Archive for: March 29, 2008

March 29, 2008

Hackers embed flashing animations on epilepsy support forum

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsShortly after hearing a sad tale of a 7-year old cancer patient having his medication and PSP stolen whilst en route to treatment comes yet another story of the world’s meanest preying on the helpless. that go ’round, a group of griefers (assuming to be members of Anonymous…

Video of the iPhone Pwned project in action

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Those crafty kids on the iPhone Dev Team have already hacked the 2.0 firmware, but now they’re getting ready to release the oh-so-creatively-named PWNED tool, which takes iPhone hacking to the next level by patching the bootloader to let you load any firmware image you want -…

Nintendo’s Wii Wheel priced at $14.99

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsWe’ve known that Nintendo would be bundling a loner Wii Wheel in with the forthcoming Mario Kart Wii title, but now it seems that folks riding shotgun (or riding your tail) can seize one of their own. According to a recently released flyer from GameStop, additional Wh…

Apple Seeds First Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

“Apple issued the first Mac OS X 10.5.3 seed (9d10) to developers yesterday. The latest update to Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard addresses dozens of outstanding issues. Fixes range from Dashboard, Parental Controls, iCal Synchronization, memory leaks and stability issues. All in all, 75 distinct bug fixes…

OpenOffice 2.4 Released

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Version 2.4 of the OpenOffice productivity suite was released on Thursday, boasting enhancements to all its core components. Possibly the most meaningful alteration in the new version of the free suite is in the description of file types. The ‘OpenDocument’ description has been replaced by ‘ODF’, wh…

Creative halts unauthorized distribution of homegrown Vista drivers

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable AudioChances are that whether you do your duties on Vista and rely on one of Creative’s sound cards to get your dance on, you may have become frustrated by the firm’s inability to offer up a driver package that lived up to those loosed for Windows XP. ‘Course, whet…

Linux becomes only OS to escape PWN 2 OWN unscathed

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Laptops
After a week full of Red Bulls, Fruit by the Foot and dreams of In-N-Out, the mighty Sony VAIO loaded with Linux stood as the only machine unhacked by the end of the PWN 2 OWN hacking contest at CanSecWest. As you’re well aware by now, the MacBook Air on display was seized in tw…

Mac OS X 10.5.3 examining starts: by 75 cipher corrections reported

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

 With by 300 new features in the final update to Mac OS X Leopard, you’d think Apple would take some moment to relax a bit, but already they’re examining the next update. evaluating of Mac OS X 10.5.3 started that week, according to AppleInsider.Build 9D10 has been made available on to the deve…

BlackBerry service outages keeping your weekend interesting?

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: CellphonesHaving some BlackBerry troubles? You’re not alone, we’ve been receiving some sporadic tips on the subject, and some forum users have reported outage trouble as well, though for other users it seems just fine. Let us know how your service is doing. Or don’t — that might be jus…

South Korean police aiming to equip all new handsets with GPS?

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
Taking a note from Japan, it’s being reported that South Korean police are backing a highly controversial plan that would equip each new mobile sold in the nation with a GPS chip. Reportedly, Song Kang-ho, chief of the observation bureau of the National Police Agency, ha…

Asus My Cinema - PE9400 Combo supports both digital/ analog TV format with PBP and PIP functions

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

Asus nowadays introduced the new PCI-express TV card, the Asus My Cinema - PE9400 Combo. that versatile hardware is able to support both digital (ATSC/QAM) and analog (NTSC) TV programs formats, and is embedded with a MPEG2 hardware encoder for reduced CPU loading with guaranteed high-qual…

KDDI W42K model cell phone generates smoke due to battery’s short-circuiting

Filed under: Review - 29 Mar 2008

KDDI Corp, Japan called on users of its W42K cell phone model to apply caution Friday, saying some battery packs of the cellphone may short-circuit, generating smoke and blowing up. The mobile phone service provider, known for its ‘‘au’’ type, said it received 13 complaints from us…

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