Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Jailbreak iPod/iPhone in 5 Minutes

I’ve walked around with iPod touch for quite a while now, and yes, it is jailbreaked! I let Ants run over my display, I play Labyrinth with the iPod’s built in accelerometer, and so on forever… People see my iPod touch and ask me, why do they not have these cool things – well cause mine is jailbreaked!

Jailbreaked means you get access to the iPod/iPhone’s firmware and then write/read on it how you like it. Apple does not allow it at this moment, though, they have said they will open the iPod touch and the iPhone up at the end of January or February. My guess is that they bring a new iPhone version at the Macworld ‘08 and make this “not-jailed” firmware a new feature.

In any case – can I jailbreak my iPod touch or the iPhone? Yes and it could have never been easier.

So before we get started, there are some points that I want to make. If you jailbreak your iPod/iPhone, you will void your warranty and all sorts of other regulations wether it be with AT&T or any other company. You are seen as a hacker in their eyes as soon as you have completed this tutorial. I know, it sounds horrible – but you are, breaking out of jail!
I struggled at the beginning if I should do it or not – but eventually I went with it because it is just awesome! New apps, features, look, everything – a new iPod/iPhone!

Is it secure? Yes. The method might sound obscure and error-filled – but zillion of people have done it and it works like a charm!

Lastly, Guimkie will not take any responsibility for anything that will happen to you or your iPod/iPhone after you have followed this tutorial. Use it on your own risk!

Having said that, I still suggest you do it!

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Merry Christmas!

It’s the 23rd today and I am all out happy knowing that tomorrow is Christmas. Yes, I know, most of you are wondering why on the 24th! Well, Europeans celebrate it at night on the 24th and Americans on the 25th. In any case, Merry Christmas!

Yep I know, I am not that kind to just make a post for fun. There is always some info to it. Today I am going to growl on about some boring future of my apps and the site itself.

What I am to do first is to finish iCordion. It has been much anticipated by many of you – but I simply did not have enough time until now to do all of this! Keep in mind that I am only doing this site has a hobby, not full business. :-D Yet, I promise that it will come and it will come like hell. It already has some 40 complete new functions that could make iCordion end up as a whole web-design application rather than just a simple app that makes jQuery Accordions!

iMap! iMap has been quite a mess in trying to make it perfect because the sitemaps not always validated with each site and thus gave errors with Google. In any case, I haven’t got a mail for the past few weeks about this issue and so iMap 2.2 is quite stable with it.
Are there still things to be improved? Yes I’ve got several things that I want to add and change. One of them is a updating system as well as saving values for multiple sites which can then be selected via a sidebar. That’s 08 stuff, nothing for 2007!

iWebExpander is my little app that hasn’t been getting much attention. It is going to be updated as well. The updating system will go in there as well. I will also add a basic search-replace function that will allow you to add much, much more to your sites without having to manually edit the HTML code.

With this post I would also say that iWebExpander has been downloaded over 10 000 times! This is just amazing. Incredible – at least from my point of view. :-D

The tutorials are changing as well! The videos will be updated to Leopard and they will be arranged differently in this blog. I had them as separate pages, which makes them difficult to find in searches and so I will move them all into the Tutorials category.

The iWeb Templates – god – totally forgot about them. They will return – but at the moment I have no clue when that will be.

Lastly we have my recent entry into the Wordpress world. The themes are being download like crazy and so I am planning to make a new one as well.

So, that’s all the things that I have planned for the future, that at least you are allowed to know about – other things that are secret are also coming!

Oh – totally forgot about Macvotes.com. It hasn’t been getting much attention either – but I will give it a fancy design and then make it public and then, it will be a great site!

How To Rip DVD’s for iTunes

How do I get DVD movies into iTunes and on my iPod? How do I rip movies for iTunes? Can I do it for free?

Well, this post is the solution to your problem. I will guide you step by step through a totally free tutorial that only uses free software to rip your DVD’s into iTunes and later enjoy them on your Apple TV or iPhone or iPod or whatever!

Is this easy? Hell yeah. Just some clicks and then you have it in iTunes.

Before we get started for this tutorial, I would just like to say that ripping the movies is illegal if you share or distribute them over the internet. This tutorial is intended to show you how you can get your self-bought DVD onto your own Mac and into your own iTunes. I think that for personal use you are free to rip them into your iTunes library – but don’t trust me here for 100%, I am not sure on that!

This is a long, long post, so I did split it into two parts. So, click the link below to read on.

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Curlz K2 Style Released

There you go, I had this K2 Style for my other site and have now pimped it up to be officially released. I hope you enjoy it. :-D

I had so many requests on this theme, not because of the colors or anything, but because of these swirls, twists or however you call them – curls! That’s why I had to give this K2 Style to the world.

What’s a K2 Style? These are stylesheets for the Wordpress Theme called “K2.” You will need K2 RC3 for Curlz to work.

Interested in the style?

Click here for more info about “Curlz.”

Download “Curlz” here.

Update 1: There was a problem with the footer image constantly shifting left or right depending on how wide your browser was. Stupid. I am trying to fix it right now.

Update 2: Issue above has been solved and new version has been uploaded to the servers.

Quick Test Post

If you see this post – ignore it :-D

Thanks,

Max