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Hey guys,

This won't mean jack squat to most of you but I've managed (with the help of the iPod Touch dev team) to boot the iPhone in restore verbose mode which will hopefully give us some insight into what we can do to crack the new firmware.

I trained my trusty Canon XH A1 HD videocamera at it with a high shutter speed to make sense of the quickly passing images. Check out the video and stills below.

I'll go through and translate it by hand to make things clearer.

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So the new iPhone 1.1.3 firmware allows you to put icons on your home screen for websites, but I know many of us want to put phone numbers on there for a Speed Dial screen.

I've put a little hack together that lets you have a (somewhat) speedy speed dial icon. There's no jailbreaking required for this one - it can all be done using Apple-approved Web Clip creation.

Check the images below for a walkthrough.

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I *REALLY* think I lied

The patents for the iPhone2 (and firmware 2.0) are out.As you can see from the images above, FLASH andWindowsMedia content will be finally supported.In figure 53D you can also see how thenew welcome screen will look like.Again there is nothing in the patent aboutan embedded GPS (as I previously said).External bluetooth GPS will be supported andmanaged by the "locationd" daemon.You can browse the patent HERE.

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For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want to spruce our old friend Santa up with technology. His sleigh only runs on what I assume is 8 horsepower, after all. Let's give him an upgrade.

Your task is to upgrade Santa Claus with technology. Come up with your best images and email them to me at contests@gizmodo.com with "Upgraded Santa" in the subject line. Save your images as JPGs, PNGs or GIFs, and save your files named as FirstnameLastname.jpg using the name you want to be credited with.

On Tuesday, I'll go through the entries, pick three winners and then post the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

Tagi: pngs, santa claus, old friend, horsepower, ly, subject line, 21st century, images