italic one to the bold one:
function discover($uri, &$fetcher = null,
$extra_ns_map = null, $timeout = 20)
function discover($uri, &$fetcher,
$extra_ns_map, $timeout = 20)
3. now activate the plugin and enjoy.
You can just ignore the warning in the setting page of the plug if you still get it.
BTW, I use PHP 4.
And i encourage you to get your own openid from either myopenid.com as i did or any other providers listed here or spreadopenid. ‘Coz if you do and you wanna leave a comment here, your comment will be shown immediately and no awaiting needed as usual. At least as a piece of cake 
Update: It doesn’t work https so far. see my testing comment. If you know other openid plugins for wordpress, please share with me. Thanks.
Update(Jan.18,2008): Now yahoo has choosed to join openid too.
My Top 10 3rd-Party Native Apps For iPhone
January 6th, 2008
There are tons of native apps for iphone already, no matter your ff is 1.0.x or 1.1.x. And there are tons of favorite app lists already by different people in different criteria. I don know how much you agree with them, but here’s mine. And the criteria is simple: free.
1.iCosta - the first native and system level Chinese input method. Absolutely No.1.
2.Installer - The one which makes the installation of following native apps pretty straightforward. A must, too.
3.MobileFinder - The first file system explorer and management tool. For me, most likely it works as kinda launcher
4.rSBT - The tool I used to re-arrange my springboard. Yes, i know SummerBoard. but I still prefer this one due to its simplicity and less resource requirement.
5.SMSD - Almost replaced my default SMS.app. And the author is keeping on working to make it better. I’ve talked it before.
6.Books - The ebook reader. Absolutely one of the first 3rd party native apps for iphone.
7.SwirlyMMS - The first and only MMS app for iphone until now. Even though it’s still lack of some key features like MMS receiving, it’s still worth to be in the list. And the feeling is great when I send the pictures to my friends successfully.
8.ScreenShot - A screen capture tool with GUI. Most of the pictures in this site are created by it, except the very early ones by the command tool.
9.TuneWiki - Lyrics showing while listening music. Very impressive, not only for its functions, but also for its idea of syncing lyrics by taking full use of the community. Only one thing, when can i see some Chinese song’s lyrics?
10.weDict - Dictionary, esp. for people whose mother language is not english. If you wanna know how to add your local dictionaries to weDict, read my previous post here.
One more thing, there’s some very valuable tools i didn’t cover, like jailbreaking toolkit and SSH server etc, because for most of iphone users they are transparent and hidden. Perhaps, that’s what foundation means
That’s it. Also, hackintosh has one sticky post talking about this. You may check it out if you are interested.
