Archive for March, 2008
MacBook Air Hacked in 2 Minutes
Charlie Miller, best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple’s iPhone last year, won an easy $10,000 and a MacBook Air Laptop in the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. “Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest’s organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then [...]
Singing Along with your iPod
Music and lyrics—these are equally important parts in the composition of a song. But while you can tap your foot or strum along with a tune on your air guitar, you can’t sing along if you don’t know the words. And how frustrating is that? Well not anymore because what I have here is a [...]
Front sided Camera for the 3G iPhone?
The co-host of The Screen Savers on Tech TV that later started Digg.com Kevin Rose says that he’s heard rumors that the next version of the iPhone is coming in the next few months, will incorporate 3G and also include a front-mounted video camera for video chat. Here is Kevin Rose’s video podcast Sounds good [...]
MacBook Air Critic changed his tune
” Apple’s most svelte laptop has generated much debate, as well as a good deal of criticism—much of the latter relating to Apple’s decision to focus on weight and thinness at the expense of traditional features. After using a MacBook Air, Dan Frakes has changed his tune. He’s now convinced the Air’s appeal goes beyond [...]
Apple’s Mac OS X turns 7!
Happy 7th Birthday Mac OS X! “ CUPERTINO, California—March 21, 2001—Apple today announced that beginning this Saturday, March 24, customers can buy Mac OS X in retail stores around the world. Mac OS X is the world’s most advanced operating system, combining the power and openness of UNIX with the legendary ease of use and [...]
Apple annouces WWDC 2008
“Every year Apple gathers its developers together at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to show them the most exciting upcoming technologies and how they can be used in their applications. Apple set June 9-13, 2008 for this year’s conference.” - read more Apple is offering 3 tracks for developers: iPhone, Mac, and IT. The iPhone [...]
Upcoming iPhone Firmware 2.0
Hackintosh already posted some screenshots and youtube videos of the upcoming iPhone Firmware 2.0. The new firmware will be released to the public in late June 2008 and will introduce the Exchange support as well as the iTunes App Store. The visible changes are: – Exchange Support – Appstore – Parental Controls – SDK Support [...]
iPhone SDK downloaded 100,000 times already?
“CUPERTINO, California—March 12, 2008—Apple® today announced that more than 100,000 iPhone™ developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6.” Read more about it here Wow, and I haven’t downloaded it yet, but its definitely on my to-do list today. Can’t wait to [...]
Intel close to unveiling 160GB solid state drives
“Intel Tuesday confirmed that it is close to unveiling a new line of solid-state drives for laptop and notebook PCs that will feature a storage capacity up to 160GB.” The Intel spokesman says that the chipmaker will introduce 1.5-inch and 2.5-inch solid state drives offering between 80GB and 160GB diskless storage during the second quarter [...]
ziphone 1.1.4 : no sounds, music, clicks, ringtones
ZiPhone 2.5c worked well, BUT all my installed apps were removed from home screen, but it’s still inside installed apps on installer, ‘guess i should have removed all apps before updating, re-installing apps should be the fix but i noticed my iphone doesnt have sounds, no music, from iPod, can’t play movies, and no ringtone [...]
