Archive for August 29, 2007

Developers offer free iPhone application packaging

Today developers Nicholas “Drudge” Penree and Shaun “Ste” Erickson have announced unlimited free Installer.app packaging for iPhone application developers.

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Israeli Hackers 100% Unlock the iPhone Yet Again, AT&T Shrugs

Three hackers named Dubbi, Ofir and Eli have claimed to have unlocked the iPhone independently in Israel. If confirmed, this would be the fifth time that someone has unlocked the iPhone with a different method. The hackers say they made more progress in regards to the iPhone’s user interface. Meanwhile, AT&T talked with Gizmodo about the unlocking.

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New Digg Home Page breaks the Linux section on IE?

So I’m sitting here eating lunch and go to see if there is anything new on Digg. However, when i got to the Linux/Unix section, it wouldn’t show up in Internet Explorer (6). It works fine in FireFox. Does someone over at Digg have a sense of humor or is my browser just acting on the bunk?

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X.Org 7.3 Preview

Scheduled for release tomorrow is X.Org 7.3. Among the new features for X.Org 7.3 include the Xorg server 1.4, an application for adjusting a displays backlight, updated display drivers, and support for font catalog directories.

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the NEW Halo Blomkamp video short!

ZOMG Brutes! ZOMG Pelicans! Why haven’t they made the Halo movie yet?

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33 German Universities Migrate to Suse Linux

The coveted university computer platform in many German Universities has be changed to Suse Linux and Open Source Software.

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Can dmoz get any more corrupt?

This weekend I was reading about Shoemoney being extorted by a DMOZ editor. I thought: heck, I’m a DMOZ editor, I don’t want to be associated with stuff like that, let’s see if I can do anything to help. Now pay attention: within 36 hours after doing that, my account was disabled!

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Unlocked iPhones highlight DMCA absurdities

As of late 2006, cell phone unlocking became legal in the US, but don’t tell that to AT&T; the company has unleashed the lawhounds on UniquePhones, a Belfast-based company that claims to have developed a software-only method to unlock the iPhone.

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UK iTunes opens Video Store

The title says it all. The new TV Programmes section brings such classic American programming as SpongeBob Squarepants, South Park and Kim Possible and possibly British shows inluding Bam’s Unholy Union and Jongleurs Unleashed. £1.89 per show.

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Help-Key: Fake Photoshop the Fat Nano™ in Five Minutes for Apple’s Lawyers

Right now there are many people on Digg claiming that the image we’ve been using of the forthcoming iPod Fat Nano™ is a Photoshop job. They would be right. They’re crying foul, but we never said it was anything but a fake, as we had to have something to show what the new Fat Nano™ will look like, since Apple’s legal guys told us we had to pull the

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Half-Life developer: Wii more valuable than 360, PS3

Half-Life creator and founder of Valve software, Gabe Newell, strongly hinted at plans to develop games for Nintendo Wii, calling his current exclusion of games on the system as “an obvious hole in our strategy.”

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Linux and real-time Java power German traffic lights

A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java. Signalbau Huber says its Actros controller will better meet safety-critical requirements after moving to Sysgo ELinOS/PikeOS 4.1 with Aonix’s PERC real-time Java runtime.

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