The unlock is here skip to Update #2 for directions! 

Ok so Apple just announced the new 3g iphone. Blah, blah new features, GPS, it’s faster, thicker (that’s what she said), and now replacing the 1.0 iphone. Yep thats right. Apple is no longer selling and manufacturing the 1st version of the iphone. Apple stated 1st gen iphone manufacturing stopped at 6 million. What does this mean right now? No iphones are for sale right now and the new version will be available July 11th. 

This time around you will have to purchase and activate IN STORES only. I guess the whole in home activation thing got kind of nuts with the DIYers. I can only imagine how many of those 6 million phones are unlocked and being used overseas. I believe last time I heard AT&T only activated (correct me if I’m wrong) less than half of that number. 

Well for all of you wondering if you will be able to unlock this new phone just as easily, the answer is most likely yes. When Apple released the SDK for the firmeware version 2.0 for the iphone the hacking began. Soon the news broke that 2.0 had been unlocked and relocked and unlocked again.

Update: These guys @ http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ have released an app for win/mac that jailbreaks the 3g iphone as well as allows you to install unapproved apps on the iphone. The tool will jailbreak and unlock a 1st gen iphone with 2.0 installed. But for those of you with any other service you will have to wait just a little longer. 

And if you really what to go crazy try this.

Update #2:

The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application, and it’s very easy to install. Here’s how. Now works for me with 0.9.4.

Yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G unlock, runs as a small command line application that gets installed in any jailbroken iPhone 3G using Installer. It’s very easy to install:

• First, update your iPhone 3G to the latest iPhone OS provided by Apple using the latest iTunes.

• Then, use QuickPwn 2.2 to jailbreak and activate your iPhone 3G. If you have Mac OS X 10.5.6 installed, you should follow these instructions before doing it.

• Use Installer or Cydia to install yellowsn0w, which is completely free. Here are the addresses you have to use to add yellowsn0w to your installer application:

For Cydia enter: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
For Installer enter: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

Tomorrow, the city council votes on an ordinance requiring anyone organizing a concert of any scale, at any (already) licensed venue, to be a licensed promoter. This is very dangerous to Chicago’s rich music scene, and to the arts in Chicago in general.

• The definition of “event promoter” is so loosely defined it could apply to a band that books its own shows or a teenage kid trying to get his favorite band into town.
  The “event promoter” must be licensed and will pay $500 – $2000 depending on expected audience size.
• To get the license, applicant must be over 21, get fingerprinted, submit to a background check, and jump over several other hurdles.
• This proposed ordinance seems targeted towards smaller venues, since those with 500+ permanent seats are exempt.

These issues have been tirelessly highlighted by Jim DeRogatis at the Sun Times. There are two interviews that are very much worth reading: Alderman Shulter and the Department of Business Affairs. Please, if you’re in Chicago, sign the “Stop the promoter’s ordinance petition” and contact your alderman. via CYSTSFTS

UPDATE: the ordinance has been put back into committee, to get more input from the community.

Google.com – Virgle

For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny and subdivision.
An invitation.
Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
The question is, do you want to join us?
Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we’ve outlined here.
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-google.com

#2

For April Fools’, all of the videos on YouTube’s frontpage redirect to….Never Gonna Give You Up.

Rickrolld and it feels so good!

#3

Engadget.com – Take that T-Mobile

Engadget was recently served paperwork from a lawsuit t-moble parent company Dousche Telekom filled in regards to them using the color magenta. Engadget in response not only made there wallpaper a new color gradient but changed up their engadget mobile logo as well.

#4

Gizmodo.com – Guest Commentators

Every post on the gadget blogs has Mr. T and others photos, commenting on every story. Way to keep busy photoshop person. Make that money.

#5

prankdialer.com – Rick Roll Invasion

Rick Roll is the latest of the many short run internet fads. Here’s something fun to do to your friends and family.

#6

deviantART changed everyone’s avatar to this: http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/herduliek.gif

#7

macrumors.com – grayscale site

#8

columbiatribune.com – wiggum_to_seek_the_governorship

#9

woot.com – fake woot off

Woot sold the same Black & Decker 20w power backup battery in woot off fashion.

Also, I noticed a beta version of their university-wide site is up. It’s really beautiful and functional.

Simultaneously, we have moved our offices to a new facility

Blueprint Design Studio
5563 N. Elston,
Chicago, IL, 60630

Our Phone Numbers have not changed, we can still be reached at (312) 698-8837