My little Pwnie - QuickPwn (4)
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We’ve got something for you! (No, it’s not the 3G unlock, but still something very useful.) It’s a tool we’ve been working on to jailbreak a phone more quickly and easily, without requiring a full restore. Unless you are making a custom firmware with specific features, there is nothing inherent in the pwnage process that requires a restore, and we have been planning this tool for some time. It’s more convenient because you do not ...
Frontier Daze (6)
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS (49)
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One of the great strengths of the Internet as a communication and entertainment medium has always been its lack of security, a fact that seems to pass over the heads of many "experts" today. Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf could easily have added robust security to TCP/IP, but they deliberately chose not to with the idea that innovation would be encouraged by making the Internet a wide-open space. It wasn't that they prohibited security, but ...
Friday Morning Shipping Update (3)
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Let’s get right to it. This morning, we’re happy to report that all of our shipping centers are resuming normal operations after experiencing three days of significant issues. Throughout the night and as we post this update, our distribution centers are processing customer orders and getting them into the mail. If a member should have been shipped a disc Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, with rare exception it will ship today (Friday). As a result, millions ...
Shoes • Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows (13)
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It is called SHOES. That is the way it has always been. No, actually, the name was initially going to be MIDAS MACLEAN'S WINDOWS OF GOOD FORTUNE. However, it woulda been shrunk to the unintelligible MMWOGF; you can count on that. So, decided upon something short: SHOES. Also, you can call it CARPET if you like. That is allowed.
Thursday Afternoon Shipping Update (1)
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By late this afternoon, we’d made enough progress on our system issues to begin shipping again from some of our distribution centers. We hope to bring the rest of our facilities back online overnight and be shipping from all of our distribution centers on Friday. But the issues we’ve faced over the last several days have been significant and there’s no guarantee at this point that our shipping operations will be fully restored by tomorrow. ...
How the OLPC Changed Laptops Forever: The Untold Story [Origins] (5)
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The $188 XO laptop created by One Laptop Per Child was devised to stir a revolution in third-world education, but be honest, you don't care. At least, you don't come to Gizmodo to debate the state of child welfare in Uruguay or whatever. For you, and for us, OLPC's story is about hardware. The XO is not just a cheap laptop—it's a complete rethinking of the laptop that inadvertently paved the way for a new ...
Turn Your iPhone into a Barcode Scanner with ScanLife’s App (11)
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ScanLife has a new app out [iTunes link] for iPhone - a scanning application that uses the iPhone camera as a link from products to websites. This application has been available on regular camera phones for some time now, but with the widespread usage of the iPhone, it’s possible that this could be the time for growth. With this application, you can scan an ScanLife EZcode (see right) and be directed to a website. Don’t ...
Qik Enables Live Video Streaming From 3G iPhone (45)
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Qik, the startup that allows users to stream live mobile video from their cell phones, has released an application that allows users to use the service from their 3G iPhones. Unfortunately, the application isn’t available through Apple’s sanctioned App Store, so users will need to jailbreak (hack) their iPhones to use it. And because Apple has yet to enable video capture on the iPhone, we probably won’t be seeing a “legit” application any time soon. ...
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Michael said:
too bad it's not an official app
fbug - Google Code (1)
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Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Business Requirements are Bullshit (39)
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Stevey's Blog Rants (44)
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Some CEO emailed me the other day. I don't remember who it was; people mail me all the time about their blah blah yawn product service thingy, and on the rare occasions I bother to read mail from strangers, I don't usually remember anything about the email, even if I respond to it. I can remember broad categories of questions I get, but everything else is just a blur. That's senility for ya.
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jonezy said:
comical rant on the fallacy's (sometimes) of gathering business requirements
Help! (1)
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blog.iphone-dev.org (40)
1 week, 1 day
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One of our members (Pumpkin) was struck with a huge technical problem on his MacBook Pro yesterday Thank you guys for all the offers, Pumpkin was brought a shiny new SATA internal hard disk and some brand new RAM by a really helpful reader this afternoon (thanks Mike), with some of his prodding and poking the machine is alive! Yay! Again, thanks for all the support.
Muji (1)
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I’ve always been a fan of the Muji brand. And I especially like how simply Muji expresses their point that achieving simplicity is deceptively complex because it is a thoughtful process.
Official Gmail Blog: We feel your pain, and we're sorry (42)
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Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product ManagerMany of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we're really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.We heard loud and clear today how much people care about their Gmail accounts. We followed all the emails to our ...
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Adam said:
good response from Google ... glad they didn't come with a "chill out guys, we're just a beta product which means things can go wrong"
Apple - iTunes - Hot Tips - iTunes Store URLs (1)
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To include the URL to an iTunes Store page in an email or other program, drag a link, track, or graphic from a page in the iTunes Store to your email program or other application. You can also right-click the item and choose Copy iTunes Store URL.
DBSlayer - Trac (1)
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The DBacesslayer aka DBSlayer aka Släyer (as we like to call it when we're feeling ironically heavy metal) is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose. The DBSlayer originated as an internal tool at the New ...
Apple to Add QuickTime Decoding Hardware to Product LIne? [Apple Rumor] (1)
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Pure rumor and speculation, but Silicon Alley Insider is reporting a tip they've received stating that Apple will be adding "QuickTime encoding/decoding chips built into their products." Just like MPEG2 decoders that specifically deal with DVD playback, these chips would presumably handle MPEG4 only, the H.264 codec behind Apple's core video technologies. Does it make sense? Well, yes and no. If anyone could/should include a QuickTime-exclusive chip in their hardware, it's Apple, who uses QuickTime ...
