July 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Thanks to Anthony Kashmanian over at xsellize for this, enjoy your new staff position at xsellize forums.

Intro.

So you finally made the executive decision, pulled the trigger, and went out and bought your new iPhone. You get home and log onto your computer for some iPhone reading and start hearing the word ‘jailbreak’. This is exactly what happened to me a year ago after I bought my 3G. Since you’re at this site, reading this article you’re in great shape already.

What is jailbreaking

Well jailbreaking is the ‘hacking’ of the iPhone that allows you to run NON-approved software. That is software that is not approved by Apple. Why would you want this? Apple must approve every single app that makes it to the app store and each app must follow strict Apple rules. Apple has been known to ban certain apps for the dumbest reason, Google it and you’ll see. When you jailbreak you’ve opened your phone up to an entire new world of apps with limitless possibilities.

What’s the Catch? Will I Brick My Phone

There is absolutely no catch once you jailbreak, all the normal functions will still operate just as they did before. Now you’re just able to install apps that make your ‘phone’ more like your computer. Apple has recently declared jailbreaking illegal, BUT IT IS NOT. Don’t be fooled, jailbreaking is not illegal, it’s your device and you can do what you want to it just like your home computer.

Is It Hard To Do? How Do I Do It Read more…

July 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Remember MxTube? MxTube is officially extinct. Another victim of survival the fittest. YourTube will be available via CydiaStore sometime in the Very Near Future, and my goodness is it brilliant. We got ahold of an early tester version, and it’s everything a YouTube downloader should be.

For starters, it’s A PART OF YouTube.app. Well, technically it’s an extension using MobileSubstrate (saurik’s magic doorway to the iPhone for devs), built by pumpkin – point being, it integrates seamlessly with YouTube.app. And it works beautifully…

Say, for instance, I just love SNL’s Mother Lover bit (I do). And I’d like to have it on my phone, or desktop, regardless of whether I’m connected to the net. What do I do? With YourTube installed, I just open YouTube.app, and find the video like I would normally. Click on the little blue arrow next to the video (which is always there), and… what’s this? A new button in the top right – Read more…

July 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Where there’s this many iTablet rumors, there just has to be an actual product Steve Jobs is finally happy with and will be unveiling to the world at a special Apple event in early 2010, right?

That’s what Apple Insider is reporting. The gist is as follows:

• 10″, 3G networked device similar to “a jumbo iPod touch”
• Guided by Steve Jobs from hospital, home, and work
• Culmination of at least 6 previous prototypes Jobs vetoed
• Will launch in first quarter of 2010
• Verizon may be the carrier

• Read more…

July 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The L.A. Times reports that Apple will begin allowing developers access to the tools they need to produce augmented reality applications starting with upcoming iPhone OS 3.1. While there have been many impressive demos floating around showing the possibilities, these applications have used unpublished APIs which prevent them from being allowed on the App Store. Apple, however, told one developer that the tools necessary would become available with iPhone 3.1.

Apple told Acrossair, developer of the Nearest Tube train finder, that the app will be approved for distribution after Apple releases version 3.1 of the iPhone software, which the developer expects will land in early September.

The New York City version of this app is called Nearest Subway and is demoed in this video:

Augmented reality uses the device’s GPS, camera and digital compass to overlay real-time data onto live video. Other possibilities include iPhone games as well as the Layar browser we’ve highlighted before. iPhone 3.1 has been seeded to early developers but the exact release date has not been revealed.

July 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

So here’s a true example of some modding his iDevice… check it out. Josh Darrah, a guy in Australia, actually gutted an iPod Mini and created a whole new casing from wood. The iWood.

He’s got a whole Flickr gallery up showing the process. The guy even made a dock out of wood which the thing sits in.

Nice job, Josh.

forums.mactalk.com.au

Via modmyi.com

July 25, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Chinese newspapers have been piecing together Foxconn worker Sun Danyong’s final hours, and claim to have recovered his final text message to his girlfriend, sent two hours before he died. It’s clear something horrible was happening to him:

“My dear, I’m sorry, go back home tomorrow, something has happened to me, please don’t tell my family, don’t contact me, this is the first time that I have ever begged you, please agree to that! I am so sorry!”

And in what is reportedly his final online chat—supposedly verified as authentic—Sun tells a friend he never stole the phone, and thinks it was swiped. He also again implies that he was tortured, or at least forcefully detained and interrogated with physical force, clearly contradicting what Foxconn’s security chief told a Chinese paper:

“Even at a police station, the law says force must never be used, much less in a corporate office. I was just a suspect, my dear head of security, so what reason and right do you have to confine me and use force?

If Foxconn is directly involved in his death, it and all of its executives could go bankrupt a million times over and that would still not even come to close to justice for Sun Danyong. [The New Yorker]

Via Gizmodo.com

July 25, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple is adding moisture sensors to everything, from iPods and iPhones to MacBooks and even its latest keyboards.
But recent reports suggest the sensors may be too sensitive, and may even be triggered by high humidity.
The moisture sensors, or Liquid Submersion Indicators (LSI), are small stickers that change color from white to red if submerged. Apple refuses to honor warranties on products with triggered sensors, assuming they’ve been dropped in a swimming pool or doused with Mountain Dew, no matter what the owner says.
The sensors, which are found in the dock connector ports of iPhones and under the keys of Apple’s latest keyboards, are controversial. There have been complaints that they’re triggered by sweat.
Now, there are reports out of Singapore that high humidity is killing iPhones, but positive LSI indicators are allowing the local carrier to reject warranty claims.
According to forum posts on HardwareZone, Singapore’s wireless carrier Singtel is rejecting warranty claims of iPhones that appear to have suffered water damage, but owners swear up and down their iPhones have never been submerged. Read more…

July 25, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - Cracks

Download  Fixed Crack HERE

put it into
var/root
open terminal and type
dpkg -i iTypeFastR-1.1.2.deb
reboot and U R done

or

var/root/media/Cydia/AutoInstall
reboot

Thanks to schnedi over at xsellize for the post, hack_iphone for the fix.

July 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Just a week after Apple killed the Pre’s ability to sync with desktop music management client iTunes, Palm has responded with webOS 1.1 — a software update that again enables Palm’s phone to access media from the current version of iTunes.

Palm announced the update Thursday on the company’s blog. Pre users can expect the new software to arrive via an over-the-air update.

“Oh, and one more thing: Palm webOS 1.1 re-enables Palm media sync,” the post reads. “That’s right — you once again can have seamless access to your music, photos and videos from the current version of iTunes (8.2.1).”

Last week, Apple released iTunes 8.2.1. In accompanying release notes, the company was vague about what the upgrade actually did, stating only that the update provided “a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.”

But soon after the new version of iTunes was released, Pre users realized that the update had broken their ability to sync music with the software.

Beyond iTunes, webOS 1.1 brings a number of updates focused on business users, including remote wipe, inactivity timeout, Read more…

July 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies. What it won’t tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware.

“It is kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret decoder ring,” said Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and a hacker who teaches forensics courses on recovering data from iPhones. “I don’t think any of us [developers] have ever seen encryption implemented so poorly before, which is why it’s hard to describe why it’s such a big threat to security.”

With its easy-to-use interface and wealth of applications available for download, the iPhone may be the most attractive smartphone yet for business use. Many companies seem to agree: In Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call Tuesday, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said almost 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies have purchased 10,000 or more iPhones apiece; multiple corporations and government organizations have purchased 25,000 iPhones each; and the iPhone has been approved in more than 300 higher education institutions.

But contrary to Apple’s claim that the new iPhone 3GS is more enterprise friendly, the new iPhone 3GS’ encryption feature is “broken” when it comes to protecting sensitive information such as credit card numbers and social-security digits, Zdziarski said. Read more…