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Archive for May, 2010

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Although the joke in this Star Wars iPad Briefing video —in which footage from A New Hope is overlaid with Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation — is fairly straightforward, it’s really the skeptical coughs and embarrassed shuffling of the Rebel Pilots that really makes it work…. not to mention Han Solo’s exasperated eye-roll.

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If you’re dreaming of Netflix for your iPhone, good news: you’re just a jailbreak away. Hacker Knisitruck says that the existing Netflix iPad app is secretly a universal binary and can be easily ported to the iPhone with a few simple steps.

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Steve Jobs’ “hobby” device might not be a hobby for long: Engadget reports that sources close to Apple claim that the Apple TV is currently getting a massive overhaul as an iPhone OS, streaming video device.
The old Apple TV was like a big iPod that connected to your set, so it’s not really a surprise [...]

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iPhone users will finally be able to take advantage of Skype 2.0–with 3G. But they’ll eventually have to pay for the privilege.

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The Department of Justice is already investigating Apple over how they used their market strength over digital music sales. The New York Post is reporting that the probe is extending into other types of digital media.

“The [Justice Dept.] is doing outreach,” said one Hollywood industry source. “You can’t dictate terms to the industry. The Adobe thing is just inviting the wrath of everybody.”

Take this all with a mammoth amount of salt. It’s the New York Post, who aren’t usually a source of major news in the tech sphere. Without additional confirmation on this from a more reliable news outlet, this is suspect for now. Not to mention Apple doesn’t have nearly enough control of any sector of the market except music to be considered a giant.

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We’ve covered hacking the iPhone to take Android OS before, but now it’s easier than ever. FunkySpaceMonkey has released an app that takes away much of the hard part. It still only works on the iPhone 2G and 3G, but it’s now crazy easy to do:

You will need:

• a jailbroken iPhone 2G or 3G running firmware 3.1.2 ( NOT 3.1.3 )
• the device should be jailbroken with PwnageTool, RedSn0w or Blackra1n. Won’t work with Spirit…
• OpenSSH installed with default password ( alpine )
• Macfuse installed on your Mac
• and of course… iPhodroid

How to:

• Download iPhodroid and extract
• Install Macfuse
• Run iPhodroid and hit run – the process should take around 5 minutes

There you have it folks. Three steps to Android on the iPhone. It still murders battery life, is slow as all get out, and won’t sync media — but those are all minor annoyances, right?

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

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Today Apple announced the sales figures of the iPad, and in the fewer than 60 days since launch, Apple has sold two million units. The iPad was released in the United States on April 3, and in nine other countries on the 28 of this month, and more are in the pipeline.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

Full press release follows:

Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days

CUPERTINO, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that iPad(TM) sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

iPad allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch(TM) user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds–thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook–and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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If you’re a fan of games like Minigore or Guerilla Bob, then developers GameLab have a treat in store for you – Pirate’s Treasure for iPhone and iPod Touch – boasting stunning 3D graphics, all-out blasting mayhem and bosses too massive to fit on the screen, this game will certainly keep you entertained!
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An endeavoring hacker at ModMyi tweaked the current version of Netflix for the iPad, and found that it had a pretty extensive framework for functioning on the iPhone too. It only took some minor tweaking to make work, but there are some major side-effects:

• Huge battery drain – 25% of battery for around 15min of streaming, drains pretty quick while browsing the app as well.
• Crashing – I suspect memory is the issue here, and also probably because it’s made for another device. Happened when browsing too fast through the app(lots of clicks).
• 3G Speed – Takes forever to load the app and to start streaming (does work though)

So, have a jailbroken iPhone and want to do this yourself? Just follow these instructions (which we haven’t tested in any way shape or form).

To do this yourself

• Get app from iTunes, locate/rename ipa to zip and extract.
• Go into the .app file, located at /appname/Payload/appname.app, (show package contents) and open the info.plist
• Edit all references of OS version to show iphoneos3.1.2 (or your respective version). Save and close, done there.

Now, just copied over SSH (with permissions repair and a respring) this will show up on the phone. With Netflix though, it required the mediaplayer frameworks from the iPad. So:

• SSH, get the mediaplayer frameworks folder from an iPad, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaPlayer.framework
• Copy that to the same location on an iPhone (I’d suggest backing up the original from your phone just in case). Change permissions to 755 recursive for directories, and then go inside the folder and change the individual file permissions to 644. (Or just recursive 755 to all files/folders on the MediaPlayer.framework folder)

Now the mediaplayer frameworks are in place, all that’s left is a manual install of the app.

• SSH, go to /private/var/stash/Applications
• Copy the appname.app file there and change permissions. (I used 777 recursive for simplicity’s sake, but I’m sure the normal 775 would work).
• Launch and have fun.

That’s about it. The way I found out that I needed the frameworks file was from a crash report.

[via Engadget]

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Skype’s been teasing us with the promise of this for a while now, and we postulated they’d add the feature after Apple revealed iPhone OS 4 would include background VoIP — and yesterday it finally arrived: Skype’s iPhone app now works over a 3G network.

Of course, apps like Goober and Fring have given iPhone users [...]

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