iPhone Hacked At Pwn2Own

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

An iPhone got hacked in just 20 seconds at this week’s Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest 2010, reports Ryan Naraine for ZDnet. Hackers Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann demoed an exploit that allowed them to send a target iPhone to a web site that they’d set up online, and then copied off the entire SMS database on the iPhone (including deleted text messages) to their own server. Read more…

‘69 GTO Controlled By iPod Touch

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter was probably the coolest thing ever controlled via iPhone or iPod touch… until this. Dave Phipps has hooked up a ‘69 Pontiac GTO to his iPod touch — he’s been rebuilding these cars for a long time, and this particular one was picked up out of a farm for just $400. Read more…

Analyst Predicts New iPhone Form Factor

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Another analyst believes with ‘increased confidence’ that Apple will make a big splash this summer with a new iPhone form factor.

Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes writes,

“iPad yields should improve dramatically throughout the year even if the launch starts out capacity constrained. These developments support upside to consensus forecasts for the iPad Read more…

Tweak: SpringBoard Rotator Coming This Weekend

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The developer of SpringBoard Rotator, the tweak of which we have spoken several times, has just announced via Twitter that by the weekend, the application will be sent to Saurik to be included in Cydia Store.  Read more…

Robotic Test Reconfirms iPhone’s Touchscreen Superiority

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Robot Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

A new test of touchscreen smartphones with a precise laboratory robot has confirmed what a human test already concluded: Apple’s iPhone touchscreen is far and away the most accurate touch panel on the market.

The test, conducted by MOTO Labs, compared an iPhone using the SimpleDraw application with a number of other touchscreen smartphones: Google Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, HTC Droid Eris, and BlackBerry Storm 2. As the company, which has no relation to Motorola, discovered earlier this year, the iPhone is in first, followed by the Google Nexus One in a distant second place. Read more…

Zits & Giggles Removed From Appstore With No Explanation

March 23, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Zits & Giggles is an useless app created by the developer Tommy Refenes, he created Zits & Giggles to proof that people pay a lot of money for junk apps. All you can do in this app is destroy pimples. At the point Apple removed Zits & Giggles it was available for 400 dollar, and still got sold. Read more…

More Magic Tricks For Your iPhone

March 23, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

I’ve enjoyed reviewing some of the clever magic tricks that are getting developed for the iPhone over the last year, and I want to be sure to point out Magic Card which is clever and will likely fool the uninitiated.

Here’s what the spectator sees: a person cuts the deck to select a card, which is kept face down. You use your iPhone to take a picture of the card, either alone on the table, or as I prefer at the top of the stack. The spectator sees you select the camera icon and take the picture. To be sure the picture wasn’t taken in advance the spectator can put something in the picture like a ring or tableware next to the card to prove it. Read more…

Element For iPhone Still In The Works!!

March 22, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Element was suppose to be the next best thing since Lockinfo and Intelliscreen but it looked like all was lost when news about this new spectacular tweak stopped going around. Finally a week ago we have gotten some confirmation that it is still in the works and it looks great.

Ignite Toronto 3: Jon Lax – Element: Redesigning the iPhone homescreen from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo.

Update: iFile 1.2.0-1 (timebomb fixed)

March 22, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - Cracked .deb's, Cracks

Download:

A File Manager and Viewer. iFile is a file manager runnning under user root. It allows fast navigation through the iPhone file system. You can directly view files of various types, e.g. movies, sound, text, HTML, Microsoft types, PDF, various compressed formats. For PDF files direct jumping to pages is possible. ZIP packing and compressed file unpacking is also supported. Files can be sent as email attachments. Text files and property lists can be edited. Folders and files can be bookmarked. In addition, files can be uploaded and downloaded from iFile’s built-in web server.

-More Info Click HERE

Easy Install: Add Theiphonespotrepo.net/apt to your cydia sources, search iFile, install from there. Read more…

“Gift This App” Appears In App Store

March 22, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

When the 2010 baseball season began, I knew I wanted to buy MLB At Bat for a friend. Unfortunately there was no way to do that directly, so I had to settle for a Gift Certificate. Then I discovered that Gift Certificates are only available in $10 increments, starting at $10 and ending at $50. Read more…