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“‘Share any song in your iTunes library and download any song from your friends’ iTunes libraries over the internet with freeware application Mojo.”

I want to give a big shout out to Robbie and to say way to go on getting on Lifehacker and Digg! I have access to quite a few license codes if anyone wishes to help test the Windows Beta of Mojo. Just leave a comment and I will see what I can do for you.

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I’m heading to Clarksville, Tennessee (its on the outskirts of Nashville BTW) later today to visit my good friends Andy and Crystal for a going away party for Andy. He is preparing to be shipped out to Afghanistan by the US Army in a few weeks and he is expected to be deployed anywhere from 16 to 18 months. He should be ok over there as his analyst duties should keep him on base most of the time, I hope they do as he and Crystal recently had a baby boy Darien.

I’ll have picture and whatnot up on my Flickr account after the trip if your curious about how it goes. I wish the trip as longer but I could only get today off from work so I’ll be back on the phones at SAVVIS on Monday, such is life I suppose. Everyone take care and have a great weekend!

“This is just getting silly, don’t you think? The iPhone Dev Team has once again proven their totally gnarly talents by freeing up the latest firmware before it’s even the latest firmware.”

Hmmm, not sure how accurate this article is but it is very interesting.

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I discovered this trick after much googling but it worked instantly for me after applying it.

1. Log onto your wireless router and find the page that lists the IP addresses for all of the computers on your local network.
2. Look for the name of your iPhone and write that IP down or paste it into your text editor of choice.
3. Fire up Terminal.app or Putty.
4. Type ssh root@ and hit enter.
5. You should now be prompted for the password for our iPhones root account, by default this is alpine.
6. Next, you should be prompted by your computer if you wish to accept the RSA key for the server your connecting to, type yes.
7. Type in cd /var/mobile/Library/
8. Type in chmod 777 Mail
9. Try launching Mail on your iPhone

If this works you should now sync your phone so that the permissions carry over to your backup. This trick worked for me but I don’t know if it works for everyone. I discovered this trick here. Please let me know if you have any issues with this, next up on my list of things to do isto figure out why Yahoo won;t connect on my iPhone. . .

“The Steve just demoed a multitouch game on the iPhone live on stage. We’ll bring more details as we get them but OMG games on the iPhone!”

This is pretty sweet! It looks like Spore will be available at launch for the PC. Mac, the DS, mobile phones, and now the iPhone. I wonder how long before we hear about versions for the Wii, Xbox 360, and the PS3.

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“So with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, an integrated database API, tightly integrated performance monitoring tools, and a highly specialized version of the Cocoa framework tweaked just for the iPhone and rechristened as Cocoa Touch, the iPhone’s just-announced SDK sounds like a winner.”

I’m pretty excited about the SDK release today! For developers its a pretty awesome deal as Apple will not change a hosting fee, a credit card processing fee, or a marketing fee for the $99 you pay for becoming an iPhone developer. Also, developers get 70% of the revenue off of each sale so this is great for smaller developers! Also, the SDK is totally free to download at developer.apple.com if you wish to check it out!

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“You may already be aware that the RSS Visualizer, Arabesque and Spectrum screen savers in Mac OS X are Quartz Compositions. There is actually a whole folder full of other compositions hidden in the Mac OS X system files that can be used as screen savers. If you have the Developer Tools installed, there are even more available to you.”

this is really simple to do and some of these hidden screen savers look pretty damn cool! Read below for more info.

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“Will Wright’s amazing Spore is coming to a handful of platforms on September 7. Check out Joystiq’s detailed coverage of Spore Creatures on DS, with brand new screenshots and details on the portable version.”

From what I’ve read this is version focuses on the creation and care of creatures. The closest example that I can think of os Pokeamon but does a whole lot better. I don’t think I will be purchasing this version but I thought people might want to know about it if they don’t already.

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EA is releasing a separate SKU for a creature-editor edition of Spore even earlier than its September 7 game launch.

WHEN?!?!?!

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