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iPod touch 2G redsn0w Video Shows Jailbreak in Action
Click to viewWe brought you a pic of the Dev Team’s iPod touch 2g “redsn0w” jailbreak yesterday, and just as the team promised, a video proving the hack works was up and ready for viewing today. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-touch-2g-jailbroken-by-the-iphone-dev-team-5133669 As with the yellowsn0w video we showed you last month, this video was brought to us by Dev … Continued
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Homemade Scrabble Keyboard: Double Nerd Score
This wood and brushed aluminum keyboard features real Scrabble tiles with the points score slightly modded to show each key’s secondary function. It’s classy, it’s nerdy, and it’s worth a ton of points. I’m a huge Scrabble geek, so it’s great to see such a great mod made out of the 2nd-greatest board game of … Continued
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NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
A young woman’s visit to the wondrous(ly dirty) world of New York City was sullied by the loss of her iPod to a cabbie, thanks to big-city intimidation. As the 20-year-old tourist recounts, her credit card was declined due to the cab’s malfunctioning machine, yet the cabdriver refused to accept her explanation and threatened to … Continued
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Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
An Aussie construction worker and part-time filmmaker (?) was instructed to destroy a substantial quantity of Apple equipment— some of which, he says, was salvageable. But can we really trust his account? The construction worker, who refused to give his real name, says that he destroyed nine full pallets of equipment, including MacBooks, Mac Pros, … Continued
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iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken by the iPhone Dev Team
The 2nd generation iPod touch proved a tricky customer to break, but the Dev Team has made the first big step toward a full-on jailbreak. The Dev Team stumbled upon the break when making yellowsn0w, the iPhone jailbreaker, but says the touch’s jailbreak is far too manual to be done by most people at this … Continued
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Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adapter Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible
Users of Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter are still experiencing the distortion issues, but now Apple Engineering is supposedly telling people this is only compatible with the Apple Cinema Display. https://gizmodo.com/apples-mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-has-pe-5119858 Reader Yoel reports that AppleCare has contacted him to say Engineering retroactively decided the adapters are ONLY compatible with the 30-inch Apple … Continued
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iFlyz Clamps Media Player to Tray Table (No MacGyvering Necessary)
Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance. The thing looks like a scaled-down inverted GPS mount, with suction cup there to grab the device, and a clamp to latch … Continued
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NSFW: Wobble iPhone App Adds Boob Jiggle To Real Boobs, IS Approved
Who needs the fake boobies of iBoobs when Wobble lets you add boob jiggle to real photos? Just tap, resize, repeat, and any photo you have on your iPhone becomes an instant jigglefest. https://gizmodo.com/nsfw-boob-app-on-the-iphone-is-obviously-called-iboobs-5116493 We tested it out on our own subject, Mark Wilson. It wasn’t quite as appealing as the demo video above, but … Continued
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The Week in iPhone Apps: And We Have Reached A New Low
See if you can guess which icon represents said “new low.” Have a guess? I bet you do. But thankfully, there were some legit cool apps this week too. Zit Picker: The aforementioned low. I write about it only to warn fellow Gizmodo fans, with hopes of condemning this app to the graveyard. You pick … Continued
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Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News is claiming that Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant, citing “people who are monitoring his illness.” Does this mean Bloomberg talked to his doctors? His nurses? It’s unclear, since “people who are monitoring his illness” could technically mean quite a lot of people. In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t … Continued
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Ustream’s Upcoming iPhone App Lets You Watch Obama Inauguration (Or Any Stream) On Your iPhone
Ustream, who brought you the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, is working on an iPhone app that can stream any of their videos—including Obama’s Inauguration—for the official App Store. Their CEO told TechCrunch that users will be able to “participate” in the live chat of the stream directly on the phone. It’s the 16th now, and … Continued
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Feel Better, Steve
Publishing rumors about Steve Jobs’ health is one of the most distasteful things I’ve done in a long time. Let me just get this off my chest. Do not read on if you have a problem with foul language. Professionally, I think we did what we were supposed to do, and let me be clear, … Continued
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Apple To Use Nvidia’s Atom-Powered Ion Platform For Something: Mac Mini or Apple TV?
Tom’s Hardware says it’s for the sad and neglected Mac Mini. Apple Insider says it could make more sense inside a revamped Apple TV. Either way, a dual-core Atom with Nvidia’s 9400M sounds nice. Tom’s Hardware is pointing to an Nvidia source that confirmed Apple was the first to receive Ion test units, and said … Continued
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Sharing Earphones Is a Nasty Proposition
Remember that time Steve Jobs, countering Zune sharing, offered that the only way to share music was to intimately place one of your earbuds into another’s ear? Well that’s a bad idea, bacteria-wise. According to a recent study by India’s Manipal University, users who shared earbuds were found to house harmful bacteria in their ears … Continued
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Novelist Censors Own Book To Sell As iPhone App
Remember the author whose book got rejected from the iTunes App Store because of “obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory” language? Well, they published his book, but only after he took out the dirty bits. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-store-bans-book-app-for-naughty-language-5114825 My friend David Carnoy, whose day job is an editor at CNet, finally got his greenlight from iTunes, but he … Continued
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How To Install Windows 7 On Your Mac Using Boot Camp
Eyeing Windows 7 but feeling left out in Mac land? Well, if you have 10GB to spare and a DVD burner, here’s how to join the Win7 party for free with Boot Camp. Since the Windows 7 beta is free (for a time), it’s also a great time to play around with Windows on your … Continued
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TiVoRemote: The App Store’s First TiVo Remote App
TiVoRemote is the App Store’s first network-based remote control program for TiVo. Aside from the novelty of changing the channel, you can use the iPhone’s full QWERTY keyboard to search for programming. Realize that the software isn’t officially TiVo-branded. And we wouldn’t call the UI stunning, or even attractive—though it certainly looks easy enough to … Continued
By Mark Wilson