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by Liana Lehua

If you’ve been sitting on a bricked iPhone (as I have), the new jailbreak function developed by the iPhone Dev Team makes it a breeze to restore. It is recommended you do this over a wifi connection vs. using an EDGE connection. Success rates are reportedly much higher. It took me all of five minutes to do. Yay, “Pirate” (Toys - Pirate from Installer.app)! I didn’t think I could use the new “jailbreak me” solution, because I didn’t have access to Safari on my iPhone. Well, of course, the iPhone Dev Team thought of that too. From the jailbreakme site, here are the instructions for anyone wanting to restore their iPhone with 1.1.1 to install third-party applications. I don’t know of anyone successfully using AnySim or any other unlocking software with this version of the jailbreak. Have fun!

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Thursday, November 1, 2007 — 12:48 p.m. — on the 157 headed to the office

38,100

Attendance at a Cubs game?

Sold-out rock concert?

Nope. Number of page views here at the blog in October.

Not everyone knows how amazing that is.

In my first month, we broke 10,000.

Then, 20,000.

Now, 38,100. And that doesnt include photo gallery views.

Thank you, each and every one of you, for making this blog one of the most popular iPhone blogs in the universe.

Keep coming back and tell your friends, because IPTIB will grow as the iPhone grows.

Thanks for calling.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 — 12:48 p.m. — at my desk

I forgot the URL. It is www.apple.com/webapps — Thanks B K.

If you are looking for the ultimate way to enhance your iPhone or iPod Touch experience, turn to Apple’s directory of Web applications and prepare to be wowed.

Apple’s directory of iPhone and iPod Touch Web applications has been out for a while now, but I’ve been taking it for a spin behind the scenes off and on for a while now.

My conclusion? I really, really like it.

Leave it to Apple to make it simple, and that’s why the directory scores so high … it’s simple, elegant and extremely easy to navigate. There isn’t too much information. No scrolling up and down pages to find what you want … the categories are easy to follow and the links to try out the Web site for yourself are clear as day.

The site is constantly updated, so you know you are getting the latest offerings. And it works well on the iPhone as well, so no matter where you are, you’re never more than a few clicks away from knowing what’s new and useful for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Other sites try to serve the same purpose, and some of them do it well … but no one has done it as elegantly as Apple has.

I’d love to know your thoughts, of course.

Thanks for calling.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 — 1:45 a.m. — in my living room

For the second time in a little over a week, your favorite iPhone blog has been near the top of Google.

We were listed as the 2nd story on Google’s news homepage for the GoogleVeriziSprintphone and 2nd in the list of stories (out of 248!)

See for yourself — take a look at the screenshot.

Obviously, the more attention we get on the behemoths like Google, the more people get to know the site and participate. And more participation just makes for a better site.

So whether you find us at Google, Macsurfer, iPhonefeeds.net or wherever, thanks for calling.

Oh, and happy Halloween.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 — 6:07 p.m. — at my desk

Everyone claims to know what’s up at Google.

There’s going to be a phone, there’s not going to be a phone. It’s coming out next year, it’s coming out next week. It’s white and shiny, it’s cheap and drab.

Truth is, you can read all you want but no one knows what Google is going to do.

Except for Google of course.

The latest from the Wall Street Journal is that Google is going to release its own mobile operating system for phones in 2008. This I believe. I don’t think it makes sense for Google to get into the handset business or the wireless business in general. But, if you can get every mobile phone user in the world to embrace Google’s simplicity and style, folks will be saying Windows Mobile what? Or Symbian wha?

But I don’t think they’ll ever say Apple what? I think the iPhone is safe, no matter what kind of onslaught Google brings on. And, with the connection Apple and Google have in the boardroom, I think there’s a great chance for some sort of mobile partnership that would hit a home run for investors and users alike.

But the WSJ story also says that Verizon and Google are in serious talks to bring the Googleized phones to Verizon’s network. And Bloomberg is reporting that the talks extend to Sprint.

I think Sprint will be bought out by some other company long before anything fruitful emerges from the talks. That leaves Verizon, and while that combination makes sense, I don’t see it happening.

Verizon is known for being so stoddgy that they never allow control of anything to leave their tight little hands. I can’t imagine Google — an imaginative and think out of the box company — working well with Verizon — which reminds me of a ma bell company from 1953.

Had Verizon opened its collective mind, the iPhone could have been on its network. And even though Verizon says that its seen no impact sales-wise from the iPhone (editors note: bull) I think its learned its lesson and will listen a little more carefully to what Google has to say.

So we’ll see. Waiting is never easy, but I think it’s going to be a win-win for everyone. Even if we end up with verizigoogle phones. Or gPhones. Or whatever. Because competition is good for everyone. It will keep Apple on its toes. It can’t afford not to be.

What do you think?

Thanks for calling.

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