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iTunes: All songs DRM-free (but keeping DRM for audiobooks & video)
Looks like Apple's going to drop the DRM on the music in the iTunes store -- but there's no indication that the DRM that's too "evil" to be borne for music will be likewise dropped from audiobooks and video. Right now, Apple will only sell audiobooks from Audible -- and Audible will only sell audiobooks with DRM (even if the author and publisher [...]
Unlocking the iPhone 3G… the Vietnamese way
If you want an unlocked 3G iPhone, you have a couple options. If you haven't upgraded to 2.2, you can try your luck with one of those SIM piggyback wafers; otherwise, you can try importing from a country like Hong Kong, which sells unlocked iPhones officially. There's a third option, though: take a trip to Hanoi, for 1.2 million dong (snicker! [...]
Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone
Allowing Flash — which is a development platform of its own — would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own. That means Flash [...]
Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99
Subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You'll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that HP is [...]
Accept credit card payments from your iPhone
The trouble with credit cards isn't being able to accept them... The trouble is when you do start trying to accept them, the fee's eat up all your profits. Setup fees, traction fees, value of the transaction fees, monthly account fees. What the hell, I found that I could make use of a fed credit union and cut out all most all those [...]
The crazy history of your browser User-Agent string
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) beginning in late 1992. NCSA released the browser in 1993, and officially discontinued [...]
Patches for iPhone QRcode scanning
John Young has written some cool projects for Make, such as this helmet-mounted water gun. He just alerted me to another nifty thing he made: Commando Nerd patches, which can be scanned with an iPhone. Here's how he describes them: You have an iPhone. And that means you're just HOURS away from being able to put a QRcode reader on it (there's [...]
HOWTO: Install Apple iPhone Themes like Stereo’s Leopard Theme using SummerBoard
SummerBoard is an extension to the iPhone's SpringBoard user experience. SummerBoard adds a variety of useful and fun features to your iPhone, including scrolling icons, wallpaper and themes! iPhone/iPod Touch 1.1.1 alpha release available! If you've upgraded to firmware 1.1.1, for now you will need to [...]
Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage
For updates on the new Apple iPhone v2... IRC:// #wwdc on freenode Macrumorslive.com Live.gizmodo.com Live.iphonebuzz.com Engadget.com Crunchgear.com
3G iPhone to have GPS and Pics with geo-tagging
If you've taken lots of camera photos with your iPhone and later wondered where they were taken, the new iPhone software could solve that problem. According to news reports, the iPhone Software 2.0 update will offer location-based photo-tagging which the user can turn on and off. Geo-tagging adds location data to a photo or other media, often [...]
Ohh, the irony… Microsoft says “Safari isn’t safe on Windows”
This is bad news for all eleven Safari-on-Windows users... Apple's been making hay in its Mac vs. PC ads about Windows' security and malware problems. But now that Apple's playing in Microsoft's sandbox with a Windows version of the Safari Web browser, the worm has turned. The Windows version of Safari has a bug that's been dubbed the "carpet [...]
MacBook Air fitted with internal EV-DO and finally lives up to its name
One of the most surprising things about the launch of an ultra-portable laptop dubbed "Air" by Apple wasn't its thinness but the lack of an embedded WWAN radio. No more, at least if you're not intimidated by smoldering solder and warranty violations. Jordan Bunnell has posted a step-by-step of his success at integrating a Verizon USB727 Aircard [...]
Macbook Air Hacked in 2 mintues
San Francisco - It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, [...]
Leopard 10.5.2 Update is now live
Leopard finally gets its second patch, and boy does it fix a lot of stuff. The first patch hit back in November, with test builds of the second making it out a month later. Here's a list of the major things the 10.5.2 patch fixes (including menubar transparency and Stacks). • Airport connection reliability and stability • Back to [...]
TrueCrypt 5.0 now supports OSX
Since so many Mac users are also child porn enthusiasts, I thought you might like to know that the newest version of TrueCrypt came out last night and they support OS X now. Now my trendy Mac friends can stop having to mess around with their USB keychain, mirroring their passwords and bill pay confirmations from a Mac sparseimage to a TrueCrypt [...]
New trojan out for the iPhone
A significant cottage industry has sprung up among experts debating whether Apple’s iPhone should be sanctioned by IT departments for use in the enterprise. Last week, various sites and publications — including internetnews.com — reported that the first hack has arrived. The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) [...]
VoIP For iPod Touch is Here
The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going. Link
Attackers target unpatched QuickTime flaw that affects Windows & Macs
The vulnerability, called the Apple QuickTime RTSP Response Header Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, was first disclosed on Nov. 23rd and still remains unpatched. The vulnerability can be exploited through Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari and effects both Windows and Mac users. First observed on Saturday, the attacks [...]
Tell a Female’s Personality Based on Her OS?
Think that's a silly question? Think again. A woman's choice of operating system (OS) can reveal a lot to the inquisitive man. And with women as famously cryptic as they are, let's face it: it'd be dumb to turn a blind eye to anything that offers a peek into their innermost thoughts. So let's analyze what a woman's choice of Windows, Mac OSX, or [...]
