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Monday
Jan262009
Entries by Brandon Davenport
Brandon Davenport
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.
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.crunchgear.com
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.
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."
More Here
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.) [...]
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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