Monday, January 24, 2011

Forget the white iPhone 4; say hello to the (mostly) white Nexus S

Despite the fact that Apple’s white iPhone 4 is creeping ever closer to becoming a reality, some people have long since given up on the gadget. We don’t blame them either, what with a new iPhone set to be unveiled this summer.
 

Crosshairs: App Measuring the Dimensions of Anything on your Mac screen

Crosshairs is a lightweight app for getting the dimensions of anything on your screen. You can drag a transparent overlay overtop of any app and adjust the box as much as you need. No more taking a screenshot just to get the size of something.
 

Nikkei: PSP2 will have 3G cellular data, OLED touchscreen

We're only four days away from a supposed January 27th unveiling, but apparently there are still more juicy PSP2 rumors left to dole out --
Japan's often-reliable Nikkei newspaper reports that the handheld machine will sport a crisp OLED touchscreen and 3G data from NTT DoCoMo when it arrives later this year, with the latter enabling multiplayer action and even full video and game downloads over the Japanese cellular network.
 

New Apple iPhone ad brings AT&T and Verizon together

Love, peace, and harmony. That's what Apple seems to be pushing in the latest iPhone advertisement to hit the airwaves.

The ad, titled "Two is Better than One," shows a pair iPhones performing side-by-side synchronized app usage. The action is backed by that beautiful piece of waltz music used to good effect by ice skaters and Stanley Kubrick, Johann Strauss's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube."
 

Download video from YouTube: Simply the fastest And easiest way

Have you ever been browsing YouTube and seen something that you absolutely had to have? Not that we’re condoning the theft of intellectual property, but if this has ever happened to you, then we have your solution. What does it take? All you have to do is remove a few letters from the URL and add two others in their place.
 

BlackBerry program may help RIM defend its turf

"We just wanted to create an innovative solution that allows enterprises to manage the corporate data side while at the same time give their employees the freedom to use Facebook and browse the Web and get their Internet email at the same time," McDowell said in an interview late on Friday.
He said carriers were now testing Balance and it should be available in North America within two months.
 

Theme It brings theme store to iOS! Here's How to do it

Cydia added a new feature yesterday to bring Theme Center which includes all popular themes for your iPhone but Today Theme It is available as a Cydia package for jailbroken iOS device. Theme It comes with a clean, easy-to-use interface and quite few themes. Let's see how to install it.
 

Friday, January 21, 2011

Beware Goo.gl: Fake Antivirus Worm on Twitter

A malicious worm attacks Twitter and Twitter. HOW?
The worm sends out tweets with a goo.gl shortened URL link directed to a rogue antivirus application. The attack demonstrates once again how URL shortening can be a Pandora's box as users click on links with no clue where they might lead.
A post on Naked Security by Sophos' Graham Cluley describes the threat.
 

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

How to Organize Your Android Home Screen for Optimal Productivity

It’s nice to have plenty of applications in our Android phone, until we realize that these applications clutter up our phone by consuming our limited screen space. These are some tips to organize your screen for optimal productivity.
 

White iPhone 4 Appeared in Vodafone Germany's Inventory System

According to Engadget, the white iPhone 4 has appeared today in Vodafone Germany's inventory system for both 16 and 32GB. Of course, this doesn't mean that Vodafone has any idea when the white iPhones will be available, but this means that something is being done behind doors.
 

Quick! Download AirView Now, It Turns Your iOS Device Into An AirPlay Receiver

AirView is a universal application available for free in the App Store that does something iOS users have been asking since the original release of AirPlay: it turns any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into AirPlay receivers capable of playing videos streamed from another device. With AirView, in fact, video can be streamed from iOS device to iOS device (iPhone to iPad, iPhone to iPhone) or from iTunes, something that Apple only does with the Apple TV 2nd generation.
 

How To Turn Your iPhone and iPad Into AirPlay Speakers

One of the biggest limitations of the current version of AirPlay shipping with iOS 4.2.1 (well, video streaming to Apple TV aside) is the fact that you can’t use an iOS device as an AirPlay speaker. In fact, a speaker can be an Apple TV, an audio system connected to an AirPort Express station or an AirPlay-enabled audio system. But, you can’t send audio from an iOS device to another iOS device or from iTunes on your Mac/PC to an iPhone/iPad.
 

iPod Touch 4G Jailbroken on iOS 4.3 beta 1 using PwnageTool bundles

Besides demonstrating a working iOS 4.3 jailbreak for iPad [beta] and releasing the required bundle, @jcf_dev also released custom PwnageTool Bundle to jailbreak iPod Touch 4G on iOS 4.3 beta 1. Like the previous PwnageTool bundle, you will need to create ramdisk at your own and patching Cydia as well.
 

iPad on iOS 4.3 Beta 1 jailbroken using custom PwnageTool bundles (How's)

iPad 4.3 firmware brings a lot of exciting features. Multi gestures and choice to change functionality of hardware button are some introduced in iPad 4.3 update. Earlier today, @jcf_dev demonstrated a working iOS 4.3 beta jailbreak for iPad in video. He has just released a PwnageTool bundle to jailbreak iPad on iOS 4.3 beta 1.
 

Sunday, January 16, 2011

13 Japanese companies join to further fuel cell adoption, also plan to ride bikes together

What's going to spin the tires in your car of the future? Will it even have tires?
Right now it looks like either hydrogen fuel cells or pure EVs will be dominating the streets in a few decades, and thankfully they share enough technology for us to think they can peacefully co-exist.