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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
redsn0w jailbreak tool now available for iOS 4.3.4, with a catch
Apple released iOS 4.3.4 on Friday in an effort to fix a security vulnerability that was present on both the iPhone and the iPad. The fix was supposed to prevent hackers from using a PDF security hole to jailbreak both devices. That didn’t quite work. The next day iPhone Dev Team was able to route around the security fix and issued a jailbreak tool for iOS 4.3.4. iPhone Dev Team has released the latest redsn0w jailbreak tool, but unfortunately it forces iOS 4.3.4 users to keep their iPhone or iPad tethered to their computer during sync and reboot. In other words, if you haven’t already updated to iOS 4.3.4 and want your iPhone or iPad to remain jailbroken, you’re going
Monday, July 18, 2011
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Amazon app video: 5 killer features
Amazon has been saving us from shopping nightmares for years and the Amazon app for iPhone, iPad and Android is no different. But did you know the Amazon app has some killer features that trumps the site? Here's our rundown of the essential things you need to know about one of the best shopping apps.
Amazon app video: 5 killer features
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Samsung to unveil 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Q at IFA 2011?
Samsung could be set to unveil a smartphone-tablet hybrid device at IFA 2011, if rumours of a 5.3-inch screened device are to be believed.
According to Yahoo Korea's sources, the 'tabphone' will come with 3G support, but it's not clear whether it'll support voice calls or just be a data connection.
It's not really clear to us why Samsung would launch a handset that's only an inch bigger in the screen department than its current flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Too many or too few
But if it's not meant as a phone, is Samsung seriously expecting anyone to buy a 5-inch tablet in this day and age?
Other Samsung Galaxy Q specs are very thin on the ground at this point, and with nary a blurry cam shot to go on, we can't help but feel that this possible device makes very little sense.
Still, since the 5-inch Dell Streak 5 does already exist, we're willing to concede that it's possible that Samsung will follow in its (now fairly old) footsteps with the Galaxy Q.
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AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011
If desktop graphics hardware can be more than a little confusing, deciphering performance of mobile graphics parts can be (and has historically been) an absolute nightmare. Way back in the day it was at least fairly easy to figure out which desktop chip was hiding in which mobile kit, but both AMD and NVIDIA largely severed ties between mobile and desktop branding. They may not want to readily admit that, and in the case of certain models they still pretty heavily rely on the cachet associated with their desktop hardware, but it's by and large true. So to help you make sense of mobile graphics, we present to you the first in what will hopefully be a regular series of guides.
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And the Google Chromebook winners are?
Last month, we gave you the chance to win a Google Chromebook in partnership with the search giant, by setting you a seriously hard brain teaser. Want to know if you solved it correctly – and in time? The winners are now online at Google’s competition page, so check it out and see. Didn’t win ...
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Women's World Cup final helps set Twitter record
Twitter has announced that the women's World Cup final helped produce a record for the service, with the number of tweets per second reaching a staggering 7,196.
The final, between Japan and the USA was named as the key factor in setting the record, which in all likelihood will be shattered sooner rather than later.
"New Tweets per second records! End of the #wwc final: 7196 TPS. And today's end to the Paraguay/Brazil game is now 2nd with 7166 TPS," stated Twitter's official feed.
Influence
The microblogging service is now one of the most influential social networks, with over 600,000 people signing up on one day last week.
It has already been named as a key influencer in everything from the Egyptian revolution to the News of the World hacking scandal that is dominating UK headlines.
The women's World Cup final obviously has global interest, and the USA's presence in the final (although they lost) inevitably helped the record along.
But with numbers of subscribers still growing fast, that tweets per second total is likely to quickly reach five figures.
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RIM may have a BlackBerry Messenger music app in the works
RIM may be working on a social music app that uses BlackBerry Messenger to share songs between friends.
The app, which may launch soon after BlackBerry App World 3.0 is officially released, is said to be named BBM Music and will come loaded on all new devices.
BBMers will be able to share songs and music playlists with their contacts, while RIM will also offer a music library of its own. Songs will be downloaded directly to the BlackBerry handset through the standalone app.
The hills are alive
For a subscription fee of around �3 a month ($5), BlackBerry users will be able to send and receive 50 songs every month.
RIM has promised that it has seven BlackBerry handsets waiting in the wings, and will be keen to make their messaging service an ever more attractive proposition now that Apple has gone and aped it with iMessage in iOS 5.
With most phone OS owners looking to find a way into cloud music storage, this could be RIM's main take on the trend; but will 50 songs a month keep the digital generation happy?
The rumour comes from an anonymous source talking to NerdBerry.net ? while we haven't reported on any rumours from the site before, it's a well known fact that RIM is looking to social and hoping to incorporate BBM into as many other features as possible, so we'd say this rumour could well turn out to be true.
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TWC9: Imagine Cup, Azure deploy in 30s, MVC Roadmap, VS & ALM Feedback
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
- [00:47] Brian and Dan discuss Dan's 10 year's at Microsoft and how the net weight of M&M's is different based on the type of M&M (plain vs peanut vs pretzel vs dark).
- [02:40] Microsoft News Center: Imagine Cup 2011 Winners - Imagine Cup Winners announced
- [03:59] LINQ to HPC Beta 2, formerly DryadLINQ provides a programming model for analyzing large volumes of unstructured data and integration with SQL Azure, and SQL BI tools including PowerPivot
- [05:05] Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles enables you to quickly deploy apps (in 30 seconds) to Windows Azure
- [06:10] IE Blog - Debugging Web Workers in IE 10
- [07:37] Adam Kinney - Set your Windows Phone Mango app to be an Instant Answer with Bing
- [08:56] MVC Team - ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap talks about goals, themes and features for MVC in the future, via Phil Haack
- [10:34] User Voice sites for Visual Studio and Visual Studio ALM
- [12:28] Charles - Checking in episode with Erik Meijer and Gov Maharaj
- [13:56] Coding4Fun - Soul Solutions - Skeleton Custom Control for Kinect SDK, via Greg Duncan
Picks of the week!
- [15:14] Brian's pick: Ed Kaim - FinalBot - A community for competitive software developers
- [16:23] Dan's pick: Dick Craddock - Mark an email from your friend when their accounts are hacked, even Yahoo and Gmail
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Apple outs updated LED Display with Thunderbolt port
Apple news site MacRumors on Friday discovered images of a new LED Display on Apple’s website. While the OS X Lion wallpaper could have meant that these are simply new product shots as opposed to an updated model we’re looking at, the URL of the image features the recently revealed part number “MC914.” This part number corresponds with a number seen in a recent leak that identified multiple forthcoming refreshed Apple products. The new LED Display will be nearly identical to the current model, though it will include a Thunderbolt I/O port for connectivity to Mac computers. Apple’s upcoming mid-2011 MacBook, MacBook Air and Mac mini refreshes are all expected to include new Thunderbolt ports as well. [Via MacRumors] Read
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Review Roundup: This week's hottest reviews on TechRadar
In this week's top reviews we've reviewed several new cameras including the PowerShot A3200 IS and A800 from Canon as well as the latest PEN from Olympus.
We've also looked at a high-performance Medion Core i7 laptop as well as the new super slim Lenovo X1.
It's budget compact season in the world of Japanese giant, Canon! The latest snazzy snapper to hop off the cheap train is the Canon PowerShot A800. The A800 is Canon's entry-level compact camera, and as you'd expect for 60 quid, it's a no-frills affair. No-frills doesn't necessarily mean dumbed-down, however, and there's actually quite a lot to like about this device. Indeed, the specifications belie the bargain-bucket price and include a 10-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, Digic III processor and Smart Auto mode. At this end of the market, Canon is competing against camera phones, so does the A800 offer enough to persuade punters not to put the money towards an iPhone instead?
Like the MSI GT680 and the diminutive Alienware M11x, the 15.6-inch Medion Erazer X6813 laptop is designed to offer gamers the kind of frame rates they're used to on desktop machines, but on the go. Some notebooks compromise practicality for sheer performance, but the Medion boasts both practicality and power. Like MSI's GT680, the GPU that Medion has opted for with the Erazer X6813 is Nvidia's GeForce GTX 460M and it provides a lot of gaming poke for your money.
When we first laid hands on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1, we were impressed. The conventional plain black design remains, but the firm body measures just 27mm at its thickest point and weighs a mere 1.8kg, making it effortlessly portable. In typical ThinkPad style, it's also one of the most rugged ultra-portables we've seen. Sure, the X1 lacks the immediate beauty of the Samsung 9 Series or Apple MacBook Air, but it's solidly built in all areas, from the impressively tough lid to the rubberised frame and it performs well, too.
Canon PowerShot A3200 IS review
The second silly season snapper off the canon conveyor belt is the budget PowerShot A3200 IS. Costing �40 more than the A800 above, it comes with image stabilisation. You get a lot more besides, including a 14.1-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 720p HD video recording, better-looking slimmer metal case, 5x optical zoom and Advanced Scene Detection modes. The A3200 is an upgrade of the A3100 IS camera, which had 12.1 megapixels, 4 x optical zoom lacked HD video capability. So are these extra features worth the upgrade? We think it is ? the A3200 is a fantastic little camera, offering decent image quality and good battery life and a sturdy compact design.
The new PEN E-PL3 slots into the middle of the new Olympus PEN range, a halfway house between its older brother, the E-P3 and its smaller sibling, the E-PM1 (PEN mini). The Lite uses the same 12-million pixel sensor and 35 point autofocus system as the other models in the new line-up, so the main differences come in the way of its shape and a few minor tweaks in the operation and menu of the camera. Further testing is required when we get our hands on a final production model, but the PEN E-PL3 seems to handle most lighting and exposure conditions well.
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For Twitter's 5th Birthday, New Grown-Up Logos
You've grown to 140 million tweets per day and impacted global politics. It's time you moved beyond the cartoon birdie. Here's three takes on a new Twitter logo.
Happy fifth birthday, Twitter! While five years seems like a blink of an eye, in the world of social media, you're a mature adult now. And you're ranked as one of the ten most visited websites worldwide by web traffic analyst Alexa. Your meteoric rise can be measured by comparing the measly 400,000 tweets per quarter in 2007 to today's average of over 140 million tweets per day--nothing to chirp at.
So it's way past the time for you to grow up as a brand. In other words, how about presenting a more appropriate image that reflects your current status? The following are just a few suggestions of how we think you should toast your fifth year as a media heavy.
This streamlined execution of the current bird icon speaks to the simplicity and user-friendliness inherent in the brand's DNA. The short, straight "chirp" lines signify a quick and direct way to communicate within the 140-character limit that the brand personifies. In addition, the simplicity of this icon allows it to be universally accepted around the globe, thus helping with international expansion and adaptation.
This incremental evolution of the wordmark preserves the brand equity of the logo but adds a new dimension of an animated "E," which is then transformed into the chirping icon. An added benefit is that it can act as a mnemonic device, becoming the hallmark of quick and easy communication--the equivalent of the Nike Swoosh for social media. When paired with a name or another logo, it can serve as an indicator of accessibility/Tweetability.
The amalgamation of the wings from the current bird (stylized to look more lifelike) and Twitter's famous thought bubble crystallizes the notion that Twitter is about communication, connection, and dialogue. This logo dispels the notion that Twitter is just about saying the first thing that pops into your head, and serves as a great mnemonic device for how Twitter takes your thoughts and shares them with your followers. The modified wordmark melds the "w" and "i" and connects the two "t"s for a streamlined mark that furthers the idea of touching and connecting.
Rick Barrack is the Chief Creative Officer/Partner at CBX and one of its founding partners. As lead creative he is responsible for inspiring, directing and motivating the creative teams to develop powerful design solutions. Barrack has close to 20 years of experience in corporate identity and consumer brand identity design. He has led major design initiatives for companies such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Petro-Canada, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Del Monte Foods. Prior to creating CBX, Barrack was a Senior Design Director at FutureBrand and Design Director at LPK. [www.cbxblog.com]
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App week: Apple hikes UK iPhone App Store prices
Facebook for Every Phone app launched
Owners of old-style Nokia handsets, INQ phones and other App Store-less devices must feel a bit left out when reading this round-up each week. Well here's some good news for y'all; Facebook for Every Phone was launched by the social networking giant this week, which brings the features of the iOS-app to over 2,500 app-deprived handsets.
iPhone app news: CoPilot Live Premium arrives
Co-Pilot has updated its popular iPhone navigation app by giving you more control over your preferred route. The Live Premium app will now present three different options to reach your destination and enables you to drag and drop your route onto different roads. At the moment it's only half price too.
Android app news: Official Scrabble app arrives
iPhone and Android handset owners can now clash on the official Scrabble board, following the launch of the app on the Google-based platform. Cross platform gaming is among the features, meaning you can tackle your buddies on Facebook also. Best of all for Android fans, the app is ad-funded and hence free.
iPhone app news: Apple gives us an unpleasant 69
Apple has increased the price of apps by 17 per cent for UK users. Without explanation Apple will now charge British users of the App Store 69p for the lowest price apps, instead of the usual 59p. The prices in the US remain the same, whereas folks down under actually saw a price cut!
BlackBerry app news: RIM announces 1 billionth download
It's not very often the folks at RIM get to celebrate much these days, but this week the company announced the 1 billionth BlackBerry app download. Apple is currently at around the 15 billion mark, while Google can boast 4.5m downloads from the Android Market, but that's beside the point. Well, no it isn't really, but still. Yay RIM!
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Windows Phone 7: Check out the best WP7 apps
Microsoft's new mobile OS may not have set the world on fire in 2011, but the App Store is beginning to mount a decent challenge to the big players. Each week on the T3 App Chart we review three new WP7 apps each week, so check out the reasons you might consider a switch from Android or iPod. Best Windows Phone apps
Nokia app review: The Guardian
After successfully attempting to bring down the News of the World, there's no hotter media property than the Guardian at the moment. So it's a good time to check out the five star Guardian for Nokia phones app. Our reviewer says it's one of the best-looking and most functional newspaper apps to appear on Nokia yet. Check out the review.
Android app review: Crazy Snowboard
The key to this brilliant extreme sports adventure is its simplicity. Crazy Snowboard for Android is a beautifully designed game, with all the tricks you'd expect from a Tony Hawk game, but without the constant wipeouts and panicking about your landing. It's one of the best games available on Android.
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RIM may have a BlackBerry Messenger music app in the works
RIM may be working on a social music app that uses BlackBerry Messenger to share songs between friends.
The app, which may launch soon after BlackBerry App World 3.0 is officially released, is said to be named BBM Music and will come loaded on all new devices.
BBMers will be able to share songs and music playlists with their contacts, while RIM will also offer a music library of its own. Songs will be downloaded directly to the BlackBerry handset through the standalone app.
The hills are alive
For a subscription fee of around �3 a month ($5), BlackBerry users will be able to send and receive 50 songs every month.
RIM has promised that it has seven BlackBerry handsets waiting in the wings, and will be keen to make their messaging service an ever more attractive proposition now that Apple has gone and aped it with iMessage in iOS 5.
With most phone OS owners looking to find a way into cloud music storage, this could be RIM's main take on the trend; but will 50 songs a month keep the digital generation happy?
The rumour comes from an anonymous source talking to NerdBerry.net ? while we haven't reported on any rumours from the site before, it's a well known fact that RIM is looking to social and hoping to incorporate BBM into as many other features as possible, so we'd say this rumour could well turn out to be true.
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We're heading west through SE Asia in six weeks' time, starting from Timor then island-hopping across Indonesia.
We anticipate spending most...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
ipad vs kindle
Last trip we took our MacBook Air which was great but not being able to charge it from the bike was a PITA.
So we brought an iPad for the next trip...
So we brought an iPad for the next trip...
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07.12.2011 | Inc.com Daily
Turntable.fm heats up, American unemployment rates, Foursquare rolls out new daily deals, and more.
A music start-up generates massive feedback. The New York Times takes a look at Turntable.fm, a hot start-up that's used the power of exclusivity to attract hordes of D.J.-ing users.
A patent firm takes on the big guys. TechCrunch reports that Intellectual Ventures is suing a slew of corporations including Dell, Best Buy, and Walmart over patent infringement.
A bleak picture of unemployment in America. The recent jobs report showed a sluggish return from the recession, but this chart from The Atlantic reveals a downright depressing figure: just 58 percent of American adults are employed.
Foursquare's new plan at generating revenue. And yes, it has to do with daily deals. According to The Wall Street Journal, Foursquare is teaming up with sites like LivingSocial, Gilt, and (maybe) Groupon.
Where art and entrepreneurship collide. The Brooklyn-based Speak Easy series, hosted by journalist Cara Cannella, "connects bold artists and entrepreneurs with local audiences." Tickets for tonight's conversation with the founders of the Brooklyn Winery can be purchased here.
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