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iPhone Unlock Video

I have found a video that has been posted of a walkthrough of the iPhone unlocking process. The author of the video then puts in a T-Mobile SIM card about 7 minutes into the video and the phone appears to be functioning with it. 

Open source GUI iPhone unlock software available!

I got an iPhone on June 29th, the day it came out, and one of the unfortunate things about it was that I was now an AT&T customer. Today, iPhone users can now use any GSM provider they wish, due to the availability of the first Open Source iPhone GUI unlocking software. Engadget reports that the software is functional and reset-resistant. It is pretty tempting to try this out on my phone and switch to T-Mobile, but I am going to wait a few days until the software has its bugs worked out and the consequences of using this unlock are clear.

Burn (almost) any video file to a DVD

Lifehacker has a great article on how you can transcode just about any video file (divx, xvid, etc...) onto a DVD that will be playable on just about any standard DVD player. I have had many people ask me questions about how to do this and this article has a fairly detailed breakdown of the process. However, it only talks about Windows software. If you are looking for some OS X software to rip DVDs, I recommend MacTheRipper and for transcoding video files to DVD I recommend ffmpegx. If you're a Linux user, then I highly recommend k9copy for copying DVDs and just plain ffmpeg for transcoding them.

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The Megapixel Myth

The CEO of the photo sharing site SmugMug has written a great article about how camera manufacturers rip off consumers by promoting the deception that a camera with more megapixels equals an increase in image quality. There are many people that I know that simply don't understand that it's not how many megapixels that are important, but the quality of the lense, the size of the sensor and many other factors that play into the image quality.

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See The World In Counter-Strike

Artist Aram Bartholl has come up with an interesting set of glasses which give you a different perspective on reality... by letting you view it as if you were playing a game of Counter-Strike. The idea for these glasses is definitely simply, but yet unique. I wonder how many strange looks someone wearing these will get.

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