At the moment, this is the best way to unlock your iPhone on OSX. period. Why? Because it is fully restorable. How to do it? Well, just follow the steps below.

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes. Also click the date/time at the top right of your screen and open “date & time”

2. Look at the clock. At a certain moment, press and hold the power and home button on your iPhone. After *exactly* 10 seconds, release the power button and keep the home button pressed until the iPhone is recognized in iTunes. The iPhone screen will be black.

3. Restore your iPhone to firmware version 1.1.4 by holding the option/alt button on your keyboard and pressing restore in iTunes. You’ll see a Finder window. Select the 1.1.4 firmware ipsw and hit OK.

4. Wait till the firmware has been installed. iTunes will show a wrong SIM message, or an activate now message. Close iTunes when you see that message. Also close the iTunesHelper with Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor).

5. Download iPlus 2.0 and extract the zip file to your desktop. If you don’t have librreadline installed, copy libreadline.5.2.dylib from the iPlus1.2 folder to /opt/local/lib/ on the root (not in another folder) of your hard disk. If those folders don’t exist, you need to create them (right click in Finder, new folder, create the folder opt, inside that folder a folder local and inside that one a folder lib)

6. Launch a terminal window (Applictaion/Utilities/Terminal) and type:

cd /Users/your account/Desktop/’iPlus 2.0′

7. Then type in ./iplus -u

8. Wait a few minutes. After about 5 minutes, you’ll see your iPhone boot up and the slide to unlock window. Do not slide it yet, but wait another tow minutes. The iPhone will restart twice after about 2 minutes

9. After that restart, slide to unlock, read the nice message and enjoy your unlocked iPhone!

CREDITS:

I didn’t write iPlus, aviegas did (so don’t forget to press the thumbs up on this post if you have a hackint0sh account: http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showpost.php?p=245367&postcount=1)!

If you want to view the videos on hulu.com, or on sites that embed hulu videos outside the United States you’ll get the following message:

If you want to view them, you either need to move to the states or use a slow proxy, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. You can view those video’s at normal speeds (aka. about the same as you max internet speed) with a free program called Hotspot Shield. The name may sound a little bit strange in this context, and it isn’t made for this purpose, though it works perfectly. Hotspot Shield will create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which prevents hulu to see that you’re outside the sites, while it doesn’t decrease your internet connetion speed! To install it, just follow the instructions on http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/ and you’ll be able to see those hulu videos within a few minutes!

And as you maybe already guessed, this works for all US-only sites (so you can finally use Pandora again)!

The times of slow internet connections are over and webmasters don’t have to worry about long loading times anymore. This means that background music becomes more popular. Sometimes you hear a song you like on a site, but you don’t know how the song is called and/or can’t find it anywhere on the world wide web. If the song is embedded with a Flash file, or if the whole site is Flash, most people think that it’s impossible to download the song because they can’t find a link to it. In this post I’ll prove the opposite. I’ll use the website 3121.com/jam/. It’s Prince’s official website, which features a new Jam of the Week every week. Since I’m a big fan I want the songs on my iPhone, but there isn’t a download link on the site! The following steps allow me to download the song, without a download link.

1. Download the web browser Safari (OSX or Windows) and start it.

2. Browse to the site with the embedded song (in this example: 3121.com/jam/)

3. In Safari’s toolbar, click Window > Activity

4. Scroll to the mp3 file, if there’s more than one, use common sense in combination with the file size and file name to find the right one. Double click it.

5. If the download starts automatically, the song will appear in your downloads folder, if it opens Quicktime, hit the little arrow and select safe as source. If it does something else, copy paste the URL in Firefox and go to file > save as.

That’s it! This little trick works for all embedded things (youtube video’s, background music, vodcasts, podcasts etc.)

If you know a better way, please leave a comment, though I think that this beats al youtube download pages (since it won’t go down after 2 days)