Articles Archive for February 2010
Apple »
Apple has registered the trademark “Magic TrackPad” in the U.S. Patent Trademark Office as designated by Patently Apple. “Magic TrackPad” could be a device that would connect to the Mac desktop and notebook computers, which allow the use of gestures in our Mac. According to official documents Magic trackpad is the application for commercial use and will cover the broad range of computer software over hardware to peripherals, including touch screens, mouse, trackpad, touchpad, graphics tablets, etc.
However, there are plenty of Apple’s applications for trademark protection, which do not land …
cydia »
Some of you might remember that we talked about Cyder before, a software that allows us to manage Cydia straight from our PCs. Now Cyder is updated to version 2.01 and improved. With Cyder you can install apps available in Cydia from your Desktop. So if you don’t have 3G/EDGE or WiFi connection for your iPhone, Cyder is your poison. Cyder is a windows only program that allows us to add various repositories Cydia to download all the applications directly on your computer. We can install a number. Deb in …
iPhone »
iFixit, who invented a new fashion, creating wallpapers from photographs of the internal components of Apple products. Today iFixit blog posted two nice wallpapers [check here] for your iPhone as a download. Both wallpapers are cropped very carefully that each piece is aligned almost perfectly with the actual position it within the iPhone. So when you apply iFixit wallpaper, it gives you feeling that the machine is open, without protecting the LCD screen. iFixit posted “ Both flavors are rendered in the iPhone’s 320 x 480 resolution and look …
Linux »
The most recent release of the cross-platform-friendly office suite, OpenOffice 3.2 has grown better at handling Microsoft Office’s XML-based file formats. Version 3.2 supports of ODF 1.2 Metadata, support for Opentype/CFF fonts, support for Graphite Smart fonts, XHTML export filter update and support for Quicklook on OS X. OOo 3.2 Calc and Writer both have a reduced ‘cold start’ time by 46% compared to version 3.0 OpenOffice.org 3.2 is available in versions for Windows, 32- and 64-bit Linux, OS X and Solaris, you can grab your copy from OpenOffice …
jailbreak »
Earlier today we posted about Gull1hack team [Check Here] who claim to have a working jailbreak and unlock exploit for iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 3G. Team claims that the operation is very simple and the code is sent when the device is in recovery mode, as with Blackra1n or Redsn0w and you should be able to perform the untethered Jailbreak even on new iDevices. They also claimed that they updated Blacksn0w to Blacksn0w V2 with a few changes to make it work with the new Commcenter from 3.1.3!
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jailbreak »
We just found another iPhone 3GS untethered jailbreak claim from Gull1hack team. Source isn’t reliable and they don’t have any track record for previous developments. We can’t verify or confirm their claim at the moment, but their video demo looks promising. Gull1hack team claims their exploit to work not only in models with a new iPhone 3GS bootrom, but in all iPhone and iPod Touch models till the date.
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Update : Gull1hack team posted another demo video to show untethered reboot of iPhone 3GS with new iBoot
Update 2 : Musclenerd confirmed …
iPhone »
Do you remember iControlPad? No then check the video beloe. iConrolPad is a evolutionary accessory This is an accessory, designed play ZodTTD emulators through physical keys rather than the touchscreeen buttons of the iPhone. iControlPad is finally completed and ready for production. We don’t have any pricing or availability details, and as soon as there will be any news about it we’ll ping you with a new post. Till then enjoy the video shot by ZodTTD, which shows the accessory in action.
Stay tuned with us for your daily dose of iPhone news, you can follow us on twitter via @ihackinjosh …
cydia »
Today some developer released a “pay” package called “Vroom” which sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, it is. Do not install this package. Not only does it not do what it claims, but it is also somewhat dangerous and will wear out your iPhone with limited use. Read below for details. (Note: Zodttd has removed this package from Cydia, but it may creep up somewhere else). First, this package claims to speed up your iPhone, increase your free memory by managing your daemons, and increase your battery usage. …
iPhone »
9to5Mac Anonymous tipster submitted traces of video chat in upcoming generation of iPhone. He found the traces while exploring TelephonyUI.framework in latest iPhone SDK. Check the screenshots below and you’ll find pictures and some text strings that suggests the implementation of video calls in the next iPhone 4G!
As you can see in the above posted image, there are two small icons for “Accept Video” and “Decline or End Video” and in the following image check the highlighted string within the file “TelephonyUI” where we can read the very term “Video …
jailbreak »
Finally another good news for those iPhone unlockers who updated their iPhone to stock firmware 3.1.3 knowingly or unknowingly. GeoHot discovered a working exploit in baseband 05.12.01, GeoHot already posted the hash of his BB exploit for safekeeping check his tweet here. Here GeoHot tweeted the hash tag of his BB crash.
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Update : Geohot is not going to release his unlock this weekend. We were confused with Motorama this weekend part, actually GeoHot was talking about Motorama event where he is going to showcase his green robot [Check Here] So …

