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• Engadget - Has a wonderful post on using your iPhone as a EDGE modem for your laptop.
  

The latest hack installs a new SOCKS server on your iPhone. Join your iPhone and laptop to the same ad-hoc WiFi network and you're pretty much good to go.

• Gizmodo Has an article on using your iPhone as a web server - running python apps and just being 1337.

• We reported earlier in the week the iPhone getting hacked
  

• Macworld tells us about Sleep mode on your iPhone and how it can help save your battery life.
  

We’ve received a few questions about the iPhone’s sleep mode; specifically, how it compares to actually shutting down the phone. Here’s the 411:

When you shut down—by holding down the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds and then swiping the red slider control that appears—the iPhone is completely turned off. This is akin to using your Mac’s Shut Down command. (In fact, when you turn on the iPhone again, you’ll see the Apple logo on the screen as the phone boots up.) None of the iPhone’s functions work while shut down, and incoming calls are sent directly to voicemail.

When you “sleep” the iPhone—by pressing the Sleep/Wake button briefly—the screen is turned off and locked (meaning it won’t respond to touches), but the iPhone is still turned on; you can still receive calls and text (SMS) messages, and if you’ve got Mail set to automatically check for new email, it will continue to do so.

• Gizmodo has the scoop on the iPhone Errors in the wild. Didn't Apple not want to release any thing that could effect the integrity of the iPhone? Well it looks like they shot themselves in the foot.
  

• Iphone almost SIM Unlocked by the masterminds of iphone dev wiki (edit: Link removed upon request of the Wiki Admins)
  

We have a new tool for jailbreak/activation called iActivator. It's a nice end-user Mac GUI which re-implements previous exploits into one convenient application.

See http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/IActivator for further details

We have a new build system for the toolchain which should make your life easier to compile it.

See http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Toolchain_Project for further details

We have confirmation of the existence of some attempt counter for the unlock:

with no unlock attempts +XLOCK returns: "PN",1,0,"PU",5,0,"PP",5,0,"PC",5,0,"PS",5,0

with unlock attempts +XLOCK returns: "PN",3,0,"PU",5,0,"PP",5,0,"PC",5,0,"PS",5,0

The unlock handler dies if the first number is >1 but we're still not sure of its exact meaning and how it is set due to some odd behaviour we observed.

Currently the semantic is believed to be:

0=Unknown, 1=Default/Locked, 2=Unknown, 3=Unknown (has to do with attempts), 4=Lockable, 5=Unlocked

The people of #iphone-shell, particularly NerveGas, have been using Nightwatch's toolchain to build open source tools. These include a working apache installation, python, a growing binary kit including routing tools, vim, curl, and much more. They have binaries posted here

• IpodJuice will offer battery replacement for only $45

The batteries offer the same 1400 mAh, 3.7-volt specifications as Apple’s OEM version. Not only that, ipodjuice guarantees their replacement batteries for ten years from the date of purchase. The company also claims that they’ll replace the battery on the same day they receive your iPhone and get it shipped back out later on the same business day.

Keep in mind that the $45 price does not include shipping the iPhone to ipodjuice. They do offer an option which includes shipping to and from their service center, but that total fee is $65. [TechnaBob]

• The New York Times reports Apple stock falls 6 percent on news that iphone use disappoints.