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Inside the Apple archives at Stanford Libraries
In 1997, Apple gifted the Stanford University Libraries its historical collections of paperwork, hardware, software, artifacts, and other materials documenting the organization since Woz and Jobs founded it in 1976. The Associated Press toured the collection. No, it's not available for public viewing.
60beat GamePad controller plugs into iOS sound jack
This $50 controller looks cool, and the man in the video seems much nicer than Paul Christoforo. 60beat GamePad controller
This is how multitasking should be handled in iOS
The only problem I see with this when someone is scrolling long lists, like website blogs or contacts, they will have a high chance of triggering that. There isn't really this problem with the notification bar since there is usually a dead-zone with the app menu buttons staying at the top.
Best Apple ad I’ve ever seen
Putin is such a #bauce.
Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
Stallman is right in that Jobs was "the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool" and unlike Gates (which at least played a huge role in first making computers available for businesses and then cheap PCs available for the masses - and without which the Open Source movement would have still been today a thing for a small group of academics), [...]
Most common iPhone unlock codes
This chart shows the 10 most common iPhone numeric lock-codes, as anonymously gathered by the Big Brother Security Camera app (now removed from the App Store). They represent 15% of all 204,508 passcodes sampled. I wonder how strongly they correlate with other numeric PINs, such as ATM/Chip-and-PIN codes. Interestingly, 1990-2000 are all in [...]
Fraunhofer cracks iPhone password in 6 minutes, exposes stored passwords
"What’s the one thing that could make losing your iPhone worse? If the person who happens to find your AWOL iPhone knows exactly what they’re doing. In a two-minute video clip published by German engineering firm Fraunhofer, the company demonstrates how an iPhone’s password security can be rendered completely moot. The demonstration [...]
Verizon Finally Lands the iPhone
Why would anyone buy an iPhone on Verizon, especially with dual core android phones coming out? The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The move will for the first time let U.S. consumers choose the network that carries their [...]
ReBirth Synthesizer for iPad
ReBirth for iPad is a $15 multitouch synthesizer that emulates the Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. You can create music on it and output the songs as MP3s. Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a gorgeous-looking interface and you're ready to make killer tracks on your iPad. [...]
Secret Button Sequence Bypasses iPhone Security
A security flaw in the iPhone allows strangers to bypass the handset’s lock screen with a few button presses. In the video below, a Brazilian iPhone customer demonstrates the quick method to circumvent an iPhone’s passcode-protected lock screen: tap the “Emergency Call” button, then enter three pound signs, hit the green Call button [...]
Hacker finds iOS 4.1 bootrom vulnerability that can jailbreak all current hardware
Yesterday’s release of iOS 4.1 was good news for iPhone gamers and iPhone 3G owners who had performance issues post-4.0, but bad news for jailbreakers, with the Dev Team themselves warning users not to upgrade to 4.1 as there was no known way to reverse the baseband post-update. As usual, though, what’s true in the cat-and-mouse [...]
Jailbreak your iPhone 4
The iPhone Dev Team released a jailbreak for iPhone4 over the weekend, authored by Comex. For a taste of free-ishdom, go to the site with your iPhone and let it do its work. A jailbreak is simply the ability to run apps and use themes and tweaks not approved by Apple. Jailbreaking doesn't slow down your device or use any extra battery, and is [...]
How a 15-year-old kid tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app
Fifteen-year-old Nick Lee tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $0.99 flashlight application. But, secretly, it was a lot more useful. On the surface, Handy Light just allowed you to make your iPhone's screen go blank with a color of your choice. You opened it, clicked a [...]
RIM CEOs: Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into self-made debacle is unacceptable
Yesterday, Nokia released a statement about antenna design in response to being called out by name in Apple's iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Early this morning, RIM followed suit. In a statement signed by co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM gave Apple a quick and concise corporate tongue lashing... Apple's attempt to draw RIM into [...]
Apple’s letter about the iPhone4 antenna issue
Apple PR has issued a letter responding to the slew of complaints regarding the faulty antenna and signal strength display on the new iPhone4. As Brian of Gizmodo points out, it reads a bit like an Onion article: Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally [...]
Apple to offer iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network
Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will begin offering the iPhone in January. That's according to their two unnamed sources "familiar with the plans," although no more details were provided. It's in line, though, with the last several months of rumblings. The timing is notably slightly different from the WSJ's previous report of a [...]
