At this years annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, where contestants are challenged to exploit specific software and computing platforms, an iPhone 3GS was successfully hacked in about 20 seconds.
Fortunately, one hacker is making plans to release a jailbreak tool — aptly entitled Antid0te – that makes your iPhone more secure. Just how is this accomplished? We divulge the details inside…
New to the iPhone arena? What better way to start out then by scoring a free iPhone 3GS from Best Buy on Friday, December 10th. That’s right free, zero, nada, ziltch.
That’s $99 dollars cheaper than the current going rate for the least expensive iPhone, and a pretty rare find for an Apple product. Check inside for the full scoop…
Threadless.com is one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing: letting the crowds do the hard work for you. In Threadless’s case, that means letting a community of designers submit tons of T-shirt designs, letting shoppers vote for the best ones, and then printing the winners and watching the money roll in. Personally, I’m a huge Threadless fan: their tees are often nerdy, funny, gorgeous, and comfortable, and cover a huge range of semi-geeky culture. What’s not to love?
Well, the experience from the iPhone, for one. Threadless has no mobile version of its site, and the home page takes an incredibly long time to load thanks to how many images it displays. Enter ♥s Threadless, an app created for the sole purpose of viewing Threadless T-shirt designs. The app isn’t officially affiliated with Threadless, but it’s free.
♥s Threadless lets you browse through all T-shirt designs, in stock or otherwise, and you can sort by color or by theme (Animals, Gaming, Nerdy, etc), just like on the website. Once you find an image you like, you can open it in Safari; save it to your photo library; or share it via Twitter, Facebook, or email. The app cannot, however, check whether or not a given shirt is in stock in your size, or even at all. Still, you can look at all the images and scheme over which ones to ask for for Christmas…
What’s interesting is that NimbleBit (maker of hits like Scoops and Textropolis) released a similar app a while ago, entitled ‘Threads.’ Hmm. But forget these viewers…when will Threadless get its act together and offer us an official mobile app, or at least an iPhone-optimized website? Until then, at least, ♥s Threadless will be there to fill the gap.
You are going to have to watch the above video with a lot of anti-sarcasm meds, but Aliph, the makers of the Jawbone, have created a pretty useful land with Thoughts.
Think of Thoughts as a way to “bridge the disconnect between text messaging and voice communication”. Thoughts allows the user to record a voice message, and let it be played later. There is even a voice-to-text application, and it can apparently pick up some nuances.
Those that receive your “thought” need to have the App in order to respond. Fortunately, the App is completely free.
Do you have any doubt that Android is quickly becoming the biggest name in the mobile world? Well, if the immense amount of Android powered handsets wasn’t enough then perhaps you should check out a tweet recently sent by Google’s very own Andy Rubin.
According to Mr. Rubin, 300,000 mobile phones are being activated each and every day powered by the Android mobile operating system. To put this into comparison, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took center stage back in September to let us know that there were roughly 230,000 iOS activations per day. Just to note, Rubin makes an effort to say phones, while Jobs says iOS devices in general which includes the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. This would lead one to believe that if Google factored in tablets, those figures would be much higher.
What ever the case may be, Android is growing, and it’s growing fast. Have you hopped on board yet? Do you plan on doing so?
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