iKee Worm, iPhone/Privacy.A and now iBotnet.A yet another malware for iPhone is identified. The first one was iKee, such malware changed wallpaper on iPhones. The second one iPhone/Privacy.A aims to harvest personal data from iPhones. This new malware, that Intego calls iBotnet.A, is by far the most sophisticated iPhone malware yet. Read more…
A video comparing text input of the iPhone versus text input using Swype has been posted online by TechCrunch.
Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup announced the first phone to use the technology will be the Samsung Omnia II on Verizon.
The video shown below is a side-by-side comparison of typing on the Omnia II versus typing on an iPhone. Swype lets you input text by literally swiping your finger from one letter to the next as fast as you can.
In the video Swype easily beats the iPhone; however, in my personal typing test I can easily beat Swype. In fact, I finished inputing the entire selection in about half the time it took the Swyper. (By the word ‘effort’ to be precise).
Perhaps Swype would be good for those with poor hand eye co-ordination as it doesn’t involve lifting your finger from the device.
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The internet has been ablaze with reports of jailbroken iPhones being infested with worms. The exploit takes advantage of unwitting jailbreakers who install OpenSSH on their iPhones via Cydia without taking into account all of the impacts on security. The most notable, and now famous, hole in this theory is that every iPhone ships with the same default password for both the all-powerful “root” user as well as the more-restricted “mobile” user.
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As you all may know Verizon out of no where started attacking AT&T and it’s network with some not so nice television commercial ads. These ads have to do with network coverage and how one is better than the other. In obvious retaliation AT&T came back with an ad of their own and since the iPhone is running under AT&T’s network it looks like Apple wants to protect it’s precious jewel so it fired back with a couple of commercial ads of its own:
Apple is gonna be pissed about this one, but I hope they now accept that jailbreaking their i-products makes them so much better. Below is a commercial for the all new 2010 Kia Sorento and to my surprise theres a jailbroken ipod touch with cydia and winterboard installed in the dock ipod dock of the car shown at the 42 sec mark of the video check it out:
If you have the older 3g unrestrictor installed uninstall it and then install this deb.
Version 2.0
New features:
SBSettings Toggle
Lets you enable or disable unrestricting of apps.
Usage example: You are watching YouTube, but notice that your current 3G connection is too slow and loading of high quality videos takes too long. Use SBSettings to disable unrestricting and watch the video in low quality without having to start the config app and removing youtube from the unrestricted list
Ask to unrestrict (Disabled by default)
3G Unrestrictor can detect when an application MIGHT be trying to check whether its on 3G and will ask you whether you want to unrestrict it.
Other changes:
* Improved tricking engine
* The isDirect flag is automatically enabled for Sky MobileTV and Joost now
* Fixed a rare crash condition in Skype
Thanks to schnedi for this upload.
Thanks to 3744111 over at xsellize for the upload
New features v1.1:
* Home Button Support
* Search Page
* Theme Support
* Dynamic Sizing
* Performance Improvements
The Apple Magic Mouse drivers have been hacked to enable multi-touch support on Windows 7, according to uneasysilence.com.
Thanks to a little hackery from Apple’s Bluetooth Update the Magic Mouses driver was extracted via WinRar resulting in a 32bit version and a 64bit version that you can install on any ordinary Windows PC that will enable all the scrolling ‘magic’ of the Magic Mouse.
You can download the 32-bit drivers here and the 64-bit drivers here
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