I’ve seen fast, but this takes the cake.

The guy behind ZiPhone, the turnkey app that simplied iPhone unlocking and put it within the reach of everyone for free (and putting lots of would-be hack-trepreneurs out of business in one fell swoop), claims that his software can already do the same for the new iPhone 3G on his blog ZiPhone Status. We don’t know how he can do that, given that the new iPhone won’t be out until July 11, but we’ve seen stranger things before.

Zibri himself said on the blog on a post dated June 10 that he was still waiting to get his hands on the 2.0 software and a unit, but two days later posts that he’s already patched and unlocked the firmware baseband. He also says all the carriers are supported already (and even adds our own Globe Telecom to his long list).

We’ll see. In the meantime we’ll order a large grain of salt to go, please.

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It’s way possible now.

The technology that will eventually allow you to play Warcraft on your new iPhone is called Interactive 3D Streaming, being developed by Comverse and Intel, which takes out the CPU burden from the mobile device and just streams the good stuff to it.

The hurdle is that MMORPGs like WoW and Second Life require lots of horsepower and number crunching from the CPU and the graphics chips to do what they do. The new technology does all the heavy lifting on their backend server, and then just streams it to the gamer via WiMax or 3G via a gateway designed by Comverse. (Aren’t you glad iPhones do 3G now?)

Can’t wait.

More on Comverse 3D Streaming here.

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Goes to show we don’t know everything.

Dunno if you knew this already, but the Doodler didn’t until he stumbled on it on Mactips.org.

You can do basic arithmetic by just entering the equation into the little Spotlight window on the upper right corner of your screen, as in “1+1″, and it will promptly spit out the answer. No need to call up the dashboard widget or access the Calculator app that we all  keep handy on the dock.

It works for addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), division (/) and calculating exponents (^) and factorials (!).

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Next up is Airport Base Station Update 2008-002, which

includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications:

- AirPort Utility
- AirPort Base Station Agent”

As to what these fixes and compatibility updates actually are, we certainly won’t know from Software Update. It doesn’t even link to a Knowledge Base article on the Apple website. (We’ll look it up for you.)

The update will fix what’s pertinent to your system. In the Doodler’s case it just updated Airport Utility to Version 5.3.2, a 10.5mb download.

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Two more fresh updates available on Software Update, which show up after you update Quicktime to yesterday’s 7.5 release.

One is iDVD 7.0.2, a 21.9mb download on Leopard 10.5.3. (Your mileage could vary.) Apple’s ever-helpful notes tell us what this update is for:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

The other one is iMovie 7.1.2, a 19.3mb download. Apple also talks about this one:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

Gee, thanks for the info.

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