Loading ...Gizmodo has unearthed a security flaw in the iPhone OS and boy is it a doozy. According to the post it’s simple to access a locked iPhone’s address book, Mail, SMS, Contacts, and Safari.
The vulnerability works like this on a password protected and locked iPhone:
Then slide to unlock
Tap emergency call
Double tap the home button
This give [...]
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Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out.
Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post.
So it came to pass that when my Engineering and Design team had irreconcilable differences with where the company seemed [...]
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Apple has banned an R-rated comic from the App Store called Murderdome for violating a term in their SDK that prohibits offensive content in “Apple’s reasonable opinion.”
In a blog post the InfuriousComics says “we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that [...]
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Those following the Psystar saga will be interested to know that the Miami-based clone maker has fired a salvo in their legal battle with Apple. Psystar has been selling Apple clones with Mac OS Leopard pre-installed since April 2008.
At a press conference yesterday Psystar CEO Rudy Pedraza said that his company is answering Apple’s copyright [...]
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I’ve been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service. Loopt uses the GPS chip in the iPhone 3G and Wi-Fi triangulation in the iPhone 2G to pinpoint your exact location.
When you [...]
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The MacBook Pro is due for a re-design, this much we know. But is this the new professional notebook from Apple?
The picture above surfaced in an a Digg submission purportedly of a “new ad” (a version also appeared on NeoWin) and is hosted on an anonymous pictures hosting site, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. [...]
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The MacBook Pro is due for a re-design, this much we know. But is this the new professional notebook from Apple?
The picture above surfaced in an a Digg submission purportedly of a “new ad” (a version also appeared on NeoWin) and is hosted on an anonymous pictures hosting site, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. [...]
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On Friday I posted a piece about a problem with vertical lines appearing on PowerBook G4 17-inch screens just as they got outside of their three-year AppleCare warranty.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there may be a similar problem with some third generation 17-inch Intel iMacs with serial numbers in the W860****U2N range as reported by MacNN [...]
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One feature that ranks up there on most people’s iPhone wishlist (somewhere between Copy and Paste and MMS) is video recording. Now there are two options for recording video on the iPhone – the only caveat is that you have to jailbreak your iPhone to use them.
iSmashphone posted a review of the two video recording [...]
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