Apple iPod and iPhone News for February-29-08
Apple, Buy Back This Stock
Shareholders certainly have shared in Apple’s success over the years. The stock topped out at $199.83 on Dec. 28, an almost 19-fold increase over five years. Yet the growth in the company’s cash hoard is starting to make people wonder, What exactly will Apple do with all that money?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080227_160304.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
How to Get More From Your iPod: 10 Hacks, Mods, and Tips
How to create a fully immersive VR iPod, how to use your iPod as the ultimate remote control, and 8 other interesting ways to use your iPod.
http://www.quamut.com/sa/ipod_hacks.html
1.1.4 iphone iNdependence for all, for free and unlocked
No more “please donate”, no more silly “you get it later” – this team did it with a decent unlock and stable, in the same day. Hurray for the really honest people out there who still love a decent hack and getting it out to people. GO GO iNdependence!
http://code.google.com/p/independence/
What if the iPhone Stopwatch Hit 1,000 Hours??!!?
If the iPhone Stopwatch can display true amounts of time, then this test will prove it. What would happen if it displayed 1,000 hours? Will the world come to an end? Will the iPhone be bricked for all eternity? Or perhaps the numbers will merely shrink down in a very Apple-esque way in order to make room for the extra digit. Watch and find out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9kxb_H-ac
MacBook Pro teardown reveals… not much
Whenever Apple releases a new product, it doesn’t take long for someone to tear it apart. Before the first flood of reviews, we get a peek inside.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/02/27/macbook-pro-teardown-reveals-not-much