If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called...

For Part 1 of this post, click here. for Part 2, click here, for part 3, click here, and for part 4, click here, or just scroll down the home page. No, I haven’t finished the edits to Harry Potter’s Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures . But I’m making good pro...

For Part 1 of this post, click here. for Part 2, click here, or just scroll down on the home page. I went to the library tonight to pick up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on CD (I am driving to Connecticut tomorrow for a Zossima Press lunch and to sit in on a class at Yale; they’re readin...

If you want to own an iPhone, but don’t want to switch your cell phone service over to AT&T you may have another option. iPhoneUnlocking.com claims to have created iPhone unlocking software for the 3G iPhone that unlocks the firmware up to the current version 2.2. Supposedly the software c...

When I describe the influence of Jane Austen on Joanne Rowling to lecture audiences, my pet phrase is that a good way for them to understand the Harry Potter novels is as “Pride and Prejudice with wands.” This hyperbole is more true than not because (1) the Hogwarts Adventures feature na...

And it shows, believe it or not, in his policy statements. Read about how serious he is in following Potter stories in the Daily Telegraph story from 2007, Barack Obama Under the Harry Potter Spell . I’m pretty sure this is credible (as opposed to the campaign claim that President Garfield cou...

On Thursday last week I was doing my final prep for heading to India. One issue remained. How to use my 3G iPhone in India. While I always have a trusty Nokia as backup I wanted the freedom to choose. To my knowledge the iPhone is the only phone AT&T won’t unlock for you if you are traveli...

We brought you a pic of the Dev Team's iPod touch 2g "redsn0w" jailbreak yesterday, and just as the team promised, a video proving the hack works was up and ready for viewing today. As with the yellowsn0w video we showed you last month, this video was brought to us by Dev Team member Muscle Nerd. re...

Satire is hard to do in gaming, but when it’s done right, the results hit the right spot on the funny bone. In this case, Armored Games’ Achievement Unlocked pokes fun atachievement......

Most of the problems with yellowsn0w—the free iPhone 3G unlock program—have been worked out. I have Yellowsn0w 0.9.6 installed and it works like a charm, no problems whatsoever. Other people report the same. [Gizmodo Coverage]...