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You know it’s only a matter of time before the latest iteration of the iPhone get unlocked. The Dev-Team is packaging the app — previously codenamed “yellowsn0w” — into a user-friendly app a la PwnageTool and QuickPwn, with the release date of December 31, 2008. The requirement for the hack is that your iPhone 3G has to have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier in order for it to work. The team will stream a live demo of the unlock process before Christmas, so keep an eye out for it if you have one and interested in unlocking it.

Reportedly, Walmart will offer $197 8GB version of the iPhone 3G starting on December 28, so go grab one to play around with if you’re so inclined. It does come with the obligatory 2-year contract, however.

With the official release of version 1 of Google Chrome, Google’s browser is now ready for prime time after 14 weeks of being in beta. With the quick adoption rate, claimed to be over 10 million active users worldwide, comes the equally growing concern of user’s privacy. With each installion, the browser creates a unique identifier that can be used to tracker user’s browsing habits. This is nothing new if you’re one of those people that are currently using Google toolbar.

Chrome has been praised for its speediness and unique features, like the ability to run each tabs as separate process, so if it crashes, only that tab need to be restarted and not the whole browser like the majority of browsers out there.

Concerns about what Google Chrome does with user data already spawned SRWare Iron, a browser based on the Chromium source code that strips various features like error and crash reporting, as well as the unique user identifier assigned to each install. If you’d prefer to run Google’s version of the browser but are still concerned about your privacy, you can also download and run UnChrome. It’s a free application that checks to see if you’ve got Chrome installed and then replaces the unique ID assigned to you with a null value.

So now that you’re (relatively) safer, give Chrome a try, if you haven’t already, and see how it fairs against your current browser of choice.

AdSense For Domains silently went live on Friday.  The company is opening up to ‘English-language AdSense publishers located in North America’ in phases, but says it will soon expand to other regions and languages as well. The program was previously reserved exclusively for owners of domain names with lot of traffic and hosting companies. If you have unused domains laying around, now you can earn some extra bucks by letting Google handle those parked domains.

In order to use the service, you have to agree to additional Term of Service before you’re taking to Setup tab. AFD requires that you edit DNS settings to point to Google servers. If you’re used to modifying domain settings, it will be a breeze. Otherwise, you might have some initial hiccups in setting it up. Google does offer some step-by-step guides that will guide you through the process though.

Depends on who you ask, this could be a good thing or a bad thing. Domain squattings has always been a pain for legitimate users looking to brand their products. With AFD, it’s another reason for them to continue doing so. On another hand, having an idle domain doing nothing is a waste, and while you’re waiting to build a business with the domain, having some extra cash to pay for hosting is a good idea. Just make sure you don’t get ban from Adsense for any reason though, otherwise all your domains will be banned as well.