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Optus iPhone Tethering – For FREE!

// June 18th, 2009 // 15 Comments » // General ramblings, Hacks, iPhone

Please note: This hack was patched by Apple in Firmware 3.1.1 and no longer works.
With the official release of the iPhone 3.0 firmware today there has been much talk about the leaked Optus pricing which indicates Tethering will be an account add-on which will cost $9.99 to enable and will require the additional purchase of [...]

Ivan Vanderbyl on Rails – Interview

// May 28th, 2009 // Comments Off // General ramblings, Ruby on Rails, Site launches

I was recently interviewed by EngineActive’s Michael Troy for their new blog about everything, including the web development scene in Newcastle. So if you would like to learn a bit more about me, have a read.

How to unbrick iPhone 3.0 beta

// April 4th, 2009 // 26 Comments » // General ramblings, development

I was recently faced with a bit of a problem, I had upgraded my iPhone to the new 3.0 beta, but I forgot to create a provisioning profile for the device from within my newly activated Developer Portal before the upgrade, this resulted in what pretty much resembled a brick.
The iPhone 3.0 upgrade also includes [...]

Capital Raised

// March 26th, 2009 // Comments Off // Design, Site launches

I have just launched the new website for our partner company Capital Raised who are doing a great job helping businesses find much needed capital to fund their new ventures.
Props to Odin at twe4ked studios for taking on the coding when I was busy hacking on other things, like the Rails core.

New design

// March 25th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // CSS, Design, General ramblings

So what do you do on a Wednesday night, eat dinner, watch some TV, then redesign your blog until 1 in the morning. It was starting to eat away at me, I hadn’t touched the design for 8 months, it needed a Flickr feed, and I figured, why not chuck in a Twitter feed, that [...]

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