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How-to for Newbies: Jailbreaking an iPod touch

Posted by Francis Panganiban on September 13th, 2009

Image from gadgetscrunch.com

Last week, I got an iPod touch 2G; fresh out of the box, factory defaults. So I loaded up some songs and started listening right away. However, after stumbling across various weblogs and forums discussing the greener grass on the jailbroken side, I decided to give it a try myself. Of course, I ran to some trouble during my first tries, but after a few more I was successfully able to jailbreak my pod.

For all those eager to load up cool stuff on their iPod’s, read on now. The complete and easy steps after the jump.

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IceFrog Leaves Dota-Allstars.com

Posted by Francis Panganiban on May 16th, 2009

Image by IceFrog.com

Yesterday, May 15 2009, I read on a circular bulletin released by Garena at Friendster.com that IceFrog has left Dota-Allstars.com. Shocked and somehow intrigued by this news, I decided to visit IceFrog’s Blog to see his official statements on this issue. Here’s what he said:

As a result of some differences, I am no longer affiliated with the dota-allstars.com website. I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone over there the best of luck in the future.

Source: http://www.icefrog.com/content/dota-website-news

However, on another part of the same post, IceFrog confirmed that this does not mean that he will discontinue development of DotA. In fact, he stated that he plans to continue development for at least 2 more years.

On another part of his post, IceFrog said that he is planning to start a new community for DotA, this time under his administration. Because of this, he is looking for people who can help him in all ends of foruming, including technical support, programming, web development, and graphics design.

Could IceFrog leaving Dota-Allstars.com have a great impact on the community? Or could IceFrog’s new community benefit members much more than Dota-Allstars.com did? We hope we’ll hear from him soon.

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5 Firefox Extensions To Spice Up Your Browser

Posted by Francis Panganiban on May 14th, 2009

Image by Mozilla Corporation

On its own, fresh out of the box, Firefox is an awesome browser delivering a fast and safe web experience. Yet what makes Firefox stand out is its support for a huge number of extensions that let you spruce up your surfing. If you don’t know the best extensions to start with, be sure you check out this list.

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32GB moviNAND Chips Coming Soon from SAMSUNG

Posted by Francis Panganiban on May 13th, 2009

Image credit: Gizmodo.com, Gawker Media

While SAMSUNG is not the first major manufacturer to ship 32-gigabit (and gigabyte) chips, it definitely is the biggest… which means more space for your iPod is coming sooner than you probably anticipated.

Moreover, SAMSUNG has the rights to claim the title of being the first to manufacture 30-nm class chips (this bit of information is juicy for geeks like me, but normally just-the-ordinary-blah to other consumers).

So bottomline: since SAMSUNG makes more NAND chips than any other company, you can really expect to see one soon enough. With more and more double-slotted products (like the iPod Touch) out on the market, 64-GB flash-based portable players may just become the thing of today.

[Aving via Gizmodo]

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