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Google Drive is Live
Today Google announced their newest offering, Google Drive.
Everyone gets 5GB of storage free. Other price points are:
- $2.49/month – 25 GB
- $4.99/month – 100GB
- $49.99/month – 1 TB (yes, 1000 GB)
Sure to be a major competitor to DropBox, as their prices beat out any competitor that I know of (if you know otherwise, let me know).
The new Google Drive service is available for PC / Mac, and Android devices currently. iPhone and iPad apps are sure to follow soon. Full integration with Google Docs is sure to push adoption of the technology (the instant sharing of edits is a great feature for remote collaboration).
iTunes 0xE800007F Error: Wifi Sync Problems
First off, I don’t have a fix. I wish I did. If you have a fix PLEASE send it (via comment or contact form).
The problem has been annoying me since I setup WiFi sync.
From all the research I’ve done, I haven’t found any fixes. The problem seems to be caused by the use of WiFi syncing. I think it relates to the WiFi device becoming unavailable while doing a wifi sync. A problem that wouldn’t occur on a normal sync, and that would be unique to WiFi.
You should be able to prevent this by disabling the Wifi Sync (in iTunes click on your device, uncheck WiFi syncing).
There was a fix floating around that had you deleting iTunes folders, and restarting. That didn’t work for me.
As soon as I find a fix, will post a link to it here, and will post it on the blog.
Jailbreaking: Own Your iPhone
In 2010, the US Copyright Office said that jailbreaking smartphone isn’t illegal according to the DMCA.
That statement will expire in 2012.
Jailbreaking isn’t illegal, and it shouldn’t be.
If the exemptions expire, it could be illegal to jailbreak your software (and you won’t be allowed to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone).
What can you do?
You can help the EFF get the exemptions renewed, and extended to include tablets and gaming consoles.
In order to get the renewals, the EFF needs to know how you depend on the ability to jailbreak devices. How you use it to write software, to develop apps.
First prepare a statement that says (in notepad or something similar):
- Who you are (developer, researcher, security professional, user, etc)
- Which exemptions you support (would directly support your role) such as the mobile (phones/tablets), game consoles (not sure if this includes Apple TV like devices) or both.
- Which device you need to jailbreak
- Why you need to jailbreak that device
- What would happen if you couldn’t jailbreak the device
Visit and fill out the official form. Make sure the uploaded comment includes your name, the type of works, and all other information on the comments form.
5 iPhone App Development Tutorials/Resources
So you want to get into iPhone development?
There are tons of great resources sitting out on the web right now. Here are some of my favorites resources and tutorials on iPhone application development:
Apple iOS Dev Center
Apple provides the best, obviously, resources for iPhone App development. There are many resources that are free and available for anyone to use.
You can check out the iOS Dev Center to get set up, and follow up by checking out some courses on iTunes U on Developing Apps for iOS.
No matter what you do in iOS development, you’ll need to get acquainted with the iOS Dev Center.
MIT: introduction to iPhone Application Development
MIT puts a ton of their courses online, and you can check out the one-week course on iPhone SDK development.
Gigabit WiFi: 802.11ac
In recent news (past few weeks) 802.11ac has been popping up quite frequently.
802.11ac is the emerging standard for gigabit wifi. The standard is still a draft, but just like 802.11n, there are already products that support this “draft” standard. 802.11ac will support up to 6.9Gbps (and in lesser forms down to 433Mbps). It is sometimes being marketed as “5G” as the public has become used to the term.
Higher bit rates for 802.11ac tend to use multiple (up to 
antennas to get the full bandwidth.
Broadcom announced a full family of 802.11ac chipsets at CES.
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2
pod2g and the Chronic Dev Team have released an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 called Absinthe A5. The jailbreak is only for the Mac OS X right now, but we should see a Windows and Linux one soon.
The site is on and off available due to the large demand for it.
The following devices can be jailbroken with the Absinthe A5 jailbreak:
- iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0
- iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0.1
- iPad 2 with iOS 5.0.1
If you need to jailbreak iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.1, you can check out the iPhone 4 jailbreak here.
How Can I Delete Photos from my iPhone’s Photostream?
I’ve gotten a few people asking this question. How can you delete photos from your Photostream?
In reality you can’t. You can “delete” the entire album, but not photos individually. This is because Photostream is meant to make your photos available on all of your devices.
I don’t agree with it, but that’s how it is.
You can, however, reset your Photostream if you want to remove all the photos (and start fresh):
- Go to iCloud.com
- Log in (with your Apple ID, probably your Email address, and the password you have to type every day on your iPhone)
- Click on your name in the top right corner to bring up the Account options
- Click on Advanced
- Click “Reset Photo Stream“
You can also turn Photo Stream off, if you want to do that:
- On your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
- Open Settings
- Click/touch iCloud
- Click/touch Photostream
- Toggle On/Off
Hope that helps achieve whatever you wanted to achieve.
Liquipel – Waterproof your iPhone
Can’t wait to get this on my iPhone, thank you Liquipel for a cool product. Wonder if it will work with underwater cameras? Will my dive camera in a few years not even need a casing?
Interesting to think what impact putting your device in water will have, if it doesn’t short out your phone. Does water get stuck in the case?
I want this on my iPhone 5 (Apple, please make note)
iPhone4: How can I Jailbreak iOS 5?
If you haven’t ever jailbroken your iPhone before, you should know some things:
- This could be risky
- If Apple releases an update, you may have to wait before you can get it
- Backup your device before jailbreaking
I’ve done it before on my iPhones, but personally I don’t run a jailbroken iPhone.
To do a jailbreak you must install software written specifically to jailbreak your phone. This software can sometimes look seedy. By all means, you should be careful.
If you already jailbroke your iPhone, and want to untether your iPhone, you just need to install Coronoa Untether 5.0.1 in Cydia.
Gorilla Glass 2.0 Demoed at CES
I’m suspicious, supposedly the Gorilla Glass 1.0 was in my iPhone that broke.
I’d love to see a real world “drop” test with this glass.
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