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Apple Sends Wired a Cease-and-Desist Letter for Netbook Video [U]

Apple’s legal hounds have sent Wired’s Gadget Lab and Brian Chen a cease-and-desist letter demanding they remove a detailed video explaining how to hack Mac OS X onto a netbook PC.
Chen has disclosed via Twitter that a past video tutorial on how to install Mac OS X onto a netbook, has gotten Wired into legal [...]

iPhone Bluetooth Keyboard Hack Looks Very Promising

Ars Technica has posted what looks like an incredibly promising bit of bluetooth iPhone hackery, courtesy of iPhone expert Ralf Ackerman.
What separates this hack from a few keyboard hacks in the past, is that this is a completely internal solution. It shows promising support for what may be a convergence of technologies used for general [...]

iPhone 3G Unlocking Process, Demo Posted (VIDEO)

iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd has made us aware of a video he just posted showcasing the iPhone 3G unlocking process. The Dev Team is planning on releasing the unlock on New Year’s Eve.
Codenamed “yellowsn0w,” the iPhone Dev Team has been working extremely hard making this available for the general public. “This is now [...]

How to Enable Emoji Icons Outside of Japan

As part of the iPhone OS 2.2 update, Apple enabled the Emoji icons for iPhone users in Japan specifically running on the Softbank network. Unfortunately, there is no way for users outside of Japan to activate the icons.
19 year old software developer Steven Troughton-Smith explains how to enable Emoji icons system-wide. If you aren’t familiar [...]

Macbook Nano, Cupertino’s Long Lost Father and Son Team

In the land of mini Mac computers, the Macbook nano pictured below should command attention from lovers of all things tiny across the land. If not for its concept, but for the surprisingly impressive specs.

As Gizmodo explains, we still don’t know if these things are one-time hacks, or if they’re officially being sold by someone [...]

Video: Macbook Mini Spotted: OOPS, We Mean Modded

Apparently German hacker Florian couldn’t wait for Apple’s upcoming notebook transition to get a new Mac. Instead he took it upon himself to put together a rather “desirable” Macbook Mini, and we wish we could play with it.
Florian used a dremel, and an extremely steady hand to fashion together the housing and exterior elements of [...]

Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 Released

The dev team has finally unleashed Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 on us. A couple of days ago, we reported about how the dev team had to wait and release the new Pwnage Tool because Installer 4 (beta) wasn’t ready.

Well, the new tool seems ready and able. Click here for some more details.
Note: Jailbreak at your own [...]

PwnageTool 2.0.2 Release Pushed Back a Day; Waiting for Installer 4 (beta)

The iPhone Dev Team is now reporting that the crew at RiPDev are nearing a release of Installer 4 (beta), and have subsequently decided to hold off on today’s release of PwnageTool 2.0.2.

The Dev Team tends not to announce release dates, in order to avoid being pressured into releasing something that is not ready [...]

Unlock your iPhone 3G

“While a software-based unlock (allowing use on unauthorized carriers) for the iPhone 3G has yet to materialize, one recognized vendor says it plans to ship a hardware-based SIM unlock for the device on August 20th,” iPhone Atlas reports.

“USB Fever, which offers a number of cases, cables and other accessories for various iPhone and iPod [...]

All iPhone App Store Games Hacked to be DRM Free; Hackery Involved

All iPhone App Store games have been hacked to get rid of the DRM locking them down. Some pretty tach savvy hackery is involved. But, if you’re ambitious, and hate DRM, this one’s right up your alley.

“Apple’s Fairplay DRM, which protects all the applications you download from iTunes, has been hacked. The method for hacking [...]

Feeling Crafty? Simple Hack Turns USB Car Charger into iPhone Charger.

Many of you probably have an extra USB car charger laying around the house, right? You know, one that probably came free with some gadget that you never even use anymore. As you may already know, one of the things that it can’t charge is your iPhone. Or can it?
After a couple weeks [...]

PwnageTool will not unlock iPhone 3G

Following the iPhone Dev Team’s announcement of a successful iPhone 3G jailbreak, they recently updated information regarding PwnageTool 2.0.

The iPhone Dev Team has announced that PwnageTool 2.0 will unfortunately not unlock the iPhone 3G. While progress has been made in this respect, they’re simply not quite there yet. The final edition will support [...]

Jailbroken iPhone 3G is here

Despite the iPhone 3G’s subsidized cost and vast array of applications via the App Store, there is still a demand for iPhones that are not attached to a single network as well as an interest in running non-Apple sanctioned applications. And guess what. After already unlocking and jailbreaking the iPhone 2.0 firmware, it [...]

Be Careful; Online Phishers target Apple users with Credit Card Scam.

This morning we received an email from one of our readers that stated the following, “I just received an “official looking” E-Mail supposedly from Apple informing me to update my credit card information for my .Mac account. It has a noreply@apple.com as the address and when I clicked on the link for the information [...]

Be careful where you click… iPhone attacks !

In July’s MX Logic Threat Forecast and Report, which provides IT leaders and messaging security professionals with information on recent and potential email and Web threats, they recognize the iPhone as a significant target for increased spam, scams and malware campaigns surrounding the highly anticipated July 11th release. They claim that scams will be [...]

PsyStar offers Apple updates. Hacks, patches and fixes. Oh My!

Psystar is the only company offering machines running Mac OS X other than Apple. They made headline news with their $399 entry-level offering, as the first non-Apple PC to run Apple’s proprietary Operating System. Psystar claims that they will challenge Apple’s Mac OS X End User License Agreement (EULA) which specifically prohibits the installation of [...]