iOS4 Device Firmwares:

iPod Touch 2G: http://is.gd/cM9U3

iPod Touch 3G: http://is.gd/cM9WN

iPhone 3G: http://is.gd/cM9ZO

iPhone 3G/S: http://is.gd/cMa1Z

This is a bring back tutorial on how to get the real iOS4 on your device completely free. Apple has released the GM (Gold Master) firmware file for all devices so you no longer need to be an Apple developer to have the new OS. In this video I briefly run over how to install it on your device!

What’s up guys? This is my preview of the iPhone OS 4 Developer Beta that was released a couple days ago on April 8th 2010 (Consumer release date is Summer 2010). There was a lot of new and cool features released with this new version of the iPhone software, and I am really excited to see where developers take some of the new API’s they have been given.

Just a quick reminder, never – NEVER download the iPhone 4 Beta firmware from a torrent or third party site unless your are an Apple developer. If you update your iPhone to the new firmware and your device isn’t registered for development with Apple, your iPhone will no longer work and your warranty doesn’t cover it.

iPhone OS 4.0 is on its way very shortly. Apple has officially announced that on Thursday April 8th 2010 they will be holding a press conference in Cupertino to highlight the new features and specifications of the new firmware. I may end up doing a video on this, but considering the conference is tomorrow, I would much rather make a detailed post about my predictions and thoughts on what we might be seeing in iPhone OS 4.0.

Some features I think we might be seeing rolled out on Thursday are a new home screen design, multitasking, voice to text services and a unified inbox like on the mail app in Mac OS X – there are other speculations like support for video conferencing and integrated ad support as well.

The New iPhone Home Screen has been speculated about for quite some time now. A lot of users void Apples TOS and preform a jailbreak on their device because they are sick of the default Apple home screen that hasn’t seen an update since iPhone OS 1.0. Now that the iPad has been released, you will notice Apple has now let people add a custom picture background to their device(s), so I for sure think that  a new home screen update is on the horizon.

Multitasking is something that has been talked about for a while on the iPhone OS and all mobile firmwares. We first saw it work very nicely when the Palm Pre was released last June. However it will be a tricky task trying to get it on the iPhone. 90% of all computer crashes are a result of the user being oblivious to the fact that there are 10 programs or services running and their computer can’t handle it. Lets face it, the iPhone and the iPod touch are nice devices, but they can’t handle much without lagging or crashing. If this did happen, I would hope Apple integrates a expose like feature activated by certain hand gestures.

Voice to text is something that a lot of mobile phones support these days. When the iPhone 3GS came out we were introduced to voice commands on the phone. Given the recent laws that have been passed in Canada and in the United States about using your cellphone when driving, I can see Apple including a voice to text offer for email and SMS messaging. I also think they might include a text to voice feature that reads words on the screen.

Unified inbox is desperately needed on the iPhone. Anyone that currently has an iPod touch, iPad or iPhone and uses the mail app for multiple emails is familiar with the HUGE pain in the ass that occurs because there isn’t one inbox where all your emails go to, they are all separate. So for instance on my phone, I have 4 emails set up. 1 is a Gmail account and the others are @lukedimarco.com accounts. If I am in my Gmail inbox checking email and I get a message from my @Lukedimarco.com account, I have to sign out of the Gmail and click my way back through to the inbox I want. So much time would be saved if there was one unified inbox for everything to come through.

These are just some of the features I assume we will be seeing for sure tomorrow, and  yes, they are just predictions. What are you hoping for in the new iPhone OS or in the new iPhone in June? Let me know in the comments below!

Just a quick video out there on how to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so you can take it anywhere you go! A lot of you guys requested I do a tutorial on this after I had mentioned it in one of my blogs.

These guys did something amazing! They took a multi touch display and installed it on a Mac Pro. The below article was written by them. Enjoy.

We created quite a buzz in the blogosphere with the movie on Youtube showing a Mac Pro running iPhone/iPod OS on a 24 inch multi-touch screen. Of course most people were convinced that it was fake, a spoof. And of course they where right.

We had initially planned to make a screen recording of the iPhone SDK but the animation was far too sloppy and the menu bar position got offset when applications closed down. So we decided to redo all the animations in Apple Shake with elements from the iPhone SDK screen recording. After some minor finishing touches in Photoshop, the movie was finally edited in Final Cut Pro.

As many have already seen, a Dell 24-screen in portrait mode with a covered logo was used in the experiment.

Stefan got a few minutes to practice the timing, before we started filming. Shooting was deliberately poor so that more people would believe that it was computer geeks only, and not film effects people. To increase the credibility even more, an error message was implemented as the home screen appears.

We’ve included all the materials used in the experiment below. Have fun!

This video will show all the people who upgraded to the 3.0 software and lost their jailbreak, how to get their jailbreak back again. It is a very simple process using a program called RedSnow. RedSnow can be downloaded at the following links:

Official Torrents:
Windows: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4965140/redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip.4965140.TPB.torrent
Mac OS X: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4965042/redsn0w-mac_0.7.zip.4965042.TPB.torrent

*DISCLAIMER* I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY HAPPEN TO YOUR IPOD OR IPHONE.

iPod 1st Gen: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/dimal73rj
iPod 2nd Gen: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/5z24dyk1t
iPhone 1st Gen: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/pp3zaqm6v
iPhone 3G: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/pnj6xzh5n