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 trouble as they are now being sued by Apple.

Gizmodo still has a copy of the video posted online.

The video tutorial in question gives an in depth play-by-play of how to install Mac OS X on a netbook, even discussing where to obtain copies of the software from a popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay, essentially being a Hackintosh for Dummies.

Gizmodo points out that it is more probable that Apple will be issuing Wired a cease-and-desist as opposed to actually bringing about financial sanctions. While the video explicitly breaks Apple’s EULA, Chen did offer this Disclaimer: “The following process potentially violates Apple’s End User License Agreement for Mac OS X. Please ensure you own a copy of Mac OS X Leopard if you wish to follow the procedure.” – if only he knew he needed more.

Update: Apparently we should disregard the following information as Brian Chen has released an additional tweet citing the whole situation to be one big misunderstanding. Apple is not suing Wired over the video tutorial.

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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 mobile computing.

“For the external approach, Ackermann modified a Robotech Bluetooth module, which he placed in an iPhone battery sleeve and connected to the iPhone (serial) connector port at the bottom of the unit. This allowed the the phone to communicate directly with the the module using the Bluetooth serial port profile,” Erica Sadun notes for Ars Technica.

The report goes onto explain that without Jay “saurik” Freeman’s Veency application, none of this would be possible. “Ackermann used a tiny libvncclient to generate keyboard events, which were then passed to Veency. Veency then provided the keyboard event injection using the iPhone’s private Graphics Services framework.”

Promising to say the least… Imagine an iPhone with a simple bluetooth keyboard connected to it, coupled with some recent tv-out discoveries and the device could turn into a truly mobile computer. Check out the full report over at Ars or follow Ackerman’s progress on his site as well.

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Codenamed “yellowsn0w,” the iPhone Dev Team has been working extremely hard making this available for the general public. “This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter,” they explain. Currently, they are planning for a release date of December 31st, 2008, New Year’s Eve.

If you’re hoping for the Dev Team to provide an iPod touch 2G unlock, you’re out of luck. They explain “Currently we are not investigating the iPod touch 2G. Other people outside the Dev-Team are looking into this, but we are not at the moment. Please don’t hassle us with comments and requests about this, they’ll just be deleted and ignored. If we do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year and we’ll inform you guys if and when we commence this work.”

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19 year old software developer Steven Troughton-Smith explains how to enable Emoji icons system-wide. If you aren’t familiar with editing code, or do not dabble in iPhone development, it’s not recommended that you try this.

Smith explains: You need to edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist on the device -> whether you use a jailbreak to achieve this or merely some iTunes backup editor is up to you.

Add the following boolean key as ‘true’: KeyboardEmojiEverywhere

Then merely go to the Keyboards section of the Settings app, hit Japanese, and turn on Emoji. Will work for any text field/view in the OS, including on websites, AND including the titles of items on SpringBoard (e.g. if you save a bookmark to the home screen).

As you can see from an Apple discussion thread, customers outside of Japan are pretty confused as to why Apple would leave the Emoji icons out of the update for everyone else. Emoji literally means “Picture Character” and in Japan, they are a staple of text messaging culture. Without the Emoji (emoticons), Apple’s iPhone would have not even been considered by a large group of potential customers.

[left most emoji screenshot via macrumors]

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As Gizmodo explains, we still don’t know if these things are one-time hacks, or if they’re officially being sold by someone overseas. But the specs are impressive and the tininess is enough to make most gadget lovers lust, if only for a brief moment. Check out the full flickr gallery (well worth it), here.

Feature List:
MSI U100 MacBook Nano
Windows XP Pro + Mac OS X 10.5.5
Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
2G DDRII
10″ WSVGA LED (1024×600)
320GB SATA
1kg
MMC/SD/MS 4
Windows XP Pro + Mac OSX Leopard

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Florian used a dremel, and an extremely steady hand to fashion together the housing and exterior elements of the notebook. The inside however, “is a little less tidy, with tape and aluminum foil holding things in place and bouncing back a little extra light,” Gadget Lab explains.

Thanks to reader HuffyLover for the tip

[Gizmodo via Wired Gadget Lab]

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Well, the new tool seems ready and able. Click here for some more details.

Note: Jailbreak at your own risk.

[via Engadget]

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The Dev Team tends not to announce release dates, in order to avoid being pressured into releasing something that is not ready (jeez, where have I seen that before?). Yet sensing people’s restlessness they did claim to have an official release “sometime today.” This release was noted to include the following features:

• As always PwnageTool 2.0.2 contains Cydia, in fact it contains a new version of Cydia with some bugfixes and other general goodness, thanks saurik!

• Installer 4 isn’t released by RiPDev as yet so PwnageTool 2.0.2 does not include installer.app – check out the RiPDev blog for the latest information.

• WinPwn uses compatible bundles (as provided by Planetbeing’s XPwn code), so we anticipate that WinPwn will be updated soon after our PwnageTool release, so Windows users shouldn’t have to wait too long! Please remember the DevTeam doesn’t provide end-user support for WinPwn!

The announcement of the nearly complete Installer 4 beta came just in the nick of time, as the Dev Team will be able to include it in the upcoming release, which is now set for tomorrow (Friday). While many are biting their nails in anticipation, it makes much more sense for them to hold off and release it in one fell swoop as opposed to providing two releases in two consecutive days.

Kudos, Dev Team, keep up the good work.

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“USB Fever, which offers a number of cases, cables and other accessories for various iPhone and iPod models, says it will ship a SIM unlock made of a very thin piece of FPC (0.10mm) with a mounted micro-controller that fits between an an operators SIM card and the phone’s SIM socket.”

A product description reads: Because of it’s very thin and slim design it fits into almost all phone’s on the market and can also be easily removed again. It’s got Gold Immersion and makes perfect contact with the card and the socket at all times. Cutting of your Operator’s SIM card is required but kept to a minimum.

This SIM unlock is a revolutionary do-it-yourself Plug & Play card for unlocking iPhone 3G without the risk of damaging the iPhone 3G or voiding it’s warranty. This SIM unlock is inserted into the iPhone 3G in parallel with your operator’s SIM card and enables you to use your card on phones locked to another provider.”

iPhone Atlas continues to report that the SIM unlock will be priced at $35.

via iPhone Atlas

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“Apple’s Fairplay DRM, which protects all the applications you download from iTunes, has been hacked. The method for hacking this has actually been around for a while, but has been recently applied to Super Monkey Ball and distributed into the wild. To do this, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone and SSH installed (to transfer the game and to fiddle with permissions). The theory is a bit techy and complex, but the execution isn’t too insane if you know your way around XCode and the command line,” Jason Chen reports for Gizmodo.

Additionally, Macnn reports that “If the hack does indeed work, the security breach could have a major impact on the hundreds of applications for sale at the AppStore. Super Monkey Ball sells for $10 and is protected with the same FairPlay DRM Apple has used for years on content from the iTunes store. The posting on Hacklabs provides step-by-step installation instructions for the game and encourages users to join a forum for sharing other hacked apps. Since the hack has only been available for a few hours, there has been no response yet from Apple or Sega or even confirmation of the hack.”

Additional thoughts: Did anyone really the think the App Store was immune to a good old game of cat-and-mouse?

via Gizmodo via Macnn

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