Tag: SDK

Dec 01 2010

Custom Ringtones for Windows Phone 7

Just a quick one for the night. A little while ago a piece of jailbreak software was released for Windows Phone 7 but there has been no actual use for it yet on consumer phones. Well, someone has been working away and has come up with a small homebrew application to fix an issue with …

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Sep 20 2010

Samsung Galaxy S – A Less Hacky Way to Restore the Three Button Modes

Another quick one for the folks with Samsung Galaxy S handsets. A few days ago I wrote about how you could do a registry hack to update the firmware on your Samsung Galaxy S to a Canadian version that specifically fixes the missing download and recovery modes on affected devices. Over on XDA Developers, some …

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Sep 10 2010

Samsung Galaxy S – Why Download and Recovery Modes Are Missing

I’ve had some time on my hands the last couple of days due to the flu so I thought I would put some of that time toward working out why the download and recovery modes are seemingly disabled in some Samsung Galaxy S units around the globe. It’s been established that the download and recovery …

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Apr 21 2010

iTunes for Windows – Good, Bad or Ugly?

Apple iTunes APIs

Not too long ago, Steve Jobs made a general comment regarding platforms in defence of the changes to the iPhone SDK agreement, specifically: We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform. Somehow, the extrapolation has been made that Steve …

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