Seas0nPass: 2nd Gen Apple TV Jailbreak
The guys over at fireCore have just released Seas0nPass, an application that will jailbreak your second generation AppleTV. Seas0nPass requires you to tether your AppleTV briefly during boot in order to preform the jailbreak by loading custom IPSW files onto your AppleTV. fireCore is a name that is synonymous with AppleTV hackers. The group also [...]
Sony Could Remotely Disable PS3s
Now that the PS3′s key have been leaked, its open territory for homebrew and hacking. Many people have been wondering what type of action Sony will be taking to combat this so called “piracy”. We have seen how ruthless they are with the PS3′s little brother the PSP and it’s no doubt that they will [...]
iPod Nano Recovery Mode
After discovering James Whelton’s SpringBoard.plist hack for the 6G iPod Nano, Steve Throughton-Smith decided to play around with his Nano to see what else he might find. Steve may very well have stumbled on some kind of DFU-like recovery mode, much like the recovery mode that allows customized firmware (or jailbreaking) to be injected into [...]
iPod Nano Hack
By booting up his iPod Nano with a modified SpringBoard.plist file hacker James Whelton was able to remove an app from his screen and replace it with a blank space (Video after the break). Now this isn’t quite a jailbreak like hack, but it is a small start in the right direction. Today we can [...]
Android On Your iPhone
I love my iPhone 4, don’t get me wrong, but the old additive of the grass is always greener on the other side alway creeps up. Both the iPhone and an Android based device have their pros and their cons. Unless you can justify dishing out some big bucks monthly for an iPhone and Android [...]
A Cell Phone For Grama
With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]
XBMC on ARM
The most awesome guys over at the XBMC project have posted a teaser showing how far along the have come on the ARM port of their media player (Check the video after the break). You can clearly see the package boot up and even play back HD video. There looks like there is still some [...]
Quickdev16: SNES Developers Cart
If you are a true hardcore 16bit gaming geek and have always wanted to whip up your own homebrew games then you might be interested in the Quickdev 16. The unit is a cartridge for the Super Nintendo system that comes with everything you will need to develop for the platform, including the Atmel AVR [...]
Jailbreak Resistant iPhone
Reports are flying around the internets that Apple is now shipping iPhones with a new bootrom that is resistant to the 24kpwn exploit that was used by the iPhone Dev-Team to jailbreak the iPhone. To be really honest with you I’m surprised it took Apple this long. MuscleNerd, who is a Dev-Team member, has confirmed [...]
Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]
USB Powered Tardis Micro Fridge
You must show your true colours when it comes to this gadget sitting on your desk. People from far and wide must know that you have a serious addiction to the Dr. Who series or else you will be ridiculed to no end. If you are will to suffer the harassment then you will appreciate [...]
E3 Revamp
Well, it’s official. This year’s E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) will try and recapture some of the glory days before it was drastically downsized/neutered in 2007. If you were to talk to most industry professionals, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who actually like the redesigned format of the the last two E3′s, which is [...]
OS X Mod-Chip EFi-X Spotted In The Wild
Looks like the EFiX USB dongle that is suppose to relive all of the hackintosh headaches isn’t living up to expectations. The EFiX is designed to let you install and run OS X unmodified on x86 hardware, not any hardware, but the hardware that EFiX claims is compatible. You should even be able to run [...]
AppleJack Goes Leopard
You might hope that you never need it, but if you ever run into a situation where your Mac doesn’t boot all the way to the Finder and you don’t have any boot capable utilities like Das Boot to fix your problem, AppleJack will be your best friend. AppleJack is a single-user-mode tool that is [...]
Motorola Tells Modders To Go Elsewhere
By Frank on Jan 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Android by it’s nature is an open source platform, a platform that is open to anyone and any changes as long as they comply with the Apache 2.0 license. So why have manufacturers like Motorola and HTC spent so much time fighting against people modding or creating their own ROMs? That might be a question [...]
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