Posts Tagged ‘Apps’

12 Bugs We’ve Found In iPhone OS 3.0

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
  1. Multimedia messaging does not support sculpture, macrame, or interpretive dance.
  2. Voice memo recordings totally don't sound like me. I don't sound like that, do I? Seriously?
  3. Turned on adult content filter but everybody in my videos still has their clothes on.
  4. Adding a task to calendar did not result in task getting done.
  5. Clicked this blue "compass" icon but kept getting some stupid web browser.
  6. Still no apps to cure the nagging feeling that I should've bought a Palm Pre.
  7. The touchscreen ...

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple’s servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone. In Jonathan’s words:

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$1 per year Domain Registration at Yahoo

Sometime ago I posted a method for getting $1 per year Domain Registration at Yahoo. Although it only works for 2 years but most websites barely last that long anyway, also still much cheaper then paying for it anywhere else even then Godaddy or Namecheap. But still was not as good as teh deal they had for $2 per year promotion they once had. Although the method was not ethical in anyway

After 4 Years, Has MS Finally Solved the Xbox RRoD Problem?

FairTrade, the company that’s making this claim, bases their little theory on failure rates correlated with purchase date. Before the Jasper chipset, they were atrocious. But after? Not too bad!

The Samsung Instinct (aka iPhone Hunter)

Despite what we and other media have hinted at, despite what Sprint itself is spending a lot of money trying to convey, the Samsung Instinct is not an iPhone killer. To be sure, Samsung and Sprint borrowed liberally from the iPhone playbook when it came to look and feel. But the comparison itself isn’t [...]

CSI Stick grabs data from cell phones

If someone asks to borrow your cell phone, or you leave it unattended, beware!
Unless you actually watch them use it, they may be secretly grabbing every piece of your information on the device, even deleted messages. If you leave your phone sitting on your desk, or in the center console of your car while the [...]

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