Homebrew Channel Back Up And Running
The Homebrew Channel, which broke when Nintendo rolled out an update on October 23rd, is back up and running and better than ever. Not only did the crafty guys mange to subvert Nintendo’s efforts to put them out of business, they managed to squeeze in memory card and SDHC support too. You can grab the [...]
Perian Turns 1.1.2
Our favorite quicktime add on, Perian, turned 1.1.2. If you have never heard of Perian before then you should take this opportunity to slap yourself. The free plugin for quicktime allows you to play back all kinds of popular video formats like avi, mkv, flv, and more. It’s an absolute must for anyone who likes [...]
PSP 5.0 Firmware Hacked
Is there anything that hacker Dark_AleX can’t do? I mean just a mere 2 days after Sony releasing version 5.0 of it’s firmware for the PSP he has gone and thwarted the security measures. This will allow people to update their PSP without the fear of losing and homebrew functionality. 5.0 brings some useful features [...]
AppleTV Gets A Genius
Last night Apple rolled out a security update for it’s AppleTV. According to Apple, this update fixes a bug in the unit that could allow a “maliciously crafter movie file to lead to an unexpected termination of arbitrary code execution”. Doesn’t sound good at all for all the Apple TV owners, all 6 of us. [...]
Perian 1.1.1 Released
The world’s greatest QuickTime plug in has just turned 1.1.1. Perian is a free add on for QuickTime that allows for decoding of virtually every known codec in QuickTime. Some of the great changes include: H.264 in AVI fixed Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1 [...]
Rockbox 3.0 Sneaks In
Rockbox, the open source replacement firmware for many mp3 players (see all supported players here) quietly release it’s first major update in over 3 years. Included in the update is support and stability for more mp3 player, playback support of more file types, last.fm support, album art, games, and tons more. With this new release [...]
Clips Of Windows 7 In Action
Yesterday we gave you a tiny glimpse of what Windows 7 will look like based on the latest M3 build.. Today we bring you two tiny videos demonstrating Windows 7′s updated Start button animation and it’s new powerful integrated calculator. Don’t knock the calculator, with history lists and date-to-date measurements it looks like a calculator [...]
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 [...]
Apple Sept 08 Event: Wrap Up
Now that the “Let’s Rock” even has come and gone, let’s take a look at what Apple has brought into our laps. HD TV Shows Right off the bat Steve announced the arrival of HD TV shows to the iTunes store. The shows will cost you $2.99 a pop (instead of the $1.99 you pay [...]
Airfoil 3.1: Stream Audio To Front Row
Front Row on the Mac has to be one of the slickest “Media PC” like experiences that a user can have, but when Front Row 2.0 hit the scene Apple mysteriously removed the ability to stream audio to it. Will Apple release an update that will restore the streaming functionality? Who knows, but in the [...]
New Commodore Laptop, Yes I Said Commodore
With Asus having such great success with their UMPC the eeePC, why not have everyone jump into the game? Commodore (the machine that brings me such great memories of my hacking youth) seems to be jumping into the small laptop market. This tiny laptop was spotted at IFA. Not much is known yet about the [...]
Pwnage Tool 2.0.3
For those of you who like to keep up with the Jones when it comes to the iPhone and it’s total pwnage by the iPhone Dev Team, here is an updated and totally rocking version 2.0.3 The new version includes the following cool features: Support for iPhone/iPod touch firmware 2.0.2 5C1 Updated version of Installer.app [...]
How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache
Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]
iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 Is Out
By Frank on Aug 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A new iPhone update just hit the servers. Version 2.0.2 is described as a bug fix release. As always a version can be downloaded directly from Apple’s servers or through the Update feature in iTunes. If you have jailbroken your phone then this update will de-pwn your phone. If you find any new features in [...]
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