Archive for December 27th, 2010

Associated Press reports that Apple has worked with the Cherokee tribe to add their language to iOS and help to preserve it.

"Tribal officials first contacted Apple about getting Cherokee on the iPhone three years ago. It seemed like a long shot, as the devices support only 50 of the thousands of languages worldwide, and none were American Indian tongues. But Apple's reputation for innovation gave the tribe hope", - the report said.

This year support of the language was included into iOS 4.1.

A British man recently delivered his own baby at home using his iPhone.  An ambulance was not able to reach his house because of the terrible weather conditions which are currently affecting several parts of the UK. And when the delivery started he did not lose his courage and met the challenge. He used his iPhone to search the Internet for advice and instructions while he helped his wife give birth.  As a result, he managed to deliver his second-born child himself. Congratulations to the happy family!

A prototype of Apple’s first portable Macintosh was offered for a sale on eBay.  It has a label “this device is a demonstration unit only. Production units will comply with all applicable Federal Rules and Regulations” which confirms that it is a prototype unit. Unfortunately the devise does not power on because of the dead acid battery.

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The iPhone Dev team has just released the second beta of their untethered RedSn0w jailbreak (the first beta has been released few hours ago and has more bugs).

New jailbreak is called "Jailbreak Monte", as it uses new "backup method". The iPhone Dev Team warns that their beta-version is not a general release and you should back up all your media before using it. There are also other limitations and bugs:

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