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Unlocking iPhone 4

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If you want to unlock your iPhone 4, try Gevey. This is what worked for me eventually. It is an ingenious hack where you hardware patch your SIM card.

The nice part of it is you don’t touch the s/w so it doesn’t void your warranty and doesn’t anger CuperGods.

he bad part of it is each time you reboot the phone, you have to do a 20 second song and dance to make it work. (See the instructional video). It is a minor irritant, but the upside is great.

My wife is using it on Airtel 3G in India and it works just fine.

Making Blekko the default search engine for Chrome browser

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Launch Preferences window.  Click on “Manage” next to Default Search page.

Click on the + sign at the bottom of the “Search Engines” window.

Setup blekko as the search engine like this:

Select “blekko” in the Search Engines screen and choose “Make Default”.

Done.

Restoring iOS 3.1.3 on your iPhone 3G running iOS4

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I upgraded my iPhone 3G phone to iOS 4 and it was dog slow.  All apps launched very slow, startup was slow, keyboard got insanely slower.  In short, it was useless.

After fighting for a few hours, I was able to go back to iOS 3.1.3.  I documented the experience at Hacker News here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463146

Do this at your own risk.  If you have any questions post them here or at HN, I will try to answer.  I am not responsible for what you do your phone :) .

Life hacker has a better guide here.

http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3g[s]-from-ios-4-to-ios-313