When I had a Treo 650, I loved the thing to death. People express themselves in different ways. For me, I started this blog to talk about the Treo smartphone, Palm OS applications, and mobile news in general. For Lisa Aiken, she baked a cake in the shape of her Treo 755p. I don’t know how to bake, but if there was a Treo or iPhone shaped cake, I’d eat it

Well, that didn’t take long. The iPhone Dev Team has released Pwnage Tool 2.1 and QuickPwn 1.1, both designed to jailbreak and unlock iPhones running the brand new 2.1 firmware. Considering that the new firmware was only released barely 2 days ago for the iPhone, this must be some kind of a record!
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Two days after the new iPod touch received the 2.1 firmware update, Apple is releasing the same update for iPhones as promised. This is a long awaited update, especially for iPhone 3G users who have been suffering frequent call setup failures and dropped calls.
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It’s time for my semi-monthly ebook recommendation. This time around, it’s Thirteen by Richard Morgan. I have greatly enjoyed Morgan’s last few books, including the Takeshi Kovacs series (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies). In Thirteen, Morgan tells the story of Carl Marsalis, a Thirteen variant. Thirteens are genetically engineered by the government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind.
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