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Jailbreak an iPhone used to a complicated procedure. You have to download software, back up and restore you iPhone, and follow the procedure exactly. Not any way, now you can jailbreak any iPhone with version 3.1.2 and newer with a single click. You don't have to download anything. Make you your iPhone is backed up in iTunes, in case something goes wrong. From you iPhone, go to JailbreakMe.com. Slide to jailbreak. Sit back, relax. JailbreakMe will be downloaded to your iPhone and will work... Read Full Story

Until last week when the iPhone 4 was finally jailbroken, your only option to tether the iPhone 4 was to go through the official, legit and expensive way: AT&T . If like me you think that an extra $20/month just to tether your iPhone 4 is a little too much, we've got a solution for you. It's called MyWi . We've talked greatly about MyWi on iDB before but for those of you who just arrived let me tell you briefly what it does. MyWi is an app that let's you turn your iPhone into a wifi hostpot... Read Full Story

You're going to have to take this one with a huge grain of salt but it seems a company called Yosion figured out a way to turn the iPod Touch into an iPhone. And no, this doesn't require you to use some VoIP service. This hack, if legit, might be the ultimate iTouch hack ever made. Basically the "Apple Peel 520″ comes as an iPod Touch case that includes an Infineon baseband chip, an extra 800 mAh battery, and a slot for a SIM card. Just pop a SIM card in and plug your microphone-equipped ear... Read Full Story

Many have been plagued by the slowdown that is iOS4 on iPhone 3G. So much so that many have been tempted to go through a somewhat painstaking process to downgrade their iPhones. Apple Genius Bar gurus closely involved with the customer issues also confirm having to assist customers downgrade due to performance issues. But this evening, renowned 17 year old iPhone hacker @comex points to what seems to be a helpful post on the ModMyi.com forums. Apparently the performance issue may have... Read Full Story

Content farm Demand Media has filed to become a publicly traded company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The IPO filing was originally anticipated back in April when reports surfaced that Demand Media had enlisted Goldman Sachs to help them with the undertaking. The news was first reported by AllThingsD , which noted that the filing lacks specifics on how much Demand Media intends to raise in the process or the estimated share price upon public offering. A look at... Read Full Story

HP has announced that Mark Hurd, the company's CEO, President and Chairman, is resigning all of his positions with the company, effective immediately, following an investigation into a sexual harassment claim between Hurd and a former HP contractor. Cathie Lesjak, the company's CFO, will be replacing Hurd as CEO on an interim basis, though she will retain her duties as CFO during the search for a new chief executive officer. The company has created a search committee to select a new Board... Read Full Story

Google has officially acquired Slide , the social application company founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, in an effort to "make Google services socially aware." The news of the acquisition surfaced earlier this week , so the announcement comes as no surprise. According to TechCrunch , the sale price was $182 million with an agreement to pay an additional $46 million in employee retention bonuses. While a decent exit by most standards, it's a far cry from its massive $500 million... Read Full Story

Even though Microsoft's spell check insists that "blog" and "blogger" are not real words, they've been been in the dictionary since 2003 . Blogs and their platforms have a lengthy history. The beginnings of blogging was a time not unlike today: Plaid was in style, a beloved rock star had passed, and the Internet was just gaining momentum on college campuses. In 1994, then Swarthmore College student Justin Hall started an online diary called Justin's Links from the Underground . The site... Read Full Story

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe , Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here . As designers, we often recycle the same fundamental elements when wireframing or mocking up a design. However, by utilizing a library of reusable web UI elements, we can make the design process on each project more efficient, and cut down on research and design time. This post covers 10 of the best free web UI kits, resources and stencils from... Read Full Story

This series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here . WordPress 3.0 was released a little over a month ago, ushering in a bevy of new features for designers and developers. Just last week, WordPress 3.0.1 was released, fixing a few minor bugs and making some other less visible tweaks. Lots of the biggest changes to WordPress 3.0 took place under the hood — the merging of the WordPress MU codebase with WordPress proper... Read Full Story