Your iPhone & its dock: Disabling the mute feature

I recently purchased a dock for my iPhone from a guy on Ebay. It’s not an official Apple product, because $5 is a far better price than the $29 Apple wants for a piece of plastic. All-in-all, its a great little product, and it would be perfect but for one thing; every time I plug [...]

Restoring iPhone USB access under iTunes 9

Like many jailbreak iPhone users, I prefer to SSH to my iPhone 3G via the USB cable instead of over my wifi network. Since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.2 and iTunes 9.0.2 (Specifically 9.0.2.25), however, I’ve discovered that the tool I used, iphone_tunnel.exe, no longer works. Instead, every time I try to connect with Putty [...]

The legal risks of buying a US iTunes voucher/gift card

My experience with safely buying a US iTunes voucher was entirely positive, but being scammed isn’t the only way things can go wrong for a South African iTunes user. I recently came across a post discussing the legality of using US iTunes gift cards in South Africa. In short, redeeming the voucher as a South [...]

Buying iTunes vouchers/gift cards online

Using an iPhone and iTunes as a South African user sucks. Every iPhone user I know has registered a US iTunes account to get access to apps that are inexplicably* unavailable in South Africa. The only downside is that, without a US credit card, the only way to buy apps on the AppStore is by [...]

redsn0w 0.8 Checksums

As it doesn’t appear to be online elsewhere, here are the checksums for redsn0w 0.8 for Windows: Filename CRC32 MD5 SHA1 redsn0w-win_0.8.zip 45849b42 6b9480bde795f20c62592645ecddec1c b7c3f3e1ec1f9b62fde9030265f2e3623e2576bd ⌙ redsn0w.exe 01324e34 aeb7ac29b1954c992f33335da1e59189 1499f5fad69a2212126096379582204298abf911

Migrating iTunes apps between installs

Ahh, a new PC, a new install of iTunes, and all the apps I downloaded for my iPhone are nowhere to be seen. iTunes doesn’t offer me a way to redownload all the apps I installed, and what’s more, when I try to sync my iPhone with the new copy of iTunes, I get the [...]