Today i can declare with confidence about the fact that Apple iPhone unlocking can be done by average user without special tools. The only thing that care is the price.

And if such websites as UniquePhones and iPhoneSIMfree, for this moment only promise to release full manual of iPhone’s unlocking process in the Internet. One Lithuanian iPhone’s fan group today has started an official site where they offer three methods to unlock your iPhone.

First method is cloning of the SIM-card, second - a hardware unlock of iPhone and third - modification of an available SIM-card. The last variant does not contradict with Lithuanian laws, and therefore these smart guys freely offer to unlock your iPhone. They ask “only” $400 for unlocked iphone (not bad, future Bill Gate’s live in Lithuania), and guarantee, that after “unlocking” your device will be compatible to any mobile carrier.

It is necessary to note, that in Moscow the same procedure costs only two thousand Russian Roubles (it’s about $80).

As we know Apple iPhone offers many methods to send mail. It would huge step forward if Apple has managed to designe a single universall “compose email” button which would be placed in almost each application. But for this moment there are several different ways to create a new message across different applications:

* Compose Button. The compose button, which looks like a square with a pencil through it, appears at the bottom right of many Mail screens and in the SMS Text application at the top-right of the screen. The Reply/Forward button appears just to the left of the Compose icon in Mail. Tap this to reply to a message or forward it on to another party.

* Envelope Icon. In the Notes application, the envelope icon appears on the bottom of the page, to the left of the garbage can. Tap it to email the current note.

* Use-For Icon. The use-photo-for icon appears at the bottom left of the screen. It looks like a rectangle with an arrow jumping out of it-the arrow is basically a mirror of the Reply/Forward button. Tap this and select Email Photo from the pop-up menu.

* Share. You can share YouTube video and Safari URLs by email. Tap the Share button on the Information page in YouTube and in the navigate-to-URL screen in Safari. To find this in YouTube, tap the blue reveal button located to the right of the video name. In Safari, tap on the URL bar and then look up and to the left.

The main question here is: Why Apple has designed to use so many different methods to do essentially the same simple task - sending email? What do you think?

Erica Sadun, TUAW.com editor has created a utility to launch a single URL from a SpringBoard icon of iPhone’s menu. She has managed to develope so called URL Launcher kit. You can download this kit HERE and then customize it with your unique icon and URL address.

This is step-by-step manual to create your own home screen URL launcher.

Surf to the Natetrue’s Open URL page and download the OpenURL package Version 0.1. And follow this manual:

1. Unpack the OpenURL tar to retrieve the OpenURL.app bundle.
2. Inside the OpenURL.app folder, edit the icon.png file to reflect your brand identity. This icon appears on the home SpringBoard screen so make it look pretty and consistent with the overall look of the other icons.
3. Edit Info.plist with a unique string. It defaults to com.sadun.ReplaceThis. Change it to something different.
4. Edit url.txt and replace the current URL (http://waiterrant.net, a favorite of mine) with the URL you want to launch.
5. Rename OpenURL.app to the name you want to appear in SpringBoard, e.g. MyBrand.app.
6. Repackage the app and distribute.

The main idea: OpenURL tool look inside the url.txt file for a URL, then reads it in and launches Safari with this URL, that’s it.

I have to note that you cannot use openURL utility to bypass Safari’s 8 tabs limit. When 8 tabs are opened, Safari launches and displays an alert saying “Could not open a new page because there are too many pages open.” Tap OK to dismiss.”

Fortunately, the iPhone supports the NSBundle class. With it, you can tell it to look in the top-level folder of the bundle for a file named url with a txt extension:

basepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”url” ofType:@”txt” inDirectory:@”/”];

Once read in, use the whitespace and newline NSCharacterSet to trim any extraneous spaces and new lines from the edges of the URL:
urlstring = [[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:basepath encoding:1 error: error] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];

Finally, create an NSURL from that string and open it:

baseurl = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:urlstring];
[self openURL:baseurl];

Big thanks to TUAW