It’s been an extremely slow day for gadget news, so I decided to jailbreak my iPhone today (or, rather, Neal’s iPhone). I decided to use iFuntastic, recommended by TUAW. If you have your iPhone plugged in before opening iFuntastic, it immediately recognizes it and all all you have to do is click on “Unshackle”, then follow directions. I installed the BSD Subsystem since many third party apps require it, then I got to the fun part and installed Pool, and Twinkle. I kept getting an error with Labyrinth, but it eventually installed. If you do get an error, try “Clear Queue”, then try again. Sometimes that helps.
I’ll be playing and testing with it, and will keep you updated! Remember, jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch voids the warranty and the geniuses will not help you!
Our lease ends in a week on May 21st. We haven’t found the right Geek Brief Mobile yet, so we’re going to have to find a temporary place to live while we continue to look.
This Brief is an update on our goal to take the show on the road. Friends of GBTV keep pointing us toward the super cool CNN Election Express Bus. It’s a mobile news bureau/studio and it’s very cool.
Right now, we’re looking at three very different buses. One is a 1985 Eagle that is very inexpensive but would require quite a bit of work. One is a 1995 VanHool that is nicely converted, but has some red flags. One is a well-maintained 1998 Prevost with low mileage.
We think of what we do as Open Source media. Taking the Brief mobile for a couple years is a big goal and viewers are rallying around the project. Companies are too. Like everything we do in comparison to big media, we think we can do something as cool as the CNN thing for a small fraction of the cost.
This episode is sponsored by Beck’s Beer. It doesn’t have a pre-roll. At the end of the brief, I invite beer aficionados to visit becksbeer.com and talk about a really cool job opportunity. Beck’s is looking for an official blogger. Info about that is available at becks.com.
