Like most people, I carry a bunch of store-loyalty cards. I realize that there are serious privacy implications, and sometimes it amuses me to provide fake information (I am known to Dick’s Sporting Goods, for example, as Reginald Fink-Nottle, and to Barnes & Noble as Loretta Sponge). But the money that they save [...]

After a successful jailbreak, my iPod Touch was effectively bricked. It would work normally for several seconds, and then pause, and return to the home page, displaying an informative message about how to make the icons wiggle so that I could rearrange them.
Nothing I did would make it stop, and it wouldn’t connect to [...]

It’s now ridiculously easy to jailbreak your iPhone. I tried ZiPhone, and found that it involved about four clicks, including the download.
What happens is that the jailbreak installs a tool called an Installer. The installer smells strongly of Linux, which is a very good thing: there are “sources” of applications, and you [...]

These bonfire photos are cool.

New version.  Old stuff gone.  Good.