FingersMopedArmy has posted a sneak preview of Qik for the iPhone 3GS on YouTube. Qik allows you to live stream video from your iPhone and share it with friends and family.
Currently the application the application is not available in the App Store due to what Apple and AT&T call bandwidth issues.
Posted by 3o5 | Posted in Technology | Posted on 03-07-2009
According to Microsoft it is considering to ship Windows 7 on USB flash drives
to allow netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines:
The move, which is still under consideration, is one of several things Microsoft has looked at to try to make it convenient to upgrade machines that don’t come with a CD or DVD drives.
Microsoft executives have said that they recognize that upgrading Netbooks poses a challenge and are exploring ways that the company can make it easier. In an interview on Thursday, Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said that Microsoft had nothing to announce on that front.
Although a USB flash drive could offer the simplest way to move a Netbook to Windows 7, there are other options. Buyers with an external drive could hook up that to their Netbook, while another option would be an upgrade through a service such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad. Microsoft also sells a downloadable version of Windows today, so, in theory it could do the same with Windows 7, allowing buyers to put the OS on their own thumb drive.
Matt Bonin, a merchant director at Best Buy, said this week that the company is aiming to work with Geek Squad to develop services to streamline Windows 7 upgrades. As for Netbooks, he said the company recognizes the challenge they present and said the store already offers services to load other types of software, such as antivirus programs.
Posted by 3o5 | Posted in Gaming, Technology | Posted on 03-07-2009
In a bit of an unusual move memory vendor Mushkin is about to launch a complete new line of NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics cards, providing end-users with yet another alternative to the crowded market of GeForce graphics cards. All of the new models will be based on the latest NVIDIA GT200 GPU architecture and will be available in both standard and custom form factors, featuring increased clocked speeds and memory capacity.
Mushkin has announced its entry in the graphics card market with the launch of a complete series of GT200-based graphics cards. This new line will be part of the company’s ultimateFX family of graphics processing units, which will apparently be comprised of GeForce-based solutions.
As part of the new series, Mushkin has debuted a couple of new products, namely the ultimateFX GeForce GTX260, GTX260 (1792MB), GTX260 OC, GTX260 OC2, GTX275, GTX275 OC, GTX275 OC2, GTX285 and GTX285 (2048MB). As you can see, there are a number of new models waiting to make themselves useful in your high-end desktop PC.
The new cards will be delivered in special little wooden boxes that the company has trademarked as the “WoodBox.” This will certainly give computer users a sense of uniqueness and provide the cards with an upmarket packaging.
Unfortunately, there’s no word on the pricing of any of these cards.
After a while of waiting for my friend to let me know when he was ready to buy parts, we finally did and got em with not that many snags via UPS =\, but its ok cause everything got here and the comp was built. Some cable management still needs to be done, didnt have time cause I had to go to the hospital the next morning for surgery. So it was kind of rushed.
Will have some more pics soon when he brings it back so I can install the OS and programs.
Budget Build Specs:
-Asus P5Q Pro
-Intel Core2 DUO E8400 3.0GHz CPU
-Xigmatek HDT 120MM Rifle CPU Cooler
-G. Skill 4GB DDR2 1066 Dual Chan
-eVGA 8800GT akimbo Superclocked 512MB graphics card
-HP 1170i Dvd Burner
-1 160GB WD HDD
-1 1TB WD HDD
-Ultra 550W PSU
-Sunbeam Quaterback Case
Posted by 3o5 | Posted in Technology | Posted on 03-07-2009
A major vulnerability in how the iPhone handles SMS has been found by security researcher Charlie Miller.
During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller announced the vunerability and warned of its capabilities.
“The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network. The malicious code could include commands to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.”
According to HotHardware, Miller has made an arrangement with Apple giving them until the Black Hat USA expo in Las Vegas to fix the issue.
Apple says they will have a fix ready “later this month.”
BeeJiveIM 3.0 with push notifications enabled is now available in the Apple App Store. While the application description has not yet been updated customers who have downloaded the iPhone app are reporting the update.
BeeJiveIM connects you to AIM/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ, and Jabber… all at the same time.
In order to use the push notification feature you will need to be running the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware.
For a limited time the application is available at a cost of $9.99.
*Note: Unfortunately, after installing this update I receive a pin.mismatch error when attempting to log into any account. Not sure if this is an isolated incident or a bug in the update.
*Update: To fix this error remove BeeJiveIM from the iPhone. Then do a sync with BeeJiveIM manually deselected from the application sync list. Then do a second sync with BeeJiveIM reselected. You will need to reenter your account info once the application is reinstalled.
The iPhone Dev-Team has released the UltraSn0w unlock for the iPhone 3G.
Ultrasn0w for iPhone 3G is ready!
1. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to cydia or icy
2. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
3. Reboot your iPhone 3G
4. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
5. Enjoy
Before applying the UltraSn0w unlock you must be jailbroken on the iPhone 3.0 firmware. You can find instructions on how to do that here: Windows, Mac
We have posted a tutorial on how to perform the unlock step by step. You can find it here
