Goapele-"Crushed Out"
27.5.09
22.5.09
Drunken Hott Gurls
Wow...I must say you were in rare form tonight...wish I had my camera....ish was way funny....Ryan can testify to that one!!! Holla! We love Dawn..
13.5.09
Damn Snoop!
well....at least you had your get high for free card...now as for your mans and dem....another story....
Jailbreak or no Jailbreak?
Taken from the Ny Times....I contemplated about doing this...have the software and everything..I dunno now...
But for some owners of the Apple touch-screen device, the 35,000-plus applications lining the digital shelves of Apple’s App Store are not enough. If you want to use your iPhone as a video camera, send a photo message or hook it up to your laptop to connect to the Internet, there’s no app for that.
Or at least, no official app.
Through the efforts of developers and hobbyists, the Web is teeming with unauthorized applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch (which does everything that the iPhone does except make phone calls and incur a monthly bill from AT&T), and there are even some independent online application stores.
However, in order to use these programs, iPhone owners have to “jailbreak” their device — downloading a bit of software that bypasses Apple’s restrictions and allows the installation of unsanctioned third-party programs.
The growing popularity of jailbreaking has set up a legal battle between Apple, which says it has the right to regulate what can go on an iPhone, and the users and developers who want to customize their phones as they see fit.
Jailbreaking is different from unlocking an iPhone, in which users modify the software so the phone can be used on unauthorized wireless carriers. For some iPhone hobbyists, like Mark Janke, jailbreaking is akin to customizing a fancy car — it simply allows owners to personalize the look of their devices, turning their phones into a brag-worthy accessory and status symbol.
“You can modify your phone and say, ‘Hey, look what I did,’ ” said Mr. Janke, who runs a forum called Hack That Phone, which walks iPhone owners through the jailbreaking process in several languages, including Swedish and Persian. “It opens up an amazing world of goodies.”
But according to Apple, jailbreaking is illegal and a breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “These modifications not only violate the warranty, they also cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple.
In a legal filing with the United States Copyright Office last year, Apple says jailbroken iPhones rely on modified versions of Apple’s operating software that infringe on its copyrights.
In addition, the company says jailbreaking encourages the piracy of approved iPhone applications and is an expensive burden.“Apple’s iPhone support department has received literally millions of reported incidents of software that crashes on jailbroken iPhones,” the document says.
Apple filed its brief in response to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s request that the copyright office recognize an exemption to the digital copyright act that would permit jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices. The copyright office is expected to rule on the issue by October.
Jailbreaking your own iPhone does not infringe on any copyright, and the tools that help iPhone owners modify their devices do not distribute anything that belongs to Apple, said Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates more openness on the Internet. “In our view, consumers are allowed to adapt software for their own personal use,” he said.
For developers, bypassing Apple’s lengthy and opaque approval process allows them to get their software out quickly and on their own terms. Most iPhone owners who jailbreak their phones do so to change the interface of the iPhone or add simple features and functions that are not available through official channels, said Jay Freeman, who operates Cydia, a popular repository for thousands of third-party iPhone applications and modifications.
For example, Mr. Freeman’s site offers two popular applications that he wrote: Cycorder, a free program that allows iPhones to record video, and Cyntact, a $1 program that adds profile pictures to the iPhone’s address book.
Another developer offers a $9.99 application, iPhoneModem, through Cydia that permits the iPhone to share its Internet connection with a computer, a practice known as tethering, which cellular carriers frown upon.
Mr. Freeman estimates that his platform for apps has been installed on about 2.3 million iPhones and iPod Touch devices. In April, Apple said it had sold 37 million iPhones and iPod Touches to date.
To counter jailbreaking, Apple releases updates for the operating system software that can render jailbroken phones useless. But the company’s efforts amount to an elaborate game of whack-a-mole as rogue programmers quickly counter their efforts with their own software updates.
But for some owners of the Apple touch-screen device, the 35,000-plus applications lining the digital shelves of Apple’s App Store are not enough. If you want to use your iPhone as a video camera, send a photo message or hook it up to your laptop to connect to the Internet, there’s no app for that.
Or at least, no official app.
Through the efforts of developers and hobbyists, the Web is teeming with unauthorized applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch (which does everything that the iPhone does except make phone calls and incur a monthly bill from AT&T), and there are even some independent online application stores.
However, in order to use these programs, iPhone owners have to “jailbreak” their device — downloading a bit of software that bypasses Apple’s restrictions and allows the installation of unsanctioned third-party programs.
The growing popularity of jailbreaking has set up a legal battle between Apple, which says it has the right to regulate what can go on an iPhone, and the users and developers who want to customize their phones as they see fit.
Jailbreaking is different from unlocking an iPhone, in which users modify the software so the phone can be used on unauthorized wireless carriers. For some iPhone hobbyists, like Mark Janke, jailbreaking is akin to customizing a fancy car — it simply allows owners to personalize the look of their devices, turning their phones into a brag-worthy accessory and status symbol.
“You can modify your phone and say, ‘Hey, look what I did,’ ” said Mr. Janke, who runs a forum called Hack That Phone, which walks iPhone owners through the jailbreaking process in several languages, including Swedish and Persian. “It opens up an amazing world of goodies.”
But according to Apple, jailbreaking is illegal and a breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “These modifications not only violate the warranty, they also cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple.
In a legal filing with the United States Copyright Office last year, Apple says jailbroken iPhones rely on modified versions of Apple’s operating software that infringe on its copyrights.
In addition, the company says jailbreaking encourages the piracy of approved iPhone applications and is an expensive burden.“Apple’s iPhone support department has received literally millions of reported incidents of software that crashes on jailbroken iPhones,” the document says.
Apple filed its brief in response to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s request that the copyright office recognize an exemption to the digital copyright act that would permit jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices. The copyright office is expected to rule on the issue by October.
Jailbreaking your own iPhone does not infringe on any copyright, and the tools that help iPhone owners modify their devices do not distribute anything that belongs to Apple, said Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates more openness on the Internet. “In our view, consumers are allowed to adapt software for their own personal use,” he said.
For developers, bypassing Apple’s lengthy and opaque approval process allows them to get their software out quickly and on their own terms. Most iPhone owners who jailbreak their phones do so to change the interface of the iPhone or add simple features and functions that are not available through official channels, said Jay Freeman, who operates Cydia, a popular repository for thousands of third-party iPhone applications and modifications.
For example, Mr. Freeman’s site offers two popular applications that he wrote: Cycorder, a free program that allows iPhones to record video, and Cyntact, a $1 program that adds profile pictures to the iPhone’s address book.
Another developer offers a $9.99 application, iPhoneModem, through Cydia that permits the iPhone to share its Internet connection with a computer, a practice known as tethering, which cellular carriers frown upon.
Mr. Freeman estimates that his platform for apps has been installed on about 2.3 million iPhones and iPod Touch devices. In April, Apple said it had sold 37 million iPhones and iPod Touches to date.
To counter jailbreaking, Apple releases updates for the operating system software that can render jailbroken phones useless. But the company’s efforts amount to an elaborate game of whack-a-mole as rogue programmers quickly counter their efforts with their own software updates.
10.5.09
My Mothers Day
Will be spent in the bed..with tons of ice on my face trying to rid myself of these two black eyes....urrgghhhh....blame it on the.....
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