Even though Steve Jobs did say that Apple would be releasing the new iOS firmware 4.1 next week, he was never precise about the exact date. But now, according to the UK Apple website, the firmware will be released on September 8th.
New features in this firmware include the GameCenter, HDR photos with the iPhone 4 and iTunes ping.
Apple are in the process of trying to get a new patent which would allow them to detect and then disable the iPhones of unauthorized users. It would first appear that this is a good thing to disable things like stolen phones, but when you read the description of the patent, it more or less says jailbreakers are included underneath the unauthorized user umbrella.
As with many jailbreakers, one of my first tweaks was to fiddle around with visual themes.
I started off pretty simple, just to get the feel of what could be done. From Cydia, I installed iBlanks so that I could put blank icons in the middle of my screen, leaving room for a logo on my home page wallpaper, and then also installed a home page widget to put a textual clock and calendar at the top of the page.
I then installed Winterboard, and installed the Suave theme. The icons were pretty cool and very well done, I thought. This gave me a relatively good basis for fiddling around – but I knew this layout – still very iPhone-ish – was not long for this world.
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I’ve considered it for some time, but being one of those relatively cautious types that will perform updates on the first day, but is hesitant to start cracking into stuff via unapproved methods – (i.e., being a bit of a pussy…) – I’ve dragged my feet on the jailbreak.
But screw it… I did it!!
Jailbreaking no longer violates Apple’s sacred manifesto, as of a couple of months ago when the U.S. Copyright Office decided in favor of the consumer, and ruled that after we plunk down the money for our iDevice, our iDevice is indeed iOurs, and Apple can iSTFU.
This is my first test of the WordPress app for iPhone. Actually – that’s not entirely true. In my first test, I marked my post as a loacl draft, which apparently then makes it invisible to the iPhone app.
This time we’ll try saving straight to published app and we’ll see what happens.
