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One More Geek – The Pencil iPhone Stand

xcool — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:22:57 +0000

OK, since I’ve just posted about Free Memory and how much it suits the geeks in you, here’s another one which you might find interesting.

In these trying times, it would definitely help if you could save that buck or two. And what more when it comes to spending for our beloved gadgets? *grin*

The stand should work great on both the iPhone and iPod touch, although the 2G iPhone would require an extra pencil due to the extra thickness. There’s no cutting involved so butterfingers might give it a try. Best of all, it takes a few minutes to construct and requires lesser time to collapse once you are done. But since it fits so well, I don’t find myself wanting to deconstruct mine.

From the pictures posted, it looks like the stand is very stable. I am thinking of making one myself with those expired ball point pens that I have lying in my drawer. Head over to Geeky Gadgets for more pictures.

Oh, now if you don’t have 5 pencils to spare, then why not take a look at the iPhone Binder Clip Stand? Cult of Mac has more details on this. Choose between the economy version (1 clip) or premium version (2 clips).

Various iTerms

xcool — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:38:28 +0000

A lot of people seems to be confused with the terms used throughout the iPhone/iPod touch sphere. Terms like unlocked, unlocking, jailbreak can be harder to understand than history lessons.

Here’s a short summary of what each term means:

Unlocked unit means that your iPhone or iPhone 3G will work with any Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) from any service provider in the world. Your phone might either be factory unlocked, carrier unlocked or user unlocked.

Factory unlocked units work as soon as you pop in any SIM from any carrier. This is the best unit to get. Example of carriers/countries that provide factory unlocked iPhone 3Gs are SingTel (Singapore), 3 (Hong Kong), Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) and Vodafone (New Zealand) to name a few.

Carried unlocked iPhones are units that have been unlocked by the carrier thru the process of entering a ‘unlock code’. Once this is done, the locked (originally) iPhones become unlocked and shall now work with any SIM from any carrier. Updating the firmware does not ‘relock’ the iPhone.

User unlocked iPhones are units that have been unlocked using software exploitation to allow operation with various service providers. Google for this term and you shall find more information which I would not cover here.

Last but not least is the term jailbreaking. Apple only allows signed code to run on the iPhone and iPod touch. There are many reasons behind this, such as ensuring that your iPhone only runs applications that are certified not to be harmful. However, there are various third-party software out there, which would not receive approval from Apple. Jailbreaking your iPhone/iPod touch would allow these apps to run as if there were signed code.

Check out this link if you’d like more explanation on other terms used.

iPhone Gets Key-Modded

xcool — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:18:43 +0000

Some people like the idea of a touchscreen keyboard, while others prefer to have the touchy feeling of typing on a built-in keyboard. You can now have both.

Well, some electrical engineering whiz-kid has just modded his iPhone (other sites are reporting it as the iPhone 3G, I don’t think so) together and fixed an external keyboard which looked like it came from those one of those Psion devices. Add in another little bit of programming whiz, and the results looked quite promising, if your device is jailbroken, that is. More pictures and a video after the break.

Isn’t that great? Now, if only Apple would allow us Bluetooth on the iPhone. And I wonder if it will work on the iPod touch. Let’s hope this develops further. I’d love to see what are the key ‘ingredients’ to get this working. Who knows someday we’ll see this being sold at every Apple accessories store? Or am I dreaming?

More pictures below.

via Engadget

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