Archive for the ‘Twitter’ tag
Steve Jobs on Oscars Red Carpet
Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended the Oscars. No surprise, Jobs previously was CEO of Pixar Animation Studios and is now a member of the Walt Disney Company’s Board of Directors.
Here are several pictures taken with Steve on the red carpet:
Speaking About Reasons of Apple’s Actions
After the news about Apple’s lawsuit many of us have been wondering why Apple did this. Obviously, the thing is not about money as the company already has $40 billion of cash and investments. Digital Daily’s editor John Paczkowski thinks the reason is a desire to extend iPhone’s growing lead on the market.
“Apple is suing to make an example out of HTC and lengthen the engineering time-to-market for Android handset builders.”
While other Android smartphone manufacturers will spend their time solving a problem with developing of noninfringing technologies to avoid lawsuits, Apple will continue to iterate the iPhone.
Ok, this is clear, but why Apple accused HTC now?
Attention: fake jailbreak utilities might have viruses
The number of jailbreak utilities for iPhones and iPod Touches with the latest iBoot is dramatically increasing. All of them are FAKE. Some of them will fill your computer with viruses, which is not good.
gull1hack, spartanbr3ak, br0k3n_appl3 are just some of these new programs that in one way or another deceive the user and then run malicious code. We therefore ask you to stay away from ANY such software. Some time in the future GeoHot or DevTeam will release new jailbreak and unlock software. Other than that is fake and dangerous. Install only programs you trust or the ones recommended by iPhoneRoot.
Here is a twitter comment from DevTeam:
According to MuscleNerd the Gull1hack utility is fake
Gull1hack, the tool that promises to jailbreak all iPhones and iPod Touches with the latest iBoot, is a fake. Here is a twitter comment from MuscleNerd, hacker from DevTeam:
It looks like the guys who created Gull1hack used two different iPhone 3GS’s (or perhaps 3GS and 3G) – one with the old iBoot and one with the new one. Here is a quick conversation between MuscleNerd and Gull1hack:
Steve Jobs’ Photo Was Put At Pop Art Exhibition
“Icons” Pop Art exhibition was opened on the day when most New Yorkers were preoccupied with St. Valentines’s Day bustle. The 15 000 square feet installation room houses the photos not only of Steve Jobs but other renowned persons as well. His photo is placed beside that of Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook creator) and Bill Gates (Microsoft CEO). Although Jobs doesn’t seemed to be very enthusiastic of his second row placement.
Last year’s installation was called “The Holy Trinity” and immortalized such personalities as El Jobso hung between Linus Torvalds (Linux creator) and Bill Gates.
This exhibition features the four luminaries who resemble more the wanted posters rather than pop art celebrities.
It will run till late March.
MWSF 2010: Algoriddin’s djay 3, Frog Design apps, 4iThumbs, WebIS Informant
This time we talk about Algoriddin’s djay 3, new apps from Frog Design, 4iThumbs product and WebIS Pocket Informant organizer.
Algoriddin’s djay 3 is an excellent app with easy-to-use interface designed to allow you to mix and play music. The price is US 50$ in stores and on the website.
f0recast released: find out if your iPhone is jailbreakable and unlockable
As expected iH8sn0w released f0recast, the application that allows us to know a lot of useful information about all we can do with our iPhone.
Just connect the iPhone with the cable to see what is version of the baseband or iBoot. The utility will also give valuable information if we can perform a jailbreak (tethered or untethered). It will also tell if the Phone is unlockable and will give a suggestion what unlock software can be used.
You can download it directly from . Unfortunately there is no Mac version for now.
MuscleNerd just posted interesting comment on Twitter, saying that the application is inaccurate regarding to the iPhone 3GS. There might be a new update soon. For all other devices the application works just fine.
MacWorld Expo: The Beginning
MacWorld Expo 2010 started on the Feb, 11. We’ll show you how that day and the MWSF generally started.
GeoHot will not update blackra1n to support firmware 3.1.3
GeoHot recently posted a small message on twitter. He actually responds to many users who continue to ask him about the ability to run firmware 3.1.3 jailbreak using Blackra1n.
GeoHot has always been a bit reluctant to release new versions for various minor firmware updates. His advice is in fact once again to keep firmware 3.1.2, because the latest one does not have anything interesting.
GeoHot will be certainly back on the scene with the next release of firmware 3.2 in March / April or firmware 4.0 that is expected in July.
Google Buzz now available on iPhone
Google Buzz – is a new social communications feature that was revealed yesterday. It really looks like a mix of Google Wave and Twitter with an ability of posting media and status updates in an ongoing conversation. New service is running in almost every Gmail account and in the Mobile Safari web app. The latter has the same features as the main service and additionally includes an option to see “buzz” nearby while you’re out and comment on like other people’s “buzz”.
The service is new, and many people discuss on how it will affect on Twitter and social networks popularity. But it is important that Google made iPhone fully compatible with Buzz in spite of a tense Google/Apple relationship.
A roundup of iPhone applications built with Flash CS5 [Video]
We have spoken several times about Flash CS5 that will allow to transform the Adobe Flash applications in real native iPhone apps ready to be distributed through the AppStore. This video shows a quick overview of everything that Flash developers will be able to:
The are many possibilities. The only limitation is the skill of the developer. You can create games using the accelerometer, a multitouch applications, apps with video, pictures or even Twitter. We are looking forward to Flash CS5 release.
Geohot Said iPhone OS 3.1.3 Jailbreak Is Easy
Geohot has tweeted saying that the jailbreak is easy but it only helps those who are dumb enough to upgrade.
I hear rumors going around that the 3.1.3 jailbreak is hard. It isn’t. But the only people it helps are those dumb enough to upgrade. Sorry.
These words indicate that it is unlikely the BlackRa1n jailbreak will be upgraded soon to support the new firmware.
Official iPhone App for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
The official Mobile Spectator Guide for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is now available for iPod Touch and iPhone. It can be downloaded for free from .
This application is a location-aware schedule that details more than 2,000 sport and cultural events taking place for 17 days between February 12 and 28, 2010.
Geohot about firmware 3.1.3 jailbreak
iPhone hacker Geohot, who created popular utilities blackra1n (jailbreak) and blacksn0w (unlock), posted a message on twitter about the new firmware 3.1.3 released by Apple:
Hopefully some vulnerability in the new firmware will be found.
Patrick Stewart told how he loves his iPhone
Yesterday Patrick Steward gave an interview to PBS in its new broadcast premiere.
Sir Patrick Stewart, widely known for his roles of Charles Xavier in the X-Men films and Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek says he loves complexity. So Twitter with its 140 characters long messages is too simplistic to use. But then in his interview to Frontline’s Digital Nation he suddenly starts to talk about iPhone and dramatically describes an obsessive man-love for it as “An extension of who I am”.
It really looks like Jean-Luc Picard by himself arrived from the future to tell us about modern technology and the new way to understand it. Let’s watch: