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Dead? Not yet!

johnrowley — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:31:47 +0000

While it may indeed appear that either I or this blog had died I am happy to announce that we’re both still alive…

Not to be one to make excuses for my lack of posting but a severe ear infection (won’t go into details but I will say blood and ear. You do the math!) amongst other personal arrangements made posting very difficult. To add to this I have begun writing for Instinctive Gaming. So this may no longer be a ‘tech’ blog and may end up becoming a personal blog for me to blab on about things in my life, aswell as what matters to me.

If there were any ‘regulars’ or ‘fans’ of this blog (Who am I kidding. Right?) please check out Instinctive Gaming.

Quick Update!

johnrowley — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:27:17 +0000

Just wanted to give you guys a quick insight as to why this blog has quite abruptly come to a full stop. Most of the tools used by myself to gather/research the information for this blog are locked on my Macbook! and by locked away I mean the battery has died and the power cord has broken. However a new one is on its way order shall soon be restored. So please, don’t go anywhere as updates are on the horizon.

Free iPhone 3G?

johnrowley — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:20:30 +0000

So by the title of the post you’ve probably realized this post has nothing to do with the news. It does however entail getting a ‘Free’ iPhone 3G. Now you’re probably screaming “it’s a scam” at the computer screen, and I’ll agree I used to think so too, but after seeing the people on exceem.co.uk that have received their ‘Free’ gifts from these sites I had to try it myself.

Going about getting a ‘Free’ iPhone 3G is fairly simple, Choose your model (More referral’s needed for higher spec models), Complete an Offer, Refer some friends.

So I ask you all to check it out, or even just let me know what you think.

FreebieJeebies

Android Developer Challenge Winners Announced

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:24:23 +0000

Cab4Me

With more news from the Android Developers Blog, today the winners of the Android Developer Challenge were announced. Out of the fifity finalists ten were given the Runner Up prize of $100,000 while another ten were awarded the very generous prize of $250,00.

Cab4Me

Amongst the winning applications we saw cab4me, a ‘location aware’ app that can help you find a cab wherever you may be. Ecorio, an application that monitors your carbon footprint giving you ways to not only reduce your carbon footprint, but share stories on how you lowered it and offset your carbon footprint by investing in carbon reductions programs.

Ecorio

Android is shaping up to be a very promising OS for both the consumer and developers. If you aren’t already excited for it I’m sure this latest news will remedy that.

Android ‘Market’ – Shots Released

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:24:28 +0000

Market

New information of Androids ‘Market’ was released today on the Android Dev Blog. Amongst the information they released they spoke of how developers would only need to “register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it.”, a system they described similar to the Youtube way of uploading Video. When commenting on why the term ‘Market’ was used instead of store they said,

“We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available.”

Downloads

Install

Far Cry 3 set for Antartica?

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:20:35 +0000

With Far Cry 2 set for an October launch the guys at Ubisoft Montreal are probably taking a well earned break, right? Wrong, Ubisoft Montreal have already begun working on the initial stages of the sequel to Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3. Speaking at the Leipzig Games Convention, Ubisofts Patrick Redding confirmed a third game, saying,

“We might find something new and compelling about the Antarctic setting that wants us to make the next game there, but honestly, we’re still at the preliminary stages.”

Redding then went on to say,

“If we wanted to make the next game set in the… forest of South America, we could do it, but I think to save time, for us, one of the reasons we chose to use the African setting is because we felt that in order to retain the Far Cry brand value, of an exotic, dangerous environment, a place that maybe people haven’t had a chance to see themselves, or have seen extensively in film, television and other games, we wanted to choose Africa.”

UK iPhone ad’s pulled for being ‘misleading’

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:19:46 +0000

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has pulled one of Apple’s iPhone ad’s because the ad claims “all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.” The ASA received two complaint’s that the ad was misleading due the iPhone’s lack of support for Flash and Java making a difference between ‘the real internet’ and whats seen on the iPhone apparent.

The ASA board agreed with these complaints saying, “We concluded that the ad gave a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone” because “viewers were likely to expect to be able to see all the content on a web site normally accessible through a PC rather than just having the ability to reach the website.”

iPhone 2.x vulnerable from easy ‘hack’?

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:18:48 +0000

It has been found that the iPhone 2.x firmware is easily vulnerable from the passcode lock screen. The passcode lock screen, intended to keep user’s out has a vulnerability in the ‘Emergency Call’ Button.

Anybody can gain access to your iPhone by simply pressing the ‘Emergency Call’ button and double-clicking the Home key. This brings up the user’s favourite contacts which may or may not contain Home and Email Addresses, Telephone Number and Websitess, which from these just about every major iPhone application can be accessed.

However as easy as this vulnerability is, it does have an easy fix. Either remove any sensitive information from your Favourites, or re-configure the Home keys double-click feature to take you to the Home screen instead of your Favourites.

[Jailbreak] Scrobbled Released

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:18:00 +0000

For those of you that own an iPod Touch/iPhone that’s Jailbroken, and frequent Last.fm, I have great news for you. Two programmers by the aliases Eric M and Skylar C have just released Scrobbled via the Cydia.app Installer.

Scrobbled runs in the background on your iPod Touch/iPhone and ‘Scrobble’s’ tracks to your Last.fm account, a feature that’s been missing from the Official Last.fm application due to limitations in the iPhone SDK.

Settings Bundle

Settings

Pwnage Tool 2.0.3.1 Released

johnrowley — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:14:38 +0000

For all you Mac users who like to ‘Jailbreak’ your iPod Touch, or iPhone, the iPhone-dev team have released the latest iteration of their Pwnage Tool Jailbreak Software, 2.0.3.1

This new version contains:

Support for firmware 2.0.2 5C1
The latest installation of the Installer.app 4.0b6
A new .de localization for our large amount of German friends

* Note: Pwnage Tool should NOT be decompressed using ‘The Unarchiver’, please use the standard OS X built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress.

Download Pwnage Tool 2.0.3.1: Here

[Source: blog.iPhone-dev.org]