After helpingRussell I’ve decided to upload a couple of photo sets showing what I think are the best options to Jailbreak and/or Unlock an iPhone using Pwnage

This first photoset shows the options needed to create a custom restore bundle that will unlock and activate an original generation iPhone.

iPhone 2G Unlock

Disclaimer: DO NOT FOLLOW THESE STEPS FOR IPHONE 3G, THERE IS NO UNLOCK FOR IT YET

I’ve been nearly two weeks since the arrival of my iPhone 3G, signified by the burning of effigies of blackberries throughout the country. And since that time I’ve been patiently waiting for a native Wordpress application that would rival the TypePad app; yesterday was to be that day, or was it. Although not quite as disappointed with it as @cimota, there still are bugs to be worked out, like why I had to reinstall my blog to get it to work. I’m also concerned with my comment on the support site is still unapproved, are they trying to hide their bugs?

Regardless I’ll stick with it for a while yet, I’m hoping for a quantum leap in features for version 1.1, in the way that Facebook 1.1 improved on it’s initial false start.

Andrew

An interesting article, the author states that

“trust has faded in modern society because of the collapse in marriage and the family, the breakdown of working-class communities, and more fluid job structures”

I couldn’t agree more, the sheer selfishness of people never ceases to amaze me, driving and shopping in Tesco on a Saturday afternoon are too good examples, but society as a whole is so wrapped up in itself that it is actually blind to its own condition.

Displacing the blame for the human condition - Telegraph.

I’ve always been opposed to advertising online,although I do realise the need for it. I guess, in a way I come from a BBC mindset, no adverts for a flat (license) fee. I realise the internet and the businesses built around it could not function in such an environment, but one can dream.

Feeling the way I do about advertising, I guess it makes me a hypocrite, but I really do want to push a a local online company, but I promise I will keep it to just this post.

Exile Coffee Roasters found at http://roastery.exilecoffee.com serving up hand-selected, ethically sourced, speciality coffee.

Based in Northern Ireland and one of the few speciality coffee roasters in the region, Exile Coffee will carry on their mantra; their blog of “Bringing Fresh Coffee to the People”

Andrew

I came across a renewable energy company in Chesire called,Sky Flair. After reading their about page I’m not sure how I’d feel about them installing equipment for me. Perhaps I am being a snob, could it be that this an open and honest approach to communicating with customers or a amateurish and unprofessional way to present you company?

Its been a while since I’ve posted here, I’ve been carried away with development on my exilecoffee.com blog and the challenges involved in theming wordpress properly. In the interim I’ve also discovered Yahoo Pipes; allowing me to aggregate my blogs, twitter and flickr feeds into one stream, enabled my sites for openid and created my own id on this domain using phpMyID. Not bad!

On Saturday I attended BarCamp Belfast, it was the first IT related meetup I’ve been to in a few years. In my experience conferences are full of suits and posers and meetups tended to be quite small affairs, it seemed as though the concept never took root fully in NI. Thankfully though BarCamp Belfast was nothing like this, it was extremely well organised by Andy McMillan (t), the venue at QUB was excellent and the topics where very engaging. I especially loved Emma Persky’s talk on Hand Gesture Recognition and Darragh Doyle and Grannymar’s conversational talk on blogging. I gave a talk myself on Speciality Coffee, but I was a nervous wreck and had rushed to get it finished after spending too long trying to get my server back online, I’ll be serialising it soon over on Exile

In hardware news and the reason for the title of this post, I’ve somewhat successfully transferred a broken MacBook Pro that I currently use as a media centre, into the case of a PowerMac G5, including wiring up power and front ports. I’m having one little problem (two actually, I nearly cut my thumb off on the sharp aluminium) how do I attach the underside of the laptop to the case, drill holes in the underneath of the old MBP or use some sort of epoxy? I’d rather do the second, but I know the first will work better. Any ideas?

Andrew

I hope to attend BarCamp Belfast this month, held in QUB on 21st June. BarCamp, for anyone that doesn’t know, is a sort of un-conference, where people gather together “to share and learn in an open environment.” To take the concept one step further I think of it as an “analog” wiki of sorts. Attendees arrange among themselves, before hand and during the event, who will speak and on what topic. Its like a 21st Century Quaker IT meeting.

I think its a great idea for people in similar fields to meet together and share their knowledge, ideas and have a bit of craic. Just look around the Web (2.0) today and you can see so much openness, with open APIs allowing unparalleled integration of apps. Collaboration spurs innovation!

If you still dont’ know what I’m talking about, Wikipedia is your friend.

Andrew

I’ve had two separate blogs for a while now, AndrewGribben.com and ExileCoffee.com. Recently however, I’ve been cross posting a lot of my coffee posts on my main blog, primarily because everything I wanted to say seemed to be on Exile and my personal blog was getting ignored. I’m still not sure about what to do, I’ve been using the Feed Wordpress plugin so that posts from one are published on another, but that effectively makes the Exile Blog nothing but a category on my main blog. I feel it is going to come down to either one blog with many categories, or multiple blogs on separate topics.

Andrew

This is a quick video, giving some pointers on pulling a better shot of espresso

Andrew