...need i say more? :))
Top 10 Hotspot Cities
A recent survey carried out by JiWire has placed two American cities - San Francisco and New York - in the top 10 global cities with hotspots. San Francisco currently has 801 hotspots, while New York has only 643. It's also rumored that S.F.'s City Council is planning to cover the entire city with free internet by the end of this year. Surely, a move which would make any net-dependent person jealous... Mainly us Romanians who only found out what a hotspot is, a couple of years ago. However, believe it or not, after roaming the city with my phone one day in search of hotspots, i was stunned to run over tones of personal unsecured wireless networks. What does that mean? Well, it means that people buy wireless routers at home to be able to chat on their laptops while taking a shower or while cooking, but it never occurs to them that there could be other people (such as the extremely happy next-door neighbor :D) who could also be using it for free. I found 6 "home hotspots" on my 200m long street alone! Which means that i can pretty much connect to wireless internet for free anywhere on my street thanks to people like my neighbors. Just imagine what you could find on boulevards with blocks of flats... 8-)
The rest of the top 10 is as follows:
Top 10 Cities
- Seoul--2,056
- Tokyo--1,802
- London--1,627
- Paris--895
- San Francisco--801
- Daegu--787
- New York--643
- Singapore--619
- Busan--617
- Hong Kong--605
Long live the iPhone... but fu*k Apple!
After more than a month of waiting, i finally managed to jailbreak and unlock the brand new iPhone Mihai (JumperMishu) brought me at the beginning of this winter. I must admit that it's a pretty nice piece of technology that has become widely popular allover the world in less than a year, however, as they say, everything good is either illegal, immoral or fatty... Obviously, till last month, the only place you could buy such a phone was the US. (Of course, in Romania too, but at double the price) That would not have been such a big deal as long as they sold the phones unlocked like they do with NOKIA's everywhere else... But NO! They had to lock them on AT&T and update the firmware once every month or two to make sure hackers would not hack the software... That's how i ended up in December with an iPhone i could not use. I had to wait till today to find a jailbreak & unlock method for the 1.1.2 - 04.02.13_G version. So for those who are still waiting to find that, here's everything you need to do:
1. To jailbreak the phone (be able to access its menu and use it as an iTouch) do the following:
*note that you must do this in order to get to the next step!
**you can find the files mentioned in the video on the description tab on YouTube
2. To unlock it (be able to use it on any carrier):
Since there is no AnySIM software available for this version yet, the best thing to do without risking to brick the phone, is to buy a thing called TurboSIM. It's like a SIM card that you place on your own card in order to fool the iPhone in believing that it's a valid AT&T SIM. It's not too expensive (~50e) and it's worth the money! To purchase one of these, contact Akaiu. He helped me out and it works perfectly.
*This is NOT going to work on any newly bought 1.1.3 with bootloader 4.6 version. You'll just have to wait a few weeks/months...
New in town!
To begin with, i have to admit that less than a year ago i swore i would never start a blog, just because everyone had one and i considered it a total lack of originality... Now, after a few months i realize that having a blog could actually be good for you... Besides the fact that instead of wasting time watching TV or doing something useless, it's a lot more fun to start blabbering about the ugly old lady that smacked you in the head in the morning for not giving her your seat in the bus, or about the neighbor who stuck a knife in your soccer ball just because he couldn't sleep at 2 P.M. due to the noise you were making, it's also a pretty good way to brush up on your English/Romanian/Rromani writing skills.
Now that my blog has its first post, a rough-looking header that i made last night after 2 A.M., and of course a name, i must thank Ana (aka Tzushk) for enlighting me on what to call it, myself for the hard work and perseverance, and last but not least, Astral (aka RDS) for cutting my internet connection no less than four times during this day!
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