Ya iPhone's hold their value pretty good surprisingly.
I used to buy and sell them all the time on craigslist and make like 100 bucks off each phone I sold.
I noticed that iPad's also hold their value pretty well as well.
E2EK1EL
Updated @ 9pm and finished @ 12:30
Next Angry Birds update is on 03.11.11
Ham ‘Em High continues ... :(
Nerologic
^^^
You have too much time on your hands...ohh wait Canada, I forgot.
:crazy: :tongue3 :crazy: :tongue3
E2EK1EL
Ohhh Canada!!!
They're making the game a bit easier, not as hair pulling stressful as it use to be ... Still pretty hard.
You should see me play Cut the Rope, I plow through that game! No way I'm putting it down until it's 100% complete.
Infinity Blade I've recently call it quits, I have about 626 wins and got bored of it. Even after the new update last week. Wish they start the multiple vs mode ASAP.
Nerologic
Bleh I get over games thank god (no tv either), now if i can only do the same with the internet haha
The only game I have really played hardcore is angry birds and panda revenge on my iPad. I refuse to put games on my iPhone! lol
malek
is it normal that I cannot set a password for the personal hotspot? I'm with fido.
E2EK1EL
quote:
Originally posted by malek
is it normal that I cannot set a password for the personal hotspot? I'm with fido.
For your safety, in case there’s some unauthorized computer or device connects and leech off your data plan. Even though the window is only 90 secs before auto shut off.
Plus you don’t want to be like these morons over here …
B.C. couple gets big cellphone bill… says Bell “made us scared of our phone”
Yet another huge cellphone bill has surfaced. B.C. couple Daniel and Kate Methot bought themselves a Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant back in October and started to racked up charges into the thousands of dollars.
Here’s a gist of what happened: Apparently they received a text from Bell that they are using excessive data and warned them of their usage. In December their bill totaled $3,515.13 with 30 hours of data usage in one 24-hour period. Daniel Methot first thought it was himself who ran up the charges by having apps run in the background. He contacted Bell and said there must be a problem as he could never have used that much data. “I basically deleted every app that I had downloaded and just started to be a lot more conservative with the data use, and that’s all I could do”.
Bell started to looking into their account and immediately credited $3,330.88 from their bill for a “known” software problem. However, right back on track the next couple days they received another bill with the amount of $1,204. So Daniel and Kate have hired a lawyer to help them and stated that “they basically made us scared of our phone… We just stopped using it. We shut it off”.
Bell spokesperson Jason Laszlo believes that it could be possible that somebody has tapped into their device and is using their internet. “I’m still going to pursue the deeper, more intensive technical investigation into the Methots’ data usage and am hopeful that this will yield some answers… The one possibility that kept being raised was that the device’s mobile hot-spot feature may be on. This feature turns the device into a wireless modem which can connect up to three other devices via Wi-Fi.”
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Speaking of iOS 4.3 Personal Hotspot
Two IP4s on iOS4.3, using linked up for Personal Hotspot.
E2EK1EL
Apple’s Safari browser embarrassed at Pwn2Own, hacked in 5 seconds
Safari just got served. At this year’s Pwn2Own conference, security firms and enthusiasts are doing their very best to discover and deploy exploits to some of the world’s most popular browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, they’re all on the menu for conference attendees and some have definitely faired better than others. Google issued a challenge, promising $20,000 to any person or team that could crack Chrome on the conferences opening day, but the two teams scheduled to take a swing backed down. Firefox is, for the time being, still standing, and, per usual, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was taken down without much fuss. But which browser faired the worst? That would be Apple’s Safari. A French security research firm named Vulpen managed to break into Safari running on a MacBook Air in a cool five seconds. The company noted that the Safari update issued by Apple yesterday — version 5.0.4 — fixes some of the vulnerabilities, but not all. The takedown of Safari 5.0.3 used exploits that are still available in the updated code base. Go ahead Apple detractors, have a little fun in the comments section.
(4th year in a row baby!)
Rovio escapes bankruptcy with Angry Birds
Interesting note from a Wired UK story on Rovio: The company was almost in bankruptcy prior to releasing their Angry Birds app on the App Store. They had been making meager earnings on selling apps through the mobile carriers and for other companies. One App for app store and ow they are $50 million in the black.
iMovie for iPad live on the App Store, new features for iPhone version
Apple has updated their iMovie iOS application to work on the iPad 2. The update also brings some features from the iPad 2 version down to the iPhone and iPod touch version. Here are the new features:
Universal app designed for iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPod touch (4th generation).
• Multi-Touch Precision Editor (iPad only).
• Multitrack audio editing with 8 themed soundtracks and over 50 bundled sound effects.
• Audio recording directly into the timeline.
• Audio waveforms (iPad only).
• Three new themes — Neon, Simple, and CNN iReport.
• HD sharing directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport.
• AirPlay support for sharing to Apple TV (compatible only with second-generation Apple TV; requires iOS 4.3 or later).
• Project transfer to your computer and compatible iOS devices through iTunes.
• Ability to add titles on photos.
• Option to add fade-in from black and fade-out to black.
• Numerous enhancements, including trimming in Video Browser, in-use markers, video rotation, and more
(Yeah, let's hope it's not too slow now)
Pimp Your Screen 1.0 Released
Apalon has announced the long-expected release of the universal application called Pimp Your Screen. The app features a great collection of unique and original backgrounds for Home and Lock screens arranged in categories that are able to make every user's touch screen wonder even more wonderful and accentuate individuality and style of their owners.
Pimp Your Screen is not a mere collection of bright backgrounds for users' iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. It was designed with attention to every tiny detail, to every element of the GUI to make it as appealing to users as possible. Original content and design, smooth experience, great look and feel, and compatibility with all iOS devices are the main features of the app that simply can't leave indifferent.
The developer goes beyond simple replacement of the background images and provides users with a unique opportunity to pimp their device screen by choosing from a variety of Home Screens, Icons Skins, App Shelves and Neon Combos. Combining all possible ways of iOS device customization Pimp Your Screen is a good solution for those who prefer to have all-in-one app rather than a bunch of apps that cover just one or another feature.
Pimp Your Screen is all about simplicity and users' convenience. The Instant Preview feature makes it easier for users to preview background images together with icons without returning to the Home Screen. Users can also view the most popular images based on the number of ratings in the Popular folder, or check out the Recent tab to see newly added backgrounds.
"Users of iOS devices are vivid people that always stand out from the crowd. We decided that it would be fair if their devices were as unique and stylish as their owners and users could exercise their personality through customization of their touch screen beauty. This is how we came up with Pimp Your Screen." - said Peter Melnikov, VP of Apalon.
Pricing and availability:
Pimp Your Screen 1.0 is only $0.99 and available exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category
E2EK1EL
This is what I did to get rid of the GM choppiness when restoring to the public ver of iOS 4.3
1) enter Recovery mode & Hit restore
2) restore from previous backup
3) sync and back up the "new" backup and rename your device and sync again
4) enter Recovery mode and restore again
5) restore from the newest back up made previously, not the oringial backup
E2EK1EL
Get ready ...
E2EK1EL
Dev Team NCK-Key Exploit for Permanent iPhone 4 Unlock – Brute Force
We just updated you about the new NCK exploit discovered to unlock iPhone 4 baseband permanently. As the exploit is in premature stage there are no much details available. Veeence has tried to explain the current situation and details about the new exploit for unlock thorough a FAQ page.!
1. What happend?! I thought the unlock for basebands 02.10.01 & 03.10.01 would be released within the next 2 weeks?
As you know the Dev-Team (MuscleNerd) have been working on the unlock for quite a while now. They were making great progress on the unlock, but they found out that they (accidentally) unlocked “one particular SIM card” instead of the baseband itself. Which means that the unlock would only be an unlock you could use with MuscleNerd’s T-Mobile SIM. So, useless. If the unlock would unlock the baseband instead of “the SIM”, it’d probably be out within 2 weeks (reasonable timeframe which they had hoped). But things turned out to be different. Basically these <2 weeks predictions were a lack of information.
2. What is this NCK-key cracking? How does it work?
The NCK-key is the key generated by Apple if you’d officially unlock you iPhone, and with officially I mean, via your carrier. This “NCK-unlock” method is known over a few years now, actually since geohot started working on unlocking the iPhone 2G. He developed a program that could “crack” this 15 digits long key and unique for every device. Geohots NCKBF program could do around 100,000 keys/second which would produce a hit in many years, or complete a search in 317 years. To get to a point where this is actually doable we would need many orders of magnitude of improvement. Even if you use a PS3 (would we still want to use this??) or special hardware (within 1,000 US$ range) you will only get an improvement of 20-100 times.. which doesn’t help much.
Now, luckily, with the exploits they have now, they can’t unlock your baseband, but they *can* capture more information from the baseband to speed up this cracking process. Since the NORID and CHIPID (unique for every device) are known, you’d apparently only have to check 40 more bits (5 digits). A 40 bits key is theoretically crackable on “home hardware” within a week (24/7). The downside of this approach is that you’ll have to keep your computer turned on, and your iPhone has to be connected. And that is the reason why they never tried it before. Please note that this method is completely theorical and has been NOT tried at all till this moment.
New day new hopes!! After the announcement of no unlock for iPhone 4 in coming days, MuscleNerd is confirming that a new exploit (NCK Brute Force) has been discovered which is expected permanently unlock the iPhone 4 basebands. The code is yet to be tested out and currently in very premature stage. If it works out well, we can get a permanent unlock for iPhone 4.
To those patiently ignoring all the chatter from “promises” we never made comes a jewel: NCK unlock code is just 40 bits!
(if turns out to be true, it’s unexpected surprise for those w/vuln BB’s. All the data is there for 40-bit brute force)
NCK is a theoretical exploit which involves brute forcing the NCK from the seczone the CHIPID and the NORID. It cracks the unique NCK key of the device and provides a permanent unlock for the baseband. The concept is discovered by Geohot and it seems that the Dev Team is working on it. Veeence also updates about the new exploit.
(Let's hope this works and released without any politics.)
E2EK1EL
iOS, BlackBerry OS fall at Pwn2Own
Add Apple’s iOS and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS to the list of victims at this year’s Pwn2Own challenge. Conference veteran Charlie Miller, along with Dion Blazakis, deployed an exploit to iOS 4.2.1 through a vulnerability in Safari. By navigating to a custom-made webpage, the duo were able to execute remote code and gain access to the iOS address book. Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and Ralf Philipp Weinmann also utilized a WebKit-based vulnerability to take down a BlackBerry Torch running BlackBerry OS 6.0.0.246. The three researchers noted that the exploit used on the BlackBerry’s mobile OS was difficult to craft due to the lack of documentation, software tools, and resources available. They also noted that most of the operating systems security was achieved via obscurity, and stated that the company was “way behind the iPhone at the moment, from a security perspective.” No conference participants have yet to challenge Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems.
