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Comment on Every Man, Woman or Child on Skype Needs an Everyman Headset by How to get the best music playback quality | Greg Stereo

How to get the best music playback quality | Greg Stereo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:56:32 +0000

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Comment on Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone by tom

tom — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:45:43 +0000

yes blackra1n is by far the simplest jailbreak/unlock yet. it also makes possible to unlock and than delete blackra1n without installing cydia. this is more appealing to many who only want an unlock and could get confused by the whole jailbreak thing. i have stooped jailbreaking/unlocking for other though. i have found that people who do not perform there own jailbreak.unlock are near guaranteed to end up re-locked after an update. this upsets many of my friends who expect me as ‘the geek/hacker in the crowd’ to do things like unlock their phones for them.

Comment on Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:53:10 +0000

The user is making the choice, and in this case, you need physical access to the phone in order to exploit it. The risk is, therefore, not widespread.

The last time I did this jailbreak (I didn’t unlock it before), I pretty quickly restored the phone back to a Steve Jobs approved state because it wasn’t booting. This was a fairly painless and quick process and yes, didn’t require Cydia. geohot made this extremely easy!

Comment on Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone by Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:55 +0000

It seems to be getting simpler rather than more difficult. Re security — the user is making this choice. It is not like I’m walking around an my phone is being breached. The same type of “update” is available for Nokia’s and other phones too. Just the market for those with iPhones is much bigger. It interesting to me that I didn’t even need cydia this time and the “slowness” that my phone ended up with on other jailbreaks / unlocks doesn’t seem to have manifested itself at this point.

Comment on Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone by PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:30:04 +0000

Apple open-sourcing stuff? Hardly seems like them, but a valid point none the less.

Comment on Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone by tom

tom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:25 +0000

if apple wanted to be secure they would open source the core baseband and USB communications modules so that ‘anyone’ could take a look at the code and pinpoint and make public the vulnerabilities for quick fixing.

Comment on PhoneBoy's Travel Toolbox by SuzanneC

SuzanneC — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:44:51 +0000

Another item that you and your readers might want to consider for your “Travel Tool Box” is a new up-and-coming VoIP service called http://www.friendcaller.com, a browser-based P2P VoIP application based on the Java platform. I’m representing FriendCaller, and we’ve gotten some great feedback from travelers who like having the ability to talk with their friends back home, for free, via their Web browsers through the FriendCaller platform. Not only do they find it simple to use, but it also saves a lot of money on calling plans. FriendCaller just released its new iPhone/iPod app, FriendCaller 3 Pro, which enables users to send a CallMe link from their iPhone/iPod to anyone on the Internet, and they can talk for free, over WiFi, to their friends.

Comment on Every Man, Woman or Child on Skype Needs an Everyman Headset by Hero

Hero — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:26:24 +0000

They sure have taken some shortcuts on this one. There is no volume control, for example. If someone screams in my ear I have to fiddle with the software in order to lower or mute the volume: I might get deaf in the process.

Comment on Every Man, Woman or Child on Skype Needs an Everyman Headset by YardSale

YardSale — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:57:45 +0000

Comment on Every Man, Woman or Child on Skype Needs an Everyman Headset by Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:42:04 +0000

It’s an affordable USB headset… nothing more, nothing less. The impact of onboard soundcards on speech is completely negligible and ever since version 3 Skype is actually much nicer to use over speakers. I rarely have any echo effects even if both parties use this combination and the conversation sounds much more natural when not wearing a headset. You don’t get the “in the room” effect using anything else but your speakers. As for the microphone, unless you are using the worst webcams available you shouldn’t have any problems on that side either. The Everyman headset is certainly not a bad purchase for what it costs, but in times of Skype 4 it’s not going to improve your sound quality all that much either.