Key features include:

• iTunes synchronization with BlackBerry Media Sync: Whether it’s a specific iTunes playlist or a random mix of tunes, it’s easy to sync the music from your Mac computer to your BlackBerry smartphone.
• Sync your contacts and appointments: Your contacts, calendar, appointments, tasks and notes can be synchronized with popular Mac applications.
• Easily backup, restore and add and remove applications: Transfer data between BlackBerry smartphones, back up and restore information manually or automatically, and add or remove applications.

We shall be doing a detailed review after a few days till the updates are rolled out.

To accomplish this, I first disabled Spotlight indexing on my hard disk:

sudo mdutil -i off /

Then, with root permissions, I opened /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/VolumeConfig.plist and edited it. I changed partialPath toUsers/myusername/Library/Mail (note the lack of a leading slash), and policySearch to 3.

You can also copy the whole block describing the index (it has a long UUID string for its key, and then the dictionary that goes with it describes partialPath andpolicySearch), and change the UUID (use uuidgen in Terminal) to add additional paths that you want indexed. When you’re done, save changes to the file, then restart mds:

sudo launchctl stop com.apple.metadata.mds

Now that you’ve set up the new indexes, you should be able to control them using mdutil:

mdutil -sv ~/Library/Mail

Use caution however, as you may undo your work if you run mdutil -i on /.

SONY PSP iPhone Case : $20 for the cover and another $7 for the PSP Controller

Retro Mac Cover

Reyna Perez has embraced the concept of digital collaboration with her self-titled EP. She recorded each song in Brooklyn on acoustic guitar at a home studio and emailed the tracks to producer Michael Maurice (Curio Sound) in Denver. Over the course of 2 months, Maurice mastered her songs into full fledged productions using Logic software and his own instruments. “I’ve given them a warm analogue sound, without using any actual analogue equipment; it’s a testament to the times, and I’m very happy with the results,” says Maruice.

The final mixes arrived via ftp on Friday, June 17th, the same day the iphone 3GS hit the streets. Video producer Ari Kuschnir, Reyna’s fiancee, purchased the iPhone after a two hour wait, made shorter by listening to the tracks. Hearing the new music and playing with 3GS, he had an idea. Why not debut Reyna with the first iPhone music video? “It became clear that the phone’s camera quality was good enough to shoot a music video. It seemed fitting for the project.”

Over the next few days, the plan and the team came together. Within a week, through a series of collaborations much like the mastering of Reyna’s EP, the video was complete.

Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect.

Push notifications As soon as a Growl notification pops up on your Mac, Prowl will forward it to your iPhone or iPod Touch over the push notification service found in iPhone OS 3.0. Which notifications are pushed is configurable, allowing only the important messages to be delivered.

While the list of features is really not over the limit but frankly it is enough for everyday use.

Prowl also features a small but excellent selection of sounds which can be played when your push notifications arrive.

Yes it really is just that simple!

The possibilities really are endless: You can be pinged with a push notification when a torrent finishes downloading, you get a new IM or email, you’re mentioned on Twitter, or anything else Growl can notify you about.

The cost for all this $3 only. Yes that is a lot less for an App

Putting a camera in the iPod touch, which uses the same operating system as the iPhone, is a logical next step for Apple. But the order size is supposedly so large that some people in Taiwan are speculating that Apple may be planning to put cameras in the lower end of the iPod line, too. “Everything but the Shuffle may have a camera in it soon,” says TechCrunch’s source.

In another news DigiTimes reports that Taiwanese firm Foxlink is currently developing micro projectors for use in mobile phones, with Apple being one of the companies expected to launch devices with built-in projectors later this year. The projectors would allow the iPhone and possibly the iPod touch to directly project video output onto an external surface.Foxlink has long been a supplier for the iPhone and iPod, providing the proprietary connectors used in many of Apple’s devices.

International brand vendors, including Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Apple, reportedly all plan to launch handsets with built-in micro projectors by the end of this year, indicated the sources, adding that Foxlink is likely to benefit from the emerging trend due to its strong business relationships with Nokia and Apple.

“For example, the ability to fully view or interact with the electronic media device while still inside the packaging is severely limited in most packaging designs,” Apple says. “In addition, typical packaging designs do not enable the electronic media device or devices housed within the packaging to present content (e.g., media content or advertising) while inside the packaging and without draining battery power. Other functionality, such as firmware or software upgrades, are also typically not available while the electronic media device is housed within the product packaging (e.g., at a retail location). This is primarily due to the inability to provide external power or data to the device while still housed within the packaging.”

To solve this problem, Apple proposes what it calls “active packaging,” or retail packaging that provides “power, data, or both power and data to one or more electronic media devices housed within the packaging. The power may be provided by a direct power connection to an external power supply or by one or more wireless power techniques. A data signal may be provided by one or more direct data lines to the electronic media device within the packaging, or the electronic media device may enable an integrated wireless network interface to receive a data stream while housed in the packaging.”

Named “purplera1n,” the unlocking software is Windows-only. Hotz says a jailbreak for Mac is “coming shortly.” Here is the file  in case you cannot find it at the above site.” purplera1n“

Hotz’s application requires an iPhone 3GS running the 3.0 OS, and the latest version of iTunes — 8.2. Hotz warns that the unlock is beta and to back up the iPhone before running it.

Jailbreaking is not unlocking, a different, distinct process that frees the iPhone from the current carrier and makes it available for use with other wireless networks.

Hotz gained fame in 2007 when he became the first person to unlock the original iPhone. Using a combination of software and hardware hacks, the then 17-year-old tried to sell the hacked iPhone on eBay, but pulled the auction when jokers raised the bid price to more than $100 million.

He shortly traded the unlocked iPhone for three locked iPhones and a Nissan 350Z with Terry Daidone, founder of Certicell, a phone repair company in Louisville, KY.

How to Jailbreak

The process was amazingly simple. Using a Windows netbook – it doesn’t work under Windows 7 – I simply installed iTunes and ran purplera1n. It took a second to reboot then it rolled through recovery mode, rebooted, and an app called Freeze appeared. Freeze then installed Cydia and all was right with the world.

Here’s how to do it.

1. Find a Windows PC.
2. Install iTunes.
3. Download purplera1n.
4. Run purplera1n.
5. Wait.
6. Run Freeze.
7. Reboot.

Now you’re jailbroken. To run OpenSSH simply install the OpenSSH package in Cydia and ssh to your iPhone with root/alpine login/pass combination.

UPDATE

Now there’s a Mac-based jailbreak solution for the 3GS, Purplera1n RC2a has been released for the Mac. iPhoneHacks.com has posted a detailed step-by-step of the process.

If simply jailbreaking your iPhone isn’t enough and you feel compelled to unlock your shiny new iPhone 3GS too, there’s an app for that. If you’ve jailbroken via Purplera1n RC2a you can use the iPhone Dev Team’s UltraSn0w to unlock an iPhone 3GS (video).

The Loop has confirmed that if your iPhone has a broken screen and you take it to an Apple retail relocation, they have the capability to fix it on the spot. The machine (think big suction cup), which is located out of customer view in the back of the store, reportedly separates the iPhone from the screen, allowing a new one to be installed.

Of course, your screen doesn’t have to be completely smashed to need some sort of replacement done. Some users have reported dust particles on the inside of the screen as well.

All three models of the iPhone can have there screens replaced at a store under this program. Unfortunately, due to the way they are built, iPod touch screens cannot be replaced.

If your phone is under warranty and the screen needs to be replaced due a defect with the device, there is no cost to have the screen replaced at a retail store. However, if it’s not a warranty issue, the cost of having the screen replaced is $199.

The displays are the only warranty work being done in the retail stores these days. The stores also have to ability to fix or replace damaged audio components in the iPhone.

Of course, allowing its retail staff to fix minor issues in the store cuts down on the amount of time customers are potentially without their iPhones. That makes for some happy customers. This is one of the only in-house warranty repairs being done on iPhones. Not only that, but in the past, owners with broken screens either got a full phone replacement or nothing at all. Of course, if you’re outside of your warranty and don’t have AppleCare, then you’ll probably still find yourself out of luck. Still, knowing all the people we know who have shattered their screens, this is certainly welcome news for clumsy and not-so-clumsy iPhone owners alike.

If you decide you’d like to tackle the problem yourself, you can always follow Jeff Carlson’s DIY guide over at TidBITS.