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    Friday
    Jan232009

    Customize Windows Media Center

     

    MediaCenterFX Themes and Customizes Vista Media Center

    MediaCenterFX is an upcoming product that will allow you to customize and theme Vista Media Center.  I have to say that this looks amazing.  You can change the fonts, colors, sounds, animations, and even things like backgrounds. This looks to be a complete themeing package for Vista Media Center.   Serious testers are needed, and you can register to get access to the currnet alpha version at MediaCenterFX Forums.MCEEditor

    Monday
    Jan192009

    Dev-Team getting closer to jailbreaking the iPod touch 2G

    This is real. At UNEvolved were looking at a variaty of sources and heres what we got:
    The infamous Dev-Team dropped a big hint in the form of an image a few days ago that the hacker group was developing an iPod touch 2G jailbreaking app. Now, not only did the groupconfirm that the iPod touch 2G was the target device for redsn0w, but have gotten a bit closer to the goal. It seems that the process has been done but is still too manual for geeks like us. They plan on packaging and releasing a convenient GUI version shortly; no official ETA has been announced however.

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    From what we can see, the Dev-Team Has done it again! There is nothing apple can make that they can't crack. The programs used to hack the iPod 1G are either Yellow Sn0w, Quick Pwn, and a few others, but a new hacking tool is being introduced to the family of hacks. Its called Red Sn0w and will be out and ready to hack the pod in a "few days".

    As you see in the screenshot to the left (taken by the Dev-Team themselves) is proof that they are almost there.

     

     

         
     Here is the first screenshot of a jailbroken iPod Touch 2G.  Right now the jailbreak process is far too manual to be useful to most people. But this is a first step (well, second step if you include the initial exploit). When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us.  So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak.  But we are putting a lot of energy into it.

    Dev-Team

    All of your apps and games you have downloaded from the app-store Will still work and you will be able to continue downloading as you please. You can also download 3rd party cracked apps for your enjoyment such as emulators and customization tools.

    Videos Here From Dev-Team

     

    Remember to check this blog for updates

    Sunday
    Jan182009

    Belkin Pays 65 Cents For Fake Good Reviews

    Amazon.com runs a side business called Mechanical Turk. It’s a site where people can go, register, and get paid to do little tasks that computers can’t do (like help image filtering software identify graphic search results for example). Users can do any one of thousands of tasks provided by requesters, who pay them a small amount of money in return (usually anywhere between one cent and a couple dollars per task). I was checking out this website the other day and I made a few bucks by hand-transcribing a few videos. But then I came across this [...]
    Thursday
    Jan152009

    When idiots run tech support

    • Customer: "The computer boots up without any warning beeps, but nothing shows up on the screen."
    • Tech Support: "Is the monitor connected."
    • Customer: "Yes, but there is no display."
    • Tech Support: "Did you install the drivers for the VGA card?"
    • Customer: "How can I install them before I'm in DOS?"
    • Tech Support: "You have to install the drivers first before you can get a display."
    • Customer: "You don't need VGA drivers to boot to DOS like you do for Windows. I should be able to boot to DOS."
    • Tech Support: "Well, insert the floppy you received with your card. Go to the A:\Utilities directory. Type 'readme.com'."
    • Customer: "I cannot see anything. How do you expect me to read a file on the screen?"
    • Tech Support: "Read the file, and it will explain everything."

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    Thursday
    Jan152009

    YouTube Mutes Videos With Copyrighted Music

    Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music (and that pretty much means all user-created videos.) [...] youtubenew
    Thursday
    Jan152009

    Steve Jobs Taking leave from apple!

    Apple has issued a statement saying that Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence due to health reasons. Steve Jobs sent out a letter to Apple employees today saying that hispreviously-explained health problems are "more complex" than he at first thought, and that he plans to return in June. In the meantime Steve will be around for major strategic decisions, andTim Cook (Apple's Chief Operating Officer) will take over the day-to-day in his absence. AAPL is down around 8% in after hours trading. [...]

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    Thursday
    Jan152009

    We may be living in a hologram!

    The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level [...] hologramworldZOMG