Free: 40+ Fonts, music-alerts, Foamee

Offtopic: Yes I know there was no freebie post yesterday. The fault lies with Apple as they released 1.1.2 a day early. :P

Over 40 free fonts

Smashing Magazine does it again by bringing you some of the best free fonts you'll ever see this year. In 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design, you'll see a wide range of fonts, including serif and sans serif fonts, award-winning fonts, a handwriting font and even pixel fonts. Designers and font collectors are bound to love this typeface collection. The only snag you'll face is a handy zip file for download convenience. Perhaps someone could step in to fill this void?

music-alerts

Too busy to keep track of album release dates? Why not let music-alerts worry about that? Tell music-alerts about your favorite acts and it'll keep a watchful eye on them. Whenever they attempt to sneak an album past you, your personal music-alerts RSS feed will be updated and you can catch them red-handed. You can be sure you won't fall too far behind as music-alerts' database is refreshed every 3 days with Amazon's latest stock.

Foamee

What do you get when you mix Twitter with beer? Stumped? With Foamee, you'll be able to answer some of the most important questions in your life - how many beers you owe someone and how many you're owed. That is, if you remember to send out the message to Foamee...


If you enjoyed this, I guess you owe me a (root) beer. ;) Don't worry, Foamee's root beer tracker is still bubbling. :P

1.1.2 Jailbreak & Unlock Status

Update: New jailbreak/unlock 1.1.2 info here.

Offtopic: Reading all the info about the current developments of the jailbreak and unlocking in one go is quite a challenge. In fact, my head is quite ready to explode, if anything new comes in. :D

Current 1.1.2 jailbreak status

Yesterday, we heard that the iHacking community scored another one against Apple by jailbreaking a 1.1.2 iPod Touch. Since the iPod Touch and the iPhone are very similar, we didn't need to wait long before an iPhone runs away from prison.

iPhone: Testing the 1.1.2 Jailbreak @ TUAW is just what everyone (except maybe Apple) were hoping to read about. It's a rather lengthy post, but everything can be summarized into a few words - 1.1.2 iPod Touch and iPhone jailbreak succeeded. Currently the process is very ugly and requires downgrading and commands but it'll be refined and undergo noobification before release to the general public.

1.1.2 Unlock Status

The iPhone elite team made several changes to AnySIM and released AnySIM 1.2 into the world. Currently it covers only a very specific test case so be very sure to read everything carefully.

NOTES:

1. This version works only with 4.02.13_G baseband version and can be run on 1.0.2, 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken systems
2. If your iPhone came with 4.02.13_G (aka 1.1.2) OUT OF THE BOX then do NOT use this unlock yet.
* It hasn't been tested with bootloaders other than BOOT03.09_M3S2
* Some very new U.K. iPhones come out of the box with BOOT04.06_M3S2.
* If you're in doubt, check the output of bbupdater -v or go into minicom and issue at+xgendata

Just so you know, this isn't made by the iPhone Dev Team and won't work with UK or German iPhones.

Patrick Moberg & Camille Hayton in NYGirlofMyDreams

With the recent writer's strike and all, television schedules are being messed up and viewers are left staring at a blank screen. Ok, you can almost always catch something on TV, but it seems that unscripted live reality internet drama is where everyone's at.

How it started

While travelling on the subway, a young man named Patrick Moberg saw the girl of his dreams. Eager to stalk track her down, he created a highly viral website designed to keep us guessing at the identity and appearance of mystery girl.

Enter NYGirlofMyDreams.com, which Mr Patrick "Not insane" Moberg setup to help in his quest for the girl known to him only as Rosy Cheeks.


Rosy cheeks, not insane

A minor setback followed by the revelation

Unfortunately for Patrick, while the sketch was very detailed and informative, his doodling skills aren't quite up to standard. It turns out that mystery girl worked at BlackBook Magazine but it wasn't only until later that an intern there made the great discovery. On 11/07/07, 1:18 p.m., Blackbook reveals mystery girl to the world.


Found her!


The mystery girl, Camille "Rosy cheeks" Hayton

And the rest as they say is history, except that the drama continues as we speak. :)

Follow the NYGirlofMyDreams drama online at

• NYGirlofMyDreams
• Patrick Moberg’s Crush is BlackBook’s Camille Hayton! @ BlackBook Magazine
  
• Camille, and Her Runaway Train @ BlackBook Magazine
• Patrick Moberg's "Dream Girl" Is A Homeless Immigrant @ Gawker
• Patrick Moberg And Camille Hayton Go On 'GMA' To Viral-Market Love @ Gawker

There are probably a zillion other links if you care to look. :) For those that do stumble upon other interesting links, just jump in anytime.

The 1.1.2 iPod Touch Daring & Successful Jailbreak!

Hot off the press: 1.1.2 iPod touch Jailbroken--before its official release! @ TUAW reports that well, I guess the title says it all. :)

So maybe all the doom and gloom about 1.1.2 was unsubstantiated after all. And just a tip, this jailbreak comes from the folks behind AppSnapp, the easiest jailbreak solution so far, so keep watching AppSnapp for updates.


Edit: With the 1.1.2 secpack found, a 1.1.2 unlock is likely to be just around the corner.

Also see OktoPrep released via Installer, TouchFree jailbreak for iPhone 1.1.2 @ VentureCake.

Another thread to keep track of - 1.1.2 is now available @ ModMyiFone - plenty of info and the vfdecrypt key for the 1.1.2 root fs image was also quietly released to the world. I believe this allows decryption of the 1.1.2 firmware according to what I've read.

iNdependence 1.3 beta 2 + Bad IMEI Fix-it tutorial

Offtopic: Just a quick note about the new iNdependence and a bad IMEI fix-it guide. And in case you missed it, 1.1.2 is already out. Like 1.1.1, 1.1.2 is likely to take some time for iPhone hackers to crack, so I'm not expecting much updates for the weekend.

iNdependence 1.3 beta 2

A new beta of iNdependence is out and the main changes appear to be ringtones and integration with the MobileDevice library. Just a reminder: iNdependence 1.3 beta doesn't work with the new 1.1.2 firmware.

The Operator says

1.3 beta 2 is out. Please see the README file with it before you do anything else. In order to run it, you must first copy the MobileDevice library from iTunes 7.4.2 into the application bundle using the iNdependence MobDev Tool. Instructions for this are in the README file. This allows you to have any version of iTunes installed and not worry about breaking iNdependence. The major feature for this release is the MeCCA patch to enable custom ringtones to be placed in the system ringtones directory on the phone. I'll be releasing a standalone patcher application very soon. CHANGELOG for beta 2 is here.

Changes:

v1.3 beta 2 (Big Rock) - 11/08/07

- Added MeCCA patch to 1.1.1 jailbreak process to allow for addition of custom ringtones to the System ringtone directory (/Library/Ringtones)
- Removed the ability to add ringtones to the User ringtone directory as it's too buggy (left in the ability to delete them though)
- Since the version of the MobileDevice framework which comes with iTunes 7.5 doesn't allow for jailbreak, I've added the ability to include MobileDevice as a dylib directly in the application bundle. This makes it so that people can upgrade to iTunes 7.5 (or later) and not have to worry about breaking iNdependence.
- Created "iNdependence MobDev Tool" which allows people to copy the MobileDevice library directly into iNdependence now (removing any dependence on the version of iTunes installed). This is now required in order to run iNdependence.
- Updated the documentation a bit.

Here are the readme and changelog for iNdependence 1.3 beta 2.

Get iNdependence 1.3 beta 2 here.

Bad IMEI Fix-it tutorial

Mark has added a new guide to his ever growing collection of iPhone guides - How to repair the 004999010640000 IMEI problem @ Hack the iPhone. Like the rest of his tutorials, there are more than enough pictures for you to enjoy. :)