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So your shiny new iPhone is sitting there looking at you. Can’t you just hear it whispering, “Unlock me…Unlock me…Unlock me…”? What do you do? How do you unlock your iPhone? What if you don’t want to use AT&T, the official carrier, for your iPhone service?

The choices today are many. Do any Google search for “unlock iPhone” and you are met with hack after hack, software after software, all claiming to be the best way to unlock your iPhone. Dig a little deeper, and you discover tutorials all talking about jailbreaking, preparing the phone for the software, firmware patches, unlocking the SIM-lock, and more.

It is all very complicated stuff, especially when you find out that you may have to unlock your iPhone all over again every time Apple decides to do a baseband flashing or upgrade. Can you imagine being right in the middle of the most important call of your life, and your iphone locks back up? What if you are transmitting crucial data to someone at that moment? Is it a chance you want to take? If this happens to you, you will need to download more software to restore your iPhone back the way it was, and then go through the unlocking procedure all over again.

You see, a lot of the hacks work on a firmware-patch. This patch bypasses the unlock part of your iPhone so that it does not realize it is still, essentially, locked. It no longer tells itself that you need to unlock it to use it. These firmware-patches are considered temporary unlocks, and are often rendered useless by baseband flashing or upgrades.

Another type of hack to unlock your iPhone is called a direct unlock. This type of hack is more permanent. It works on IPFS software to replace your iPhone’s lockdata with essentially blank data. In some cases you may be able to get the unlock codes you need, and this hack can feed it the correct unlock codes to unlock it. This hack is not affected by baseband upgrades, and supposedly leaves no trace of the hacking. But you are still messing with hacking your iPhone, which carries risks of its own.

What risks? Any time you use hacks on your iPhone, there is a possibility of causing permanent damage to your iPhone. It would be such a shame to lose your brand new iPhone before you ever even got to use it, wouldn’t it?

If you damage it, or if you ever need service on your iPhone, you will need to restore your phone back to its unhacked state, and re-install the factory AT&T SIM before you take it in for service. Why? Hacking it VOIDS your warranty! Plus, do you really want to tell Apple that you illegally unlocked your iPhone?

So is there a legal and safe way to unlock your iphone AND use a different carrier besided AT&T? The great news is, YES! Your easy solution is to head on over to TheiPhoneDVD and grab the iPhone DVD! The iPhone DVD is the ultimate accessory package for your new iPhone, and includes legal software to unlock your iPhone without hacks or breaking it. When unlocked, you can use any mobile carrier you like to provide your iPhone service!

Why take the risks and hassles associated with iPhone hacks, when you can unlock your iPhone and get a massive iPhone entertainment package to boot, with The iPhone DVD? It’s the clear choice.

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WOW! How can you choose? The long awaited release of the Apple iPhone 3G, with it’s open support for third party applications, showered us with hundreds of new choices in iPhone software and iPhone applications. The iTunes App Store opened with over 500 authorized applications. They ran the gamut from just fun stuff to business to travel to the weather to highly scientific applications and everything else in between. And that was just opening day! New iphone applications are being developed and released as we speak. So picking the top 4 iPhone software and applications is a tough call. But we’ll give it a go, just so you’ll be in the know about the latest!

Our Top Pick is an entire set of iPhone software and iPhone applications all on one DVD. It’s the ultimate entertainment package from TheiPhoneDVD. How anyone ever got this much stuff into one DVD is a feat in itself, but it works! And you get to enjoy the results of their hard work. Check it out:

You get the best software on the market today to convert your DVD movies to your iPhone. Converting your movies is quick and easy with their one-touch graphical interface. It just cannot get any easier than this. You can convert your entire library of DVD movies to iPhone movies in record time. Need a break? Watch your favorite movies right on your iPhone.

Another software on The iPhone DVD solves your dilemma regarding how to unlock your iPhone safely, legally, and without having to use AT&T for your carrier if you don’t want to. Using this iPhone software, you can connect to any mobile carrier service you desire.

The iPhone DVD also carries the largest collection on the planet of iPhone wallpapers, ringtones, graphics, animations, sound effects, and video clips. With this package, your days of being bored even for a minute are in the past.

Put some pizazz into your life with The iPhone DVD!

Our next 3 Top Picks are some of the new iPhone applications from the iTunes App Store.

One of the newest rages on the Net is Twitter. People all over the world are following each other on Twitter, and getting a big kick out of it. Therefore, Twitterific is our top pick from the iTunes App Store. With this iPhone application you can continue your twittering right from your iPhone!

Another fun iPhone application from the iTunes App Store is PhoneSaber. This cool application turns your iPhone into a light saber. You even get sound effects! Enjoy the fun and excitement of Star Wars wherever you may roam with PhoneSaber.

Our last pick combines the memories of yesteryear with today’s high tech lifestyle. It’s the Rotary Dialer iPhone application from the iTunes App Store. This application turns your iPhone into a rotary dialer. Dial your calls the old-fashioned way, and bring back the good times, with the Rotary Dialer.

So that’s your Top 4 iPhone software and applications.

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One way that you can really make your iPhone unique is through customizing your iPhone ring tones.

There are actually eight ways that you can get free iPhone ring tones. If you want to personalize the way your iphone rings then you can quite simply do this by following either if the methods below.

For these methods you will require Jailbreak

Option A

If you want to use old wav sound pages from 1999 then can be changed into a format that your iphone will understand before syncing. IBrickr is what you would use because it will transcode the files Finally a new windows application that will let you add your customized iPhone ring tones then manage them

Option B You can use anything that the ipod that is on your iphone supports. For example you could use either protected or unprotected AACs. Then you could also use Mp3s or M4As. Whatever you have or whichever you choose. Once you have decided then you drop the compatible ringtone into the/Library/Ringtones directory. This is utilizing SSH/File Transfer.

Option C For The iFuntastic v3 you no longer have to keep switching between unfailing and rejailing so once you have unshackled your fantastic? . All you do is just drag them into the correct folder which would be the Library Ringtones folder. This is the same as the Ssh/File transfer option.

Option D This is a really simple method is you use AppTapp to Sendsong. It will show you how to take any song you want from you ipod and simply move it into your ringtones section.

For the next four methods you won’t have to use jailbreak

Option E If you have songs that you have converted to AAC format or even some itunes that you purchased you can place these into the proper iTunes Ringtones folder provided it has the right file extensions.

Option F You can use any editor to make AAC ringtones. Then obtain the free software MakiPhoneRintone. Then all you have to do is drag and drop the iPhone ringtones onto the application. Then all that is left to do is sync your Iphone.

Option G This one is not free but has a minimal cost currently at $15. This application will bypass the itunes and copy the ringtones to your iphone. Go to iToner for this software. This is a mac application.

Option H If you use efksoft software its really simple to get your new ringtones. This application allow you edit your tunes so you can get them to the perfect size to transfer. This is a windows application.

Option I iPhoneRingToneMaker (Windows): Transfers ringtones to your iPhone, but lets you edit them beforehand in its editor so you can chop down long songs to a manageable clip

This give you a good selection of options and they all work quite well. Of course which you choose will depend on whether it is Mac or Windows you require. They are all straightforward to use, and those with applications will walk you through the process.

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In the last few years, spyware has become very sophisticated. The sick people who write this software, do so to steal information about you. They are out to get your social security number, passwords, banking information and more! Viruses are another concern and although they don’t spy on you they can get so deeply into your hard drive, only a reformat will make it usable again!

Today, it is not necessary to have both a virus scanner and a spyware scanner. In fact, when both programs are installed, the tend to get in each others way and slow down your computer’s operations. However, you should make sure you have an antivirus or spyware program installed that will take care of all the problematic spyware and viruses around today.

This article points out which viruses and spyware it is mandatory your spyware or virus cleaner is able to clean off your hard drive. Also, we’ll discuss what this awful stuff is capable of doing to a computer and even your financial well-being.

Spyware and Adware

The difference between spyware and adware is that adware wants information on you as a potential customer and spyware wants information about personal things no one should know except you. This information usually includes the likes of your banking information and passwords.

The word “malware”is a contraction of the words malicious and software. Some malware are viruses and others are types of spyware that are malicious. Some examples of malware are: trojans, keyloggers, browser hijackers, worms, phishing software, rootkits, and bots. You should be sure your spyware or virus remover is capable of getting rid of all of these.

Rootkits, worms and trojans are types of viruses. Keyloggers, browser hijackers, phishing ware and bots are types of spyware. It is spyware that is most times is interested in stealing your personal information.

Sometimes a virus and spyware will team up on a computer or worse, the computer owner. For instance, a worm will be attached to a rootkit. The rootkit is capable of working its way into your computer’s operating system and then the worm will unleash its terror on your computer.

What Spyware Leaves Behind

So, now we know we don’t need both spyware removers and antivirus programs installed on our computers. This leads us to believe we need a total one program to keep our computers running in tip top shape, but really there is one more piece of software we should have. When we remove spyware and/or viruses from our computers, we leave registry corruption in its wake. There are many other sources that create registry corruption, but this is one.

This means every computer should have a registry cleaner installed on it because when left alone, registry corruption will make your computer act a lot like some viruses and spyware make a computer act. This means the computer will lose speed and may crash frequently. A good registry scanner should be run once a month or so and after any malware has been removed.

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