The revolutionary computer that started it all, Macintosh, turns 25 tomorrow. Apple debuted their first Mac back on January 24th, 1984 and aired a commercial during the Superbowl the same year. If you know anything about airing commercials during the Superbowl, you know that it’s very expensive. In fact, the average 30-second commercial that airs [...]

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The Dev Team are hot on the case. The latest bit of news from the land of sunshine, rainbows and Pwnies is QuickPwn, which you’ll recall is the Dev Team’s latest fruit from the loins of its Pwnage parentage. QuickPwn is designed to Pwn, jailbreak, and install Installer and/or Cydia on your device [...]

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Finally, the Dev-Team have released their PwnageTool 2.0.2 supporting firmware 2.0.1. Mac users can now download the latest roll-your-own-firmware app for Apple’s latest firmware on both iPhone and iPod Touch. It contains both the latest version of Cydia Packager as well as the first ever public beta of the forthcoming Installer v4, which [...]

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Seems like CMW is back up working once again after releaseing three different versions of Winpwn a week or two ago. Instead of the next Winpwn 2.0.0.4 he’s making a big jump all the way to Winpwn 2.5 which is going to be released very shortly according to the creator himself. With this next version [...]

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So, 2.0 has been Pwned. But what exactly does that allow you do? As it turns out, not a whole lot, because a good 99%+ of toolchain-developed software has yet to be updated to work with firmware 2.0.
You see, I decided to take the plunge. I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0 more [...]

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So the new Pwnage 2.0 tool has been released to much fanfare, but aimed mainly at the non-n00b crowd, and strictly for the Mac at the moment. So what’s a Windows user to do? We could wait. We’re used to that. Or you could do like user Srini has done and [...]

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Those of you who are waiting eagerly for the Dev Team’s all-singing, all-dancing roll-your-own-firmware has been released — kinda. In its present incarnation, it’s still very much for hardcore hackers only, and doesn’t yet play nice with the one-touch hack crowd. It is advised that if you want the so-easy-a-caveman-can-do-it version, give it [...]

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I suppose it was only a matter of time — we already saw (and unfortunately experienced the problems cause by) McAfee’s preliminary attempts at creating a virus scanner for the iPhone a couple of months back, but nothing official ever came of it. Now it seems Mac developer Intego is having a go at [...]

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Berlin, Germany – Berlin based nova media released Fone2Phone today. Fone2Phone is a sleek migration utility for the iPhone and compatible to many cell phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Contacts, events, tasks, notes, bookmarks, photos, music and movies are copied in one streamlined operation to the appropriate places on the Mac. Afterwards, [...]

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Those of you who are seeking, or are already engaged in higher education and have been mulling the idea of getting some flavour of Mac will love this year’s Back to School promo, which was unveiled this morning, and as predicted, it’s even better than last year.
Qualifying buyers can choose either a free 8GB iPod [...]

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There’s no shortage of news these days, though there frequently seems to be a shortage of time, which is unfortunate. Still, that’s what this series is about: Quickly covering a bunch of smaller news bits so keep you all up to date and informed about the latest developments and updates. To that end, [...]

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SHAPE Services has announced the added iPhone compatibility of their video surveillance application Mobiscope for Windows. Mobiscope is a home surveillance service that allows users to view video being captured through web cameras on a computer from the iPhone via a real-time online video stream, so you can keep an eye out for any maliciousness.
Mobiscope [...]

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Developer Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser just recently released version 2.4 of his CosmoPod software; a video conversion utility that allows you to easily download and convert Flash, DivX, WMV, and Real Media content to a Mac, iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
 
 

CosmoPod v2.4 Change Log:

Fix WMV bug on YouTube.
Support added for the lastest Quicktime WMV Component.
Better parsing of [...]

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micaheljcaboose vbmenu_register(“postmenu_501133″, true); of the iPod Touch Fans just recently released a program in which he calls Utility. (Not the greatest of all program names, but it’ll have to do.) Utility allows you to relocate the applications and fonts folder, and can make your iPod boot [...]

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