Not too long ago, an Australian modchip supplier was supplying a device that allowed gamers to backup their legit game copies to internal or external USB devices and play them from there.
Unfortunately, the success the device has been shortlived. Sony recently demanded that all orders for this device to be cancelled, in which the manufacturers agreed to and promptly the modchip supplier refunded all the paid orders that were queued.
According to an article posted on Redmond Pie, a person by the name of Mary Jo Foley from the All About Microsoft website has managed to grab a screenshot of the latest platform test version of Microsoft’s Web Browser, Internet Explorer 9, which was accidentally posted for the world to see on a Russian website. While the screenshot and info has been pulled from the russian website in question, Mary Jo manage to save the details and spill the beans, as follows:
Thanks to the law that passed US Courts earlier this year, a one-tap jailbreak called “JailbreakMe” has been an attractive option for people who are running a iPhone 3G/3GS or that snazzy iPhone 4 with a recent iOS 3.1.x or 4.0.x. What this exploit does exploits a exploit inside the iOS itself that allows code execution, without prompting the user. Just one tap and a few seconds later, you’re jailbroken. This allows your iPhone to be released from Apple’s command, run Android on the device and all sorts of awesome stuff like multitasking, speed boosts, etc. JailbreakMe claims to work on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads.
TweetDeck, a powerful Twitter client for operating systems, has been a victim of a scamming attack by another party. The issue came into attention when the lead TweetDeck developers found out that an unofficial version of their product for Android devices was released by “Hijacked Account, GmbH” with the price tag of $1.00 USD on the Android Market. This fake version has numerous features removed and may be incompatible with some devices.
The issue was raised when the offical TweetDeck developer twitter account tweeted the following quote:
Microsoft, the creator of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been awarded with a Virus Bulletin 100% award for it’s free security software package, called “Microsoft Security Essentials”. While big-name security products such as Norton, Kaspersky and Trend Micro slipped up on the VB100 tests, Microsoft Security Essentials took the cake, earning a comment from the VB100 testers, as quoted below:
Detection rates were strong as ever…with no problems in the WildList or clean sets, Microsoft earns another VB100 award with ease.
Not too long ago, Karl Ostmo, the author of Droidful and Kanji Tutor, released an Android application that allows anyone to make their own anime characters.
The program is based on an exisiting generator for Microsoft Windows. The problem is that the Windows generator is in Japanese and no known translation exists for it.
This application does everything the windows generator does, and also allows users to save generated characters as PNG files. Users can change the gender of the character (Male/Female), change clothes, hair styles and lots more. There is even a random character generator feature in case users want a random character generated. The possibilities are endless.
The United Kingdom government has oddly disapproved upgrading their internal web browsers from the exploit-prone Internet Explorer 6 to a more recent Internet Explorer version, saying the trouble of performing and cost of the browser upgrade would outweigh the benefits.
A petition began back when French and German governments issued a message to citizens to “get a better browser“, promoting the use of Opera, Firefox and Chrome instead of IE, in the wake of the Chinese Google Hack Attack. While the petition received 6,223 signatures and ended on 6th of June 2010, the government replied to the petition with the following statement on the 30th of July, quote:
Google, the creator of the Android operating system, has broken records with over 200,000 android devices being activated every day.
In May ’10, Google was activating over 100,000 android devices per day. When May rolled into June, that number increased by 60,000 to 160,000 android devices per day. Now, in August, that number has hit an all-time record of over 200,000 devices being activated every day.
It seems that this influx of android activation numbers may have been due to Motorola’s massive media event with the much-hyped Droid X smartphone launch, and also the success of the new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. With Android device shipment numbers beating the iPhone’s shipment numbers, could it be that Android will dominate the phone market this year? It may just be so.
Droidful has recently released a Android application that allows users to find out what Japanese text says when they are traveling in Japan without a translator, watching anime with subtitles disabled, or just browsing Japanese websites. Not only is it a great tool to find out what that random japanese text says, but users can also take quizzes to make sure their Kanji knowledge is up to date.
The application is in the Android Market, for a low price of $2.49 under the name of “Kanji Tutor”. The android market description is as follows:
v2.1: On+Kun’yomi quizzes
As usual the latest System Menu version set out to remove any homebrew you might of installed on your Nintendo Wii.
Although it did succeed, It’s success has been short lived.
On July 26th, The Homebrew Channel was updated to 1.0.7.
This update is compatible with System Menu 4.3.
Other updates in this (Homebrew Channel) update include the end of DVDx, as a new exploit has been found that allows direct communication with the Disc Drive.
This update also includes a new look and improved USB support.
To update you can either download the update from the link mentioned below or update through the channel itself.
