Hijinks Inc.

Category: Apple

  • Flash coming to the iPhone? Doubtful.

    Gear Live is reporting that Flash is on it’s way to the iPhone, now one might be inclined to believe them since they did manage to get their hands on an advance copy of 1.1.3 before it came out, but I still don’t buy it. Here’s why.

    Hardware capabilities, let’s take a look at the system requirements on Adobe’s website:
    Flash on the iPhone - System Req
    Now the iPhone with it’s 624MHz ARM processor may come close, but the iPod touch is certainly out of the question since it’s running a 412MHz ARM processor. Also, I had a Dell Axim x51v a few years back, which had the same clock speed as the iPhone and Flash preformed like crap on that.

    If Apple can pull it off, more power to them, but I don’t see it happening prior to the iPhone 2 coming out.

  • OS X 10.5.2

    I’m sure by now you’ve heard the wonderful news, 10.5.2 is finally out. Yay! I’ll spare you the boring technical details, but holy crap did 10.5.2 jack my boot time. When I first installed Leopard my boot time went from 33 seconds to 54 seconds, ridiculous! Anyhow, after the 10.5.2 update it was taken my Macbook Pro a full 2 minutes to boot, for shame!

    So yeah, I reset my PRAM and emptied out my caches and got things back to around 54 seconds. Just keep that in mind when you install the update. Please note, normally I don’t care about boot times that much, but I’m bored out of my mind right now.

    p.s. TUAW is reporting that 10.5.2 makes your WoW run faster

  • Installer.app Crashing

    If you have problems with Installer.app suddenly crashing when you’re trying to install new software, fear not! Here’s the quick and easy way around that. This solution should apply to any firmware version, however I’ve only tried it on 1.1.3.

    It has to do with not having enough free space, so first you’ll need to uninstall a few applications, then download BossTool (under the Utilities category).

    Next, open BossTool and click “Free Disk Space”.

    Now hit the “Relocate Applications” button, you’ll see a pop up asking you to confirm, do so and let it do it’s thing.

    After it’s completed head back over to Installer.app and try installing several new applications, it should work just fine now.

  • iPod touch Jailbreak [ 1.1.3 ]

    In order to jailbreak 1.1.3 you need a jailbroken iPod touch running 1.1.2, a wireless network, and some free time.

    Files you may need for this process:
    [ iPod touch 1.1.1 firmware ]
    [ iPod touch 1.1.2 firmware ]

    Hit the detailed instructions after the jump.
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  • Installing NES games on your iPod touch

    Here are some instructions for installing NES games on your iPod touch or iPhone. These will best benefit you if you already have a jailbroken iPod or iPhone and a wireless network.

    Updated: 1-15-2008
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