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Remember that PDF exploit from last year that JailbreakMe 2.0 was using to unlock your iPhone with just a few taps? Well, Apple patched it. And now it's apparently back. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple acknowledged the exploit, and is working on an update at this very moment. In addition to the JailbreakMe 3.0 hack that came to light last week, the hole can also be used for some not-so-noble efforts, like grabbing your contacts database, accessing saved passwords, or activating your iPad or iPhone's built-in camera. And nobody wants that. For one reason or another, German authorities have taken the lead on encouraging Apple to investigate, and have also warned all users to avoid opening PDF docs from untrusted sources. And we're happy to echo that rather solid advice, given the implications.
Ironically, JailbreakMe includes a patch for the very hole that allows it to function in the first place, so if you're terrified that rogue PDFs will take over your devices, that's an option to consider in the meantime.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/07/apple-ios-4-3-4-software-update-may-fix-iphone-hole-block-pdf-j/
**Just jailbreak your iPhone then go into cydia and download PDF patcher. It should prevent malicious PDF from circumventing your phone.Remember that PDF exploit from last year that JailbreakMe 2.0 was using to unlock your... more
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Wow, I can’t believe that it’s been four whole years since we started dating. It only seems like yesterday when your camera only had 2 megapixels and you still had your cute baby fat which I was really attracted to. You were such a simpler girlfriend back then, so much nicer, you used to be so attentive to my needs, God I miss those days. Over the years you’ve changed. You started working out, tanning, getting your hair colored and even started yoga even though you said you hated it. You’ve started dressing different now that you’re so svelte and it seems you hardly even notice me anymore since you’ve become so “Hollywood”. I’ve just become “that guy who carries me around”, and that really hurts because I have a name damnit.
I remember when you used to weigh 135 grams. Yes I said it, I know you don’t want anyone to know how big you used to be, but since our relationship is going downhill, I’m going to air out all of our dirty laundry right here, right now! I used to lovingly lug you around in my pocket, and trust me it wasn’t easy back then, but sacrifice is how relationships work. I loved you, and you loved me and nothing else mattered. But now you have competition with that new sexy Android slut, and even though I would never look at her in a lustful way, your jealousy is getting the best of you. I understand if you’re looking for a way out of what we have, but let me tell you, you’re making a huge mistake. She’s sexy yes, but you are my true love! True, I may have held her a couple of times and commented on her gigantic screen, but none of that matters. You’re way hotter than her. I don’t care if you enlarged your screens, got lasik surgery for better sight, increased your knowledge with those fancy French and pottery classes you’ve been taking. I don’t care that you’ve lost 3.5 mm from your waist, I used to adore those cute love handles. Remember how I would grab on to those babies? Smacking that ass, your loud ringtones going off, and how hot your battery charger used to get when I was all up in … sorry … I’m losing focus, but you know what I mean.
I hope this letter reaches you well, and I really do hope that you’ve found your true happiness out there wherever it may be. But just know that there’s a guy out there that still really cares about you regardless of what you look like, because he knows the real you and I don't even care that you've gained 2 grams over the years. A guy who will always be there for you if you ever choose to return, and still smiles when he thinks about the fun times we used to have in the car with Shazam.
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They look like apps but they’re really stealth development tools which give your customers the ability to build themselves their own app for your serviceThey look like apps but they’re really stealth development tools which give your... more
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If you’re deep in the wilderness on a rough, multi-day hike through sun-drenched rocky terrain and pristine alpine forests, your main priority is probably on keeping all your USB devices good and charged, right? Even if you’re miles from a cell tower, your movies and games still work! Fortunately TES NewEnergy has developed the Hatsuden-Nabe – a 6.3” camping pot with a USB port attached. Because water boils at 212°F but the flames in a normal fire can reach 900°F, the extra waste heat can be converted to power for your hungry electronics.
TES NewEnergy produces commercial thermoelectric generation units that provide green power to “incinerators, process plants, industrial furnaces, fueled vehicles, cookers/water-heaters, and ubiquitous machinery.” The ubiquitous machinery in this case would seem to be your iPhone or any other USB hand held device. The Japanese company’s electricity-generating camping pot utilizes a phenomenon known as the Seebeck effect, where currents formed by the temperature dissimilarities between edges of electrically conductive materials are converted into usable, clean energy.
There’s a bevy of solar and wind chargers for iPhone and USB devices out, but few if any seem capable of beating the Hatsuden-Nabe’s claims of charging a device in 3-5 hours. Some solar companies claim that 2-3 hours in direct sun is enough, but the average seems to be at least 5 hours, with some units taking up to 10 hours to charg fully. Also, those chargers need direct sunlight or at least overcast conditions, which might not always be available if you’re deep enough in the thicket.
Due to the charger’s relative speed and dependability it could be useful for a producing a quick burst of battery power to make an important call. The pot does retail at roughly $280 however, and cooking a pot of soup or boiling some hot water for tea for 3-5 hours to get a full charge might not be all that practical. Hopefully the company will follow up with a crock-pot version for a night of slow cooked chili on the lonesome trail – then the idea of iPhone-charging cookware might seem quite a bit more enticing.If you’re deep in the wilderness on a rough, multi-day hike through sun-drenched... more
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Apple is reportedly gearing up to release the next iPhone, the iPhone 5, as early as September.
As usual, specific details about what it'll look like and its features are being closely guarded by Jobs and co. but a number of substantial rumours have made their way into the US media.
So without further ado, here's a summary of the rumours currently circling the web:
The screen
DigiTimes in Taiwan says the iPhone 5 will have a curved glass screen, similar to Samsung's Nexus S, and says Apple have bought 200-300 glass-cutting machines in preparation.
Earlier this month, Mashable reported on a new Apple patent that adds a secondary display around the main touchscreen, which would offer more controls for the phone and larger display options for app developers to play about with.
The camera
Expect 8-megapixels as standard, says Bloomberg, and a dual-LED camera flash according to the folks at Electricpig. The 8MP prediction is one of the strongest, with a number of sources all hedging their bets on it.
Fewer buttons
Let's face it, the iPhone 4 (pictured) is hardly swamped with buttons but its successor will apparently have even less.
An anonymous Apple source reportedly told the Boy Genius Report that the iPhone 5 won't have a home button in favour of gesture-based commands.
Faster processor
According to Bloomberg, the iPhone 5 will include a A5 processor, the same powerful chip that's in the iPad 2.
iCloud connectivity
It's pretty much a given that the iPhone 5 will connect to iCloud, allowing users to connect it to their Mac and other Apple devices and seamlessly share documents, contacts and pictures between them all.
Mid-range iPhone
The Daily Mail claims that Apple will also release a cheaper version of the iPhone 'with the aim of boosting its market share in developing countries'. If so, Google will have some stiff competition for their cheaper-mid-range Android phones and Apple's market share can only be expected to grow.
And if all that's not enough, here's a not-entirely-serious advert that showcases what the phone may, or indeed may not, look like:
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Is that a 31 inch Minority Report interface in your pocket?
You don’t need to miniaturise all of the Kinect’s functionality if you aren’t going to use it for games. Projector phones that throw out a 31 inch image have been around for years. Apple won’t do it (to risk even trivial bulking-up would be more than iPhone designer Jonathan Ive’s Jobs’ worth) and the Kinect patents would give Microsoft a head start against Android.Is that a 31 inch Minority Report interface in your pocket?
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There was a time when RIM owned the smartphone space with its revolutionary push email-equipped BlackBerrys. And there are still plenty of folks who can't live without a good physical keyboard and BBM. But, despite the company's $4.9 billion in revenue and $695 million in profits from Q1 2011, RIM's stock has tumbled to its lowest price in five years. What's changed since those heady days when it seemed like there was a Pearl in every pocket? As many of you know, Androids and iPhones have carved out a big chunk of the smartphone market, largely at RIM's expense. Sure, Blackberry 7 OS is coming and the PlayBook is rolling out to help the company gain ground on Android and iOS, but only time will tell if these latest efforts from Waterloo can stem the rising tide of iPhones and little green bots.There was a time when RIM owned the smartphone space with its revolutionary push... more
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We have seen Angry Birds in real life before but never on this scale. T-Mobile's new advert is packed with real shooting birds and exploding pigs.We have seen Angry Birds in real life before but never on this scale. T-Mobile's... more
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What is it?
An app showing locations across the UK where users can ask for free tap water, designed to encourage people to move away from bottled H20. The app has an unintended money-saving angle, with users able to locate drinking fountains and outlets where they can drink water for free instead of paying 50p-plus a bottle.
Who is it by?
The app is the brainchild of Ben Kay, an author and blogger. Kay blogged asking for help to create an app to make tap water freely available to as many people as possible. Caffeine Concepts answered the call and created the app, with some design help from Crystal Lee.
What does it promise?
Users can find cafes and fast food outlets near them (or anywhere on a Googlemap) where they can ask staff to fill their bottle with water. The app is also calling for users to populate the map with the locations of free drinking fountains.
How does it work?
Launch the app and let it pinpoint your location and look for outlets or fountains near you where you can fill up.
Is it easy to use?
As simple as drinking water from a tap.
Is it fun?
It certainly offers a challenge – the app has only just launched so there are few drinking fountains listed, meaning the majority of outlets listed are the likes of Eat and Burger King where you will have to ask staff to fill your bottle.
Is it pretty?
The logo features words created from taps and water droplets that, as a whole, form a nifty blue glass – quality.
Should you download it?
As the app has only just launched users will have to be confident enough to ask for a refill from staff at a McDonald's, Starbucks, KFC, Pret A Manger or Costa Coffee (among others) if there is no drinking fountain nearby.
On his blog, Kay said he successfully got a refill at every big brand outlet he tried, but it might not work for everyone, and one of Kay's blog readers has questioned whether staff would stray into legal or health and safety issues by refilling bottles.
But the more popular the app becomes the greater number of drinking fountains will appear on the map, and it is an undeniably good idea, executed well. Water Water Everywhere offers users a unique opportunity to crowdsource something of real value – helping to stop damage to the environment caused by the manufacture of bottled water, while at the same time saving users money by helping them to fill reusable bottles with free tap water.What is it?
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Marco Tempest, a magician who calls himself the world's "premier technoillusionist', has invented his own iPhone app that he says delivers the "magic of tomorrow".
So far, so slightly pretentious but the tricks he performs, as demonstrated in the video above, are surprisingly impressive. With great timing, innovative use of technology, and the classic knack for telling a good story, Tempest is a fantastic showman.
He's also refreshingly open about the tools he uses for his 'magic'. In this video he's using his app 'MultiVid' to link and sync videos on three devices. Tempest admits to using an application called 'MultiVid' to link the devices.
The apps available for free if you're tempted to have a try, and he'll be performing tricks during a TED talk in July. We'll post the video of that as soon as it goes online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXqXcVF5S8Marco Tempest, a magician who calls himself the world's "premier... more
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FaceTime is not always the best way to receive or give good news. Check out what happens in this video!FaceTime is not always the best way to receive or give good news. Check out what... more
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Developers at ZionEyez in Seattle are working on Eyez, a pair of glasses with a tiny embedded video camera that can continuously record everything you see in 720p. The video can then be broadcasted wirelessly to social media sites like Facebook, for the world to see.
ZionEyez is describing Eyez as “a new revolution in social media technology,” enabling some exhibitionistic gadget lover to wear these video-shooting glasses that transmit the images via Bluetooth to an Eyez app on an iPhone or any Android device. The video would then be streamed through WiFi networks to video sites online, where it could all be viewed live.
The 8GB flash memory as well as a mini-USB port allows users to record the goings-on and then transfer them to a computer for editing and later transmission.Developers at ZionEyez in Seattle are working on Eyez, a pair of glasses with a tiny... more
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To help you find your way through the sea of tents and events on at Glastonbury this year Orange and the Guardian Guide have come up with the perfect Smartphone application.
On the schedule page you can add any of the bands/events you want to see to the personal planner to create your perfect line-up for the weekend. This will tell you what stages to head to, when and where via the built in map. Most importantly it will show you if you're going to have any clashes in your list.
Other features include:
* Interactive map with one click ‘now and next’ listings for stages and ‘mood map’.
* News section featuring up to date content from Glastonbury Festival and The Guardian including direct updates from the festival over the weekend
* Ability to share line-ups via Facebook before and during the festival
To get a better idea of the application check out the video and visit http://bit.ly/jIr4C7To help you find your way through the sea of tents and events on at Glastonbury this... more
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Apple is considered to be a leading company on the market that produces portable devices. It’s market share is about 75%. But Asia based companies are ready to “bite” a part of this share. At Computex is Asia biggest computing and communications technology trade show , companies presented their new products that are ready to compete with Apple’s devices. Companies stake on tablets (device between between smartphones and laptops).
Taiwan-based PC maker Asus has developed the Padfone, a combined smartfone tablet computer. The 4.3-inch smart phone slots into the back of the tablet. “When docked the tablet will charge the phone, says the manufacture, even if the tablet is not plugged into a power source”. This device runs Android operating system, the tablet is equipped with built-in USB drive and can be used for video conferencing.
“Another new entry from Asus is the EeePad Slider, a device with a 10.1-inch screen and a slide-out keyboard. And Acer, Taiwan's other big computer technology company, presented two new tablets.”
Read more here: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/05/31/tablet.mobile.computex/index.html?Apple is considered to be a leading company on the market that produces portable... more
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Well, the good news is that the asshole sitting in front of you who took that call in the middle of the super dramatic and or touching moment during the last half hour of the future Oscar nominated Kung Fu Panda 2 this Sunday afternoon, and who’s whispering voice is louder than most toddler wails, is going to die a horrible screaming death, unable to recognize even his closest loved ones as the thing growing in his head lurches one final time and mashes all that was him against the inside of his skull and explodes.
The bad news: so will all of the rest of us otherwise thoughtful, conscientious movie goers.
You see, in the future, your cell phone has murdered you already.
In the industrialized world, everything we eat, make, or look at is killing us, so it should come as no surprise that something we’ve often been told is probably killing us is probably killing us. Tuesday the World Health Organization released the results of a study that suggests that cell phones may cause cancer and are categorized as being as hazardous as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform, making them basically as dangerous as anything else made in China.
See, cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation. The kind that the article describes, saying it like it’s a good thing, as ”like a very low-powered microwave oven.”
“What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain. So in addition to leading to a development of cancer and tumors, there could be a whole host of other effects like cognitive memory function, since the memory temporal lobes are where we hold our cell phones.”
We are holding tiny microwave ovens to our heads and nuking our memories.
So what will be done? Well, if you said “With the swiftness of the angels choir, we, the consumer, will take this new found knowledge, given to us by those looking out for our own best interest so that we might better preserve our personal well being, and use it in the manner intended, to protect ourselves from those who might instead have their own personal gain as their most prescient thought. While those responsible for the manufacture and sale of these products will surely see that theirs is a dangerous gadget and will redouble their efforts to safeguard their precious customers, of whom their entire existence relies, to ensure that in the future they are delivering nothing but the finest quality product for the money because it is what the customer deserves, and what they certainly don’t deserve is a brain full of cancers.” then you were clearly born sometime during the reading of this article and that the well reasoned and insightful response of a mind not privy to the selfishness and stupidity of the world that awaits you, while certainly sounding measured and clear in your newborn head instead likely came out only as a mouth full of goo followed by a scream fueled by your first breath of life.
The truth is of course that this will change absolutely nothing. We’ve known since the advent of the cell phone that holding something against our head that is shooting invisible beams into space which are in turn being shot right back through self same head at the speed of light probably isn’t the best thing we could be doing to it, but that doesn’t stop us from buying the newest one the second we are legally allowed to. Knowing that our phones are cooking our gray meat isn’t going to keep us from using them. Sure, I might get myself a new hands free ear bud, but then the second that stops working I’ll be pressing my skull roasting rectangle back to my face and jerkeying my memories again.
The simple fact of the matter is that they could call the damned thing the iTumorer 4GT and there would be a line around the block for it come release day just so long as it had three cameras, weighed a 64th of an ounce less and had 64gigs to put all of the music that we’d forgotten why we liked because that part of our brain now had the texture of over defrosted chicken.
You know how many cigarettes are still sold in the world every day? Neither do I, because I’ve got more important things to do than count cigarettes, but the point is, there’s still a lot, and what’s crazy is that new people begin smoking every day. Cigarettes are now sold wrapped entirely in warning labels that tell you plainly that inhaling the cylinders held within will give you a fatal disease or your money back, and people are still buying them. People who have never lived a day on this planet without the knowledge of this inevitability are STILL STARTING to do this thing as I type this. People could not be warned about the dangers of this entirely legal item any more if the only way they could buy them in the store was if they had to recite the entire Surgeon General’s warning along with their brand before being given a pack. So telling people that the rectangle in their pocket that contains their entire life might kill them isn’t going to phase anyone.
Did you also know that every time you have ever used your phone ever, you’ve been doing it wrong, and Apple has desperately been trying to protect you this whole time. In the iPhone user manual it says that in order to not exceed FCC radiation exposure guidelines while using it as it’s designed to be used to, “keep iPhone at least 15 mm (5/8 inch) away from the body.” They’re fully aware what they have to say they told you about not cooking your brain, and they’re just as aware that you’re not going to read that, or if you did, you probably chuckled and thought how stupid it was. It doesn’t matter how impossible that would make the USE of your “phone” in what is supposed to be its primary function of listening to someone on the other end relaying verbal information through a speaker that wouldn’t work well enough if you implanted it in your skull. You’re holding it too close to not get cancer, so it’s your fault if you didn’t use their product as directed.
So in the end this new found knowledge is going to do exactly nothing. People are going to continue using their cell phones with the full understanding that it is slowly killing them and they’re simply not going to care. So really, is it actually better to know exactly what’s killing you, or to just go on assuming that everything is, knowing that you’re probably right anyway? In the meantime, if you want to get a hold of me, buy a stamp and make sure it’s worth a week for my response. I’ll be in the lime pit I’ve dug in my backyard and covered with moss and wishes. That ought to keep me safe, at least until scientists tell me that wishes give you AIDS…
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Seeing it’s a wild weekend I’ll go off base again. I’ve come across a couple of iOS apps that I’ve found to be very useful to me and a bit of a game changer in many ways. These are two apps one for commerce and one for pleasure that have changed the way I think in many ways.Seeing it’s a wild weekend I’ll go off base again. I’ve come across... more
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JK Rowling saw all this coming, said the man who had just shown me a newspaper where the photos moved and talked, straight out of Harry Potter.
And yes, the application which Autonomy's Mike Lynch had demonstrated to make that happen was magical. But what I'm still not quite clear about is whether Aurasma is, as he claims, the idea that makes augmented reality go mainstream.
The app uses Autonomy's high-powered search technology - hitherto just aimed at commercial clients - to link all sorts of things it sees through a smartphones camera to other objects.
So point your phones camera at a poster for the movie Thor - and it will suddenly start playing a trailer.
Hover over the masthead of The Times or The Sun or the Daily Telegraph - and the words start to jump around, before merging into some video.
And show your camera the London Underground symbol and a cartoon starts to play with an athletics commentary, promoting the Tube as the way to get to the London Olympics.
Constructed reality
This is not working via barcodes or NFC technology but through visual recognition. Aurasma is building up a bank of images which it recognises, and sees as a cue to play the video or animate the graphic. It works not just with images on a page but with buildings, landscapes, and soon, we're promised, with people.
Mike Lynch says two advances in the last few years have made this possible. On the device side, the power of the devices is staggeringly unbelievable, and then equally amazing on the algorithm side there've been some very clever mathematical shortcuts discovered which lighten the computational load.
And what's really clever is that Aurasma allows anyone who downloads the app to create their own augmented reality content.
So you choose the image you want to augment, link it to another image or video, and upload what Autonomy calls an Aura to its servers. I tried this, putting a photo of my dog on the front page of the Financial Times, and video of myself on the front of Television Centre. Enormously pleasing, although you might struggle to see the point.
And there's the question - what's this for? Autonomy has never had a consumer product before, and it shows in the way the app is presented.
Once you've got the hang of it, cutting through the jargon of Auras, Happenings and Anywheres - the different classes of objects you create - then it is impressive. But while it does a whole lot more than other augmented reality apps, it still looks like something you might try out a couple of times, then forget.
But the primary audience is not consumers but companies. Aurasma is a free, open platform on which, according to Mike Lynch, all sorts of businesses will build all kinds of applications.
Talking heads
You're standing at a bus-stop, the adverts come to life, you're looking at menu, you can see the food, instruction manuals can show you how to put the Ikea table together.
Already, newspapers are talking about turning display adverts into video ads - which can earn them more. And movie studios are planning sightseeing tours where you see parts of a film played out in the real world.
Its a vision of a future where images, not words, become the building blocks by which we search the world and understand our surroundings.
But however keen businesses might be to exploit this technology, they will still need consumers to take an interest. Just because something is possible, it doesn't mean that we will want it.
For all its fabulous technology, has Autonomy really looked inside the minds of mobile consumers? And if it did, might it find that we don't want to walk down the streets pointing our smartphone cameras at everything around us?JK Rowling saw all this coming, said the man who had just shown me a newspaper where... more
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