Archive for December, 2006

Thanks to the U.S. Copyright Office, we are now allowing unlocking tools to be posted on the Knowledge Base. Feel free to post links to unlocking tools (anyone can edit the Knowledge Base), or send us a link and we’ll host them on our server.

Our forums excellent and seamless look-and-feel is back online. Many thanks to MrM for burning some holiday oil to update the UI for the latest version of our forum software.
PhoneNews.com Forums

As you may have noticed, the logo for PhoneNews.com has been absent. We worked really hard to avoid this from happening. Unfortunately, the people we hired to do the logo simply vanished. We never received any logo and we certainly don’t have any plans on paying them for the job at this [...]

Early this morning we rolled out Joomla 1.0.12. This is the last update to Joomla 1.0 (barring any security patches) before Joomla 1.5, which is a good sign we’ll be able to deploy that soon. Some work has been made on switching over to PHP5, that should be done within the next 48 [...]

We’ll be taking the day off tomorrow for Christmas. News coverage will resume mid-day on the 26th.
And while some have trouble saying it, Merry Christmas from everyone at PhoneNews.com!

Early this morning we updated our forums (to IPB version 2.2.1 if you’re keeping count). This version has some major improvements, but it also broke our forum’s look-and-feel. So, the forums are going to be very un-aesthetically pleasing for the next few days while we tweak and update the files. All forum [...]

A bunch of late night work has gone into the Knowledge Base. We’ve dramatically cut the remaining phone backlog down to a comfortable level. Also, references to PCS Intel have almost been completely removed (yes, that quickly).
But there have been a lot of behind-the-scene changes that have been implemented. For example, all phone [...]

PhoneNews.com has been fully launched, and we’re finally caught up on lost sleep. The only thing currently out-of-whack is the logo. We worked hard to have a logo ready for launch, but the people we hired to do the job simply have vanished. So, no new logo as of yet. But, [...]

Yes, the new name for our site will be PhoneNews.com. We did let this leak out for about an hour a few weeks back, but we pulled the release because we didn’t want the prying eyes of our competitors attempting to pull any Googlerific tricks. We’ll be launching in a little over 48 [...]

We’ve been told to expect support for IPB 2.2 later this week. We’ll put the code into testing just as soon as we get it. With any luck, we’ll be able to roll out updated forums this week.
This update isn’t so much revolutionary as it is evolutionary. It includes a new text [...]