Archive for December, 2009

JailBreaking your iPhone 3G S using BlackRa1n and getting past the Connect to iTunes logo… For Village Idiots

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
UPDATE: If you’re on O2 in the UK and are looking to unlock your iphone, you can unlock it free and permanently without jailbreaking – in fact O2 will do it for you. Check out this page on the O2 website:
http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/unlockmyiphone.html

Okay, I took a few attempts to understand this, so I’ve typed it all out in a “For village idiots” style tutorial to hopefully help anybody having the problems I was having.

I’m trying to Jailbreak my new iPhone 3GS with the BlackRa1n Jailbreak application. But I keep getting stuck on the Connect to iTunes logo when the phone reboots. iTunes then tells me that the phone is in recovery mode and will need to be restored to factory default settings to make it work.

Want to know how to get past that connect to iTunes logo?

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The Grail

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Well, I mentioned my Grail quest a few months back and, since then, I’ve been inundated with precisely zero comments, emails and Twitter mentions asking about it. Naturally with this level of interest, I simply have to put you out of my misery.

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Smilin’ Countdown…

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

I’ve added a Smilin’ Countdown timer to the right hand bar of my blog here. It’s got a rough countdown to when I should be all done with these Invisalign Aligners.

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