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Beer O’Clock iPhone app will rock your weekend!

Saturday, hence I’ll take the opportunity to rant about a neat, yet quite useless iPhone app called Beer O’Clock. This one’s definitely not designed to increase your productivity — rather it’s made to remind you how much time is left till your next beer. Hmm, in that sense it can actually do something to help you achieve more every day, right?

Here’s what the developer behind the app has to say about its work:

It’s always 5 O’Clock somewhere, right? Everyone says so, but now you can actually back it up. Beer O’Clock shows you a countdown to 5pm in your local timezone as well as a world map with an indicator of where in the world the 5pm drinking session is just getting underway. One click away is a list of countries in the timezone currently celebrating 5pm. So count the minutes until the start of your local happy hour or call it quits early and have a beer at lunch, like they’re doing right now 1/4 world away.

Again, nothing useful here and I wonder is it worth paying a buck ($0.99) for it. If I was working at some beer company I would license Beer O’Clock, brand it and offer the app as a free download. Now that would be something!

[Via: JustAnotherIphoneBlog]
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Important note for users of iPhone firmware v2.2.1 and Yellowsn0w iPhone 3G unlock hack

The iPhone Dev Team, creators of countless jailbreak and unlock programs for the iPhone, have announced that the recently released iPhone firmware v2.2.1 contains some code that hinders the operation of Yellowsn0w, their unlock program for the iPhone 3G.

Acccording to them: “Yellowsn0w will NOT work with the baseband version (02.30.03) that is present in the recent 2.2.1 update. If you want to use Yellownsn0w you will need to create and restore using a custom .ipsw that will allow you to update safely to 2.2.1 without applying the 02.30.03 baseband update. You’ll then have a 3G iPhone running 2.2.1 with an older baseband version that is still vulnerable to yellowsn0w, following these steps ensures that yellowsn0w will still operate.”

And if you want to grab an older version of iPhone firmware for this purpose, you can do so here.

[Thanks: http://www.iphoneworld.ca]